🎙️ This week on the Sumud Podcast, we’re joined by Ahmad Ibsais, a law student, writer, and poet whose work captures life, loss, and defiance under siege. Through his acclaimed newsletter State of Siege, Ahmad documents a generation’s struggle for justice, blending legal insight, faith, and art to reclaim narrative power in a world determined to erase it.
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Apr 24
Rami Abushhab: Identity, Comedy, and the Fight to Be Seen | Sumud Podcast
🎙️ In this episode of the Sumud Podcast, Palestinian-American comedian Rami Abushhab opens up about growing up in Chicago as one of the only Palestinians in his community and navigating Hollywood as an Arab actor. He shares personal stories about identity, representation, and th ... Show More
1h 9m
Apr 17
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh: Muslim Women, Media & Speaking Out | Sumud Podcast
🎙️ In this episode of the Sumud Podcast, we speak with Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, activist, author, and founder of MuslimGirl.com, about the personal and political realities shaping Muslim and Palestinian lives today. She reflects on grief, identity, and resilience amid the ongoing vi ... Show More
1h 28m
Apr 10
Jenin Younes: The Cost of Free Speech | Sumud Podcast
🎙️ In this episode of the Sumud Podcast, First Amendment attorney Jenin Younes discusses the growing crackdown on speech about Palestine in the U.S., drawing on her experience as a Palestinian American and civil liberties advocate. She explores censorship, political pressure, an ... Show More
54m 55s
Sep 2025
TM Smoke Signals: We Refuse to Be Victims by Njuki Githethwa
<p>In this Smoke Signal, Njuki Githethwa reads from the newly published collection ‘We Refuse to Be Victims' by Ugandan activist and poet Sam Mugumya. His words remind us that courage, dignity, and resistance are possible even under the harshest conditions.</p>
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4m 18s
Sep 2024
Ghada Karmi | I Returned to My Stolen Home in Palestine
Palestinian doctor, scholar and research fellow Ghada Karmi offers powerful, truthful and hard-hitting words on Palestine's past, present and future. She sheds light on a common experience amongst Palestinian diaspora: that of blocked memories, suppressed as a result of trauma. S ... Show More
52m 7s
Sep 2025
Fragments of a Fragile Order: Phasing Out Free Speech
<p>In this episode of the <i>Art of Citizenry Podcast</i>, host Manpreet Kaur Kalra and producer Aly Honoré take a step back from the headlines to explore what they reveal about the state of American democracy, culture, and free speech. </p><p>From the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel ... Show More
23m 59s
<p><strong>Heaven in disorder</strong></p><p>What is the concept of 'the self'? How does it relate to how we understand freedom, democracy and ideology?Join Slavoj Zizek as he explores the ideas that underpin how we understand the world. </p><p><br></p><p>Slavoj is a Slovenian Ma ... Show More
