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Jun 2024
21m 11s

S1E29 - Lessons From My Mother and Ghass...

Ayman Makarem
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Witnessing the genocide in Gaza, and the barbaric violence of the Zionist state, has made imagining a better world near impossible. The question on everyone's mind, after each new massacre, each new escalation, is where do we go from here? How do we go on? What is the point of it all? There are obviously no definitive answers, but I talk about a couple of new nourishing insights which have helped me reframe some things.

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