People rally during the “National March on Washington: Free Palestine” while calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, at Freedom Plaza November 4, 2023 in Washington, DC.
Photo by Drew Angerer
In the year since the devastating Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed. Even more have been injured or displaced. Still, many Palestinians across the diaspora feel that they aren’t allowed to share their stories — that the fullness of their humanity is too often reduced to a few soundbites on the news, or images of people dying. So on this episode, we’re revisiting conversations with Fady Joudah and Tariq Luthun — two Palestinian American poets who have tried to carve out space to expand the kind of stories that Palestinians are allowed to tell.
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This episode was reported by Sandhya Dirks. Our engineer was Gilly Moon.
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