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Sep 2024
1h 36m

(Unlocked) "Weaker than a spider's web":...

SINA RAHMANI (@URORIENTALIST)
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**Note 2: Given everything that's happened, I've unlocked this episode for the main feed**


*Note: This is the part of my conversation with Karim. We continued for another 45 mins! To listen to the entire episode, join The East is a Podcast Patreon. Help keep the show going and access hundreds of hours of bonus content!* 

AUB professor and co-host of Makdisi Street Karim Makdisi (@KarimMakdisi) returns to the show after a five-year hiatus(!) to discuss the history of Israeli state terrorism against Lebanon and the decades-long histories of resistance that have confronted it.

 

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