Rabab Abdulhadi

The indivisibility of justice from Turtle Island to Palestine

In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, a stalwart organizer and professor who has been a fierce mainstay in the movement for the liberation of Palestine for decades. In this episode we get into her history beginning in Nablus, Palestine, and discuss the communal processes, people, and mentors that reared her. To me, Rabab has long been someone who exemplifies what it means to take unbending stances, despite the consequences--and she has absolutely faced very severe consequences. More than anything, 1 am excited for listeners to meet her as someone with such deep roots in the broader struggle for liberation and not just as someone merely fighting back against Zionist aggression and violence against her as an individual. We discuss her personal history, organizing history, fun anecdotes from growing up, and more.

Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi is the founding Director and Senior scholar of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) Program at San Francisco State University, the first of its kind in the world, and Principal Investigator of Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice. She is an internationally-known scholar and distinguished professor who is committed to community development and student engagement alongside her extensive academic work and publication and teaching schedule. She received her BA summa cum Laude in Special Honors Curriculum; Sociology; and Women's Studies at Hunter College-CUNY, and her MA, MPhil and PhD from Yale University where she was awarded the prestigious Sterling Fellowship, a full scholarship, a dissertation fellowship, and the Teaching Excellence award, received for the first time by a Palestinian, Arab or Muslim.

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Diana Buttu

Keeping the pulse on reality in Palestine

In this episode I sit down with Diana Buttu for a raw and moving conversation about how throughout the arch of her life and career she has remained aligned with the psychic, affective, and material reality of Palestine. She discusses being on Palestine's negotiating team under Yasser Arafat and shares exclusive details she has never before publicly spoken about. In discussing the importance of remaining psychically aligned for Palestine, we go into how sexism, racism, and attempts at psychic destabilization are all part of the aggression of Zionism and its expansionism. Most movingly, we talk about Palestine always having been, and continuing to be a real place with real people who persist.

Diana Buttu is a lawyer specializing in negotiations, international law, and international human rights law. Earlier in her career, Buttu worked on the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, serving as the only female negotiator during her five-year tenure.

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Amy Greer

Embodied lawyering and resisting being a cog in the machine

In this episode, I sit down with Amy Greer, who is best known to us as Mahmoud Khalil's lawyer-the one he called on the day of his abduction by ICE agents. We discuss the ethical imperative for what she calls "embodied lawyering" and how one resist seduction of a carceral discipline intent on innocence under the guise of saviorism.

Amy E. Greer is an associate attorney at Dratel & Lewis. She is a member of Mahmoud Khalil's legal team, and one of the lead attorneys in a jawbone First Amendment suit against Columbia University, the House Committee on Education and Workforce, and the federal agencies. She has also recently served as a discipline defense advisor for students facing discrimination and disciplinary charges at Columbia University and Barnard College. Additionally, Amy assists in handling state and federal trial and appellate cases involving extradition, RICO, terrorism, drug trafficking, and sexual assault. She previously worked as an assistant public defender and as a research attorney for death-sentenced clients.

Greer earned her J.D. from Roger Williams University School of Law in 2020, receiving the Public Interest Award. Admitted in NY, NJ, DC, and multiple federal courts, she has experience in capital defense and holistic representation. She holds a B.A. from Wheaton College, master's degrees in Theater and Library Science, and a Ph.D. focused on race and policy in the U.S.

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Ghassan Abu Sittah

Clinic as site of resistance

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah to discuss the centrality of the clinic in the genocidal violence perpetrated by the Zionist settler state in Gaza, his concept of the biosphere of genocide, and importantly, the site of the clinic as central to resistance, refusal, and liberation. Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah is a British-Palestinian Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon. He completed his medical education at University of Glasgow in the U.K and his postgraduate residency training in London. In April of 2024 he was awarded and Honorary Doctorate from the American University of Beirut, where is currently Professor of Conflict Medicine. His work was featured by numerous newspapers and media outlets notably La Monde, The Independent, Telegraph, BBC and CNN.

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