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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 29/09/2026

Episode 228: @the-rebuild.bsky.social and AntidoteZine's Ed join @ayoub.bsky.social to talk about Left Melancholy: A Minneapolis Retrospective. Also: Lebanon and Hong Kong. Now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/thefirethese... Public episode: October 19th 2026 Read: therebuild.ghost.io/will-minneap...

Left melancholy: a Minneapolis retrospective with mags, Ed and Elia Ayoub. TFTT episode 228.

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 29/09/2026

Episode 227: @elgendy95.bsky.social join @ayoub.bsky.social and @essssraaa.bsky.social to talk about his years as a political prisoner in Egypt, carceral violence, solidarity, and more. Now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/thefirethese... Public episode: October 12th 2026

THE FIRE THESE TIMES EPISODE 227

Surviving Sisi's Egypt

Abdelrahman EIGendy with israa' & Elia Ayoub

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 27/08/2026

Out now on Patreon: Fascists really believe it w/ Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social & @ayoub.bsky.social Audio: www.patreon.com/thefirethese... Video: www.patreon.com/thefirethese... Public release: 14 September 2026

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 25/08/2026

Today on TFTT: @ayoub.bsky.social sat down with @jdrabinski.bsky.social to talk about James Baldwin and the Black Atlantic thefirethesetimes.com/2026/08/24/j... Wherever you get your podcasts: pod.link/1503094935/e... To support: www.patreon.com/thefirethese...

Photo of James Baldwin. Title is "James Baldwin and the Black Atlantic". There's also a photo of John Drabinksi, and an illustration of Elia Ayoub. This is episode 222 of The Fire These Times.

This will come as a total surprise, but I really like James Baldwin. I know, it’s shocking. I always kept it subtle, like how I named this podcast after his book The Fire Next Time, and how I have been bringing him up every other episode for years, and how I have a shelf that is just for books by him and about him.

The reason I like James Baldwin is that I’ve found something for me in his work, something that I can not just relate to but also use to understand the wider world, including my own world. This is a curious thing in the context of Baldwin because he was, ultimately, an American writer. An African-American writer, to be exact of course, but his Americanness is something which he took to heart. Not in a weird nationalist way but rather in a sort of matter-of-factly kind of way. So how did I come to relate to him? That’s one of the questions we explored here, but to be honest it’s not even the main one. What I wanted to know, and what my guest ⁠John E. Drabinski⁠ has explored in his book ⁠So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic⁠, is why did Baldwin, a man clearly concerned with the fate of the world, rarely engage with the Black Atlantic and might even be described as an ‘anti-diaspora’ thinker, at least to some extent. This is a conversation about Baldwin, yes, but ultimately it is a conversation about shifting identities and perspectives in a rapidly changing world, one which seems to be changing even faster now than it did during Baldwin’s time.

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 18/08/2026

In which I talk about the upcoming November class on modern Lebanese history and politics, the 5th and last one one this year. thefirethesetimes.com/2026/08/18/n... thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass/ open.spotify.com/episode/3fKQ...

"Modern Lebanese History and Politics with Elia Ayoub, PhD" on top of a 2019 protest from Beirut

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 12/08/2026

The monthly hangout is back this September! Grab something cold or hot and join @ayoub.bsky.social every first Saturday of the month, 4-6pm UK time, to chat about all things TFTT, world events, personal shit, and everything in between. thefirethesetimes.com/hangout/ www.patreon.com/thefirethese...

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 11/08/2026

Beyond the Apocalypse, episode 221 with @waub.bsky.social, is now out as early access on Patreon. www.patreon.com/thefirethese... @ayoub.bsky.social

"Beyond the Apocalypse: The Fire These Times Episode 221" with Elia Ayoub and Waubgeshig Rice. The image is the cover of Moon of the Crusted Snow, and shows a car overtaken by snow.

These days, the apocalypse has been on my mind a lot. Maybe that's not surprising, given the state of the world. This can easily descend into dread and hopelessness, which is something I try and avoid for my own sake. When I picked up Moon of the Crusted Snow and Moon of the Turning Leaves, written by my guest Waubgeshig Rice, in a bookshop in Ottawa, I didn't know what to expect. I've always been into 'post-apocalyptic' stories, but I soon found out that there was something different about this cast of characters: their people, the Anishinaabe, had already survived multiple apocalypses at the hands of the Canadian state. In this episode, Waubgeshig and I spoke about the Whitesky saga books, the ongoing wildfires, passing on traditions, learning Ojibwe and teaching it to his kids, Gaza, how the father-daughter relationship in the books inspired my own relationship, and so much more.

This episode was first released on Patreon on 11 August 2026, a day after recording.

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 04/08/2026

Episode 220, @ayoub.bsky.social is joined by @aymanmak.bsky.social to talk about the Ceuta 'incident' Available wherever you get your podcasts pod.link/1503094935 thefirethesetimes.com/2026/08/04/t...

The Ceuta 'incident' showing people crossing the fence

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 11/11/2025

Dana and Elia don't like the fact that we're #Mamdani's age. We also talked about his victory means. Out wherever you listen to podcasts @danaelkurd.bsky.social @ayoub.bsky.social

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 30/07/2025

The Gaza famine and genocide cannot become the new normal. The latest episode of The Fire These Times is now available everywhere. With @ayoub.bsky.social @leilashami.bsky.social @danielvoskoboynik.bsky.social @essssraaa.bsky.social & @karena1.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/135258...

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 19/05/2025

This is a long episode so it is divided it in two parts. Part 1 is out wherever you get your podcasts. You can also listen to the full episode on Patreon, for free, here www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-1...

Intent, Holocaust Studies and the Gaza Genocide w/ Amos Goldberg

Intent and the Gaza Genocide w/ Amos Goldberg

Holocaust Studies and the Gaza Genocide w/ Amos Goldberg

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 19/05/2025

In this episode of The Fire These Times, Goldberg and Ayoub also got into how genocides are often preceded by claims of self-defense. In fact, claims of self-defense by the party committing genocide are common throughout history. Israel is no exception to this rule. www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-1...

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 19/05/2025

Amos Goldberg is an Israeli historian of the Holocaust who called Israel's war on Gaza a genocide. He joined @ayoub.bsky.social to talk about the ways 'intent' is used to mislead the public, and whether the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies is in crisis. www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-1... 🧵

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 25/04/2025

"And this earth belongs to you just as much as it does to anyone" @mollycrabapple.bsky.social and @ayoub.bsky.social talk about the Jewish Labour Bund, and how their concept of Doikayt ('Hereness') resonates today Out now on all podcast apps and www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-1...

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 25/04/2025

Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social is joined by @mpaarlberg.bsky.social to talk about El Salvador’s ‘state of exception’ under Nayib Bukele, how Trump sees that as a model, the conditions of prisons, and what this all means. Available on all podcast apps + Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-1...

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 23/04/2025

Exciting announcement: Radish Radio will be playing our episodes on 27 April! Tune in here: www.radishradio.org

The Fire These Times connects academics, writers, artists and activists from around the world to “build the new in the shell of the old."Tune in to Radish Radio (www.radishradio.org) on 27 April to hear The Fire These Times, a podcast by From The Periphery Media.From The Periphery Media is working to uplift internationalist dialogues on human rights, climate change, and visions of bold futures. Their unique editorial team is deeply committed to weaving together radical Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, Jewish, and Armenian perspectives from the periphery.Please support them on Patreon at www.patreon.com/fromtheperiphery

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 19/04/2025

Doikayt Now! @mollycrabapple.bsky.social joins @ayoub.bsky.social to talk about the Bund and how their concept of ‘Hereness’ can help us build a better world than the hellscape being proposed by techno-dystopianism and end-time fascism. @fromtheperiphery.com More info below

The Yiddish reads 'wherever we live, that's our homeland' with a man yelling in the middle. The large text reads 'Doikayt Now' and below it are illustrations of Molly Crabapple and Elia Ayoub, both done by Molly

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 05/03/2025

For ep 185, Ukrainian journo @vagrantjourno.bsky.social joined @ayoub.bsky.social to talk about what #Ukraine faces and what the maga shift to Putin means for Ukraine, Europe and the US. Available on all podcast platforms and www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-w... @fromtheperiphery.com

Trump and Putin. The text reads: What Ukraine Faces. There are two portraits, Elia Ayoub and Romeo Kokriatski, at the bottom.

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 26/01/2025

Out this Tuesday on patreon.com/fromtheperiphery @ayoub.bsky.social asks what does it mean to lose the future? through an exploration of Maher Abi Samra's 'We Were Communists' (2011) about four men who were in the Lebanese Communist Party

Four men sitting in a room. The text reads "Lebanon's Lost Communist Future: And What it Says About Our World"

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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 04/12/2024

TFTT Special: Roundtable on #Syria with @ayoub.bsky.social @leilashami.bsky.social @aymanmak.bsky.social @karena1.bsky.social thefirethesetimes.com/2024/12/03/t... To support: www.patreon.com/fromtheperip...

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