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Dr. Ramzy Baroud discusses his book and the importance of telling Palestinian stories.

This week on the program, a special full show with Palestinian author, historian and academic Dr. Ramzy Baroud about his latest book Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir Across Three Generations of Colonial Invasion, Occupation, and War in Palestine. Dr. Baroud takes us through long duree, a history that has not been amputated and distorted by colonial narrative. He explains the failings of corporate media, of political discourse, and the need for oppressed peoples to tell their own stories, without countering, without arguing the points of the oppressor. Because dignity cannot be divided. Freedom cannot be sectionalized. Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a Palestinian author, historian, and academic whose work centers on Palestinian history, liberation, and peoples history. He is the editor of The Palestine Chronicle, a position he has held since 1999, where he has helped shape an alternative narrative grounded in lived Palestinian experience. He holds a Ph.D. in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter and has taught mass communication at Curtin University. He is also a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs at Zaim University in Istanbul. Dr…

People in this episode

Guest: Dr. Ramzy Baroud

Topics covered

• Palestinian history
• colonial narrative
• media critique
• oppressed peoples
• storytelling
• liberation

Keywords

• Palestine
• Gaza
• colonialism
• media
• history
• liberation
• Dr. Ramzy Baroud

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Palestine Chronicle, Curtin University, Zaim University

Books & works: Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir Across Three Generations of Colonial Invasion, Occupation, and War in Palestine, Searching Jenin, The Second Palestinian Intifada, My Father Was a Freedom Fighter, The Last Earth, These Chains Will Be Broken, Our Vision for Liberation, Gaza Rising

Places: Palestine, Gaza

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