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Jehan Alfarra 2026-09-20 | Joseph Massad: The core of Zionism is settler-colonialism, not democracy

What future awaits those traumatised kids, burdened mothers and broken fathers?

Jehan Alfarra 2025-10-07 | Just before Trump's Gaza plan was announced last week, Falastin host Jehan Alfarra spoke with Nour Alsaqa, a Gaza resident and communications officer for Doctors Without Borders (MSF), about what it feels like to wake up in Gaza today, to carry grief and to hold on to the smallest fragments of life when everything around you is being destroyed.

Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Awards.

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Gaza Evacuation Map: Solo exhibit at Palestine Museum Scotland

Jehan Alfarra 2025-10-06 | Solo exhibit 'Gaza Evacuation Map' by Mohammed Alhaj opens at Palestine Museum Scotland tomorrow!

Gaza artist Mohammed Al-Haj's powerful collection of 10 A2-sized paintings sheds light on the human impact of repeated displacement. Through expressive colours and emotive portrayals, Al-Haj captures the fear, panic and anxiety that accompany forced evacuation.

Is there still hope for life in what's left of Gaza?

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On the role of faith in coping with occupation in Palestine

Jehan Alfarra 2025-10-06 | Jumana Kaplanian is a Christian Palestinian psychologist & Mental Health Trainer from Bethlehem. In 2016, she launched Psychology spa, the first locally-run, non-profit wellness centre focusing on psychoeducation and fighting mental health stigma. It’s a space where people, women in particular, can receive support.

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Palestinian Christian psychologist: I force myself to imagine a bright future

Jehan Alfarra 2025-10-03 | Palestinian psychologist and founder of Psychology Spa Jumana Kaplanian talks about her personal and professional life in Bethlehem under military occupation.

Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Awards.

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Waking up in Gaza today | Falastin Podcast

Jehan Alfarra 2025-10-02 | In Gaza City right now, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are under threat. Israel has ordered them to leave, calling it their ‘last opportunity’ before unleashing the full force of its assault. The message from Israel’s Defense Minister Katz is chilling: anyone who stays behind will be treated as a terrorist or a terrorist sympathiser. Paving the way for their slaughter. The children, the pregnant, the sick, the elderly. The continuous bombardment has reduced Gaza’s largest urban centre to rubble — schools, homes, entire neighbourhoods wiped out. Dozens are being killed every single day. Families are forced to flee south, often bombed along the way, to an unknown fate.

Doctors Without Borders — MSF — has been forced to suspend its activities in Gaza City as the offensive intensifies. And yet, behind those headlines are the voices of people living this reality. This week, I’m speaking with one of them: Nour Al-Saqqa, a Palestinian, herself displaced from Gaza City, and works as a communications officer with MSF. This conversation is not about headlines or statistics. It’s about listening — to what it feels like to wake up in Gaza today, to carry grief and to hold on to the smallest fragments of life when everything around you is being destroyed.

Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Awards.

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I used to say Bethlehem was a cage, but in a cage you at least have a sense safety.

Jehan Alfarra 2025-10-01 | In this episode of Falastin, Jehan Alfarra speaks to Bethlehem-based Palestinian psychologist and founder of Psychology Spa Jumana Kaplanian about her personal and professional life and what it is like to grow up and live in one of the world's most spiritual cities that is also under military occupation.

Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Awards.

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How to Cook in Palestine: Colonial Jewish cookbook by the International Women Zionist Organisation

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-30 | In this episode of Falastin, host Jehan Alfarra and British-Palestinian chef and activist Joudie Kalla discuss Gaza, homeland, colonisation and impunity.

Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=VWZh0G4NFD8youtube.com/watch?v=VWZh0G4NFD8

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LIVE: Trump and Netanyahu hold press briefing to announce Gaza plan

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-30 | US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a press conference at the White Houes to announce 20-point US 'Gaza peace plan', which Netanyahu says he supports . The two leaders did not take any questions following the announcement of the plan.

LIVE: US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold press briefing

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-29 | ...

Gaza born journalist Jehan Alfarra: Two state solution is a fantasy

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-27 | Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra tells TRT World's Andrea Sanke that the prospect of a two-state solution is a 'fantasy'.

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There is no chosen people of God, says Colombia President Gustavo Petro at UN

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-26 | Gustavo Petro Urrego, President of the Republic of Colombia, addresses the General Debate of the 80th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York.

Trump: I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-25 | US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will 'not allow' Israel to annex the occupied West Bank as politicians in Israel call for extending sovereignty over the territory in a bid to block any prospects of a two-state solution.

Bethlehem between pain & healing with Palestinian psychologist Jumana Kaplanian | Falastin Podcast

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-25 | Jumana Kaplanian is a Christian Palestinian psychologist & Mental Health Trainer from Bethlehem. In 2016, she launched Psychology spa, the first locally-run, non-profit wellness centre focusing on psychoeducation and fighting mental health stigma. It’s a space where people, women in particular, can receive support.

Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Awards.

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Frontiers of Dreams and Fears | 2001 Documentary by Mai Masri

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-25 | This documentary film by Palestinian filmmaker Mai Masri explores the lives of a group of Palestinian children growing up in refugee camps. The film focuses on two teenage girls, Mona and Manar. Although they live in refugee camps miles apart, the girls manage to communicate and become friends despite the overwhelming barriers that separate them. The film reveals their lives, dreams, and growing relationship, at first through email, culminating in their dramatic meeting at the fence that separates them at the Lebanese-Israeli border.

Jewish converts have a 3,000-year-old right to settle Palestine?

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-25 | In this episode of Falastin, host Jehan Alfarra and British-Palestinian chef and activist Joudie Kalla discuss Gaza, homeland, colonisation and impunity.

Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Awards.

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Children of Shatila | 1998 Documentary by Mai Masri

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-24 | Palestinian filmmaker Mai Masri interviews Palestinian children in the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon following the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre.

Netanyahu: There will be no Palestinian state

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-23 | 'For years, I have prevented the establishment of this terrorist state in the face of enormous pressure both from home and abroad. We did it with determination, and we did it with political wisdom. Indeed, we doubled Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria - and we will continue on this path.'

There will be no Palestinian state, says Netanyahu in response to UK recognition

We know this is not about hostages

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-22 | In this very raw interview, British-Palestinian chef and activist Joudie Kalla speaks out about Palestinian food, homeland, Israeli colonisation and impunity and how she is holding up through it all.

Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Awards.

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Palestine flag raised at embassy in London following official UK recognition

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-22 | The Palestinian flag was raised today at the Palestinian embassy in London following the UK's official recognition of the State of Palestine.

How can we talk about food when our people are being starved to death?

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-22 | In this raw episode of Falastin podcast, British-Palestinian chef and activist Joudie Kalla talks about Palestinian food and her cookbooks Palestine on a Plate and Baladi in the context of the ongoing starvation and genocide in Gaza.

She also talks about homeland, colonisation, Israeli impunity and how she is holding up through it all.

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The UK officially recognises Palestine as an independent state

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-21 | UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer delivered a statement earlier today recognising the State of Palestine. Starmer’s announcement comes seven decades after the end of British mandate in Palestine and the creation of state of Israel which displaced nearly a million Palestinians from their homes in what became known as the Palestinian Nakba 'Catastrophe'.

The UK formally recognises Palestine as an independent state

Trump, Starmer publicly disagree on Palestine statehood as UK state visit wraps

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-20 | US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer held a joint press conference to conclude Trump’s state visit on Thursday. Trump acknowledged a disagreement, 'one of very few' as he put it, with Starmer over Gaza and Palestinian statehood.

Israeli asks Dr. Gabor Mate about October 7th as anniversary approaches

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-19 | Physician and trauma expert Dr Gabor Maté was asked how one could have compassion for those involved in October 7th while presenting at the Premier Trauma Therapy Conference on 5 October in California last year.

After his exchange with the member in the audience, Mate apologised for his 'emotional reaction', saying 'the proper response to your question would have been: I understand where you're coming from, but this is not the place for me to address that issue.'

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All of Gazas beauty that I filmed is now rubble: The Phoenix of Gaza

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-19 | In this episode of Falastin, Jehan Alfarra speaks to fellow Gaza-born journalist and filmmaker Yousef Alhelou.

Yousef has spent years reporting and offering political analysis on Palestine. His most recent award-winning documentary film - The Phoenix of Gaza - captures his last visit to the Strip just months before October 2023 and offers an intimate look at the vibrant side of Gaza, its many landmarks and the resilience of its people who have endured nearly two decades under Israeli blockade.

Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Awards.

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Benedict Cumberbatch (AKA Dr Strange) recites poem by late Palestine poet Mahmoud Darwish

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-18 | During a Gaza fundraiser at London's Wembley arena, UK Actor Benedict Cumberbatch recited the famous poem by the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish "On this land, there is what makes life worth living".

Palestinian food, Gaza and homeland with chef and activist Joudie Kalla | Falastin Podcast

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-18 | Joudie Kalla is a British-Palestinian chef and activist. She’s the author of Palestine on a Plate and Baladi, and a powerful advocate for her people.

Through her food and her words, Joudie has helped carry the story of Palestine into kitchens and communities around the world, showing how cooking can be both preservation and resistance. But she’s also been a fearless voice for justice, speaking out about the ongoing genocide in Gaza, about the UK’s complicity, and about the duty of all of us to refuse silence.

Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Awards.

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Jenin Jenin | 2002 Documentary

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-15 | Jenin Jenin is a 2002 film co-produced and directed by Palestinian Actor and Director Mohamed Bakri. It includes testimony from the residents of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin after the Israeli army's 'Defensive Wall' operation and offers insight to the state of mind of the camp's children as a result of prolonged Israeli occupation and oppression.

The operation ended with Jenin flattened, scores of Palestinians dead and Israel accused of committing war crimes in its attack on the refugee camp.

For educational and documentary purposes only.

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Gaza will haunt those officials who have been complicit

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-14 | In this episode of Falastin, Jehan Alfarra speaks to fellow Gaza-born journalist and filmmaker Yousef Alhelou.

Yousef has spent years reporting and offering political analysis on Palestine. His most recent award-winning documentary film - The Phoenix of Gaza - captures his last visit to the Strip just months before October 2023 and offers an intimate look at the vibrant side of Gaza, its many landmarks and the resilience of its people who have endured nearly two decades under Israeli blockade.

Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Awards.

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Israel doesnt want to see solidarity or unity amongst the people of the world

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-14 | "Israel doesn't want to see solidarity or unity amongst the people of the world, the freedom-loving people, the people of conscience."

In this episode of Falastin, Gaza-born journalist, political analyst and filmmaker Yousef Alhelou speaks about the Sumud Flotilla mission and his award-winning documentary film The Phoenix of Gaza.

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Edward Said: I cant return to my homeland but any Jew from NY can become a citizen

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-14 | In this short clip from the 1986 Documentary 'Exiles: Edward Said', the renowned Palestinian intellectual reflects on Israel's 'Law of Return' which allows any Jewish person anywhere in the world to move to the holy land and get citizenship rights while he is not allowed to return to Jerusalem where he was born and where his ancestors had lived for generations.

Some 750,000 Palestinians were made refugees in 1948 to pave the way for the establishment of the State of Israel. They, and their descendants, have not been allowed to return since.

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Were turning Gaza into a parking lot & the Riviera of the Middle East

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-14 | This year marks 77 years since the Tantura Massacre, when Zionist militias killed hundreds of Palestinians in the coastal village, buried their bodies in unmarked mass graves and drove their families out. Over their graves now stands a parking lot to a tourist attraction, ‘prime real estate’ similar to that in Gaza just a few miles away.

Gaza is the last stretch of the Mediterranean that remains Palestinian. As Israeli occupation forces continue to decimate Gaza and Israeli leaders call for the relocation of its Palestinian population, under US President Donald Trump's plan to ‘develop’ Gaza and turn it into the 'Riviera of the Middle East', Jehan Alfarra revisits the events of Tantura's destruction in 1948.

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Palestine Skating Game: Resistance on wheels

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-13 | In his home in New York City, a developer known only as Justin is quietly building something audacious: a skating video game set in occupied Palestine.

At first glance, Palestine Skating Game sounds like a subcultural oddity — part Jet Set Radio homage, part art-house rebellion. But dig deeper, and it becomes something more profound: a kinetic act of defiance. A protest, not with marches or chants, but with rail grinds, kickflips and beats spun from Arabic electronic music.

The game’s origins are rooted in Justin's first visit to Palestine in 2018. Jehan Alfarra speaks to him about his visit and what the game intends to accomplish.

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We Palestinians are obliged to tell our own stories

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-13 | Palestinian psychiatrist and author Dr Samah Jabr speaks about the importance of storytelling, witnessing and her new book 'Radiance in Pain and Resilience: The Global Reverberation of Palestinian Historical Trauma'.

Dr Jabr is former chair of the Mental Health Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, and for over two decades she has explored the psychological dimensions of life under occupation.

Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Awards.

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Exile: Edward Said｜1986 BBC Documentary

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-13 | Palestinian-born intellectual, political activist and renowned literary critic Edward Said (1935-2003) as featured in the BBC2 series 'Exiles'. He was Professor of English Literature at Columbia University, NYC until his early death in September 2003, and is well known for his books 'Orientalism' and 'The Question of Palestine'.

For educational and documentary purposes only.

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Why not just talk to Israeli leaders? Richard Carleton asks Palelstnian PFLP spox Ghassan Kanafani

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-13 | Palestinian author and politician Ghassan Kanafani, who was the spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was interviewed by Richard Carleton for ABC News in 1970 about Palestinian armed resistance and peace talks with Israel.

'Why not just talk?' Carleton asked. 'That's the kind of conversation between the sword and the neck,' Kanafani replied.

In 1972, Kanafani and his niece were killed in a car bombing carried out by Mossad.

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Theyre calling me anti-Semitic: Charlie Kirk on Israel supporters coming after him

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-12 | 'Being pro-Israel does not shield you from accusations of anti-Semitism'

American pro-Israel political activist Charlie Kirk last month voiced his outrage at Israeli attacks on him accusing him of anti-Semitism after moderating a debate with pro-Palestine advocate and comedian Dave Smith.

Speaking to Megyn Kelly, the two 'pushed back' against what they described as Israel supporters 'demanding their 100% Israel support' and 'trying to dictate their coverage'.

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Why specialise in psychiatry in Palestine? Dr Samah Jabr shares her motivations

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-12 | Leading Palestinian psychiatrist and author Dr Samah Jabr speaks about what led her to specialise in psychiatry.

Dr Jabr is former chair of the Mental Health Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health and for over two decades, she has explored the psychological dimensions of life under occupation — not as an academic exercise, but as a lived reality.

Her new book 'Radiance in Pain and Resilience: The Global Reverberation of Palestinian Historical Trauma' brings her experiences and observations into global relief.

Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Awards.

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The Sumud flotilla and Yousef Alhelous Pheonix of Gaza | Falastin Podcast

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-11 | Yousef Alhelou is a Palestinian journalist, political analyst and filmmaker from Gaza, now based in the UK.

Yousef has spent years reporting on Palestine. His most recent award-winning documentary film - The Phoenix of Gaza - captures his last visit to the Strip just months before October 2023 and offers an intimate look at the vibrant side of Gaza, its many landmarks and the resilience of its people who have endured nearly two decades under Israeli blockade.

Yousef has just returned from Tunisia, where the Sumud Flotilla, an international civilian mission, is sailing towards Gaza in solidarity to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians, in defiance of Israel’s siege.

Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Awards.

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Conversation between sword & neck: Interview with Ghassan Kanafani by Richard Carleton | ABC News

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-10 | In 1970, Palestinian author and politician Ghassan Kanafani, who was the spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was interviewed by ABC journalist Richard Carleton in Beirut. At the time, a civil war was raging between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), led by Yasser Arafat, and the Jordanian Armed Forces, commanded by King Hussein. The conflict centred on whether Jordan would be governed by the PLO or remain under the Hashemite Monarchy. The war led to the deaths of thousands, predominantly Palestinians, and concluded with the expulsion of the PLO leadership and fighters to Lebanon.

In 1972, Kanafani and his niece were killed in a car bombing carried out by Mossad.

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Mental health in Palestine: Justice has a healing effect

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-10 | Dr. Samah Jabr is a leading Palestinian psychiatrist, psychotherapist, writer, and public intellectual. She is former chair of the Mental Health Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, and for over two decades, she has explored the psychological dimensions of life under occupation — not as an academic exercise, but as a lived reality.

Her new book, Radiance in Pain and Resilience: The Global Reverberation of Palestinian Historical Trauma, brings these ideas into global relief.

Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Awards.

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Helplessness generates negative psychological consequences

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-08 | Dr. Samah Jabr is a leading Palestinian psychiatrist, psychotherapist, writer, and public intellectual. She is former chair of the Mental Health Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, and for over two decades, she has explored the psychological dimensions of life under occupation — not as an academic exercise, but as a lived reality.

Her new book, Radiance in Pain and Resilience: The Global Reverberation of Palestinian Historical Trauma, brings these ideas into global relief.

Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Awards.

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What motivates Western complicity?

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-07 | We speak to award-winning Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad about the silence and complicity of Western politicians in the context of his New York Times bestseller 'One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This'.

The book is a memoir and a reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values as it enables the Gaza genocide. It has also been shortlisted for this year's Palestine Book Awards.

Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Awards.

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You cannot put everyone on therapy chair in Palestine: Dr Samah Jabr on trauma | Falastin Podcast

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-04 | Dr. Samah Jabr is a leading Palestinian psychiatrist, psychotherapist, writer, and public intellectual. She is former chair of the Mental Health Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, and for over two decades, she has explored the psychological dimensions of life under occupation — not as an academic exercise, but as a lived reality.

Her new book, Radiance in Pain and Resilience: The Global Reverberation of Palestinian Historical Trauma, brings these ideas into global relief.

Chapters:
00:00 Coming up
02:08 Intro
02:50 How do you cope?
04:55 On helplessness and rage
08:05 What brought you into psychiatry?
11:05 Is advocacy enough?
19:05 Healing in Palestine
22:05 Psychological impact on Palestinian children
23:28 'Without safe space there is little we can do'
27:04 Dr Samah Jabr's book 'Radiance in Pain and Resilience'
31:25 Palestine & historical struggles against colonisation
34:36 What should readers take away from the book?
36:58 Storytelling from a psychiatric lens
39:34 What light can Palestine offer the world?
41:47 'Israel's need to breathe more means I choke more'
42:57 What gives you hope and conviction to carry on?

Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Awards.

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How do you explain inaction in the face of a live-streamed genocide?

Jehan Alfarra 2025-09-04 | How will today's world justify inaction in the face of a live-streamed genocide in Gaza?

We speak about this and more to award-winning Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad, the author of New York Times bestseller 'One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This'. The book is a memoir and a reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values as it enables the Gaza genocide. It has also been shortlisted for this year's Palestine Book Awards.

Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Awards.

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Reading | One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Jehan Alfarra 2025-08-14 | 'One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This' is a New York Times bestseller by award-winning Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad.

The book is a memoir and a reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values as it enables the Gaza genocide.

It has also been shortlisted for this year's Palestine Book Awards.

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One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Jehan Alfarra 2025-08-08 | “One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”

This was a tweet posted by award-winning Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad on X in October 2023. It is also the title of his recently published New York Times Bestseller which has also been shortlisted for the 2025 Palestine Book Awards. A memoir, and a reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.

Omar spent the past two decades reporting on major world events, the so-called War on Terror, Ferguson, climate change and more. And for almost 2 years now, watching the carnage, the genocide in Gaza, enabled by the West.

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On the Gaza genocide and the shifting tide with Omar El Akkad | Falastin Podcast

Jehan Alfarra 2025-08-07 | “One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”

This was a tweet posted by award-winning Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad on X in October 2023. It is also the title of his recently published New York Times Bestseller; a memoir and a reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.

The book has been shortlisted for this year's Palestine Book Awards. Winners will be announced in November 2025:
palestinebookawards.com

Omar spent the past two decades reporting on major world events, the so-called War on Terror, Ferguson, climate change and more. And for almost 2 years now, watching the carnage, the genocide in Gaza, enabled by the West. This episode was recorded in June 2025.

Chapters:
00:00 Coming up
01:38 Intro
02:30 Why does it take leaving positions of power to speak the truth?
07:50 Disillusionment with the West
11:00 Writing a book vs Journalism
14:04 Media coverage of Gaza
18:51 Shift in media coverage
23:45 Has the tide shifted?
26:37 Zone of Interest analogy
32:29 International journalists in Gaza
36:41 Inaction of Arab governments
43:00 Reading

Falastin In Focus is a space to centre Palestinians and their allies and to explore the history, identity, culture, art and politics of Palestine in depth. Presented by Gaza-born journalist Jehan Alfarra in collaboration with the Palestine Museum and the Palestine Book Awards.

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Music: Al-Quds Arabiya | Edward Said National Conservatory of Music

As Israel rejects a two-state solution, is there a viable alternative?

Jehan Alfarra 2025-08-05 | Archive December 2023 | Israeli officials have made it clear they are not interested in a two-state solution. This leaves Tel Aviv with one of 3 choices for a long-term settlement. Will it uphold the status quo of an apartheid state, move towards a 'Greater Israel', or finally accept calls for a one-state solution where all Israelis and Palestinians can live as full citizens with full and equal rights?

middleeastmonitor.com/20231220-as-israel-rejects-a-two-state-solution-is-there-a-viable-alternative

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