Hi everyone. This is Usama Maktasi of the Magtasi Street podcast. Together with my brothers,

Sadi and Karim, we recorded an episode, a live episode at the Socialism 2025 conference that was

held in Chicago on July 4th. So this is a bonus episode. And if you like it, please do consider joining our Patreon

subscribers to help this show. We discuss all sorts of questions, mostly, of course, the question

of Palestine, the unfolding genocide, and we approach it from a historical context and also from

a context and a position that puts

the people of the region first. So if you want to join, there's a link below that will connect

you to the Patreon subscription service. Thanks very much.

Hi everyone. I'm glad to be joining you in this first. We've never done this before, to be perfectly honest.

So this is sort of an experiment for us in terms of the Magda-C Street podcast.

My brothers, Osama and Karim and I started the podcast about a year and a half ago in November,

2023. And although we have the assistance

of a very able professional podcast producer,

we had never podcasts and we never done anything like this before.

So we've been working for the past year and a half

to basically finding our way almost,

sort of making it up as we go along.

And live sessions like this, this is the first of a kind, as I said.

So you can have to bear with us as we fumble our way through a live performance.

We're all in different places.

You all are in Chicago.

Samma is still on the west coast in the U.S.

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