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The world supports Palestine w/ Saree Makdisi

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Mar 19, 2023

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*Note: This is about 75% of our conversation. The rest is available to patrons for $5 a month* Saree Makdisi (@sareemakdisi) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA and the author of Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (2022) Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show

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