E289: Freedom Zone of Interest w/ Malek Rasamny
The Antifada
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Malek Rasamny walks us through the moving gears of Middle East geopolitics in the wake of Trump's visit to Riyadh, opening relations to the Syrian regime under Ahmed Al-Saraah (fka Mohammed al-Julani), nuclear talks with Iran, PKK disarmement, the current situation in Lebenon, and much more.
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Malek is one directors of Native and the Refugee a film about the commonalities native american life on reservations and palestinian life on refugee camps
"Beyond the Axis of Resistance" panel: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-beyond-of-118617202
US/Israel/Arab League ceasefire talks: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-netanyahu-saudi-arabia-arab-gulf-hamas-qatar-ceasefire https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/witkoff-hamas-trump-deal-edan-alexander-lift-blockade
”Saudi-US investment forum” clip: https://x.com/hxhassan/status/1922390556740550962
Trump on Syria sanctions: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/5/16/trumps-decision-to-lift-syria-sanctions-fuels-dreams-of-economic-revival PKK disarmament and its regional significance: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/5/14/what-does-the-pkks-disarming-mean-for-its-regional-allies
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| 0:00.0 | Cool. So we are here with Malik Rassani, one of the directors of Native and the refugee, |
| 0:13.8 | film about the commonalities of Native American life on reservations and Palestinian life on |
| 0:18.9 | refugee camps. And he's been on the show a couple times. |
| 0:23.1 | The last time he was audio from a panel at Woodbine right after the fall of Damascus. |
| 0:29.8 | So with Trump's recent Middle East trip, I thought it would be a good opportunity to check in on what is going on in Syria and the rest of the Middle East. |
| 0:41.7 | And you had an interesting take at the time. |
| 0:45.6 | I don't know if you said it on the panel, but you told me that Al Jalani, as he was known then, |
| 0:52.6 | was a sign of a kind of a new order in the Middle East of |
| 0:57.5 | technocratic Islamism, is I think the term that you use. |
| 1:01.5 | And his popularity signal the shift in that direction. |
| 1:05.6 | And just this last week, we saw Trump meeting with him and praising him under his new name. |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah, strong past. |
| 1:13.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.1 | Strong past. |
| 1:15.4 | Handsome man, too. |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:17.7 | Handsome guy, young guy, strong past. |
| 1:21.0 | Alshara, right? |
| 1:22.1 | What's his name? |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, Ahmadishara. |
| 1:24.3 | Ahmed al-Shara. |
| 1:25.7 | This is the president of Syria, not, you know, not to be confused with Al Jalani. |
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