In which I talk about Seinfeld with fellow Arab millennial and writer (and previous guest of the podcast) Ayman Makarem. It's that simple!  What made that sitcom so special to Ayman as a queer kid from Lebanon? And what is it like to watch shows that don't have you in mind as their target audience?   This is a sample episode. To listen to the full episode please head out to http://www.patreon.com/firethesetimes and get access to exclusives, monthly hangouts, book clubs and more for $5 a month. Check out Ayman's project Bizri#6 and his comic series with Hisham Rifai for Unicorn Riot: Revolution in Every Country Comic Series: Episode 1 – Syria: Erasing an Inconvenient Revolution Revolution in Every Country Comic Series: Episode 2 – Sudan: Building Power from Below ---- Book. series and movie recommendations: Ayman's: Out of Place: A Memoir by Edward Said (book) First season of Rami (series) Wajib by Annemarie Jacir (film) Guapa by Saleem Haddad (previous guest of the pod) Beer in the Snooker Club by Waguih Ghali  Scheherazade Goes West by Fatema Mernissi Joey's: Let's talk about myths, baby! (podcast)  Witch, Please (podcast) Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times by  Srsly Wrong (podcast) Circe by Madeline Miller ---- Want to help our with transcribing episodes? Check out this link. ---- You can also follow updates on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | Website & Mailing List Joey Ayoub can be found on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | Website The newsletter is available on Substack ---- Host: Joey Ayoub Producer: Joey Ayoub Music: Rap and Revenge Main theme design: Wenyi Geng Sound editor: Joey Ayoub Episode theme design: Joey Ayoub

Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik is the Argentinian author of The Memory We Could Be: Overcoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future and amongst the most fascinating thinkers I know. He's also a good friend. We spoke about reckoning with past ecological violence of, bio-cultural memory and our collective ecological heritage. Basically, why we need to mix futurism and ancestrality. Also: storytelling, trauma, healing, climate change and The Office and Gilmour Girls, because why not. ---- EARTHQUAKE DONATION LINKS: The White Helmets whitehelmets.org/en/ The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) Foundation sams-usa.net Huquqyat https://www.huquqyat.org/ Molham Team Molhamteam.com Kurdish Red Crescent heyvasoruk.org ---- Book recommendations: Ideas to Postpone the End of the World by Ailton Krenak Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals Emergent Strategy Series by Alexis Pauline Gumbs How the World Breaks: Life in Catastrophe's Path, from the Caribbean to Siberia by Stan Cox and Paul Cox Also, the poetry of Joy Harjo, Ilya Kaminsky, Victoria Chang, Dunya Mikhail and Vito Apushana. ---- You can support The Fire These Times on patreon.com/firethesetimes with a monthly or yearly donation and get a lot of perks including early access, exclusive videos, monthly hangouts, access to the book club, merch and more. Want to help our with transcribing episodes? Check out this link. ---- You can also follow updates on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | Website & Mailing List Joey Ayoub can be found on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | Website The newsletter is available on Substack ---- Host: Joey Ayoub Producer: Joey Ayoub Music: Rap and Revenge Main theme design: Wenyi Geng Sound editor: Ibrahim Youssef Episode design: Joey Ayoub

This is an episode with writer and filmmaker Shane Burley, editor of the must-read book published by AK Press: "No Pasarán! Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis." It is an anthology of antifascist writing that takes up the fight against white supremacy and the far-right from multiple angles. From the history of antifascism to today's movement to identify,  deplatform, and confront the right, and the ways an insurgent fascism is  growing within capitalist democracies, a myriad of voices come together  to shape the new face of antifascism in a moment of social and  political flux. Burley is also the author of a number of books incl. Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse (AK Press, 2021) and Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017). No Pasarán also features Leila Al-Shami and Shon Meckfessel, authors of a chapter on the links between White supremacists and tge Assad regime. Both Leila (previous guest of the pod) and Shon are upcoming guests on the topic. ---- Recommended Books: Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream by Leonard Zeskind Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation by Zoé Samudzi & William C. Anderson ---- You can support The Fire These Times on patreon.com/firethesetimes with a monthly or yearly donation and get a lot of perks including early access, exclusive videos, monthly hangouts, access to the book club, merch and more. Want to help our with transcribing episodes? Check out this link. ---- You can also follow updates on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | Website & Mailing List Joey Ayoub can be found on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | Website The newsletter is available on Substack ---- Host: Joey Ayoub Producer: Joey Ayoub Music: Rap and Revenge Main theme design: Wenyi Geng Episode design: Joey Ayoub

Jessie Gender is a known YouTuber and commentator who deals with the nuance in the nerdy, focusing on LGBTQ issues (especially the transgender community), women, nonbinary and autistic people as well as other social and political issues through geek topics. Both Jessie and Joey also happen to be Trekkies on the autism spectrum which gave this conversation an added layer of complexity. -- Book Recs: Second Self by Uma McCormack Star Trek Lower Decks Star Wars Andor -- You can support The Fire These Times on patreon.com/firethesetimes with a monthly or yearly donation and get a lot of perks including early access, exclusive videos, monthly hangouts, access to the book club, merch and more. You can also follow The Fire These Times on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | Website & Mailing List Joey Ayoub can be found on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | Website The newsletter is available on Substack -- Host: Joey Ayoub   Producer: Joey Ayoub   Music: Rap and Revenge Main theme design: Wenyi Geng Sound editor: Joey Ayoub Episode design: Joey Ayoub

Luka Dowell joins Joey Ayoub to talk about Hauntings, Futurisms, and Solarpunk. Luka is the host of the podcast Solarpunk Now! which I highly recommend. They are passionate about theory, politics, art, science/tech,  sustainability. Topics that interest them include ecology, psychology, economics, digital media and online communities, and our future. -- Recs: Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism by Melinda Cooper The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society by Pierre Dardot & Christian Laval -- You can support The Fire These Times on patreon.com/firethesetimes with a monthly or yearly donation and get a lot of perks including early access, exclusive videos, monthly hangouts, access to the book club, merch and more. You can also follow The Fire These Times on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | Website & Mailing List  Joey Ayoub can be found on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | Website  The newsletter is available on Substack -- Host: Joey Ayoub Producer: Joey Ayoub Music: Rap and Revenge Main theme design: Wenyi Geng Episode design: Joey Ayoub

This is a conversation with teacher, linguist, and writer Rob Cameron about Solarpunk and Afro-Solarpunk.    -- Book Recs:  Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures edited by Christoph  Rupprecht, Deborah Cleland, Norie Tamura, Rajat Chaudhuri and Sarena  Ulibarri  Cities of Light: A Collection of Solar edited by Joey Eschrich and  Clark A. Miller   Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer  Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction edited by Sheree Renée  Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight    Humankind by Rutger Bregman    -- You can support The Fire These Times on patreon.com/firethesetimes with a monthly or yearly donation and get a lot of perks including early access, exclusive videos, monthly hangouts, access to the book club, merch and more. You can also follow The Fire These Times on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | Website & Mailing List Joey Ayoub can be found on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | Website The newsletter is available on Substack -- Host: Joey Ayoub Producer: Joey Ayoub Music: Rap and Revenge Main theme design: Wenyi Geng Episode design: Joey Ayoub

And we're back! This is a conversation with hacker, gardener and writer Andre, aka HydroponicTrash (on Twitter, TikTok and Mastodon). You can also find Andre on Substack at AnarchoSolarpunk. The title is taken from one of Andre's essays. -- Book Recs: Walkaway by Cory Doctorow The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow Lo—TEK, Design by Radical Indigenism Julia Watson -- You can support The Fire These Times on patreon.com/firethesetimes with a monthly or yearly donation and get a lot of perks including early access, exclusive videos, monthly hangouts, access to the book club, merch and more. You can also follow The Fire These Times on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | Website & Mailing List Joey Ayoub can be found on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | Website The newsletter is available on Substack -- Host: Joey Ayoub Producer: Joey Ayoub Music: Rap and Revenge Main theme design: Wenyi Geng Episode design: Joey Ayoub

In this special episode of The Fire These Times, Stadio co-host Musa Okwonga, football and MENA journalist Justin Salhani and human rights researcher Fabien Goa join Joey Ayoub to talk about the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Also, check out Stadio! Happy winter solstice, Hanukkah and Christmas Book Recs:   Justin Salhani: Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France by Laurent Dubois Musa Okwonga: The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer by David Goldblatt Fabien Goa: The Turbulance of Migration by Nikos Papastergiadis You can support The Fire These Times on Patreon @ patreon.com/firethesetimes with a monthly or yearly donation. You can also find it on  Twitter @firethesetimes Instagram @firethesetimes TikTok @thefirethesetimes. Joey Ayoub can be found on Twitter @joeyayoub Instagram @joeyayoub91 Mastodon @ https://kolektiva.social/web/@ayoub The newsletter is available on Subtack @ thefirethesetimes.substack.com Music by RapNRevenge, Episode design by Joey Ayoub, Podcast design by Wenyi Geng

This is a conversation with Ukrainian researcher Mariam Naiem and journalist Romeo Kokriatsk. We spoke about the ongoing situation in Ukraine, the history of Russian imperialism, cynical online discourse and life amidst war. You can support The Fire These Times on Patreon with a monthly or yearly donation. You can also find it on Twitter @firethesetimes, Instagram @firethesetimes and TikTok @thefirethesetimes. Joey Ayoub can be found on Twitter @joeyayoub and Instagram @joeyayoub91. The newsletter is available on Subtack @ thefirethesetimes.substack.com The Fire These Times will be back in October!  Recommended Books: Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism by Ewa M. Thompson Katerina by Taras Shevchenko I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch -- You can support The Fire These Times on patreon.com/firethesetimes with a monthly or yearly donation and get a lot of perks including early access, exclusive videos, monthly hangouts, access to the book club, merch and more. You can also follow The Fire These Times on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | Website & Mailing List Joey Ayoub can be found on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | Website The newsletter is available on Substack -- Host: Joey Ayoub Producer: Joey Ayoub Music: Rap and Revenge Main theme design: Wenyi Geng Episode design: Joey Ayoub

This is a conversation with Andrew Sage of the Andrewism YouTube channel and Emmi Bevensee about our respective journeys towards political radicalization.  You can support The Fire These Times on Patreon with a monthly or yearly donation. You can also find it on Twitter @firethesetimes, Instagram @firethesetimes and TikTok @thefirethesetimes. Joey Ayoub can be found on Twitter @joeyayoub and Instagram @joeyayoub91. The newsletter is available on Subtack @ thefirethesetimes.substack.com Recommended Books: Emmi: Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots The Private Eye by Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martín, Muntsa Vicente  Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki Andrew: Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire Prefigurative Politics: Building Tomorrow Today by Paul Raekstad and Sofa Saio Gradin