Makdisi Street

Nov 28 2024 45 ep. 81 mins 175
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A podcast co-hosted by Saree Makdisi, Ussama Makdisi, and Karim Makdisi. Follow us on X: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on YouTube: @MakdisiStreet

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"Palestine will be liberated in Arabic" w/ Fady Joudah

Nov 28 2024 97 mins  
The brothers welcome National Book Award for Poetry Finalist Fady Joudah (@fadyjoudah) for a searing and intimate discussion of Palestine in English versus Palestine in Arabic, about writing poetry in a time of genocide, about the limits and hubris of solidarity, about the necessity of common decency in the face of horror, and about the meaning of Palestinian love confronting the I

“The beautiful thing about the truth is that it’s easy” w/ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nov 18 2024 107 mins  
Ta-Nehisi Coates joins the brothers for a wide-ranging discussion drawing on his new book, The Message (2024), and covering the parallels and differences between the Black American and Palestinian experiences, the culture of denial suppressing the realities of the system of apartheid in Palestine, the challenges of gaining access to Palestinian voices, the power of conveying the ra

"The first foothold in a much broader liberation" w/ Tareq Baconi

Nov 12 2024 91 mins  
The brothers welcome analyst Tareq Baconi, author of Hamas Contained (Stanford University Press, 2018) and president of the board of Al-Shabaka. One year into the Gaza genocide, they discuss the emergence Hamas and its role in the Palestinian political polity, its sweeping electoral victory in Gaza in 2006 as well as its subsequent governance in Gaza and attempts to contain its gro

"The other guy is more genocidal" w/ Mehdi Hasan

Nov 02 2024 81 mins  
The Brothers welcome journalist and founder of Zeteo, Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) to the pod. They have a spirited discussion about anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias in the mainstream media, the price of compromise to gain access, and whether voting for Harris is a vote against fascism or a vote endorsing genocide. Watch the episode on our YouTube channel Date of recording: Oct 22, 202

“Code 31: Arab Americans and the zone of danger" w/ Maya Berry

Oct 24 2024 90 mins  
Maya Berry (@imayaberry), Executive Director of the Arab American Institute, joins the brothers for a wide-ranging conversation covering anti-Arab racism in the United States, hate crime tracking, the location of Arab Americans in the US racial lexicon, and the impossible position Arab Americans find themselves in the build-up to the 2024 presidential election. Watch the episode on

“One of my recurring fears is that people will move on” w/ Laila Al-Arian

Oct 13 2024 66 mins  
The brothers welcome Laila al-Arian, executive producer for the Al Jazeera English documentary series Fault Lines. They discuss the anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim orthodoxies of the mainstream Western media, the coverage of the genocide in Gaza, the dissenting spaces opened up by critical alternative and social media, and Laila’s harrowing documentary The Night Won�

“The most immoral and unethical army in the world" w/ Elijah Magnier

Oct 06 2024 85 mins  
The brothers welcome the war correspondent Elijah Magnier (@ejmalrai) to the show to discuss the expansion of Israel’s war on civilians to Lebanon, as well as the tactical and strategic challenges and opportunities in confronting it on the ground and the implications of Iran’s direct intervention in what is already a regional war. Watch the episode on our YouTube channel Date o

"President Biden is negotiating with himself" w/ Trita Parsi

Sep 28 2024 77 mins  
The brothers welcome Trita Parsi (@tparsi), co-founder and Executive Vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, to discuss the three-way relationship between the US, Israel, and Iran, the pathetic state of US diplomacy, the role of the Zionist lobby in defining US interests, and the consequences of any potential Iranian military intervention. Watch the episo

"They want people to routinize the massacre of Palestinians"

Sep 18 2024 57 mins  
The brothers discuss the latest developments from the Gaza genocide, the murder of American citizen Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi followed by the wholesale media silence around it, and to what degree the US is calling the shots over the looming regional war. Watch the episode on our YouTube channel Date of recording: Sept 11, 2024. Follow us on our socials: X: @MakdisiStreet YouTube: @Makdisi

"A society built on the ashes of another will always be violent" w/ Yara Hawari

Sep 09 2024 90 mins  
The brothers welcome Yara Hawari (@yarahawari), Co-director of Al-Shabaka, to discuss how the Oslo Accords transformed Palestinian civic life, the emergence of the PA from the PLO, the significance of the increasing number of political and social ruptures among Zionist settlers, and what role the Global South can play in the movement to liberate Palestine. This episode is co-publis