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A podcast by Lebanese-Palestinian writer and researcher @ayoub.bsky.social. “A place where we tell our hardest truths, and find one another" - Naomi Klein

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · Jul 28
Recording more episodes this month! Updates to come soon
ayoub.bsky.social elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · Jul 20
The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com is back!

I had the one and only Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @chanda.blacksky.app on. Go listen to it. Now!

Wherever you get your podcasts etc

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Video will be out soon too
Cosmic Dream Boogie with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and meself.
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polphilpod.bsky.social
it's not just ugly rhetoric—they genuinely want us to die

my discussion with @ayoub.bsky.social on modern fascism

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Fascists Really Believe It w/ Toby Buckle (E224)
Yes.
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September 15, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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My episode with Toby Buckle aka @polphilpod.bsky.social on why we should believe fascists when they tell us who they are

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Video version available for Patreon supporters www.patreon.com/thefirethese...

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Fascists Really Believe It w/ Toby Buckle (E224)
Yes.
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September 14, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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ayoub.bsky.social
Had an absolutely wonderful convo with @sharonyamsy.bsky.social on ambiguous loss yesterday. We spoke about Hong Kong/Lebanon, our kids, the downsides of being diasporic, and so much more.

It’ll be out on Patreon as early access soon patreon.com/thefirethesetimes

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September 11, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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Both @eyshe.bsky.social and @nathantankus.bsky.social will be on @thefirethesetimes.com soon to talk about this impressive book.

For early access, be one of the cool kids and join patreon.com/thefirethese...
nathantankus.bsky.social Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 14d
"What Zionism May Be, What Zionism Can Be" Naye folkstsaytung, November 8th, 1929.

One of numerous articles @eyshe.bsky.social translated from Yiddish for our edited collection "We, Traitors".

Available for preorder now.

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September 4, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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2 years ago @danielvoskoboynik.bsky.social and I did an episode exploring how The Zone of Interest reminded us of Israeli genocidal culture towards Palestinians.

This was before we got Israeli politicians openly using Nazi imagery to describe *themselves*

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Shared by Ben Gvir: AI generated video showing Palestinians on a conveyor belt being led to slaughter. The Israeli concentration camp resembles a Nazi one.
August 31, 2026 at 6:34 AM
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ayoub.bsky.social
Last year, we did an episode looking at the similarities (and differences) between Warsaw and Gaza following @danielvoskoboynik.bsky.social’s visit to what used to be the Warsaw ghetto

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Warsaw Ghetto, Gaza Ghetto w/ Daniel Voskoboynik
Daniel joins Elia from what used to be the Warsaw Ghetto to talk about Gaza.
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August 31, 2026 at 6:34 AM
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Dana and I will also do an episode of @thefirethesetimes.com on this soon. www.patreon.com/thefirethese...
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August 28, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Out now on Patreon: Fascists really believe it w/ Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social & @ayoub.bsky.social

Audio: www.patreon.com/thefirethese...

Video: www.patreon.com/thefirethese...

Public release: 14 September 2026
"Fascists Really Believe It"
August 27, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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Out now on Patreon: the video version of The Rise of End Times Fascism with @astra.bsky.social @naomiaklein.bsky.social @danaelkurd.bsky.social and @ayoub.bsky.social

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Audio episode is freely available wherever you get your podcasts: pod.link/1503094935/e...
Video: The Rise of End Times Fascism w/ Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor (E200) | The Fire These Times
Patreon-only video of my episode with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, co-hosted by Dana El Kurd, and first released in June 2025. Naomi Klein
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August 27, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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Really good conversation re: campism in general, beyond this one event.

So often everywhere else in the world except the USA (or Israel, or “the West”) is treated as having no agency and being forced to do this or controlled to do that.

And solidarity is not possible with that misunderstanding.
thefirethesetimes.com The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · Aug 4
Episode 220, @ayoub.bsky.social is joined by @aymanmak.bsky.social to talk about the Ceuta 'incident'

Available wherever you get your podcasts

pod.link/1503094935

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The Ceuta 'incident' showing people crossing the fence
August 25, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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August 25, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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Watch this Cosmic Dream Boogie video conversation with @chanda.blacksky.app and @ayoub.bsky.social at this link: youtu.be/RkSglQezcUE via @thefirethesetimes.com 😍
Here's anAn image with a graphic design from The Edge of Space-Time (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817/the-edge-of-space-time-by-chanda-prescod-weinstein/) and text that reads as follows: THE FIRE THESE TIMES #219 COSMIC DREAM BOOGIE CHANDA PRESCOD-WEINSTEIN (with a thumbnail pix of her face) ELIA AYOUB (with a thumbnail pix of his face)
August 25, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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One of my favorite podcast stops!!!!!
August 25, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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The video version of the Cosmic Dream Boogie with @chanda.blacksky.app is now available

youtu.be/RkSglQezcUE

Support TFTT here www.patreon.com/thefirethese...

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Cosmic Dream Boogie w/ Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (E219)
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August 25, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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Today on TFTT: @ayoub.bsky.social sat down with @jdrabinski.bsky.social to talk about James Baldwin and the Black Atlantic

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Photo of James Baldwin. Title is "James Baldwin and the Black Atlantic". There's also a photo of John Drabinksi, and an illustration of Elia Ayoub. This is episode 222 of The Fire These Times. This will come as a total surprise, but I really like James Baldwin. I know, it’s shocking. I always kept it subtle, like how I named this podcast after his book The Fire Next Time, and how I have been bringing him up every other episode for years, and how I have a shelf that is just for books by him and about him. The reason I like James Baldwin is that I’ve found something for me in his work, something that I can not just relate to but also use to understand the wider world, including my own world. This is a curious thing in the context of Baldwin because he was, ultimately, an American writer. An African-American writer, to be exact of course, but his Americanness is something which he took to heart. Not in a weird nationalist way but rather in a sort of matter-of-factly kind of way. So how did I come to relate to him? That’s one of the questions we explored here, but to be honest it’s not even the main one. What I wanted to know, and what my guest ⁠John E. Drabinski⁠ has explored in his book ⁠So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic⁠, is why did Baldwin, a man clearly concerned with the fate of the world, rarely engage with the Black Atlantic and might even be described as an ‘anti-diaspora’ thinker, at least to some extent. This is a conversation about Baldwin, yes, but ultimately it is a conversation about shifting identities and perspectives in a rapidly changing world, one which seems to be changing even faster now than it did during Baldwin’s time.
August 25, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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Now on to the main event. This week we have two complementary essays that address the question of memory and its mobilization for political ends. First, repeat contributor and host of The Fire These Times podcast @ayoub.bsky.social looks at German memory culture and ongoing scapegoating of the Other
German Catechism Versus Memory Culture
Germany’s scapegoating of the racialised Other is the end result of the absence of a critical memory culture that seeks to confront the past in all its ugliness.
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August 21, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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Just over two weeks to our first hangout since the summer break!
thefirethesetimes.com The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · Aug 12
The monthly hangout is back this September! Grab something cold or hot and join @ayoub.bsky.social every first Saturday of the month, 4-6pm UK time, to chat about all things TFTT, world events, personal shit, and everything in between.

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The Fire These Times Monthly Hangout
August 21, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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Really enjoyed listening to this, makes me think I should read the first book again soon. And I need to pick up the second book when I see it.
August 20, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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enjoyed this interview that I was listening to on my bike ride in South Vancouver yesterday. great conversation
August 20, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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In which I talk about the upcoming November class on modern Lebanese history and politics, the 5th and last one one this year.

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thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass/

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"Modern Lebanese History and Politics with Elia Ayoub, PhD" on top of a 2019 protest from Beirut
August 18, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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The video episode with @chanda.blacksky.app will be out on Monday 24th! Science is political. Reality is queer af. Also: race, imperialism, Star Trek (of course), Supergirl and post/colonialism.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkSg... @ayoub.bsky.social
Cosmic Dream Boogie w/ Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (E219)
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August 18, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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tangledwilderness.bsky.social
This interview was phenomenal. Can't wait to get into Waubgeshig Rice's books, they sound amazing.

If you like what our collective does, you'll likely want to check them out too!
August 17, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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The audio version of my interview with @waub.bsky.social is already available wherever you get your podcasts

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August 17, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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The video interview with @waub.bsky.social will be out in less than 3 hours youtu.be/37-oFTg6xBI

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Beyond the Apocalypse w/ Waubgeshig Rice (E221)
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August 17, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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Want to learn about modern Lebanese history and politics?

The 5th and final class of the year is happening this November.

Registrations now open!

thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass

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Modern Lebanese History and Politics with Elia Ayoub, PhD Photo shows a protest from October 2019, including a large fist that says 'revolution' in Arabic + a bunch of Lebanese flags
August 14, 2026 at 10:44 AM