This is a conversation with Fadi Bardawil, his 2nd time on the podcast. Bardawil is an anthropologist who researches the Leftist tradition in the Arab world. In this episode, we talked about two essays he's written: "Forsaking the Syrian Revolution: An Anti-Imperialist Handbook" and "Critical Theory in a Minor Key to Take Stock of the Syrian Revolution".

What we talked about:

Thinking about the Syrian revolution
Aimé Césaire and Stalinism
Tension between Leftists in the Metropoles and Revolutionaries in the Peripheries
Learning from the Palestinian story
Domestic politics in the Metropoles becoming global politics
Focusing on wider trends instead of individual motives
Discourses that erase the Syrian revolution
Example of Hong Kong
Example of the Lebanese Left of the 60s

Recommended Books:

The Syrian Revolution: Between the Politics of Life and the Geopolitics of Death by Yasser Munif
الفظيع وتمثيله - ياسين الحاج صالح
Readings in Syrian Prison Literature: The Poetics of Human Rights by R. Shareah Taleghani

"The Moral Basis of Criminal Punishment: Thomistic and Platonic Reflections"