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March 27, 2026 Audio (Episode # 1,210)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) Francesca Albanese on Israel's Systematic Torture of Palestinians; 3) Craig Mokhiber on International law & the legal dimensions of the Israeli-US War on Iran; 4) Maya Mikdashi on the context leading up to the escalation of the Israeli war on Lebanon
  
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will have 4 segments:

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast - A summary of the latest developments in occupied Palestine including the Israeli genocide and catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip and the ongoing Israeli atrocities in the West Bank, presented by Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at the Electronic Intifada.

2) Francesca Albanese on Israel's Systematic Torture of Palestinians - UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese briefed the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 23, 2026, on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, addressing Israel's systematic torture of Palestinians, sharing graphic survivor testimonies of beatings, starvation, sexual violence, rape, and other acts, in a new report that examines the systematic use by Israel of torture against Palestinians.


3) Craig Mokhiber on International law and the legal dimensions of the Israeli-US War on Iran - Jadaliyya, an independent ezine produced by the Arab Studies Institute, which provides a unique source of insight and critical analysis that combines local knowledge, scholarship, and advocacy with an eye to audiences in the United States, the Middle East, and beyond, hosted an online event on March 7, 2026, titled "U.S. and Israel's Unprovoked War of Aggression on Iran". During that event, several speakers and hosts addressed the context of the U.S. and Israel's Unprovoked War of Aggression on Iran, including broader military dynamics, the domestic situation in Iran, the il/legality of the war, and the various geopolitical dimensions. The panel also addresses Israel’s expansion into South Lebanon in the context of Israel’s escalating war. During this episode of Arab Voices, we will air the remarks from that event by Craig Mokhiber, an international human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations Official, addressing International law and the legal dimensions of the Israeli-US War on Iran.

4) Maya Mikdashi on the context leading up to the escalation of the Israeli war on Lebanon – During the same Jadaliyya event listed above, Maya Mikdashi, an Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, laid out the context leading up to the escalation of the Israeli war on Lebanon.

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March 20, 2026 Audio (Episode # 1,209)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) "Greater Israel: is Lebanon the first destination?"; 3) "By serving Israel's agenda, Trump betrayed Gulf allies"
  
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will have 3 segments:

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast - A summary of the latest developments in occupied Palestine including the Israeli genocide and catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip and the ongoing Israeli atrocities in the West Bank, presented by Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at the Electronic Intifada.

2) "Greater Israel: is Lebanon the first destination?" – A podcast from Middle East Eye, in which Mathilda Mallinson, host of the podcast, interviews Dr. Maha Shuayb, Director of the Center for Lebanese Studies, about the forced displacement of over 1,000,000 people by Israel, and also interviews Gideon Levy, Israeli journalist and author, about the Israeli attack on Lebanon.

For more than a million people in Lebanon now sleeping in cars, shelters, refugee camps and the streets, their homes bombed to rubble, the difference between words may feel immaterial. But under international law, the difference is monumental. Under the Geneva Convention armies are obliged to give advance warning of attacks that may affect civilian populations. But they are strictly prohibited from forcibly displacing civilians– unless it is for their own security. Even in this case, they must ensure there is satisfactory shelter, and allow civilians to return as soon as possible. In other words, an evacuation is a legal requirement– but forced displacement is a war crime.

3) "By serving Israel's agenda, Trump betrayed Gulf allies" - An opinion by Soumaya Ghannoushi, a British-Tunisian writer and expert on Middle East politics, published at Middle East Eye. Ghannoushi argues that instead of shielding the region from conflict, the presence of American bases — which were supposed to protect Gulf states — has turned them into targets in a war they neither started nor wanted. She says “From Doha to Riyadh, the lesson is becoming difficult to ignore: the arrangement meant to guarantee their security is now exposing them to danger”.

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March 13, 2026 Audio (Episode # 1,208)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) "Stop Bombing Iran - Stop Trump's Wars" by Tariq Ali, Trita Parsi, and Maryam Eslamdoust
  
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will have 2 segments:

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast - A summary of the latest developments in occupied Palestine including the Israeli genocide and catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip and the ongoing Israeli atrocities in the West Bank, presented by Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at the Electronic Intifada.

2) Stop Bombing Iran - Stop Trump's Wars - Stop the War Coalition, a British anti-war advocacy group, dedicated to campaigning against wars and ending wars, organized an online public meeting on the Israeli-US war on Iran with several speakers sharing their views, analysis, and an assessment of what the implications might be on the region and beyond. During this episode of Arab Voices, we will air some of the remarks delivered at that meeting from Tariq Ali, Pakistani-British political activist, writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual, Trita Parsi, an Iranian-Swedish Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft based in the US, and award-winning author of several books, and Maryam Eslamdoust, a British-Iranian politician and trade union official, who serves as the General Secretary of Transport Salaried Staffs' Association in the UK.

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March 6, 2026 Audio (Episode # 1,207)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) "Israel Brings ‘Gaza Doctrine’ to Lebanon: Rania Khalek Reports From Beirut"; 3) "Israel's war of regional supremacy will not end with Iran"; 4) “Greater Israel Explained: The Israeli plan to conquer the Arab World"
  
Apartheid Israel continues to excel at what it does best, and that is attacking others, creating wars, and causing massive displacements, death, and destruction. The ongoing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is apparently not enough for Apartheid Israel, so it decided to expand its war crimes against others, by launching with the US a war on Iran, expanding and escalating its ongoing atrocities and attacks on Lebanon, and who knows what is next, as Apartheid Israel seems to speed up its plan for the so called "Greater Israel".

During this episode of Arab Voices, we will have 4 segments:

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast - A summary of the latest developments in occupied Palestine including the Israeli genocide and catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip and the ongoing Israeli atrocities in the West Bank, presented by Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at the Electronic Intifada.

2) "Israel Brings ‘Gaza Doctrine’ to Lebanon: Rania Khalek Reports From Beirut" - An interview Eugene Puryear, an American journalist, author, activist, and host on BreakThrough News, conducted with Rania Khalek, an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on BreakThrough News.

3) "Israel's war of regional supremacy will not end with Iran" - David Hearst, editor in chief of Middle East Eye, said in a recent podcast that the US and Israeli strike on Iran marks the start of a war aimed not at Iran’s nuclear program, but at regime change. He says Iran had just made what Oman described as a “substantial offer” in negotiations with Washington to dilute its stock of highly enriched uranium, yet the talks served as cover for what he describes as a pre-planned decapitation strike. He says that weakening Iran is central to a broader Israeli project increasingly described as “Greater Israel”, the idea that Israeli power should extend across the region.
 
4) “Greater Israel Explained: The Israeli plan to conquer the Arab World" by Kei Pritsker, a New York-based journalist and activist with BreakThrough News.

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February 26, 2026 Audio (Episode # 1,206)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) "Can International Law Deliver Justice for Palestine?" by Dr. Noura Erakat; 3) "The Iran Gamble: Why Netanyahu is Racing to Ignite a Regional Fire" by Dr. Ramzy Baroud
  
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will have 3 segments:

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast - A summary of the latest developments in occupied Palestine including the Israeli genocide and catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip and the ongoing Israeli atrocities in the West Bank, presented by Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at the Electronic Intifada.

2) "Can International Law Deliver Justice for Palestine?" - The Rights Forum, a knowledge center on the Palestine/Israel issue, that was established at the initiative of former Dutch Prime Minister Dries van Agt, held its annual lecture on February 2, 2026, in the Hague on the topic "Can International Law Deliver Justice for Palestine?". The main speakers were Dr. Naledi Pandor, former South African Minister of International Relations, who played a key role in South Africa’s decision to bring the genocide case against Israel before the International Court of Justice, and Dr. Noura Erakat, a human rights attorney, a Professor at Rutgers University, co-founder of Jadaliyya, and author of "Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine". During this episode of Arab Voices, we will air the remarks of Dr. Noura Erakat, delivered at that lecture, recorded by The Rights Forum.

3) "The Iran Gamble: Why Netanyahu is Racing to Ignite a Regional Fire" - As the US and Israel are beating up the drums of war against Iran, a special episode from The FloodGate Podcast, with Dr. Ramzy Baroud, Palestinian author, journalist, and Editor-in-Chief at the Palestine Chronicle, deconstructed the myths and the existential risks of this unfolding catastrophe. In this episode of the FloodGate Podcast, a production of the Palestine Chronicle, Dr. Baroud explores the strategic desperation driving Israel toward a direct confrontation with Iran, fueled by domestic survival and a rapidly shifting American political landscape.

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February 20, 2026 Audio (Episode # 1,205)

"International Accountability: Removing Israel’s Cloak of Immunity" panel discussion with Dr. Norman Finkelstein, Othman Atta, and Alicia Koutsoulieris
  
The American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), a national education and grassroots-based organization in the United States, dedicated to educating the American public about Palestine and its rich cultural, historical and religious heritage, organized and hosted the 18th Palestine Convention in November 2025, in Tinley Park, near Chicago, Illinois, under the theme "Beyond Survival: Resisting Genocide". The convention theme revolved around the genocide in Gaza, attended by more than 5,000 people. With more than 60 speakers, 40 sessions, a buzzing bazaar, and multiple tracks, the convention has been hailed by attendees as one of the best they've ever experienced.

During this episode of Arab Voices, we will air one of the panel discussions held during that convention, titled "International Accountability: Removing Israel’s Cloak of Immunity". The Panelists were Dr. Norman Finkelstein, an American political scientist, activist, holocaust expert, and author of many books, Othman Atta, Executive Director of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, a community leader and activist, and Alicia Koutsoulieris, Amnesty International Country Specialist for Israel & Occupied Palestine Territories, who also serves on the board of directors of Partners for Palestine in Florida. The moderator was Tarek Khalil, an attorney and activist, who serves as the Education Chair with the American Muslims for Palestine and board member of its Chicago chapter.

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February 13, 2026 Audio (Episode # 1,204)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) Dr. Mohammed Mustafa & Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on the catastrophic situation & ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the Global Sumud Flotilla
  
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will have 2 segments:

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast - A summary of the latest developments in occupied Palestine including the Israeli genocide and catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip and the ongoing Israeli atrocities in the West Bank, presented by Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at the Electronic Intifada.

2) Dr. Mohammed Mustafa & Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on the catastrophic situation & ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the Global Sumud Flotilla - Doctors Against Genocide, a global coalition of healthcare workers dedicated to succeeding where global governments have failed in confronting and preventing genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, who's mission includes identifying, opposing, preventing, and eradicating genocide by uniting healthcare professionals in action, hosts weekly webinars to hear directly from frontline doctors in Gaza and global medical experts who refuse to stay silent. During the January 25, 2026, webinar, Doctors Against Genocide featured two Palestinians medical doctors: Dr. Mohammed Mustafa, Palestinian-Australian ER doctor, who participated in several missions to Gaza, speaking about the catastrophic situation in Gaza and the latest on the Global Sumud Flotilla and how different that is than previous flotillas, and Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, world-renowned Palestinian-British surgeon with academic posts at Imperial College London University, discussing the two phases of the genocide in Gaza where he spoke about MSFs decision to handover its list of employees as a serious violation of law including European data protection laws. He connects this to how Western imperialism is trying through violence of language, politics and war to create rupture with its liberal institutions, international law and rule based world order.
 
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will listen to their remarks, introduced by Dr. Nidal Jboor, co-founder of Doctors Against Genocide.

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February 6, 2026 Audio (Episode # 1,203)

"Gaza’s Silent Reconfiguration: U.S.–Backed Plans and Humanitarian, Legal, and Political Implications", featuring Professor Norman Finkelstein and Diana Buttu
  
In this episode of Arab Voices, we will air some of the remarks delivered at a webinar held on February 3, 2026, organized by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, on the topic Gaza’s Silent Reconfiguration: U.S.–Backed Plans and Humanitarian, Legal, and Political Implications.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor is a Geneva-based, youth-led independent, nonprofit organization that advocates for the human rights of all persons across Europe and the MENA region, particularly those who live under occupation, in the throes of war or political unrest and/or have been displaced due to persecution or armed conflict. The webinar featured Professor Norman Finkelstein and Diana Buttu, and was moderated by Bahzad Al-Akhras, Advocacy officer at Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.

Professor Norman Finkelstein is an American political scientist, activist, holocaust expert, and author of many books that have been translated into 60 foreign editions, including THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering, and GAZA: An inquest into its martyrdom.

Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and a former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization, specializing in negotiations, international law, and international human rights law.

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January 30, 2026 Audio (Episode # 1,202)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac's response to Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that Israel is a safe-haven for Christians
  
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will have 2 segments:

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast - A summary of the latest developments in occupied Palestine including the Israeli genocide and catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip and the ongoing Israeli atrocities in the West Bank, presented by Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at the Electronic Intifada.

2) Reverend Dr. Munther Isaac responds to Netanyahu's claim that Israel protects Christians - Palestinian Christian Theologian, the Reverend Dr. Munther Isaac, the Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hope in Ramallah, Palestine, and the director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice, responds to the claims by war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, that Apartheid Israel is a safe-haven for Christians. He did so on January 24, 2026, in a segment from Christ at the Checkpoint Podcast with facts documented by Israeli institutions, heads of churches in Jerusalem, the Greek Patriarch of Jerusalem, Palestinian Christians living in occupied Palestine, and reports from polling institutions, and even going back to the first Nakba of 1948. He details Israeli attacks on Palestinian Christians in Palestine, including Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In this podcast, the Reverend Dr. Munther Isaac also delivers a message to Christians around the world and that is "talk to us, not about us".

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January 23, 2026 Audio (Episode # 1,201)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) Yanis Varoufakis on the so called "Board of Peace"; 3) "The Palestinian Genocide: The Ultimate Evidence"
  
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will have 3 segments:

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast - A summary of the latest developments in occupied Palestine including the Israeli genocide and catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip, presented by Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at the Electronic Intifada.

2) Yanis Varoufakis on the so called "Board of Peace" – we will air portion of an interview Democracy Now! conducted with Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, and author of several books, about President Trump's so called “Board of Peace” & Threat to Democratic World Order.

3) "The Palestinian Genocide: The Ultimate Evidence" – we will air a segment from Double Down News titled "The Palestinian Genocide: The Ultimate Evidence" by Chris Gunness, former chief spokesperson for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA.

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January 16, 2026 Audio (Episode # 1,200)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) "I Turned Out To Be a Story Myself" by Shrouq Al Aila; 3) Testimony of a Genocide Survivor by Dr. Haider Eid; 4) "Destruction of the Healthcare System: Bearing Witness to Genocide in Gaza" by Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim
  
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will have 4 segments:

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast - A summary of the latest developments in occupied Palestine including the Israeli genocide and catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip, presented by Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at the Electronic Intifada.

2) Shrouq Al Aila, Palestinian journalist in Gaza, addressing the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People organized by the UN Palestinian Rights Committee at the UN Headquarters in New York. Her talk is titled "I Turned Out To Be a Story Myself".

3) Testimony of a Genocide Survivor by Dr. Haider Eid, Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at what used to be Al-Aqsa University in Gaza (before Apartheid Israel destroyed it) speaking at the Gaza Tribunal Final Session held in Istanbul, Turkey in October 2025. During the Israeli genocide on Gaza, Dr. Eid lost 54 relatives, 39 colleagues from Al-Aqsa University, and over 280 students, including his best literature students, as well as his apartment, neighborhood, family home, children's school, and university.

4) Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim, emergency medicine physician and Médecins Sans Frontières international president, addressing the Gaza Tribunal Final Session on "Destruction of the Healthcare System: Bearing Witness to Genocide in Gaza". He bears witness to Israel's deliberate mass harm of civilians, use of food as weapon of war, and destruction of healthcare system as three key elements in its genocide in Gaza.

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January 9, 2026 Audio (Episode # 1,199)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) Mosab Abu Toha on Suffering of Palestinians in Gaza; 3) Sahar Francis on Sexual Assault and Mass Imprisonment
  
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will have 3 segments:

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast - A summary of the latest developments in occupied Palestine including the Israeli genocide and catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip, presented by Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at the Electronic Intifada.

2) Mosab Abu Toha on suffering of Palestinians in Gaza - On November 25, 2025, the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, held a special meeting at the UN headquarters in New York, to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian poet, writer, founder of the Edward Said Library, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for series of New Yorker essays on suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, spoke at that event as a survivor and witness to the genocide in Gaza. In his talk, he recounts his family’s history of displacement from Yaffa, his birth in a refugee camp, his abduction and torture, and the loss of loved ones to Israeli airstrikes. He also recited excerpts from his own poetry that capture childhood dreams, loss, and life "under the rubble" in Gaza.
 
3) Sahar Francis on sexual assault and mass imprisonment - During the Gaza Tribunal Final session held in Istanbul, Turkey in October 2025, Sahar Francis, Palestinian lawyer working with Palestinian prisoners' issues for 30 years, testified about sexual assault and mass imprisonment. She spoke about the 9,100 Palestinian prisoners, including 400 children, that are facing torture, arbitrary detention, mass detention campaigns, unfair trial procedures, lack of health treatment, solitary confinement, degrading treatment, killings inside prisons, and holding prisoners' bodies, and that these are not new practices but have been systematic since 1948. In her talk, Sahar shares testimonies of Palestinian prisoners from Gaza and the West Bank. She also references leaked video from Sde Teiman detention facility where in July 2024, one Palestinian detainee from Gaza was raped brutally and hospitalized in critical condition.

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January 2, 2026 Audio (Episode # 1,198)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) Katie Halper on media complicity in the genocide; 3) Lubna Massarra on difficulties reporting on the genocide; 4) Assal Rad on underlying biases of Western media; 5) Saga Hamdan on how governments and media turned a "blind eye" to Israel's genocidal war in Gaza
  
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will have a few segments:

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast - A summary of the latest developments in occupied Palestine including the Israeli genocide and catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip, presented by Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at the Electronic Intifada.

2) Katie Halper, journalist, filmmaker, podcaster, political commentator, and host of The Katie Halper Show, speaking about media complicity in the genocide at the Gaza Tribunal Final Session.

3) Lubna Massarra, journalist and Middle East Eye's Palestine and Israel bureau chief based in Jerusalem, discussing the difficulties of reporting on the ongoing genocide at the Gaza Tribunal Final Session.

4) Assal Rad, a scholar of modern Middle Eastern history, a fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC, and author of The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran, on the underlying biases of Western media at the Gaza Tribunal Final Session.

5) Saga Hamdan, Palestinian journalist and writer, discusses at SOAS University of London how governments and media outlets have turned a "blind eye" to Israel's genocidal war in Gaza.