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Apr 2024
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"Famine is never a natural occurrence" w...

Makdisi Bros.
About this episode

The brothers welcome to the show Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and Professor of Law at the University of Oregon, to discuss the ongoing starvation war against Gaza and how intentional law can be wielded to fight against it.

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Date of recording: Apr 3, 2024.

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