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In this episode of Habibti Please host Nashwa Lina Khan sits down with Palestinian pop artist Kokym (aka. Karam Khalaf) in Montreal for a conversation about music, liberation, humour, Jerusalem, fala7i pop, weddings, language, and what it means to make joyful Palestinian art in a world that so often demands Palestinians appear only through grief.Recorded at CKUT 90.3 FM as a collaboration between Habibti Please, Under the Olive Tree (Canada’s only radio show dedicated solely to Palestine, on air since 2006) and CUTV. You can also listen to the original CKUT Tiny Office: Kokym live at CKUT with Nashwa of Habibti Please broadcast in the station archives here.Kokym describes himself as a Palestinian pop artist, he sings in his own village dialect and calls his sound fala7i pop. Palestinian life, humour, memory and politics carried through pop music. In this episode we talk about “Zaffat al-Tahrir” the wedding song that became what Kokym describes as an anthem for Palestinian liberation; his intimate relationship to Jerusalem; the importance of singing in Palestinian Arabic; and why humour, flirtation and joy matter in a cultural landscape where Palestinians are so often expected to appear only through grief.The conversation also gets into “Ana Mish Ameriki,” Fayrouz vs. Oum Kalthoum, sampling and musical inheritance, touring Arabic-language pop across different countries, and what happens when audiences understand the feeling even when they do not understand every word. Kokym also reflects on making Bayaan Estinkari during the first weeks of the ongoing genocide - a small album written in eleven days, never intended for release.This is a conversation about Palestinian music and the right to dimensionality: to be political and funny, devastated and unserious, rooted in place and still making pop music for the present.And yes, we make him choose between Fayrouz and Oum Kalthoum. Tune in to see who he chooses.GuestKokym / Karam Khalaf is a Palestinian pop artist whose music combines electronic pop, Palestinian village dialect, folklore, humour, storytelling and everyday rural life a sound he calls fala7i pop.Kokym made his Canadian debut with shows presented by MARSM in Toronto and Montreal in May 2026. Follow Kokym on Instagram, watch his music on YouTube, or find more of his music on facebook, soundcloud, and spotify.Listen / Watch / Read MoreListen to Kokym live at CKUT with Habibti PleaseUnder the Olive Tree archives — CKUT 90.3 FMCUTV Montreal on YouTubeMARSM Canada — Kokym’s Montreal debutCreditsHosted and interviewed by: Nashwa Lina Khan, Habibti Please Habibti Please on HarbingerGuest: Kokym (Karam Khalaf) Kokym on InstagramRecorded in Montreal at CKUT 90.3 FM as a collaboration between Habibti Please, Under the Olive Tree, and CUTV.Filmed by: César Velasco Gil and Aude SimonAudience, production and set support: Tariq Ibrahim, Nael Abu-Jazar, Saif El Kholy, Ramy Barhouche, and Nabeela JivrajCKUT support: Jack Solar and Nic TrnkaCoordination support: Special shoutout to MARSM CanadaLive performance by: KokymProduced by: Habibti Please and Aude SimonSpecial thanks to everyone who helped hold the room, support the recording, and make this collaboration possible and to Kokym for sharing his music, stories, humour, and time with us.Habibti Please is part of the Harbinger Media Network, a community network supporting independent journalism and podcasting in Canada. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

In this special crossover episode, Nashwa joins Derek and Priyansh of The End of Sport to talk about the cultural, political and social significance of Morocco’s men’s national football team at the 2026 MAGA World Cup.Together, they discuss Morocco’s World Cup journey, what the national team means to Moroccans at home and across the diaspora, and the politics carried through football celebrations. The conversation moves through Moroccan identity, migration and colonialism, as well as policing, nationalism and the systemic violence surrounding a tournament hosted across Canada, Mexico and the United States.What does it mean to celebrate Morocco while remaining critical? Who gets welcomed into the spectacle of the World Cup and who is policed, displaced or excluded? What can football reveal about belonging, empire and the contradictions?This episode originally aired on The End of Sport and is being shared here as a special Habibti Please crossover. If you enjoy critical conversations about sport, politics, labour and power, please check out The End of Sport, subscribe to their podcast and explore their other episodes wherever you listen.Listen to the original episode on Spotify. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

There Is No Neutral Tech with Ibtihal AboussadSpeaking to Imam Omar Suleiman saying “I just did not want to stand before Allah on the Day of Judgement and have to admit to any complicity in this genocide.”In this episode of Habibti Please, Nashwa speaks with Moroccan software engineer and community organizer Ibtihal Aboussad about Big Tech, Palestine, worker resistance, artificial intelligence, surveillance, militarization, faith, and collective refusal. At the centre of the conversation is a simple but urgent principle, workers should not be required to write code that kills.Ibtihal formerly worked as a software engineer at Microsoft and now organizes with No Azure for Apartheid, a campaign of current and former Microsoft workers challenging the company’s technological and contractual relationships with Israeli military and government institutions.In April 2025 Ibtihal interrupted Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman during the company’s 50th-anniversary celebrations, publicly challenging Microsoft’s provision of AI and cloud-computing services to the Israeli military. Microsoft fired Ibtihal and fellow organizer Vaniya Agrawal shortly after their protests. Their actions became part of a wider worker-led movement involving internal organizing, resignations, petitions, workplace disruptions, vigils, walkouts, sit-ins, and public campaigns against corporate military contracts. (The Guardian)Together, Nashwa and Ibtihal discuss what brought her into the technology industry, when she began questioning its claims of neutrality, and what it means to refuse complicity when your income, immigration status, professional reputation, and future employment may be at risk. The relationship between cloud infrastructure and state violence, the role of worker organizing, the political and spiritual responsibilities of Muslim technology workers, the history of North African anticolonial struggle, international dockworker solidarity including in Morocco, and what Palestinian resistance teaches us about organizing against systems that present themselves as permanent.Follow Ibtihal AboussadFollow Ibtihal on instagram for commentary on Palestine, worker organizing, Big Tech, Muslim ethics, and the No Azure for Apartheid campaign.A conversation Ibtihal had with Imam Omar Sulieman at Yaqeen Institute.Follow Palestinian Journalists DirectlyAs mentioned in the episode people should follow Palestinian journalists, they have documented bombardment, forced displacement, starvation, military occupation, the destruction of hospitals and homes, and the killing of their own relatives, neighbours, and colleagues while living through those conditions themselves.“Journalists in Gaza”This resource provides a starting point for finding Palestinian journalists, photographers, healthcare workers, and citizen reporters who have documented Israel’s assault on Gaza. Important note about this resource:the article was published in January 2024 and does not appear to have been fully updated.Some people included in older lists of Palestinian journalists may since have been killed, injured, forcibly displaced, evacuated, detained, stopped reporting, or had their social-media accounts suspended, hacked, removed, or changed.Others to follow:Bisan OwdaBisan Owda is a Palestinian journalist, filmmaker, storyteller, and activist from Gaza. Her videos have documented displacement, hunger, bombardment, community survival, and daily life throughout Israel’s assault on Gaza. Her reporting has often begun with the words: “It’s Bisan from Gaza, and I’m still alive.”Hind KhoudaryHind Khoudary is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza who has reported extensively on the political, humanitarian, and social conditions facing Palestinians. Her work combines direct reporting with her own experiences of displacement, destruction, and loss.More Palestinian Journalists to follow:* Wael Al-Dahdouh* Motaz Azaiza* Plestia Alaqad* Yara Eid* Mariam Barghouti* Maha Hussaini* Ruwaida Amer* Youmna ElSayed* Abubaker Abed* Mohammed El-KurdBecause accounts and circumstances change quickly, search for each journalist’s current official page instead of relying entirely on older compiled lists.No Azure for Apartheid is a campaign of current and former Microsoft workers organizing against the company’s contracts and technological relationships with Israeli military and government institutions.The campaign calls on Microsoft to:* end Azure contracts and partnerships with Israeli military and government institutions;* publicly disclose its relationships with Israeli state, military, surveillance, technology, and weapons entities;* protect Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and allied workers who organize or speak publicly for Palestine;* support an immediate and permanent ceasefire;* stop retaliation against workers challenging the company’s military relationships.“Our Fight Against Microsoft-Powered Genocide: Campaign Statement on the Firings of Our Organizers”“Inside the Campaign to End Microsoft’s Collaboration with the Israeli Army”“Microsoft Faces Growing Unrest Over Role in Israel’s War on Gaza”“As Big Tech Grows More Involved in Gaza, Muslim Workers Are Wrestling with a Spiritual Crisis”“Microsoft Confirms It Supplied AI Tech to the Israeli Military for Use in Gaza”“A Call for a Worker Intifada” — No Azure for ApartheidAmazon Worker Intifada“Activist Group Vows More Pressure on Amazon Over Israel Ties” — The New Arab“Amazon Suspends Engineer Who Protested Company’s Work With Israel”Cisco and Palestine — Drop Site NewsNo Tech for Apartheid“Trade Unions Block Arms Exports to Israel”“Dockworkers and Labor Activists Can Block the Transport of Arms to Israel”Mediterranean Port Strikes“Morocco Port Workers to Block Maersk’s Arms Shipment to Israel”“Protesters Target Morocco Ports Over Ties to Israel”“How Canada’s Purchases of Israeli Weapons Fuel Genocide”“Canada to Host Tests of Israeli Arms Tech Used on Palestinians”“Exposing Canadian Military Exports to Israel”The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein, This is a public episode. 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In this episode of Habibti Please, Nashwa was joined in person by Wet’suwet’en Matriarch, activist, filmmaker, chef, and community organizer Marlene Hale, in Montreal last May. Marlene is the founder of Our Decision, Our Future, now evolving into Beyond the Ballot, and is currently working on a documentary film examining systemic racism, land defense, and Indigenous resistance across so-called Canada.The conversation centres Matriarchy as a lived role, shaped through mentorship, listening, and accountability to land, people, and future generations. Moving between Wet’suwet’en feast house protocols, food sovereignty, climate justice, youth political organizing, and Bannock as pedagogy, Marlene offers a grounded vision of leadership rooted in care instead of hierarchy.Rather than treating matriarchy as symbolic or historical, this episode understands it as active governance, survival, and responsibility, carried through everyday practices and intergenerational relationships.This episode offers many learnings. Marlene generously explains that becoming a matriarch is not automatic or symbolic, it is a lifelong process of being mentored by grandmothers, mothers, and aunties. Knowledge is passed through observation, correction, and presence, beginning in childhood and continuing throughout life. She also describes feast houses as places where governance is learned through protocol, seating, service, and respect. Young people learn by watching elders closely, understanding roles, and asking questions when guided to do so. As mentioned in the episode, I first met Marlene in May 2025 during a rally at Montreal’s Cabot Square to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.Although I have long been honoured to do work with and alongside Indigenous people I had rarely heard the kinds of connections Marlene made to pipelines and Missing and Murdered Indigenous women. Marlene connects resource extraction projects and, increased violence against Indigenous women. logging roads, and man camps to broader forms of harm: disrupted animal migration, food insecurity, environmental risks These are not separate issues, but interconnected outcomes of extractive systems.Marlene reflects on how families once lived off the land year-round through hunting, fishing, drying, and berry picking,canning while today, forest fires, industrial development, and ecological destruction have made those practices difficult, forcing people far from their territories. To close we talk about a project Marlene spearheads Our Decision, Our Future and how it grew into Beyond the Ballot Box after witnessing deep political alienation among young people. Voting, she emphasizes, is only one step, while real democracy requires ongoing accountability to youth whose futures are most at stake.Throughout the conversation, Marlene stresses that Youth and Elders. Elders create time and space and experience; Youth bring urgency serious issues and imagination, and each share stories. Marlene returns often to awareness: ofLand, Food Systems, and people, and as a form of survival and responsibility in a rapidly changing and often hostile political environment.Film & Ongoing WorkMarlene is currently filming a documentary film grounded in years of organizing, The film examines systemic racism across health, education, justice, and environmental systems, while situating Wet’suwet’en struggle within global Indigenous movements.Furthermore, since the pandemic hit,she has been raising awareness through her weekly webinar series, “Marlene Webinars Solidarity Action Group”. She has created this space for youth, elders, activists and more to share news and support each other through the many issues to its depth.Follow & Support Marlene Hale● Website: www.ourdecisionourfuture.ca* https://chuffed.org/project/126670-our-decision-our-future● Instagram: @OurDecisionOurFuture● Bio: Marlene Hale - Our World● Webinar: Marlene Solidarity Webinar● Film: chefmaluh.caVideo Interviews, Talks & PanelsBaking Bannock & Battling Environmental Racism with Marlene Hale.POP Symposium – Day 3: Marlene Hale & Stefan ChristoffThe Artist’s Role in Indigenous Land Struggles.Marlene Hale Solidarity Update.Additional Talk on Indigenous Struggle & Resistance.Wet’suwet’en Chef, Turned Activist in Quebec Ready to Take on the Politicians.(APTN News – video)https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/wetsuweten-chef-turned-activist-in-quebec-ready-to-take-on-the-politicians-to-get-answers-for-her-people-in-b-c/Further Reading & ViewingA curated list to deepen the themes of matriarchy, Indigenous feminism, land defense, food sovereignty, and political accountability discussed in this episode.Indigenous Matriarchy & Women’s LeadershipReid, Teela. “The Power of the First Nations Matriarchy: Warrior Women Reckoning with the Colony.” Griffith Review.https://www.griffithreview.com/articles/the-power-of-the-first-nations-matriarchy/Murray, Roxann. “The Healing Power of Matriarchs.” YES! Magazine, 2024.https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024/04/22/women-native-healing-matriarch“Indigenous Matriarchal Traditions: A Tribute for Women’s History Month.” Owamniyomni.https://owamniyomni.org/2024/03/21/indigenous-matriarchal-traditions-a-tribute-for-womens-history-month/Hale, Marlene. “The Making of a Matriarch.” BILD-LIDA.https://bild-lida.ca/blog/uncategorized/the-making-of-a-matriarch-by-marlene-hale/Indigenous Feminism, Care, & Knowledge PracticesTuck, E., Stepetin, H., Beaulne-Stuebing, R., & Billows, J. (2022).“Visiting as an Indigenous Feminist Practice.” Gender and Education.https://poche.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/4740723/2022-Tuck,-E.,-_Stepetin,-H.,-_Beaulne-Stuebing,-R.,-_-_Billows,-J.-2022.-Visiting-as-an-Indigenous-feminist-practice.-Gender-and-Education,-1-12.pdf“An Indigenous Feminist Commemoration of Canada 150.” University of Winnipeg — Weweni.https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/indigenous/weweni/past-wewenis/an-indigenous-feminist-commemoration-of-canada-150.htmlPalmater, Pamela. “#MeToo and the Secrets Indigenous Women Keep.” The Walrus.https://thewalrus.ca/metoo-and-the-secrets-indigenous-women-keep/Law, Governance & Indigenous Feminist FrameworksThis section brings together Indigenous feminist scholarship that interrogates how law, governance, and state systems shape and often enable violence against Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse people. These works are essential for understanding why extractive projects, policing, and jurisdictional gaps continue to produce harm, and how Indigenous feminist legal thought offers pathways toward accountability, relational governance, and land-based justice.Deborah McGregor — Indigenous Feminisms, Environmental Justice, and the LawIn this work, Deborah McGregor advances Indigenous feminist approaches to law and environmental governance. McGregor demonstrates how settler legal systems and extractive governance models marginalize Indigenous women’s authority, responsibilities to land, and knowledge systems, while reproducing colonial and gendered violence. Her work is foundational for understanding how environmental decision-making, resource extraction, and legal regimes intersect with the MMIWG2S crisis.https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/scholarly_works/2924/Cherry Smiley — Indigenous Feminism, Colonial Violence, and ResistanceIn her doctoral research, Cherry Smiley offers a rigorous critique of how colonial governance, state feminism, and liberal legal frameworks obscure and perpetuate violence against Indigenous women. Smiley centers Indigenous feminism as a site of political resistance, challenging racialized and patriarchal narratives while foregrounding Indigenous women’s leadership in struggles against sexual violence, disappearance, and state harm.https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/990510/Pipelines, Man Camps & Violence Against Indigenous WomenContent note: The following resources discuss colonial and gender-based violence, sexual violence, disap… This is a public episode. 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In this episode of Habibti Please, Nashwa Lina Khan joins Local 514 for a deep-dive conversation unpacking the recent visit of the Swedish royal family to Montréal, Ottawa, and so-called Canada, a visit largely framed by mainstream media as ceremonial, benign, and cultural. This episode argues otherwise.What begins as a seemingly innocuous royal tour reveals a much deeper story about arms deals, NATO expansion, Canada’s growing role in the military-industrial complex, and how cities like Montréal are quietly being positioned as hubs fo r weapons manufacturing and military AI.Royal visits are not Neutral. The Swedish king and queen were not simply visiting for diplomacy or cultural exchange. Their presence functioned as high-level corporate lobbying on behalf of Sweden’s arms industry, specifically the push to sell Saab Gripen fighter jets to Canada amid tensions with the United States and a reassessment of F-35 procurement.Sweden’s carefully cultivated global image as progressive, neutral, humanitarian collapses under closer scrutiny. The episode traces Saab’s history of corruption allegations across South Africa, Brazil, Central Europe, and beyond, raising urgent questions about why Canada would deepen military partnerships with a company repeatedly implicated in bribery and misconduct. “Humanitarian arms exporters” do not and will never exist. Far from being peripheral, Montréal is already deeply embedded in global weapons supply chains. Montreal is indeed a weapons hub. From aerospace manufacturing to AI research institutes, public funds and public institutions are increasingly tied to military production often without public debate or consent. Montreal is already a weapons hub, you can read more from Arms Embargo Now here. The Swedish delegation’s visit to Montréal’s AI research institutions highlights how “innovation” rhetoric is used to normalize military tech development. Civilian research spaces are quietly absorbed into war-oriented futures under the banner of jobs and competitiveness.The promise of “10,000 high-paying jobs” is interrogated head-on. The episode asks: Why are weapons framed as the only viable economic growth strategy? What would job creation look like if public money were invested in housing, climate resilience, care work, or food security instead? Why jobs implicated in war instead of justice?While politicians insist Canada is not directly exporting weapons to conflict zones, the episode lays out how Canadian-made components feed into global arms supply chains including those linked to Gaza, Sudan, Yemen, and beyond. Canada is and has been quietly complicit.This conversation invites listeners to move beyond surface-level nationalism and media complacency. It challenges the idea that Canada or Sweden can position itself as peace-loving while expanding war infrastructure. It also asks Montréalers to reflect on what kind of city we are being shaped into, and who benefits from that transformation. or clear, evidence-based reporting on how Canadian-made weapons and components continue to circulate globally despite official denials, spend time with this investigation from Arms Embargo Now: https://armsembargonow.ca/.As this episode reminds us, militarized economies are life-taking economies and they require permanent war to sustain themselves.Complicity Is Not a Mystery: Canada, Arms, and the Architecture of DenialCanada often describes itself as a peacekeeping nation, restrained, principled, and guided by “benevolant” international law. Yet the evidence tells a different story. Over and over, Canadian-made weapons, components, and technologies surface in sites of mass violence: Gaza, Sudan, Yemen. Each time, the response follows a familiar pattern. Officials insist exports are frozen. Ministers emphasize complexity. Responsibility is displaced onto allies, intermediaries, or technical classifications.What this bibliography reveals is not a failure of information, but an architecture of denial.Civil society reports show how Canadian arms complicit in violence globaly reach places through U.S. supply chains. Investigative journalism documents contracts approved after internal reviews flagged extensive human rights violations. Parliamentary interventions warn that Canada is “on notice” of potential complicity under international law. Faith institutions and humanitarian organizations call for embargoes and sanctions. Still, the machinery continues.Complicity here is not accidental. It is bureaucratic. It lives in export permits, Crown corporations,Canadian ports, risk-mitigation language, and procurement contracts framed as “industrial benefits.” It is reinforced through diplomacy, royal visits, trade missions, defence partnerships that normalize militarism as innovation and economic growth.Looking at Sudan makes it impossible to dismiss as rooted on a single conflict. Canadian rifles appear in the hands of militias accused of massacres. Canadian exports pass through the UAE despite clear diversion risks. The same loopholes, the same rationales, the same denials reappear.What changes when we read these sources together is scale. The question is no longer whether Canada knows. The record shows it does. The question is whether Canada is willing to act when accountability threatens profit, alliances, or national myth.This archive exists to interrupt that myth and to insist that responsibility does not end at the border, the permit, or the press release.Canada, Arms, and Complicity: A Starter Reading ListThis short list is designed for people who want to learn about the issue issue or need a clear entry point. Each item attempts to answer a different “first question.”1. Arms Embargo Now (2025)Exposing Canadian Military Exports to Israelhttps://armsembargonow.ca/report/Why start here:This is the clearest overview of what Canada is exporting, how it moves (especially via the U.S.), and why official claims of a “freeze” don’t match the evidence.2. CBC News (2025)Report suggests arms still flow from Canada to Israel despite denialshttps://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/arms-ammunition-shipments-israel-canada-1.7596091Why start here:Shows how mainstream journalism confirms what civil society has documented and where government messaging breaks down.3. Project Ploughshares (2025)Canada under contract to supply the IDF with artillery propellanthttps://ploughshares.ca/canada-under-contract-to-supply-the-idf-with-artillery-propellant/Why start here:Introduces the idea of indirect complicity and how Canadian goods flow through U.S. contracts and Crown corporations.4. The Maple (2025)How Canada’s purchases of Israeli weapons fuel genocidehttps://www.readthemaple.com/how-canadas-purchases-of-israeli-weapons-fuel-genocide/Why start here:Shifts the conversation from exports to imports and how Canada financially sustains Israel’s military industry.5. Yellowhead Institute (2023)Canada’s Role in the Colonization of Palestinehttps://yellowheadinstitute.org/2023/candas-role-in-colonization-palestine/Why start here:Provides historical grounding on how Canada’s relationship to Palestine did not begin in 2023.6. Anglican Church of Canada (2025)General Synod Resolution C012: Arms Embargo on Israelhttps://gs2025.anglican.ca/resolutions/c012/Why start here:This is no longer a fringe position, institutions are publicly calling for an embargo.7. Local 514 (2025)The Swedish royal couple in Montréal to sell warplanes? (video of this episode)Why start here:Connects arms exports to diplomacy, monarchy, and the normalization of militarism.PART II — DEEP-DIVE APPENDIX A. Export Loopholes & State Risk Assessments* Project Ploughshares & Amnesty International Canada —“No Credible Evidence”: Canada’s flawed analysis of arms exports to Saudi Arabiahttps://ploughshares.ca/special-report-no-credible-evidence-canadas-flawed-analysis-of-arms-exports-to-saudi-arabia/* The Maple —Government export agency noted 99 Israeli crimes but OK’d arms salehttps://www.readthemaple.com/governm… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

Medicine is never neutral. In this episode of Habibti Please, host Nashwa Lina Khan speaks with Dr. Yipeng Ge, a public health physician and activist who has worked in Gaza during the genocide. They speak about the entanglement of healthcare, colonialism, and liberation struggles.From Six Nations of the Grand River to Gaza, this conversation connects Indigenous resistance, Palestinian liberation, and the responsibilities of healthcare workers who refuse silence in the face of genocide. Dr. Ge shares first-hand experiences working in Rafah, witnessing severe malnutrition and attacks on Gaza’s hospitals, and reflects on the responsibilities of physicians to act politically, not just clinically.They also discuss the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s largest-ever mission, the Sumud flotilla, which set sail with over 50 boats from 44 countries to break Israel’s illegal blockade — and the increasing risks activists face as Israel escalates attacks and labels them “terrorists.”To practice medicine is to confront colonialism, speak out against genocide, and understand care as inseparable from justice. Yipeng reflects on their education at McMaster, where Indigenous leaders like Dawn Martin Hill fought for the creation of Indigenous Studies, shaping a transformative understanding of privilege, responsibility, and solidarity. Drawing on the words of Dr. Nidal Jabbour, the conversation underscores that liberation and freedom — not aid alone — are essential for health and survival in Palestine and beyond.Solidarity is an act of risk: putting one’s voice and body on the line, following the direction of oppressed communities, and standing in the way of erasure. Propaganda and lobbying in Canada and Western media erases and dehumanizes Palestinians while legitimizing settler state violence. Activism can be a driver of systemic change, from Burnaby declaring itself an apartheid-free city to Italian ports blocking Israeli arms shipments and a recent general strike.Yipeng shares his experience working in Gaza, describing malnourished children, the destruction of hospitals like Nasser Medical Complex, and the resilience of Palestinian healthcare workers who continue to care for their people under siege. The Global Sumud Flotilla, international intervention from Italy and Spain in deploying naval ships to support the flotilla, 1 million Italians striking and shutting down the country for action, are critical escalation of global solidarity, even as the genocide intensifies.The history of Western medicine is one that is complicit in slavery, eugenics, and Indigenous genocide. Yipeng reflects on disrupting these structures from within the profession. Hope is not passive, but a discipline — an active practice of persistence and resistance, embodied by Palestinian steadfastness and echoed in abolitionist struggles.This episode is a call to understand medicine as resistance, solidarity as risk, and hope as a discipline — forged through collective struggle, from Gaza to Turtle Island.Resources & Links* Freedom Flotilla Coalition – Global Sumud Flotilla* Countries part of the global flotilla* Doctors Against Genocide* Independent Media mentioned: The Maple, The Grind, Ricochet* Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta’s work: https://drghassanabusittah.com/* Follow Yipeng: Twitter | Instagram* Subscribe: Habibti Please SubstackAcademic / reports / analyses/ advocacy / activist/ coalition / grassroots resources* A Health Analysis of the Gaza Genocide (Public Health and Human Rights Initiative, PHRI) This report frames much of the health system collapse in Gaza through the lens of genocide law. (רופאים לזכויות אדם)* Safeguarding healthcare workers in Gaza and throughout conflict zones — Khanji et al., 2025 Focus on legal / ethical imperatives for protecting medical personnel in conflict. (PMC)* Gaza’s healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent — The Lancet (Editorial) A call to medical institutions to break selective silence and act. (The Lancet)* “Healthocide and medical neutrality: a call for action and accountability” — (Abi-Rached et al.) BMJ Global Health* “The Rhetoric of Decolonizing Global Health Fails to Address the Reality of Settler Colonialism: Gaza as a Case in Point” — International Journal of Health Policy and Management* Doctors Against Genocide — Medical Resources A live, updated resource hub including webinars, profiles of Gaza health workers, and advocacy materials. (Doctors Against Genocide)* The Sameer Project A Palestinian-led medical / relief operation in Gaza. Their public pages (e.g. Open Collective) explain their work in shelter, medical care, supplies, etc. (Open Collective)* Librarians & Archivists with Palestine — Readings & Resources A curated and updated reading list and resource guide (nonfiction, fiction, archives, etc.). (Librarians with Palestine)* Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) statements on Gaza / doctors’ calls to action MSF has publicly described that doctors in Gaza “face the devastating reality that they cannot stop genocide.” (MSF UK)* “Gaza’s healthcare system is being destroyed by targeted attacks” (The Guardian)* Doctors who visited Gaza speak of ‘atrocities,’ collapsing healthcare” (Reuters)* Healthcare collapse and disease spread: a qualitative study of challenges in Gaza strip Abuzerr, S., Zinszer, K., & Mahmoud, H. (2025). BMC Public Health (Open Access) — examines how the collapse of healthcare infrastructure is driving infectious disease spread in Gaza. (BioMed Central)* Barriers faced by primary healthcare providers in addressing emergencies in the Northern region of Palestine before and during the Gaza war Hamshari, S., Hamadneh, S., Ghneem, M. et al. (2024). BMC Primary Care (Open Access) — focuses on what primary healthcare providers are experiencing, before & during the genocide. (SpringerLink)* Resilience amid chaos: The role of Gaza medical points — from PMC (Open Access) — looks at “medical points” (mobile / temporary clinics) and how they function under severe shortage, damage, and conflict pressure. (PMC)* Rebuilding the health sector in Gaza: alternative humanitarian voices Blanchet, K., Najem, M., Shadid, L., et al. (2024). Conflict and Health (Open Access) — perspectives from humanitarian actors on how the health system can be rebuilt and what alternative / grassroots voices are calling for. (BioMed Central)* Defending the right to health in Gaza: a call to action by health workers Mohammed, F., Elgailani, U.S.A., Ibrahim Ali, S.Y., et al. (2024). Conflict and Health (Open Access) — health workers’ statement about the destruction of the health system, challenges, and what is urgently needed. (SpringerLink)* The Urgent Struggle for Health Justice in Gaza: A Crisis of Human Rights and Inequity Mansour, W., Theobald, S., Fouad, F.M., et al. (2025). International Journal of Health Planning and Management (Free Access) — an editorial framing Gaza’s situation as part of a broader struggle for health justice. (Wiley Online Library)* Critical care in Gaza amidst military pressure: the struggle of healthcare workers in Gaza’s Warzone — from PMC (Open Access) — detailed account of how critical care (ICUs, surgeries, anesthesia, etc.) is being impacted by conflict, blockades, hospital damage etc. (PMC)* Frontiers | The War on Gaza and Its Impact on Public Health: Challenges and Pathways to Recovery Al Bakri, Khader, Khatib, et al. (2025). Frontiers in Public Health (Open Access) — discusses present public health emergencies in Gaza and what pathways there might be for recovery. (Frontiers)* The cost of conflict: how war is crippling Gaza’s healthcare system Sajid, F. (2025). Egyptian Journal of Neurosurgery (Open Access) — letter-style piece detailing how war is affecting healthcare, capacity, infrastructure, etc. (SpringerOpen)* “Medicine is being strangled”: An MSF doctor on collapse of Gaza’s healthcare system. Médecins Sans Frontières. (2024). Doctors Without Borders.* Famine and disease escalate: Gaza’s humanitarian disaster. (2024). Annals of Medicine & Surgery.* Public Health Crisis in Gaza… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

In this incisive episode, host Nashwa Lina Khan speaks with Canadian journalist Emma Pailing about how mainstream media in Canada—especially outlets like CBC—shape public understanding of Palestine and Israel.With the Genocide in Gaza currently accelerating with mass starvation now compounding the daily killing it is vital to recognize how the dehumanizing language and double standards appear frequently in mainstream news coverage of Gaza, reflecting biased narratives and systemic narratives. Mainstream outlets often adopt dehumanizing frames when covering Gaza or censor to further the colonial project of empire. PR firms play a significant role in shaping public opinion behind the scenes by engineering consent and influencing media narratives to favor particular perspectives. Emma’s work has extensively covered this and media bias at CBC following October 2023 revealing whose voices are prioritized and whose are erased, highlighting disparities in coverage and representation.If you appreciate the work we do please support groups like the Glia Project and the Palestinian Youth Movement’s weekly protests and listen to the last episode of Habibti Please Bearing Witness in Gaza: A Conversation with Dr. Sarah Lalonde.Emma also broke a story on the surveillance, silencing, and repression of pro-Palestinian anti-genocide voices on Canadian campuses, illustrating the broader challenges faced by activists and educators advocating for justice especially given the settler-colonial existence of what we call Canada. While activists across social justice issues try to get organized, urban development, especially condo projects, are reshaping class dynamics and transforming grassroots organizing within cities, often reinforcing social inequalities. Nashwa and Emma then explore what a decolonial, anti-capitalist Canadian media landscape that would challenge these entrenched narratives, centering marginalized voices and emphasizing justice would look like. Both journalists and readers have a crucial role in demanding more accountability and integrity from our media institutions to foster truth and equity in public discourse.With the genocide in Gaza accelerating—now marked by mass starvation alongside daily bombings—it’s vital to examine how mainstream Canadian media upholds systems of violence through dehumanizing language and double standards. From selective reporting to outright censorship, dominant outlets often reinforce colonial narratives that erase Palestinian life and struggle.Public relations firms play a powerful, behind-the-scenes role in shaping public opinion—engineering consent and directing media narratives to align with state and corporate interests. In this context, journalism often serves empire rather than accountability.A detailed investigation revealed how CTV/Bell Media banned the use of the word “Palestine,” framing it as “non-existent,” while disproportionately amplifying Israeli perspectives and sanitizing Palestinian suffering (Breach Media). Similarly, CBC’s The National showed stark imbalance in its post-October 7 coverage, featuring significantly more Israeli voices compared to Palestinian ones, often leaving Palestinians unnamed (Breach Media). Editorial policies at CBC have also been found to sanitize language around Palestinian deaths, avoiding terms like “murderous” or “brutal,” which are reserved only for Hamas (Breach Media). Adding to these media silencing tactics, Global News reportedly refused to air critical interviews that challenged Israeli policies due to pressure from pro-Israel lobby groups (Read The Maple).Surveillance and repression extend beyond media, reaching into academic spaces. After a meeting between former Minister Selina Robinson and the UBC president, the Anthropology department was ordered to remove a statement condemning “genocidal violence in Gaza,” with warnings that political statements might bring liability, raising serious concerns about academic freedom (Breach Media).While activists across social justice sectors strive to organize, urban development—especially condo-driven gentrification—reshapes class relations and disrupts grassroots networks. New reporting from Read The Maple details how Canada’s “condo class” has fragmented political organizing by displacing communities and weakening local power (Read The Maple).Journalist Emma Paling has extensively covered these intersecting issues, including media bias at CBC following October 2023, and uncovered the surveillance, silencing, and repression of pro-Palestinian activism on Canadian campuses (Breach Media).Together, Nashwa Lina Khan and Emma Paling explore what a decolonial, anti-capitalist Canadian media landscape might look like: one that challenges entrenched empire-aligned narratives, centers Indigenous, Palestinian, and other marginalized voices, and demands justice and accountability. Both journalists and audiences share the responsibility to push for media institutions that foster truth, equity, and meaningful public discourse.Resources and Further Reading: * Follow Emma Pailing on Twitter: @emma_pailingEmma Paling – Selected Work* Emma Paling's portfolio – A full overview of her published journalism and investigations.* CTV’s racist double standards in Palestine coverage – An exposé on Bell Media’s internal censorship and disproportionate framing favoring Israel.* Global News refused to air anchor’s reports on Israel – Reporting on internal silencing of critical voices within Canadian broadcast journalism.* CBC avoids “murderous” language when Palestinians are killed – A critical look at editorial double standards and dehumanizing language at CBC.* How Canada’s condo class disrupted political organizing – On urban gentrification and its impact on grassroots activism.* Canada ramps up immigration enforcement while cooperating with ICE – A cross-border analysis of migration enforcement and its racialized consequences.* Professors backing Palestine motions face alleged hack and legal intimidation – On repression of academic freedom and digital targeting.* Canadian newspapers fail to disclose military experts' ties – Investigating conflicts of interest and lack of transparency in defense reporting.* $95 million in Canadian military goods could flow to Israel by 2025 – A deep dive into arms exports amid ongoing genocide.* Falsehoods about Palestine go unchallenged on Canadian talk radio – How unchecked misinformation fuels anti-Palestinian racism.* Companies ask court to keep Israel export details secret – On legal attempts to block public access to export data.* Emma Paling profile at Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) – Highlights her reporting on Palestine, media, and accountability.When Genocide Wasn’t NewsCheck out When Genocide Wasn’t News — a powerful anthology from The Breach that exposes how Canadian mainstream media actively distorted, downplayed, or erased coverage of Israel’s assault on Gaza. Through essays by journalists and advocates, the book challenges the complicity of institutions like CBC and CTV, and uplifts the stories that were silenced.Visualizing Palestine Is Worth ExploringOne resource that powerfully shifts narrative away from erasure and toward truth-telling is Visualizing Palestine. This organization uses data-driven visual storytelling to document the structural violence of settler colonialism, apartheid, displacement, and resistance in Palestine. Their work is rooted in research, yet rendered in accessible infographics and animations that challenge mainstream distortions—especially those deeply embedded in Western and Canadian media systems, as Emma Paling critiques.At a time when Palestinian voices are either silenced or stripped of political context, Visualizing Palestine offers tools to make complexity legible. Their graphics are used by educators, grassroots organizers, faith groups, and student campaigns worldwide, and have reached over 26 million people in the past year alone. Their recently released book, Vi… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode of Habibti Please, Nashwa speaks with Dr. Sarah Lalonde in Monreal a Montreal-based emergency and family physician who recently returned from Gaza. Dr. Lalonde shares what she witnessed while working in the emergency department at the European Gaza Hospital amidst ongoing Israeli attacks—including the deliberate targeting of health workers, collapsing infrastructure, and the catastrophic impact on children.Together, we explore what it means to bear witness, the emotional toll of working under siege, and how Canadian healthcare systems are complicit in global injustice. This episode is a continuation of our series on medical solidarity, following our previous conversation with Dr. Tarek Loubani of Glia.We recorded this conversation on July 11th, 2025, in Montreal at Halte 24-7.“Solidarity without cost is not solidarity.” – Dr. Sarah LalondeSarah is a Montreal-based physician who recently returned from Gaza a few months ago where she joined a team of international medics working in the ruins of a healthcare system under siege. What she witnessed, what she lived through, is not just a humanitarian crisis—it is the architecture of genocide, laid bare.There’s something haunting about the way Sarah describes a hospital that no longer functions as a place of healing, but as a site of mass death. About treating children whose bodies are broken not by rare diseases, but by bombs. About watching colleagues—nurses, surgeons, paramedics from afar—targeted and killed. In her words and in her silences, there’s a clarity: this is not a natural disaster or humanitarian crisis. It is a man-made horror.Sarah also speaks to the impossible conditions that define what it means to be a healthcare worker in Gaza. To heal is to resist. But resistance can mean death. In that double-bind, neutrality is a lie—and the idea of “do no harm” becomes a radical, life-threatening commitment. Since October 2023, we've seen Canadian healthcare institutions fail to rise to this moment. Instead of standing up against genocide, they've punished those who do. We've seen students, nurses, residents, and physicians silenced, suspended, blacklisted. Meanwhile, those who justify or ignore the destruction of life go unchallenged. As Sarah reminds us, medicine has never been apolitical. You either uphold life actively—or you make peace with systems that end it.As listeners, as comrades, as people who care, our work isn’t just to hear these stories—it’s to act on them. To connect Gaza to Canada. To understand that the siege abroad is mirrored by silence at home. That every institutional reprimand for speaking up is part of the same machinery.Please consider sharing this episode. Talk to your colleagues. Interrupt the silences. Support groups like the Glia Project and the Palestinian Youth Movement.Habibti Please is a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network. Get weekly updates from Canada’s progressive podcast community at harbingermedianetwork.com.About the GuestDr. Sarah Lalonde (@dr.sarah.lalonde)Dr. Lalonde is an emergency and family physician specializing in rural, remote, and community medicine, particularly within Indigenous communities. She has worked internationally with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Guinea, Albania, Togo, and Chad, and is recognized as Quebec’s provincial physician expert on human trafficking. In Gaza, she served at the European Gaza Hospital as part of an international medical mission.Resources & LinksPrevious Episode→ Dr. Tarek Loubani on Glia, Open-Source Solidarity, and Gazahttps://habibtiplease.substack.com/p/medicine-under-siege-dr-tarek-loubaniSupport Medical Work in Gaza→ Glia – Global organization for low-cost, open-source medical toolshttps://glia.org→ Donate to support Dr. Lalonde & Dr. Loubani’s ongoing workhttps://glia.org🚢 Track the Flotilla→ Follow the Freedom Flotilla & Dr. Yipeng Ge’s journey aboard the Handala Freedom Flotilla TrackerRelated Reading & Reports* “Gaza’s Health System Under Siege” – New York Times doctor interviews (2024) NYT Interactive* Canadian Complicity in Arms Sales – CJPME CJPME on Canadian Arms to Israel* Gaza’s Nasser Hospital will turn into ‘silent graveyard’ if siege and fuel shortage persist, doctors say* 65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in GazaFollow* Dr. Sarah Lalonde – @dr.sarah.lalonde* Dr. Tarek Loubani – @trklou* Freedom Flotilla Coalition – freedomflotilla.org💌 Call to Action→ Donate if you can to medical missions and grassroots aid efforts like Glia → Share this episode with others who care about justice, healthcare, and solidarity. → Bear witness—listening is not passive. Let it move you to action.Humanitarian & Community Aid:* Islamic Relief Canada – Palestine Emergency Appeal* Humanity Auxilium* Palestinian Youth Movement* Palestinian Youth Movement – Popular Cradle Podcast* Support the Glia Project: Donate or amplify their open-source medical tools: glia.org* Donate to frontline organizations: Support trusted orgs like Islamic Relief Canada, Doctors Without Borders and Humanity Auxilium* Organize within your profession: If you're a healthcare worker, speak out, form collectives, and protect each other from institutional repression. Check out Health workers Alliance for Palestine* Stay loud: Refuse silence in your classrooms, hospitals, unions, and friend groups. Silence is complicity. Check out Labour for Palestine* Educate yourself: Study the roots of this genocide—settler colonialism, white supremacy, and global capitalism. Check out The Anti-Empire ProjectSuggested Readings & ResourcesThis section provides some contextual readings and links to explore.* Glia Project* How Gaza’s doctors endure the impossible* 'Appalled' Trudeau calls for inquiry after Canadian doctor wounded in Gaza - The Guardian* Canadian doctor who works in Gaza makes 3D-printed face shields for COVID-19* From Canada to Gaza, physician uses 3D printing to make medical face shields* Tarek Loubani: 3D Printing High-Quality Low-Cost Free Medical Hardware* ‘Shock and grief’ as senior doctor killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza* People in Gaza 'starve or risk being shot': NGOs urge end to aid work backed by U.S., Israel as deaths rise* I’m in northern Gaza. I would rather starve than take GHF aid* Marking a year of heartbreak: A letter from MSF USA chief executive officer Avril BenoîtOn the Targeting of Canadian Healthcare Workers:* Doctor suspended from U of O residency after pro-Palestinian social media posts* 'Chilling effect': People expressing pro-Palestinian views censured, suspended from work and school* ‘Abuse of power’: Hospitals, med schools crack down on Palestine advocacy* Protect medical trainees from anti-Palestine bigotry in medical placement process!* A List Of Some People In Canada Fired For Pro-Palestine Views* OPINION: Ontario Nurses’ Association Must Speak Out Against Gaza AtrocitiesProduction Credits:Hosted by Nashwa Lina KhanArt for Habibti Please by postXamericaProduction and Editing by Andre GouletSocial Media & Support:Follow us on Twitter @habibtipleaseSupport us on PatreonSubscribe to us on SubstackClosing Song: Closing Song: Muhannad Khalaf - Allah M7yeh Falastin (2021) / مهند خلف - الله محيي فلسطين This is a public episode. 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Hi habibtis, and welcome back. In this episode, I sit down with Sean Orr—writer, musician, activist, and newly elected Vancouver City Councillor with COPE—for a conversation about politics, activism, and the urgency of global solidarity.Sean shares his journey from Vancouver’s punk and arts scenes to becoming a sharp political writer and now, a municipal politician. We talk about the challenges of holding radical commitments while working inside political systems, and the complexities of balancing grassroots movements with electoral politics.We also get into the social and political history of Vancouver, including gentrification, policing, and the Downtown Eastside and some reflections on global struggles against apartheid and fascism—from Palestine to local politics including the win of Zohran Mamdani in New York. This episode also highlights the importance of not letting activism become abstract, the role of stories in movement-building, and how bringing humor and heart into political spaces can help engage new people without losing sight of the seriousness of the work.I really loved this conversation—it felt honest, thoughtful, and full of the kind of political clarity we need more of right now. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.Follow Sean Orr:Twitter X: @seanorrBluesky: seanorr.bsky.socialInstagram: @seanorrofficialREADINGSReading group: AUTONOMIA, OCCUPY, COMMUNISM: LEGACIES AND FUTURESSpill the Tea: Gentrification of Vancouver ChinatownVancouver’s Little Saigon Facing Gentrification?Crackdown PodcastFrom dishwasher and punk rocker to city councillor: Sean Orr’s unique path to City HallSean Orr’s WritingSome highlights from Sean’s WritingOn Rampaging White Men, Dummy Mayoral Candidates, and Even More Problems with the PoliceGet to Know: Overdose Prevention SocietyBarge Chilling BeachOn Gas Hoarding, House Hoarding and Finding A New Frequency. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

Medicine Under Siege: Dr. Tarek Loubani on Gaza, Resistance, and Refusing SilenceIn this episode of Habibti Please, Nashwa sits down with Dr. Tarek Loubani—emergency physician, humanitarian, and founder of the Glia Project—to talk about the politics of medicine in Palestine, and what it means to be a healthcare worker under siege.Drawing from his over 15 years of medical work in Gaza, Tarek shares harrowing, deeply personal stories of treating patients in war zones, responding to mass casualty events, and witnessing the deliberate destruction of Palestine’s healthcare infrastructure. From the starvation of children to the maiming of protesters, this conversation offers a sobering look into the conditions Palestinians face daily—and the impossible choices doctors like him must make.We also talk about the origins of the Glia Project, which produces affordable, open-source medical devices like tourniquets and stethoscopes—designed for use in the Global South and under blockade. For Tarek, creating these tools is not only about saving lives, but about resisting the imperial systems that profit from crisis.We turn the mirror toward Canada, discussing the coordinated effort to silence healthcare workers speaking out for Palestine. From healthcare worker suspensions and other efforts to silence anti-genocide healthcare professionals, Nashwa and Tarek unpack the dangers of enforced neutrality, and the urgent need for medical professionals and the general public to reject complicity.This episode is about medicine, yes—but also about ethics, empire, and what it means to stay human in inhumane systems. It is both a grief document and a call to action.Suggested Readings & ResourcesThis section provides some contextual readings and links to explore.* Glia Project* How Gaza’s doctors endure the impossible* 'Appalled' Trudeau calls for inquiry after Canadian doctor wounded in Gaza - The Guardian* Canadian doctor who works in Gaza makes 3D-printed face shields for COVID-19* From Canada to Gaza, physician uses 3D printing to make medical face shields* Tarek Loubani: 3D Printing High-Quality Low-Cost Free Medical Hardware* ‘Shock and grief’ as senior doctor killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza* People in Gaza 'starve or risk being shot': NGOs urge end to aid work backed by U.S., Israel as deaths rise* I’m in northern Gaza. I would rather starve than take GHF aidOn the Targeting of Canadian Healthcare Workers:* Doctor suspended from U of O residency after pro-Palestinian social media posts* 'Chilling effect': People expressing pro-Palestinian views censured, suspended from work and school* ‘Abuse of power’: Hospitals, med schools crack down on Palestine advocacy* Protect medical trainees from anti-Palestine bigotry in medical placement process!* A List Of Some People In Canada Fired For Pro-Palestine Views* OPINION: Ontario Nurses’ Association Must Speak Out Against Gaza AtrocitiesHumanitarian & Community Aid:* Islamic Relief Canada – Palestine Emergency Appeal* Humanity Auxilium* Palestinian Youth Movement* Palestinian Youth Movement – Popular Cradle Podcast* Support the Glia Project: Donate or amplify their open-source medical tools: glia.org* Donate to frontline organizations: Support trusted orgs like Islamic Relief Canada, Doctors Without Borders and Humanity Auxilium* Organize within your profession: If you're a healthcare worker, speak out, form collectives, and protect each other from institutional repression. Check out Health workers Alliance for Palestine* Stay loud: Refuse silence in your classrooms, hospitals, unions, and friend groups. Silence is complicity. Check out Labour for Palestine* Educate yourself: Study the roots of this genocide—settler colonialism, white supremacy, and global capitalism. Check out The Anti-Empire ProjectYou can follow Tarek here and check out his site here. Subscribe to Habibti Please on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Substack to keep up with future episodes, resistance reading lists, and conversations from the frontlines of feminist, abolitionist, and anti-colonial struggles.Production Credits:Hosted by Nashwa Lina KhanArt for Habibti Please by postXamericaProduction by Andre GouletSocial Media & Support:Follow us on Twitter @habibtipleaseSupport us on PatreonSubscribe to us on SubstackEditing Support by Nabeela Jivraj and Kalden DhatsenpaClosing Song: Dana Salah - Ya Tal3een (full version) يا طالعين This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe