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The Fire These Times is a podcast by writer and researcher Elia @ayoub.bsky.social and friends connecting academics, writers, artists and activists from around the world to “build the new in the shell of the old.”

Part of @fromtheperiphery.com
Dana and Elia don't like the fact that we're #Mamdani's age. We also talked about his victory means.

Out wherever you listen to podcasts

@danaelkurd.bsky.social @ayoub.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The Gaza famine and genocide cannot become the new normal. The latest episode of The Fire These Times is now available everywhere.

With @ayoub.bsky.social @leilashami.bsky.social @danielvoskoboynik.bsky.social @essssraaa.bsky.social & @karena1.bsky.social

www.patreon.com/posts/135258...
July 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This is a long episode so it is divided it in two parts.

Part 1 is out wherever you get your podcasts.

You can also listen to the full episode on Patreon, for free, here www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-1...
May 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
In this episode of The Fire These Times, Goldberg and Ayoub also got into how genocides are often preceded by claims of self-defense. In fact, claims of self-defense by the party committing genocide are common throughout history. Israel is no exception to this rule. www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-1...
May 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Amos Goldberg is an Israeli historian of the Holocaust who called Israel's war on Gaza a genocide. He joined @ayoub.bsky.social to talk about the ways 'intent' is used to mislead the public, and whether the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies is in crisis.

www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-1...

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May 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"And this earth belongs to you just as much as it does to anyone"

@mollycrabapple.bsky.social and @ayoub.bsky.social talk about the Jewish Labour Bund, and how their concept of Doikayt ('Hereness') resonates today

Out now on all podcast apps and www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-1...
April 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social is joined by @mpaarlberg.bsky.social to talk about El Salvador’s ‘state of exception’ under Nayib Bukele, how Trump sees that as a model, the conditions of prisons, and what this all means.

Available on all podcast apps + Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-1...
April 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Exciting announcement: Radish Radio will be playing our episodes on 27 April!

Tune in here: www.radishradio.org
April 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The original Bund poster in Yiddish
April 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Doikayt Now! @mollycrabapple.bsky.social joins @ayoub.bsky.social to talk about the Bund and how their concept of ‘Hereness’ can help us build a better world than the hellscape being proposed by techno-dystopianism and end-time fascism.

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April 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
For ep 185, Ukrainian journo @vagrantjourno.bsky.social joined @ayoub.bsky.social to talk about what #Ukraine faces and what the maga shift to Putin means for Ukraine, Europe and the US.

Available on all podcast platforms and www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-w...

@fromtheperiphery.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Out this Tuesday on patreon.com/fromtheperiphery @ayoub.bsky.social asks what does it mean to lose the future? through an exploration of Maher Abi Samra's 'We Were Communists' (2011) about four men who were in the Lebanese Communist Party
January 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM