Hezballah & Israel's Genocide in Gaza | Gaza On My Mind

Are we witnessing a climax or just another round in the Hizballah-Israel confrontation in relation to Israel’s Genocide in Gaza? What does this moment tell us about Israel’s continued failures in Gaza despite a horrific Palestinian death toll? Join our 7th episode of Gaza on My Mind / غزّة على بالي with Journalist Ali Hashem and artist Hossam Madhoun from Gaza, hosted by Bassam Haddad and Maya Mikdashi

Ali Hashem is a broadcaster and columnist covering the Middle East with extensive focus on Lebanon, Iran and Iraq. He is currently a correspondent for Al Jazeera English Channel. He is also a research fellow at Lancaster University’s Sectarianism, Proxies and De-Sectarianization Project.

Hossam Madhoun is a project manager at Humanity and inclusion / Handicap International. He lived in Gaza until early 2024, and now forcibly displaced to Rafah. A 30 years' drama activist as an actor, director, and trainer in drama, civil intervention, education, and drama therapist. Besides being active in theatre and drama, Hossam is a child protection officer at MAAN Development Centre leading a team of more than 115 counsellors and social workers who are providing psychosocial support and psychological first aid for children and families displaced from their homes to shelters in Rafah, Khan Younis, and the Middle area in the Gaza Strip.

Maya Mikdashi (co-Host) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and a lecturer in the program in Middle East Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Maya is an anthropologist (PhD Columbia University, 2014) who is deeply engaged in ethnographic, legal, and archival theory and methodology. She currently is completing a book manuscript that examines the war on terror, sexual difference, secularism, and state power in the contemporary Middle East from the vantage point of Lebanon. Maya was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow from 2014-2016 at Rutgers University, and a Faculty Fellow/Director of Graduate Studies, Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University (2012-2014).

Bassam Haddad (co-Host) is Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the acclaimed series Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam is Executive Producer of Status Podcast Channel and Director of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI). He received MESA's Jere L. Bacharach Service Award in 2017 for his service to the profession. Currently, Bassam is working on his second Syria book titled Understanding The Syrian Tragedy: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).

21 jun 2024