Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Robert and I recorded another episode in December 2023, which you can watch here: youtu.be/VELtQpwc89U?si=j-KPsdYNoCehTHS9

Robert K. Beshara is a scholar of decolonial and psychoanalytic thought. He is the author of Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies (Routledge, 2019), Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis (Palgrave, 2021), A Psychoanalytic Biography of Ye: The Legacy of Unconditional Love (Cambridge Scholars, 2023), and Transmodern Cinema and Decolonial Film Theory: A Study of Youssef Chahine’s al-Masir (Bloomsbury, 2024).

He has also edited A Critical Introduction to Psychology (Nova, 2019) and Critical Psychology Praxis: Psychosocial Non-Alignment to Modernity/Coloniality (Routledge, 2021), and translated Mourad Wahba’s Fundamentalism and Secularization (Bloomsbury, 2022). Beshara is the founder of criticalpsychology.org.

Robert's writings also include:
- Reviews: Essays on Cinema (2024)
- Singularity: A Book of Poems for the most part (2025)
- Drafts: (Un)finished Screen Plays (2025)

Article discussed in the video:
Beshara, Robert. "Critique of Postcolonial Unreason." (Des)troços: revista de pensamento radical 5, no. 2 (2024): e54224. doi.org/10.53981/destroos.v5i2.54224.

Check out Robert's wide-ranging, multidisciplinary work: amazon.com/author/robertbeshara
Robert on YouTube: @sayeddarwish
Robert on Twitter twitter.com/decolonialpsych

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