Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As reports of a ceasefire deal are emerging, we are joined on the PalCast by a very special guest, Dr Ayesha Khan, who is an Emergency Medicine physician. Dr Khan has recently returned from Gaza, where she worked in trying to hold together the crumbling medical facilities. This is a first-person account of the reality […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr. Nour Nafez Hammad is a Palestinian educator and scholar who is engaged in the fields of literature and education. In this episode of PalCast, she speaks of personal loss, the role of storytelling and literature in creating a Palestine away from the control of Israeli narrative. She explains how the use of literature, videos […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Banias is a wonderful a 8-year old child living in Gaza, now displaced in Al-Zawayda. She joins us to speak of the dreams that she still carries and the life that she left behind in her home, now destroyed, in Gaza city, Banias shares her hopes for the new year, talks about rebuilding Gaza, wanting […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This is the live recording of the Remembering Refaat Alareer memorial that took place on the one year anniversary of his killing by the Israeli military. If I Must Die the book is available now here:https://orbooks.com/catalog/if-i-must-die/ Donate to Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/117612489 https://media.blubrry.com/rebootrepublicpod/media.blubrry.com/3214388/content.blubrry.com/3214388/PalCast_S2_Ep42.mp3Podcast (tortoiseshack-ie-palcast): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:36:25 — 70.7MB) | EmbedSubscribe: […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The situation in Gaza is getting worse. Three women were crushed to death by men who lined up to get aid in Central Gaza. Israel continues to expand the Netzarim Corridor and attack family homes full of displaced people. More people are getting hungrier each day. At this year’s conference on Palestine Studies at Universiti […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Aid trucks are looted in Gaza. People are desperate. But is all as it seems? A Washington Post article revealed that looters coordinate with the Israeli army and stay close to them! 109 aid trucks for UNRWA were looted and this week the Hamas police killed 22 looters. Meanwhile in the north of Gaza, Israel […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ahmed Masoud is a Palestinian novelist and writer who grew up in Jabalyia refugee camp. He joins us to speak about his family in Jabalyia, a brother who was killed by Israel, and a sister who was under siege in the refugee camp for 40 days. Ahmad shares his thoughts on the importance of literature, […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr. Yipeng Ge is a primary care physician and public health practitioner who has witnessed the atrocities in Gaza firsthand as a humanitarian medical volunteer. He shares with the PalCast co-hosts his experience of being in Gaza as a medical worker during the ongoing genocide. He tells us how hungry people were so kind to […]