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UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq Carim
UNAPOLOGETIC is a show that unapologetically looks at the life, times and views of some unapologetic and not so unapologetic humans. Hosted by Ashfaaq Carim
Episodes
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Episode 34: Unpacking Sudan’s civil war and genocide case against the UAE | Sudan’s ambassador | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak with Sudan’s ambassador to the UK, Babiker al-Siddig Mohamed al-Amin, about the Sudanese government's case against…
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Episode 33 - The Holocaust survivor who leads pro-Palestine protests | Stephen Kapos | UNAPOLOGETIC
Stephen Kapos survived the Holocaust as a child in Nazi-occupied Hungary. In this candid interview, he recalls his time in a Jewish refugee home—hiding his…
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Episode 32 - What the slave trade can teach us about Trump and US decline | Rudolph Ware | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode, historian Rudolph “Butch” Ware joins us for a conversation about the global system slavery built — and how its legacy still shapes the modern…
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Episode 31 - Architecture of violence - how Israel engineered genocide in Gaza | Eyal Weizman | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak with Eyal Weizman, architect, scholar, and founder of Forensic Architecture — a research agency that uses spatial…
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Episode 30 - Understanding Hamas and why it matters | Helena Cobban | UNAPOLOGETIC |
Helena Cobban is a journalist who has covered events in the Middle East for more than four decades. Through her reporting, she has interviewed senior…
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Episode 29 - Inside the nuts and bolts of the BBC’s “Orwellian” coverage of Gaza | Karishma Patel | UNAPOLOGETIC
“We have not even scratched the surface of the crimes Israel has truly committed” Former BBC journalist Karishma Patel left the BBC because of what she…
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Episode 28 - My life, covering Israeli war crimes for decades | Gideon Levy | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak with Gideon Levy, one of Israel’s most outspoken and controversial journalists. A longtime Haaretz journalist and…
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Episode 27: This is why Israel as an ethno-nationalist state, won’t last beyond the 2030s | Iyad el-Baghdadi | UNAPOLOGETIC (Full)
Author, thinker and activist Iyad el-Baghdadi joins us on this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC to break down the impact of Israel’s war in Gaza and its wider…
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Episode 26: How has Israel's war in Gaza weakened Sisi's rule? | Hossam el-Hamalawy | UNAPOLOGETIC
Egyptian activist and blogger Hossam el-Hamalawy joins us on this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC to speak about how Egypt has changed under Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and…
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Episode 25: Palestinians defiantly would “die here and not leave”| Mustafa Barghouti | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this extended interview, Mustafa Barghouti, general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, reacts to the statements and plans and remarks of U.S…
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Episode 24: "Israel's masterplan…to ethnically cleanse Gaza" | Norman Finkelstein | UNAPOLOGETIC
In an extended interview, Norman Finkelstein, the political analyst and author who has studied Palestine and Israel for decades, speaks to us about the fate…
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Episode 23 - How large parts of Israeli society have come to justify war crimes | Anat Matar | UNAPOLOGETIC
Anat Matar is an Israeli academic and philosopher who is leading an open call from Israelis to have sanctions imposed on their own country. Since Israel’s…
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Epiosde 22 - What exactly happened in Syria’s 13-year civil war | Gamal Mansour | UNAPOLOGETIC
Gamal Mansour is a Syrian-Palestinian who was forced to move to Canada in 2012, as the Syrian uprising was turning into a civil war. Mansour is also a…
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Episode 21 - Is Israel descending into a ‘fully fledged fascist dictatorship’? | Israeli MP Offer Cassif | UNAPOLOGETIC
“In Israel they are either bigots, fanatics, sometimes murderous ones… and they are cowards… and unfortunately there is no brave figure that I can see” - Offer…
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Episode 20 - 100-year history of US meddling, coups and wars in the Middle East | Roy Casagranda | UNAPOLOGETIC
Professor Roy Casagranda is an expert in history and political science. He has hosted a series of lectures that are available on YouTube explaining the history…
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Episode 19 - The global fight to isolate Israel as a “pariah state” | South Africa’s Naledi Pandor | UNAPOLOGETIC
South Africa’s former minister of international relations, Naledi Pandor, speaks to us about the why South Africa took Israel to court for genocide. We also…
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Episode 18 - The problem with "whiteness" and how its unleashed all types or racisms | Rachel Shabi | UNAPOLOGETIC
“Fighting racism in silos that was invented by racism doesn’t make any sense.” Rachel Shabi is an author, journalist and commentator, and she has recently…
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Episode 17: "The more the US interfere, the more they are hated" | Wadah Khanfar | UNAPOLOGETIC
“I think the Arab leaders are going to be the victims of this genocide in Gaza.” Wadah Khanfar is the founder and executive director of the Al-Sharq Forum. He…
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Episode 16: Has Israel immortalised the memory of Yahya Sinwar ? | Dr. Azzam Tamimi | UNAPOLOGETIC
In a conversation with Dr. Azzam Tamimi - who is a scholar of political science and has written books on the history of Hamas - we discuss the legacy of Yahya…
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Episode 15 - How Israel functions as an extension of US Imperial interests | Joseph Massad | UNAPOLOGETIC
“It’s not just that the US is complicit in this genocide, the US itself is responsible for this genocide”. A year after the events of 7 October, Joseph Massad…
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Episode 14: The woman trying to upend the U.S political system | Jill Stein | UNAPOLOGETIC
Saying it is antisemitic to oppose genocide is the most antisemitic statement of all" Who is Jill Stein? In this extended interview, Jill Stein speaks about…
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Episode 13: The life and thoughts of Dr Cornel West | UNAPOLOGETIC
“That’s part of an empire that has grown rich and grown powerful but refuses to grow up” - Cornel West. In an impassioned and lengthy conversation, Dr Cornel…
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Episode 12 - The anti-apartheid activist who could stop the UK’s likely next PM | Andrew Feinstein | UNAPOLOGETIC
Andrew Feinstein was born in South Africa in the 1960s, during the era of grand apartheid. He joined the struggle for a free South Africa, and was deployed by…
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Episode 11: The doctor who’s witnessed Israel’s wars on Palestinians since 1982 | Mads Gilbert | UNAPOLOGETIC
“There shall be no trace of Palestinian society, culture, history because they going to be wiped out… This is I think the plan for the Zionists.” Mads Gilbert…
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Episode 10: The Israeli MP standing against his own country’s ‘genocide’ | Ofer Cassif | UNAPOLOGETIC
Ofer Cassif represents the Hadash Party in the Israeli Knesset and he has been openly calling Israel’s actions in Gaza a ‘genocide’. In this extended…
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Episode 9 - The decline of the US empire and what replaces it | Hamid Dabashi | UNAPOLOGETIC
Hamid Dabashi is an Iranian-American professor at Columbia University. He has authored more than 20 books and has expertise in subject areas including Iran, US…
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Episode 8 - Malcolm X, Resistance, Palestine and dismantling white supremacy | Prof. Rudolph Ware | UNAPOLOGETIC
“You (the coloniser) must punish them (the colonised) with a scale of violence that mocks the resistance” Professor Rudolph Ware, also known as Butchware on…
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Episode 7 - Miko Peled: The Israeli dissident whose family was the "who's who of Zionism" | UNAPOLOGETIC
Miko Peled is the son of a decorated Israeli general. His grandfather was one of 37 Israelis who signed Israel’s declaration of independence. His mother came…
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Episode 6: So.Informed - The Instagram account with 3.1 million followers and why it supports Palestine | UNAPOLOGETIC
“It became almost part of American values, post 9/11, to demonise the Middle East.” Jess Natale created the Instagram account So.Informed in 2020 so that she…
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Episode 5: The story of the orthodox Jews that oppose Israel | Rabbi Elhanan Beck | UNAPOLOGETIC
Rabbi Elhanan Beck has lived outside of Israel since he was three years old, this is despite the fact that his family lineage in what he calls “Palestine” goes…
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Episode 4: Youmna El Sayed’s harrowing journalistic account of what is unfolding in Gaza | UNAPOLOGETIC
This is Al Jazeera’s Youmna El Sayed’s harrowing, nearly three hour account of all that she witnessed while covering Gaza. Youmna El Sayed has reported from…
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Episode 3: Mustafa Barghouti - how his life changed in 1967, how he was short in the arm and the "terrible racism" he has faced in the media about Gaza | UNAPOLOGETIC
Over the course of a lengthy discussion, Mustafa Barghouti recollects his life from growing up as a child in Ramallah, which was then controlled by Jordan, to…
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Episode 2: Ilan Pappe - how he became an Israeli dissident and on why Zionism will fail soon | UNAPOLOGETIC
“I saw evidence that really challenged everything that I knew” Ilan Pappe shares how he came across historical documents back in 1978 that debunked Zionist…
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Episode 1: Munther Isaac: Palestinian pastor speaks about his life, Gaza, Christian Zionism, Palestinian Christians, and the future | UNAPOLOGETIC
‘I mean from October we were saying this is ethnic cleansing and these are war crimes… If you follow the statements from Israeli leaders and the indiscriminate…