197/ Our Region After Samir Kassir: Special 20 Years Commemoration w/ Ziad Majed
The Fire These Times - A podcast by Elia Ayoub
It's been 20 years since the Assad regime assassinated Samir Kassir, the Lebanese-Syrian-Palestinian historian, journalist and writer in Beirut on June 2nd 2005. Joining Elia Ayoub and Leila Al-Shami today is Lebanese-French political researcher and academic Ziad Majed, a friend and comrade of Kassir, to talk about his legacy in the two decades that have passed given how much has changed since for Lebanon, Palestine and of course Syria.This is a special cross-over episode between The Fire These Times (TFTT) and Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution (STIR). We are both part of the From The Periphery Media Collective. To support all of our projects please head out to Patreon.com/fromtheperipheryResources:Dans la tête de Bachar al-Assad by Ziad Majed, Farouk Mardam-Bey and Subhi HadidiSyrian melancholy in Lebanon’s revolution by Elia Ayoub and Dara Foi’ElleThe 2020 TFTT episode (26) with Ziad MajedSamir Kassir:Beirut (History)Being Arab/The Arab MalaiseArchives of Samir Kassir in the Revue d'études palestiniennes (French)Credits and More:Leila Al Shami (Host). More: Bluesky, Mastodon and her BlogElia Ayoub (Host, Producer). More: Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram and his NewsletterSTIR is also on BlueskyTFTT is on Bluesky, Instagram and has a websiteFrom The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteHisham Rifai (Illustration)Omar Offendum and Sami Matar (Music)
