The Fire These Times 216/ Voices from Lebanon w/ Lina Mounzer & Justin Salhani
For episode 216, I am joined by Lebanese writer and translator Lina Mounzer as well as Lebanese journalist Justin Salhani to talk about the ongoing consequences of Israel's war on Lebanon. This is an intra-Lebanese conversation that is meant to give you an idea of the sort of discussions happening in Lebanon while contextualising as much as we could so that you come out of it better informed as well.
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Episode links:
- The Markaz Review https://themarkaz.org
- Salhani's Al Jazeera profile https://www.aljazeera.com/author/justin_salhani_150211052541586
- Israel’s Digital Occupation (Salhani, The Dial) https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/israel-drone-warfare-lebanon
- Death and Destruction from the Sky (Mounzer, Equator) https://www.equator.org/articles/death-and-destruction-from-the-sky-iii
- We live in a Time of Monsters (Mounzer, The Markaz) https://themarkaz.org/we-live-in-a-time-of-monsters/
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Credits
Elia Ayoub (host, producer, episode design), Justin Salhani and Lina Mounzer (guests), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design), Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics) and Antidote Zine (Transcriptions).