

Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine
Dr. Ed Hasan
Inspired by Palestine, Sumud Podcast emerges as a powerful platform for inspiration and empowerment for marginalized communities globally. Our mission? To elevate voices that have been sidelined by sharing the stories, experiences, and insights that demand to be heard. Get ready to join us in amplifying the voices shaping our world, one episode at a time. Welcome to Sumud Podcast – where we uplift, empower, and amplify. Connect with Sumud Podcast on your favorite social media channels: Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok Threads, and X (formerly known as Twitter).Hosted by Dr. Ed Hasan Connect with Dr. Ed Hasan on Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, and X.
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Dec 4, 2025 • 1h 23min
Anthony Aguilar: GHF Exposed Within | Sumud Podcast
🎙️ This week on the Sumud Podcast, we sit down with retired US Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Aguilar for one of the most difficult and urgent conversations we have ever hosted. What he believed was a humanitarian mission quickly revealed the truth of Gaza under siege. Anthony describes arriving to find Rafah destroyed, witnessing American contractors and Israeli forces firing on starving civilians, and meeting a young boy he calls Amir whose death changed everything. He reflects on complicity, conscience, and why he ultimately resigned, returned home, and began briefing US lawmakers on the atrocities he witnessed. This is a raw and necessary conversation about genocide, impunity, and the moral cost of silence.
🌍 Anthony Aguilar is a retired US Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel and former Green Beret who served for 25 years across Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflict zones. In 2025 he worked with the newly formed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation through its subcontractor, UG Solutions, on what was presented as a neutral humanitarian mission. Once on the ground, he says he witnessed a coordinated system of forced displacement, engineered famine, and violent “aid” operations carried out in close coordination with Israeli authorities and supported by US contractors. His testimony has since informed media reporting, human rights investigations, and congressional briefings on US involvement in Gaza.
🔑 In this conversation, we explore
➡ How a supposed aid mission became a mechanism of displacement and control
➡ The destruction of Rafah and the true scale of civilian death
➡ Daily violence against starving families by American contractors and the IDF
➡ The ideology driving many US contractors
➡ The story of Amir and the smear campaign that followed
➡ Boston Consulting Group and the architecture of Gaza’s erasure
➡ Why Anthony chose to resign and speak publicly
➡ What the world must understand about the ongoing genocide in Gaza
⏱ Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:35 Who Is Anthony Aguilar?
03:28 The Recruitment Call and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
12:35 Early Red Flags and Hasbara Tours
23:02 Entering Gaza
26:31 What the Sites Really Were
32:55 Violence by Contractors and the IDF
42:42 Boston Consulting Group and the Gaza Plans
55:15 The Story of Amir
1:08:40 The Smear Campaign
1:13:21 Speaking Out to Lawmakers
1:18:11 Do States Have a Right to Exist
1:22:12 Final Reflections
Sponsored by: The Karate Attorney (@karateattorney) fighting for justice inside and outside the courtroom. Visit www.KarateAttorney.com.
Sponsored by: The School of Radical Imagination (@school.of.radical.imagination), a new learning space turning knowledge into action through live, community-based courses on justice, liberation, and creativity. Enroll at www.RadicalImagination.school.
🎬 Full episode on: https://sumudpod.com
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Nov 20, 2025 • 1h 17min
Wafa Ghnaim: Tatreez, Ancient Fashion & Cultural Heritage | Sumud Podcast
🎙️ This week on the Sumud Podcast, we sit down with dress historian and fashion researcher Wafa Ghnaim for a profound exploration of how Palestinian material culture carries memory, identity, and truth across generations. Through the dresses, headdresses, and stitched motifs that define our heritage, Wafa reveals how every thread holds stories far deeper than the colonial timeline. She reflects on exile, reclaiming beauty through a non-Western lens, growing up Palestinian in the United States, the emotional weight of Syria, the urgency of documenting elders’ knowledge, and the dangers of cultural appropriation. This conversation is an intimate look at the power of dress as resistance, continuity, and home, and the sacred responsibility of preserving what our ancestors left for us.
🌍 Wafa Ghnaim is a dress historian, researcher, author, archivist, curator, educator and embroiderer who learned from her mother, award-winning artist Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim. Wafa specializes in Palestinian, Syrian, Jordanian, and Lebanese dress history, focusing on traditional embroidery techniques, historic reconstruction and oral history. Her publications include “Tatreez & Tea,” THOBNA (2023), Tatreez Companion (2024), and Tatreez Beauty (2024). She continues her mother’s legacy through the Tatreez Institute, founded in 2016, which stewards a collection of over 180 dresses and headdresses from Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon for preservation, education, and research. She was the first Palestinian and Syrian embroidery instructor for the Smithsonian Museum, earned a senior interdisciplinary research fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and was named by Vogue, alongside her mother, as “the world’s leading guardians of tatreez.” Wafa is now a Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Museum of the Palestinian People.
🔑 In this conversation, we explore
➡ The deep history and symbolism of Palestinian dress
➡ Why material culture carries memory across generations
➡ Cultural appropriation and the ethics of teaching tatreez
➡ The social life of objects and what dresses remember
➡ Syria, exile, grief and generational trauma
➡ Beauty, identity and decolonizing aesthetics
➡ The Tatreez Institute and the future of dress research
⏱ Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:57 Who Is Wafa Ghnaim?
06:54 Beauty, Arab Glamour & Decolonizing Aesthetics
13:49 Preserving Elders’ Knowledge Through Oral History
24:25 Cultural Appropriation & Teaching Boundaries
29:44 Syria, Exile & Emotional Collapse
38:12 The Tatreez Institute & The 184-Dress Collection
56:05 Dresses as Memory, Material Witness & Legacy
1:15:11 Final Reflections
Sponsored by: The Karate Attorney (@karateattorney) fighting for justice inside and outside the courtroom. Visit www.KarateAttorney.com.
Sponsored by: The School of Radical Imagination (@school.of.radical.imagination), a new learning space turning knowledge into action through live, community-based courses on justice, liberation, and creativity. Enroll at www.RadicalImagination.school.
📚 Explore Tatreez Institute publications at https://www.tatreezandtea.com/publications
🎬 Full episode on: https://sumudpod.com
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Nov 13, 2025 • 1h 31min
Hazami Barmada: Radical Love, Faith & Resistance | Sumud Podcast
🎙️ This week on the Sumud Podcast, we’re joined by Hazami Barmada, humanitarian, activist, and founder of the Humanity Lab Foundation, whose fierce empathy and faith have redefined what activism can look like. From her early work at the United Nations to the frontlines of D.C. protests, Hazami reveals what it means to live authentically, love fiercely, and refuse to be silent in the face of injustice. She reflects on the courage it takes to confront power, the role of faith and motherhood in her activism, and how radical love has become both her philosophy and her weapon.
🌍 Hazami Barmada is an award-winning public affairs & social impact strategist, social innovator and humanitarian. She is the Executive Producer and Host of the Webby-Award and Anthem-Award winning international affairs and human rights podcast, Finding Humanity. For 20+ years, Hazami has consulted and worked with leading global institutions including the United Nations, United Nations Foundation, Harvard, The Elders, B Lab, and the Royal Court of the Sultanate of Oman, to name a few. Most recently she worked at the Aspen Institute where she spearheaded the design and launch of the Digital Equity Accelerator, a joint initiative between HP Inc. and the HP Foundation, which under her leadership invested over $4 million into 17 organizations addressing social and economic inequalities around the world. Hazami has previously held several high-level consulting positions at the UN, including Coordinator for the United Nations Secretary General’s World Humanitarian Summit, Advisor to the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, liaison to the UN SDG Strategy Hub for the launch of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, and Innovation Advisor to UN Human Settlements Programme. Her campaigns, leadership coaching, and advocacy initiatives have reached tens of millions of people in 182+ countries, receiving recognition from the United Nations “SDG Action Awards” in 2020. Hazami is a graduate of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government where she was also an Edward S. Mason Fellow in Public Policy and Management and earned a certificate in Management, Leadership & Decision Sciences.
🔑 In this conversation, we explore:
➡ The story behind the Blinken encampment
➡ Balancing motherhood and frontline activism
➡ Radical love as a philosophy of resistance
➡ Islam, faith, and courage in the face of fear
➡ Doxxing, lawsuits, and the price of truth-telling
➡ Building communities of care beyond politics
⏱ Chapters:
00:00 Introduction & Radical Humanity
02:28 Who is Hazami Barmada?
07:31 Faith, Fear & the Blinken Encampment
16:40 Motherhood & Resistance
24:11 The Cost of Speaking Truth
34:29 Radical Love as Activism
41:27 Community Beyond Politics
54:38 From the UN to the Streets
1:02:42 Faith, Freedom & Legacy
Sponsored by: The Karate Attorney (Instagram @karateattorney) fighting for justice inside and outside the courtroom. Visit KarateAttorney.com
Sponsored by: The School of Radical Imagination, a new learning space turning knowledge into action through live, community-based courses on justice, liberation, and creativity. Enroll at www.RadicalImagination.school
🎬 Full episode on: https://sumudpod.com
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Nov 6, 2025 • 41min
Sami Tamimi: Food, Memory & Culinary Identity | Sumud Podcast
This week on the Sumud Podcast, we sit down with Sami Tamimi, award-winning chef, author, and co-founder of Ottolenghi, to explore how heritage, hard work, and heart have shaped his life from Jerusalem to London’s kitchens.
Sami Tamimi is a British-Palestinian chef and author whose cooking is deeply rooted in the flavors of his homeland. In his first solo cookbook, Boustany: A Celebration of Vegetables from My Palestine, he embarks on a vibrant journey through Palestinian culinary traditions, celebrating simple, colorful dishes centered around vegetables and grains. This exploration builds on his earlier work as co-founder of the Ottolenghi restaurants and co-author of bestselling cookbooks: "Falastin" and "Jerusalem: A Cookbook". "Boustany" is Sami’s homage to the food and culture of Palestine.
In this deeply personal conversation, he reflects on his early life under occupation, his rebellious path from a truck company to the kitchen, and the struggle of navigating Israeli kitchens as a Palestinian chef. Sami opens up about cultural appropriation in “Israeli cuisine,” the politics of food, and the creation of his newest book, "Boustany", a love letter to Palestinian memory, land, and flavor.
With humor and grace, Sami reminds us that every dish carries a story of land, family, and survival.
🔑 In this conversation, we explore:
➡ Growing up in Jerusalem under occupation
➡ Becoming a chef against all odds
➡ Culinary appropriation and “Israeli cuisine”
➡ Food as political resistance and storytelling
➡ Writing Boustany: memory, land, and resilience
➡ Reclaiming Palestinian cuisine for future generations
Sponsored by: The Karate Attorney (@karateattorney) fighting for justice inside and outside the courtroom. Visit KarateAttorney.com
Sponsored by: The School of Radical Imagination, a new learning space turning knowledge into action through live, community-based courses on justice, liberation, and creativity. Enroll at RadicalImagination.school.
📌 Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction & Opening Reflections
01:15 – Early Life in JerusaleQm
05:29 – Rebellion, Art, and the Birth of a Chef
07:36 – Navigating Israeli Kitchens as a Palestinian
11:41 – What is ‘Israeli Food’?
13:36 – The Politics of Cooking & Food as Protest
18:13 – Founding Ottolenghi & Collaboration in ExileQ
21:11 – Boustany: Memory, Land & Palestinian Resilience
28:23 – October 7th, Speaking Out & Finding Voice
32:55 – Health, Balance & Using His Platform for Good
38:42 – Closing Reflections: Work hard, Follow the Heart
🎥 Full episode: www.sumudpod.com
📚 Check out Sami's website: www.sami-tamimi.com
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Oct 30, 2025 • 36min
Ahmad Ibsais: Law & the Power of Words | Sumud Podcast
🎙️ 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.
In this episode, Ahmad speaks about courage on campus, finding strength through community, and how words can challenge systems of fear and censorship. He also shares his poem “Living in Memories,” a haunting reflection on endurance and remembrance amid unimaginable suffering.
Reflecting on his journey from Nablus to the University of Michigan, he navigated a law school environment steeped in Zionist influence while remaining steadfast in his convictions. He shares how speaking out for Palestine has come with professional risks, yet also profound purpose, and how faith and community have anchored him through moments of isolation and doubt.
Ahmad discusses the limits of the American legal system, its complicity in silencing pro-Palestine voices, and how young lawyers can still use the law as a site of resistance. From the courtroom to the classroom, he exposes the ways repression is disguised as “neutrality,” and why Palestinians must continue to name genocide even when institutions refuse to.
In this conversation, we explore:
➡ The making of State of Siege and documenting lived experience
➡ Speaking truth to power in academia and law
➡ Faith, memory, and the psychology of steadfastness (sumud)
➡ The role of poetry and storytelling in collective healing
➡ How young advocates are redefining resistance through word and action
Sponsored by: The Karate Attorney (@karateattorney) fighting for justice inside and outside the courtroom. Visit KarateAttorney.com
This video is for educational purposes only. It provides historical and political analysis to inform and educate viewers.
📌 Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction
02:00 – Introducing Ahmad Ibsais
04:00 – Palestine & the Power of Community
06:00 – Speaking Out in the Legal Field
10:00 – Censorship, Courage & Campus Activism
17:00 – The Birth of State of Siege
19:00 – The Role of Poets & Journalists in Gaza
21:00 – The Duty Not to Look Away
24:00 – Law, Power & the Limits of Justice
31:00 – Imagining Liberation: One State, One People
34:00 – “Living in Memories” – Poem Reading
36:00 – Closing Reflections: Free Palestine
🎬 Full episode on Sumud Podcast: https://sumudpod.com
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📝 Read State of Siege:
https://substack.com/@ahmadibsais
https://ahmadibsais.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips
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Oct 23, 2025 • 1h 10min
Lifeline for Palestine: How UN Can Act When the World Fails | Sumud Podcast
🎙️This week on the Sumud Podcast, we amplify the voices behind Lifeline for Palestine and their urgent call to activate the Uniting for Peace process, a UN mechanism that empowers the General Assembly to act when the Security Council is blocked by vetoes. Recorded at a moment of moral urgency, this episode explores how global solidarity, diplomacy, and people power can come together to protect Palestinian civilians and end genocide.
Our guests: Craig Mokhiber, international human rights lawyer and former UN Director; Dr. Jill Stein, American physician, activist, and three-time Green Party presidential nominee, and Mark Elbourno, Palestinian American political strategist and Green Party leader, break down the legal, political, and moral dimensions of the Uniting for Peace plan.
Together, they reveal how Lifeline for Palestine has mobilized a growing global movement demanding accountability and action, pushing governments to honor international law and the will of the world’s majority. This conversation is a call to conscience, and a roadmap for how humanity can stand together against impunity and for justice.
The Sumud Podcast is sponsored by The Karate Attorney. Fighting for justice inside and outside the courtroom. Visit KarateAttorney.com or follow on Instagram @karateattorney to learn more.
In this conversation, we explore:
➡ What the Uniting for Peace process is and how it works
➡ How the US veto has blocked justice — and how to bypass it
➡ The role of Lifeline for Palestine and grassroots global movements
➡ Why Palestinians are leading this call for protection and accountability
➡ How ordinary people can take concrete action to shut down genocide
This video is for educational purposes only. It provides historical and political analysis to inform and educate viewers.
📌Chapters:
00:00 – Every Fighter Needs a Cause
02:00 – Introducing the Guests: Craig Mokhiber, Dr. Jill Stein & Mark Elbourno
06:30 – What is the Uniting for Peace Mechanism?
13:00 – The UN, Veto Power & Global Accountability
16:00 – Lifeline for Palestine: Origins and Purpose
23:00 – Global Solidarity & the Power of the People
36:00 – The Palestinian Call for Protection
43:00 – Why Action Still Matters: Overcoming Hopelessness
49:00 – Reclaiming International Law & the Global Majority
54:00 – What Happens If It Works? The Road Ahead
01:07:00 – Final Reflections & A Call to Action
🌐Take Action: Visit LifelineForPalestine.com
to send letters, sign petitions, and join upcoming global actions.
🎬Full episode on Sumud Podcast: https://sumudpod.com
📲Follow: @lifelineforpalestine , @craigmokhiber , @drjillstein , @markelbourno
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Oct 16, 2025 • 1h 22min
Aymann Ismail: Faith, Fatherhood & The Truth | Sumud Podcast
🎙️This week on the Sumud Podcast, we sit down with Aymann Ismail, journalist, storyteller, and father, to explore how identity, faith, and truth-telling intersect in a time of moral crisis. A staff writer at Slate, the author of Becoming Baba, and president of the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association (AMEJA). Aymann has spent years documenting how American media frames Arabs, Muslims, and Palestinians, and what it means to write honestly while the world burns.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, to Egyptian parents, Aymann came of age in the shadow of 9/11, an experience that forced him to navigate fear, belonging, and dual identity. In this deeply personal conversation, he shares how those formative years shaped his journalism from "Who’s Afraid of Aymann?" and PBS’s "American Muslims: A History Revealed" to his acclaimed essay, "The Store That Called the Cops on George Floyd", which won a Writers Guild Award and was nominated for a National Magazine Award.
With humility and clarity, he unpacks the ethical dilemmas of journalism, the burden of representation for Arab reporters, and the parallels between the post-9/11 era and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Through it all, Aymann reflects on fatherhood, faith, and what it means to tell stories that refuse to dehumanize.
🔑 In this conversation, we explore:
➡ Growing up Arab Muslim in New Jersey after 9/11
➡ The parallels between anti-Palestinian racism and post-9/11 Islamophobia
➡ Journalism, bias, and courage in the era of genocide
➡ Storytelling, empathy, and moral responsibility in media
➡ Becoming Baba: faith, fatherhood, and belonging in America
This video is for educational purposes only. It provides historical and political analysis to inform and educate viewers.
📌 Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction & Opening Reflections
01:45 – 9/11 and October 7th
13:23 – Being Both: Arab American Identity & Belonging
22:18 – The Human Story of Being Gay and Muslim
25:13 – “Who’s Afraid of Aymann?”: Curiosity as Resistance
29:57 – Unearthing Muslim Roots in America with PBS
33:46 – The Store That Called the Cops on George Floyd
40:42 – Media Bias, Arab Journalists & Ethical Reporting
49:59 – Privilege, Courage & Writing Hard Truths
55:43 – Becoming Baba: Faith, Fatherhood & Finding Meaning
01:19:05 – Final Reflection: Teaching Faith in America
🎥 Full episode: https://sumudpod.com
📚 Check out Aymann’s work:
📖 Becoming Baba: https://bookshop.org/p/books/becoming-baba-fatherhood-faith-and-finding-meaning-in-america-aymann-ismail/dd46efc949a7959e?ean=9780385549615
🧠 AMEJA: https://www.ameja.org
📲 Follow: @aymanndotcom
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Oct 9, 2025 • 52min
Dima Khalidi: Lawfare, Free Speech & Student Power | Sumud Podcast
🎙️ This week on the Sumud Podcast, we are joined by Dima Khalidi, founder and director of Palestine Legal, a US-based organization dedicated solely to defending the rights of people who speak out for Palestinian freedom.
Carrying her family’s long legacy of resistance into the present, Dima has spent decades on the legal front lines, protecting students, educators, and activists from repression. In this conversation, she explains how law is both weaponized against movements and reclaimed through organizing, offering a sharp look into the fight for free speech, student power, and justice in the US and beyond.
From historic cases like the Holy Land Foundation Five to recent victories against university crackdowns, Dima shows how lawfare, surveillance, and repression work—and how the movement continues to resist, organize, and win.
🔑 In this episode, we explore:
➡ The Khalidi family legacy and roots in Palestinian history
➡ Lessons from political prosecutions like the Holy Land Five
➡ Lawfare, anti-terror laws, and the Palestine exception to free speech
➡ Student courage, campus crackdowns, and legal victories
➡ Advice for young organizers and the importance of solidarity
📌 Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction
01:59 – Family Legacy and Roots of Resistance
08:37 – Early Cases That Shaped a Lifetime of Advocacy
16:21 – Political Prosecutions & the Holy Land Five
19:27 – Lawfare and the Founding of Palestine Legal
27:24 – Student Repression and Free Speech Battles
36:06 – Recent Legal Victories and their Impact
40:55 – Advice for Students, Staff, and Teachers
48:52 – Final Reflection: Inspiring the Next Generation
🎥 Full episode: https://sumudpod.com
🌐 Learn more: https://palestinelegal.org/
📲 Follow: @palestinelegal
📲 Follow: @dredhasan
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Oct 2, 2025 • 26min
Dana Salah: Falahi Pop, Tatreez & Cultural Resistance | Sumud Podcast
🎙️This week on the Sumud Podcast, recorded live at ADC’s ArabCon, we welcome Jordanian Palestinian singer, songwriter, and producer Dana Salah. Known for blending traditional Palestinian folklore with global contemporary sounds, Dana has pioneered a genre she calls Falahi Pop. Her music is not just art; it’s a vessel for storytelling, cultural preservation, and resistance.
In this conversation, Dana shares her journey from performing in New York under the name King Deco to returning to the Arab world and writing music in Arabic during COVID. She reflects on how songs like Ya Tal3een emerged from grief after October 7 and transformed into anthems of hope and empowerment, carrying Palestinian heritage to global audiences. Dana also discusses the influence of her grandfather, displaced from Haifa in 1948, whose advocacy and spirit continue to flow through her work.
Together, we explore how music can serve as both therapy and resistance, a way of keeping Palestinian identity alive for future generations, and a call for young women to embrace authenticity and courage.
🔑 In this conversation, we explore:
➡ How folklore, tatreez, and heritage shape Falahi Pop
➡ The story behind Ya Tal3een and writing through trauma
➡ Shifting from English to Arabic songwriting
➡ Music as resistance, healing, and empowerment
➡ Ancestry, legacy, and advice to young Palestinian girls
This video is for educational purposes only. It provides historical and political analysis to inform and educate viewers.
📌 Chapters:
00:00- Storytelling as Resistance
01:38- Introduction
03:24– Dana Salah’s Journey: From King Deco to Falahi Pop
07:33– Ya Tal3een: Writing Through Grief & Finding Empowerment
11:39– Arabic vs English Songwriting & Honoring Heritage
17:51– Her Grandfather’s Legacy & Carrying Palestine Forward
21:01– Advice for Young Palestinian Girls & Closing Reflections
🎥 Full episode on Sumud Podcast: https://sumudpod.com
📲 Follow: @danasalah
📲 Follow: @dredhasan
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Sep 25, 2025 • 52min
Dr. Rania Masri: Zionism, Ecocide & the Mother Tree | Sumud Podcast
🎙️ This week on the Sumud Podcast, Dr. Rania Masri joins us to speak on liberation, land, and the interconnected struggles for justice. An environmental scientist and long-time activist, Rania brings decades of experience in organizing to the fight against colonialism and ecocide.
Since 1990, Rania has organized for justice and against systems of oppression and war through protests, teach-ins, conferences, political organizing, public speaking training, writings, research, and media work. She taught holistic environmental sciences (including environmental justice) at the university level for nearly two decades. She served as an expert in the Court of Conscience, presenting testimony on the environmental impact of the 2006 Israeli War on Lebanon.
In this episode, Rania connects the fight for Palestinian freedom to global movements for environmental and social justice. She explains how Zionism imposes ecocide on the land of Palestine, unpacks the colonial legacy of Sykes–Picot and the artificial borders of Greater Syria, and invites us to learn from the socialist wisdom of trees, what she calls the “Mother Tree” model of care, resistance, and community.
🔑 In this conversation, we explore:
➡ The environmental devastation of Israeli occupation and Gaza’s ecocide
➡ The colonial blueprint of Sykes–Picot and rejecting imposed borders
➡ Trees as teachers: Mother Trees, socialism, and organizing
➡ How solidarity—not charity—can reshape our future
This video is for educational purposes only. It provides historical and political analysis to inform and educate viewers.
📌 Chapters:
00:00- Introduction
01:35- Facing the Unspoken Issues
12:54- Engaging Despite Differences: Republicans, Democrats, and Greens
15:41- Holding Our Leaders Accountable
22:37- Greater Syria: Rejecting Borders & Claiming Our Lands
24:56- Side by Side: Liberation, Labor, and Community
28:26- Origins and Goals: The Arab and Muslim Green Party Caucus
34:17- Exploring the Core: Life as an Environmental Scientist
38:39- Examining Ecocide: The Impact of Occupation
46:00- Environmental Advocacy: Where to Begin?
49:23- Final Reflections: Hope, Resistance & the Fight for Palestine
🎥 Full episode on Sumud Podcast: https://sumudpod.com
🌐Check out: https://ncejn.org/
📲 Follow: @raniamasri
📲 Follow: @dredhasan
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