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Oct 2024
1h 18m

Jewish Currents Live : Dionne Brand & Ad...

David Naimon, Tin House Books
About this episode
As part of Jewish Currents Live: A Day of Politics & Culture, I moderated a conversation between Adania Shibli and Dionne Brand this September in New York City. Both Dionne and Adania have been on the show individually, and part of why I was hoping to bring them together this way was because of just […] 
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