"Academia is a site of resistance, not liberation" w/ Mohamed Abdou

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🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Mohamed Abdou teaches at Columbia University and has been active in the student-led encampment in solidarity with Gaza.

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0:00.0	And So, Welcome to the Red Nation podcast. We have a special guest here today, Dr. Mohammed
0:36.7	Abdul, who I'll just allow you to introduce yourself if you want to do an
0:41.5	introduction. Sure, thank you very much. I'm deeply humbled and honored to be with you Nick, Jen, and the Red Nation.
0:49.8	Allow me before, you know, it's part of the introduction, introduction you know I usually start off with a
0:54.7	prayer and it's Moses prayer in the Quran when they were about to meet Pharaoh
0:58.4	Moses prayed al-Hahlai southerly o'erly Amri wahlle lorukt that al-Lisrahhi southerly, umry, wahl al-Okah al-Lah al-Lahmah al-Kahoule.
1:05.0	Allahah al-Lam-Aah al-Kahoumri and make my affairs easy.
1:10.0	O'Haraqdat and Millicani if I'll callie and undo the nod in my tongue such that my speech becomes accessible to you all and to the gracious listeners.
1:18.0	My name is Mohammed D'Arbdo, no need for titles.
1:21.6	I'm a settler or identify as a settler of color on Turtle Island. I consider myself to be a settler since the age of 16 when I first moved to Canada. I'm an interdisciplinary intellectual organizer. I'm not a I don't at least I don't think I don't subscribe to being a sort of a career as academic and yeah I teach on everything from you know indigenous land education black geographies
1:45.1	Middle Eastern South Asian and African studies queer studies feminist studies post-colonial
1:50.6	abolitionness studies and certainly decolonization psychoanalysis.
1:56.0	I've been involved as a social movement organizer from a relatively young age with indigenous land
2:02.1	defending and so far as the Mohawks, particularly my kin, my siblings in
2:07.3	that the Nega, Akwasasne and Kanasateaki.
2:10.5	During the Culberstone's track standoff in the early 2000s, the post anti-global
2:16.0	movements of Seattle, anti-war protests, Tahrir Square, a lot of abolitionist
2:21.2	organizing as well and having lived been blessed to live with as
2:26.6	a Baptistas on two occasions in 2011.
2:29.8	Originally I'm an engineer I did my bachelor's my MA in sociology my PhD on
2:36.3	interdisciplinary studies my MA on Islamic anarchism that has become published as a
2:41.0	book with Pluto Press over the past year and a half.
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