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Podcast: 4PR - Voice of the People
Episode: Thawra - Siege of Beirut
Description: Given the events of July 2024 and the last time Israel placed Beirut under siege, that was in 2006, we go back to the siege of 1982. This was the time of revolutionary politics, the growth of the rejectionist front (anti-diplomacy) within Palestinian and Arab communities. To help us understand this period we take an episode from The Dig podcasts featuring historian Abdel Razzaq Takriti, on Arab radicalism in the 20th century.
We encourage people to check out the The Dig Thawra (arabic for revolution) series for a better understanding of the Palestinian resistance and Arab nationalism. This episode traces a massive defeat...