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May 2024
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The Art of Boycott: Delinking, Zionism, ...

SINA RAHMANI (@URORIENTALIST)
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**The Arabic half of the conversation begins around minute 72**

Essam Elkorgle (@elkorgle) guesthosts a special dual-language episode with Tunis-based sociologist Haithem Gasmi (@HaithemGasmii) on the sociocultural dimensions of the Zionist boycott and the wider question of delinking from the neocolonial world system.

Check out the short video discussed in the episode.

Cover art by Suhaib Tantoush

Haithem's recent articles (Arabic)

"Disengagement After Boycott: Disengagement From What? (Part One)"

"Disengagement After Boycott: Disengagement From What? (Part Two)"

 

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