by efc8d-admin | May 16, 2025 | Human Rights, Palestine
This episode of Speaking Out of Place is being recorded on May 15, 2025, the 77th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, which began the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land. We talk with Lara Elborno, Richard Falk, and Penny Green, three members of the...
by efc8d-admin | May 8, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Political Economies, Politics and Culture
In one of the most timely and urgent shows we have ever done, today I speak with law scholar Aziz Rana about his brilliant and bracing article recently published in New Left Review, “Constitutional Collapse.” We talk about how the Trump administration and its enablers...
by efc8d-admin | Mar 16, 2025 | Palestine, Politics and Culture, Race, Recovering Radical Histories
In today’s show, I speak with Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi about two pathbreaking studies which create new ways of thinking about populations bound by complex and contradictory notions of loyalty and psychological investment. Based on meticulous archival research and oral...
by efc8d-admin | Jan 20, 2025 | Art and Cultural Resistance, Politics and Culture
Today on Speaking Out of Place we talk with Professor Persis Karim, co-producer and co-director of a new documentary film, The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life. She is joined by Roya Ahmadi, a student at Stanford who interned at the Center for Iranian...
by efc8d-admin | Nov 2, 2024 | Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Palestine, War
Today we are joined by Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins and Jess Ghannam, who comment on a devastating new report authored by Stamatopoulou-Robbins. This report, “Costs of War,” reviews data gathered in Palestine since October 7, 2023. In that year alone, the report finds...
