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269 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsA critical, collaborative, and independent monthly Audio Journal combining analysis, reporting, and satire, comprised mainly of hard-hitting interviews/conversations, on-the-scene reports, reviews, informed commentary, and readings on the Middle East and beyond.
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Green Energy & Colonialism in North Africa
June 16, 2022 13:00 - 57 minutes - 79.4 MBWe discuss green energy and its relationship to colonialism in North Africa with Hamza Hamouchene. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa (VOMENA). --- Hamza Hamouchene is a London-based Algerian researcher-activist, commentator and a founding member of Algeria Solidarity Campaign (ASC), and Environmental Justice North Africa (EJNA). He previously worked for War on Want, Global Justice Now and Platform London on issues of extractivism, resources, land and food sovereignty...
Does Skill Make Us Human?: Natasha Iskandar on Migrant Workers in Qatar (Part 2)
June 09, 2022 13:00 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MBFrom 2011 on, Professor Natasha Iskandar documented labor practices on Qatari construction sites. In her new book, "Does Skill Make Us Human? Migrant Workers in 21st Century Qatar and Beyond," Prof. Iskandar explores how migrants are recruited, trained and used. Listen to the second part of her conversation with VOMENA host Malihe Razazan. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa (VOMENA)
Does Skill Make Us Human?: Natasha Iskandar on Migrant Workers in Qatar
June 02, 2022 13:00 - 57 minutes - 79.6 MBFrom 2011 on, Professor Natasha Iskandar documented labor practices on Qatari construction sites. In her new book, "Does Skill Make Us Human? Migrant Workers in 21st Century Qatar and Beyond," Prof. Iskandar explores how migrants are recruited, trained and used. Listen to the first part of her conversation with VOMENA host Malihe Razazan. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa (VOMENA).
Desmond Tutu's Solidarity with Palestine and Political Prisoners in Iran
May 26, 2022 13:00 - 57 minutes - 79.4 MBA conversation with well-known South African peace and justice activist Na'eem Jeenah about the erasure of Desmond Tutu's support for Palestinian rights from obituaries in mainstream media. In the second part of this episode, we speak with Tara Sepehri Far, Senior Iran Researcher at HRW about the death of jailed Iranian poet and filmmaker Baktash Abtin. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa (VOMENA).
Security in Context: Khaled Barakat on anti-Palestinian smear campaigns
May 19, 2022 13:00 - 22 minutes - 52.3 MBKhaled Barakat is a Palestinian-Canadian activist and writer, currently based in Vancouver, who was recently subjected to a media and political campaign aimed at silencing him and those fighting for Palestinian rights in Canada. Attempts to criminalize Barakat originated in an article published in the right-wing newspaper The National Post, and quickly became subject of debate in the Canadian Senate, with a conservative senator going so far as to asking the government to expel Barakat, a Can...
The Latest Developments in Tunisia
May 09, 2022 13:00 - 33 minutes - 46 MBIn early April 2022, president Kais Saied dissolved the parliament after parliament members challenged the autocratic powers he exercised since his self-coup last July. Lawmakers held an online meeting, defying Saied’s warning that the session was illegal, and a majority voted against his power grab, which they said violated the country’s Constitution. Elected in a landslide in 2019, the president has been ruling by decree since July, jailing opponents, suspending parts of the Constitution, ...
Samia Errazouki on Morocco's Summit with Israel
May 05, 2022 13:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBAt the end of March 2022, in a bold and historic step backwards for the cause of peace in the Middle East, Morocco was one of four Arab countries meeting in a special summit with Israel and the US. Although distant Iran was central to the discussions held during this meeting, the central issue of Palestine never broached during this summit, which took place in the heart of historic Palestine. Khalil Bendib spoke with Samia Errazouki, a journalist formerly based in Morocco and a PhD candi...
"They Said They Wanted Revolution" - A conversation with author Neda Toloui-Semnani
May 02, 2022 13:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBVOMENA host Shahram Aghamir speaks with writer and journalist Neda Toloui-Semnani about her memoir "They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents" and the journey of writing her family's story before and after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa (VOMENA)
Security in Context: Palestine - Solidarity & Struggle
April 28, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 162 MBAccording to the late Pakistani writer and revolutionary activist Eqbal Ahmad, the Palestinian struggle for self-determination stirs the emotions of the entire world, particularly the nations and societies of the formerly colonized world. In this episode we explore the Palestinian struggle for liberation from the perspective of solidarity movements. Our guests include: Mouin Rabbani, an independent analyst specialized in Palestinian affairs and the Arab-Israeli conflict; Noura Erakat, a h...
عندما يُحْمَل الوطن داخل صوت. لقاء مع المغنية والمؤلفة الموسيقية ديمة أورشو
April 25, 2022 13:00 - 52 minutes - 119 MBدردشة مع المغنية والمؤلفة الموسيقية ديمة أورشو عن فنها وحياتها و تجربة التعليم العالي التي خاضتها في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية.
حوار مع الشاعر العراقي باسم المرعبي
April 21, 2022 13:00 - 37 minutes - 86.9 MBشاعر من العراق، فاز بجائزة يوسف الخال للشعر سنة ١٩٨٨ وأصدر أكثر من عشر مجموعات شعرية كان آخرها سادن الحبر، كما أطلق وحرر مجلة ملامح للشعر والنقد، وكتب في النقد الأدبي والمقالة الصحفية وشعر الأطفال.
Migration, aesthetic resistance, and decolonizing films: A Discussion with Farah Atoui & Katty Alhayek
April 18, 2022 13:00 - 18 minutes - 42.9 MBHost Katty Alhayek speaks with Farah Atoui about her work in relation to questions of migration, solidarity, and decolonial creative processes and practices. -- Farah Atoui is a Ph.D. Candidate in Communication Studies at McGill University, Montreal. Her doctoral research investigates the visual culture of the current so- called migration/refugee crisis. She is also an independent programmer/curator, and a member of the Regards Palestiniens and Regards Syriens screening collectives.
Acting Out Syria: Media, Displacement & Conflict with Raghad Al Makhlouf
April 15, 2022 01:00 - 57 minutes - 131 MBHost MK Smith speaks with Syrian actress Raghad Al Makhlouf about her experiences both professionally and personally after the revolution and events of 2011 in Syria. Raghad Al Makhlouf is a theater and TV actress who has participated in over 18 plays and appeared in over 300 hours of television drama series in Syria. She acted in three short films, and one feature film. She received bachelor’s degree in acting from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus, Syria. Between 2005 a...
Siha wa Sumoud (Health and steadfastness): Reconceptualizing Mental Health in the Context of Gaza
March 14, 2022 11:00 - 29 minutes - 67 MBGeorgetown University graduate student Aisha Jitan speaks with Palestinian psychiatrist, psychotherapist and writer Dr. Samah Jabr on the subject of mental health in Gaza while challenging Western ideas of how trauma is held and carried in one's body. By drawing upon her experiences as a health care practitioner, the director of the mental health unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, and a trainer of mental health professionals in Gaza, Dr. Jabr sheds light upon the deep-rooted effects ...
Online Activism and Combating Anti-Black Racism in the Arab World
March 10, 2022 11:00 - 30 minutes - 70.1 MBGeorgetown University graduate student Nisrine Hilizah speaks to guests Houda Mzioudet and Amuna Ali about the ways in which social media is being used to call attention to anti-black racism in the Arab world. Guest Bios Houda Mzioudet is a Tunisian researcher, journalist, and anti-racist activist. She co-founded ADAM, the first black Tunisian association, and the Voice of Tunisian Black Women collective. Between 2011 and 2018, Mzioudet covered the uprisings and their aftermaths in Tunis...
Decolonizing the Digital: Weaponization and Reclamation of Online Spaces in the Palestinian Context
March 07, 2022 11:00 - 15 minutes - 35.5 MBGeorgetown University graduate student Nooran Alhamdan speaks with three Palestinian American students - Omar Zahzah, Rasha Anayah, and Yasmeen Mashayekh - who have been targets of rightwing Zionists blacklists and their affiliated websites to discuss this growing problem of free speech, digital rights, and academic freedom.
الفرعي: قبل وبعد ٢٠١١ (الجزء الثاني)
February 03, 2022 14:00 - 38 minutes - 88.6 MBيحدثنا كاتب الأغاني ومغني الراب وعازف الإيقاع والمنتج الفلسطيني / الأردني المعروف باسم فرع المداخل عن موجة الانتفاضات العربية في عام 2011 وكيف خلقت أصواتًا جديدة وألحان موسيقية أصبحت أنواعًا موسيقية كانت غير مألوفة وصارت مرغوبة ثابتة. في هذه المقابلة المكونة من جزأين ، تحدثنا مع الفرعي حول العوامل التي جعلت هذه الأعمال الموسيقية الجديدة تجارب فردية وجماعية تشمل العالم العربي بأسره وما وراءه. Palestinian/Jordanian songwriter, rapper, drummer, and producer known as Far3i talks about how the ...
الفرعي: قبل وبعد ٢٠١١ (الجزء الأول)
January 31, 2022 14:00 - 41 minutes - 95.8 MBيحدثنا كاتب الأغاني ومغني الراب وعازف الإيقاع والمنتج الفلسطيني / الأردني المعروف باسم فرع المداخل عن موجة الانتفاضات العربية في عام 2011 وكيف خلقت أصواتًا جديدة وألحان موسيقية أصبحت أنواعًا موسيقية كانت غير مألوفة وصارت مرغوبة ثابتة. في هذه المقابلة المكونة من جزأين ، تحدثنا مع الفرعي حول العوامل التي جعلت هذه الأعمال الموسيقية الجديدة تجارب فردية وجماعية تشمل العالم العربي بأسره وما وراءه. Palestinian/Jordanian songwriter, rapper, drummer, and producer known as Far3i talks about how the wav...
Security in Context - Toxic Politics of Climate Change
January 28, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 218 MBIn this episode of "Security in Context," we explore how the impacts of climate change will be unequally felt around the world, and the negative side of the politics of the climate movement in the global North. It includes interviews with Betsy Hartmann (professor emeritus at Hampshire College and author of "The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War, and Our Call to Greatness"), Anne Hendrixson (senior policy analyst at Challenging Population Control / Collective Power for Reproductive Justice), ...
Connections, Ep. 3 - Apartheid Israel with Norman Finkelstein
December 13, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 138 MBThis is a conversation with Norman Finkelstein hosted by Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani about Israeli apartheid. This episode of Connections Podcast features a discussion of the recent Human Rights Watch Report A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution, its political context, and potential implications. This interview is the third episode of Connections Podcast. Connections offers timely and informative interviews on current events and broader ...
How the crisis in Mali is affecting the Maghreb and France
December 09, 2021 14:00 - 57 minutes - 79.6 MBFor most of a century, the region including north Africa and large swaths of west Africa all came under one and the same flag: the red white and blue of the French colonial empire. Following the loss of Louisiana in the early nineteenth century, which at the time encompassed about one third of what we know today as the United States of America, and partly to compensate for that tremendous loss, France began colonizing large swaths of North and West and central Africa, bringing under its rule...
بودكاست رفوف: لقاء مع دينا محمد
December 06, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBنستضيف في هذه الحلقة الفنانة والكاتبة المصرية دينا محمد، لنتحدث باستفاضة عن روايتها المصوّرة «شبّيك لبيك»، بالإضافة إلى سوق إنتاج الكومكس والقصص المصوّرة في الوطن العربي، وأهمّ تيّارات هذا المجال. بودكاست «رفوف» من إنتاج جدلية.
Gender activism, Arab women, and COVID-19
November 29, 2021 14:00 - 24 minutes - 57 MBHost Katty Alhayek speaks with Dr. Sahar Mohamed Khamis about her research interests and current projects. The interview focuses on Khamis's work on gender activism, the gender digital gap, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Arab women. -- Dr. Sahar Khamis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies and the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a...
On The Square EP6 - On Freedom and Self-Determination
November 25, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 134 MBIn this episode On The Square commemorates Black August. Sapelo Square Senior Editor Su’ad Abdul Khabeer speaks with community activist, playwright, freedom fighter, and chairperson of the National Jericho Movement, Jihad Abdulmumit, about Freedom and Self-Determination. In this wide-reaching conversation Abdulmumit tells the story of the direct role he played in the Black freedom struggles of the 1960s/1970s and the heavy price he paid for his involvement in the Black Liberation Movement....
On The Square EP5 - Muslim Artifacts at the National Museum of African American History and Culture
November 22, 2021 14:00 - 41 minutes - 75.2 MBIn this episode of On The Square, Sapelo Square History Editor Zaheer Ali speaks with Tulani Salahu-Din, museum specialist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), about Muslim artifacts at the museum. Salahu-Din provides the backstory for some of the objects at the museum, including those featured as part of Sapelo Square’s Black History Month 2021 special: an egg carton from the Nation of Islam’s Muslim Farms, a tape recorder used by Malcolm X ...
On The Square EP4 - Telling Our Own Stories: Black Muslim Writers
November 18, 2021 14:00 - 43 minutes - 80.3 MBIn this episode, Sapelo Square Arts and Culture Editor Ambata Kazi-Nance speaks with author and educator Amani-Nzinga Jabbar about her book, I Bear Witness, the craft of writing, writing about difficult subject matter, and her experiences as a Black Muslim woman writer. Amani’s book, I Bear Witness, is available for purchase on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3u70XZz. You can connect with Amani and get updates on her writing on Instagram @authoramani and Twitter @Author_Amani and on Facebook....
On The Square EP3 - Umi’s Archive
November 15, 2021 13:00 - 42 minutes - 78.2 MBIn this episode of On The Square, Sapelo Square History Editor Zaheer Ali speaks with Sapelo Square Senior Editor and On The Square curator Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer about her latest work, Umi’s Archive. The multimedia research project digs deep into the life of Dr. Su’ad’s mother, Amina Amatul Haqq (neé Audrey Weeks), to explore the meanings of being Black in the world. Dr. Su’ad shares her reasons for assembling and sharing the archive, some of her surprising discoveries, and the importance ...
On The Square EP2 - Black Maternal Health and the Black Midwifery Tradition
November 11, 2021 14:00 - 53 minutes - 97.5 MBIn this episode of On The Square, Sapelo Square Arts and Culture editor Ambata Kazi-Nance speaks with renowned midwife, birthwork historian, and doula educator Shafia Monroe, founder of the International Center for Traditional Childbearing, the leading birthwork training institute in the United States for Black midwives and doulas and the first nonprofit in the nation to promote home birth in Black communities and elevate Black midwifery. They discuss the history and traditional practices ...
On The Square EP1- Being Muslim on Turtle Island
November 08, 2021 14:00 - 56 minutes - 103 MBIn this episode our host, Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer talks with Siddeeqah Sharif Fichman an Afro-Native Muslim and community advocate and Hazel Gómez, a faith-based community organizer, about Being Muslim on Turtle Island. This deep discussion digs into questions such as What would make a Muslim a settler or indigenous to North America? How might settler thinking shape how we live as Muslims today? What are the responsibilities of Muslims, as a whole, to the indigenous inhabitants of the Americ...
Connections, Ep. 2: The Politics of Holy Cities with Mick Dumper & Maha Samman
November 04, 2021 13:00 - 43 minutes - 49.3 MBIn this conversation, Mick Dumper and Maha Samman discuss the politics of holy cities with Connections Podcast host and Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani. This episode of Connections Podcast examines the interaction between religion, political power, and conflict through the prism of such cities and other urban environments, in the Middle East and around the globe.
On the Anniversary of Iraq's Tishreen Uprising
October 28, 2021 13:00 - 57 minutes - 79.4 MBOn October 1st, Iraqis took to the streets in Baghdad to mark the second anniversary of the massive protest movement which began in October 2019. They were met with violence by state security forces and militias backed by the Iraqi regime. Almost 600 demonstrators were killed and more than 30,000 were injured. Shahram Aghamir spoke to Nabil Salih, an Iraqi journalist, photographer, and writer, about the October 1st protest which happened just 9 days before Iraq's parliamentary elections. ...
Environment in Context: Red, Green, and International with Ruth Wilson Gilmore
October 25, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 75.7 MBIn this special episode, Huma Gupta and China Sajadian discuss abolition geographies and environmental movements with renowned geographer and activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore. She is the author of the award-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California and several forthcoming books, including Change Everything, Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation, and Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference, co-edited with Paul Gilroy. In this ...
:عندما يصبح المنفى إلهاماً للفنان
October 19, 2021 17:11 - 1 hour - 82.6 MBمحادثة مبهجة مع مخرج الأفلام والمعلق الصوتي يامن عبد النور. اللقاء هو غوص في فيلميه الوثائقيين بالإضافة إلى أعماله كمدبلج ومعلق صوتي. --- Host Raghad Makhlouf has a delightful conversation with the Syrian film director and voice over actor, Yamen Abd Alnour. This interview is a deep dive into his two documentaries about Syria in addition to his work as a voice over actor.
Connections, Ep. 1: The Biden Administration and the Middle East with Noam Chomsky
October 11, 2021 15:00 - 46 minutes - 47.3 MBIn the inaugural episode of Connections, Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani interviewed Noam Chomsky on March 17th, 2021 to discuss U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East under Biden. The interview examines the Biden administration’s Middle East policies, explores elements of continuity and change in US policy towards the region after the Trump years, and discusses what recent developments regarding Iran, Yemen, Palestine, and Saudi Arabia portend for the coming years.
Security in Context: Afghanistan - White Feminism & Geopolitics
October 04, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 53.9 MBIn this episode, host Anita Fuentes investigates the implications of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan from different angles with the help of guests Rafia Zakaria and Professor Michael Klare. Rafia Zakaria talks about her new book, Against White Feminism (2021), and how it ties into Western media coverage of Afghan women. Fuentes also speaks to Professor Michael Klare, defense correspondent at The Nation magazine, about his take on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan; a very different one ...
Thousands of Migrants Cross into Ceuta from Morocco
September 30, 2021 16:00 - 57 minutes - 78.7 MBKhalil Bendib speaks with Samia Errazzouki about the rising tension between Spain and Morocco after thousands of migrants crossed from Morocco into the North African enclave of Ceuta, considered Spanish territory. It is believed that Moroccan border guards eased the crossing of the migrants in response to Spain's hosting of Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Polisario Front, which campaigns for the independence of Western Sahara.
بأصواتهم: الديوان الصوتي للشعر العربي الحديث
September 29, 2021 15:38 - 26 minutes - 60.3 MBمقدم البرنامج يتحدث إلى الشاعر السوري أكرم قطريب من مدينة سلمية السورية عن مجموعاته الشعرية والحياة في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية.
Forest Fires & Ineffective Vaccination Campaign Exacerbate Crises in Algeria
September 27, 2021 16:00 - 57 minutes - 79.6 MBVOMENA's Khalil Bendib speaks with London-based Algerian activist and researcher Hamza Hamouchene about the way these multiple catastrophes are affecting Algeria and how people are coping.
The Structure of the Turkish Regime and its Evolution
September 23, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 138 MBProfessor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, Cihan Tugal, examines this topic with VOMENA host Shahram Aghamir.
The 1988 Mass Execution of Political Prisoners in Iran
September 20, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBOn August 10th 2021, Hamid Nouri, a former prosecutor in Iran, went on trial in Sweden for his alleged role in the executions of thousands of political prisoners in Iran in 1988. The historic trial against Nouri, will hear testimonies from dozens of witnesses and it will be the first time that one of the worst crimes of the past 40 years in Iran will be examined in a court of law. In July 1988, the Islamic Republic of Iran agreed to bring an end to the brutal eight-year war with Iraq. Over...
Lebanon, A Year After the Port Explosion
September 16, 2021 20:33 - 34 minutes - 47.2 MBA year after the blast in the port of Beirut, Lebanon sinks into a severe economic crisis which the World Bank ranks in the top 10, and possibly top 3, most severe crises episodes globally since the mid-nineteenth century. Electricity, gas and even medicine are in short supply in the country. Angry residents wait in line for hours to fill their car tanks while others lucky enough to be able to connect to the internet run online campaigns asking Lebanese expats visiting the country for the su...
Fast Fashion & Sustainability in Bahrain
June 02, 2021 16:00 - 50 minutes - 49.6 MBIn this episode, Huma Gupta speaks with Rawan Maki about fast fashion and the question of sustainability in Bahrain and beyond. They explore the past, present, and speculative futures of the fashion industry. Maki traces the life-cycle of the clothing we wear everyday, mapping its geographies from the crops and petroleum necessary to produce organic and synthetic fibers, the individuals who farm, weave, and sew the garments to shipping, distribution, tailoring and purchasing networks. Since ...
Gianfranco Rosi's "Notturno": Encounters at the Borders of Lebanon, Syria, Kurdistan & Iraq
May 26, 2021 16:00 - 57 minutes - 78.7 MBIn conversation with Malihe Razazan, Gianfranco Rosi discusses his film "Notturno" (2020) which was shot over a 3 year period along the borders between Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, and Lebanon, giving voice to a human drama that transcends geographical divisions and time. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa (VOMENA).
Scholars in Context: Issam Eido on Hadith Epistemology in the Past and Present
May 21, 2021 16:00 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBIn this interview, Noah Black sat down with Issam Eido to discuss his work, key questions he approaches, and how he approaches them in his study of the epistemology of testimony and hadith studies.
Scholars in Context: Evren Altinkas on Intellectual History and the Turkish War of Independence
May 14, 2021 16:00 - 33 minutes - 46.6 MBIn this interview, Noah Black sat down with Dr. Evren Altinkas to discuss his work, what brought him to it, and how he approaches key questions in the study of the intellectual history of Turkey.
Wetlands and the Moral Ecologies of Infrastructure in Turkey [Environment in Context]
May 10, 2021 16:00 - 59 minutes - 81.3 MBHuma Gupta and Camille Cole speak with Dr. Caterina Scaramelli about Turkey’s wetland ecosystems, which range from alluvial forests to fishing lagoons, salt marshes, and volcanic crater lakes. Scaramelli unpacks how these shallow water ecosystems are materially and discursively produced into a flattened category called 'wetlands' by conservationists, ornithologists, and government agencies engaged in swamp reclamation.
The Transformation of Dubai Creek into Infrastructure [Environment in Context]
May 07, 2021 16:00 - 52 minutes - 72.2 MBHuma Gupta speaks with Todd Reisz about the transformation of the marshy estuary known as Dubai Creek (خور دبي) into infrastructure – a process which was central to the city’s architectural and urban development projects in the twentieth century. Reisz discusses the spatial, architectural, ecological and economic relationships between the creek, its inhabitants, and the city. These relationships were forever transformed in the mid-twentieth century through the 1955 Halcrow Plan for Dubai Cr...
Episode 2: The Crisis of Health Care in Prison, Part 2
May 03, 2021 16:00 - 46 minutes - 106 MBIn part 2, Chanelle and Isabella are joined by Jose Hamza Saldaña, the Director of Release Aging People in Prison, or RAPP. Mr. Saldana describes the unique health challenges of the aging incarcerated population, who often suffer from multiple chronic conditions that cannot be properly managed in prison. He challenges the racist and vengeful system of prolonged incarceration and advocates for compassionate release to allow for rehabilitation and re-entry into society. Chanelle and Isabella r...
Between the Lines, Episode 2: The Crisis of Health Care in Prison, Part 2
May 03, 2021 16:00 - 46 minutes - 106 MBIn part 2, Chanelle and Isabella are joined by Jose Hamza Saldaña, the Director of Release Aging People in Prison, or RAPP. Mr. Saldana describes the unique health challenges of the aging incarcerated population, who often suffer from multiple chronic conditions that cannot be properly managed in prison. He challenges the racist and vengeful system of prolonged incarceration and advocates for compassionate release to allow for rehabilitation and re-entry into society. Chanelle and Isabella r...
Between the Lines, Episode 2: The Crisis of Health Care in Prison, Part 1
April 30, 2021 23:46 - 38 minutes - 87.2 MBIn part 1, medical students Chanelle Simmons and Isabella Giunta explore the impact of mass incarceration on the health of individuals and communities. Through collected anecdotes, they illustrate the failures of prisons to provide their inmates with adequate health care, even in life-threatening situations. They also describe the history of racist policies and practices that allow for this inhumane treatment. They are joined by Jarrell E. Daniels, a prison reform activist, mentor to youth e...