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Jan 2025
1h 38m

Refaat Alareer's voice from the archives

SINA RAHMANI (@URORIENTALIST)
About this episode

*Friend of the show Nora Barrows-Friedman collected some of Refaat's audio archive.*

In a special audio podcast episode dedicated to the voice and the words of Dr. Refaat Alareer, we weave together five separate interviews we conducted between 2014 and 2018. Alareer was a beloved professor, poet and mentor who helped sharpen countless young minds and who still inspires people all over the world. He was murdered by Israel on 6 December, 2023, along with six other members of his family in Gaza. 

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