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That's kind of conversation to your soul.

That's conversation between your soul and the night. Hello, Hello, American Prestige listeners.

It's Derek.

I am joined today. I'm very grateful to be joined by

Omar Zaza. He is assistant professor of Arab Muslim ethnicities and diaspora studies at San Francisco

State University. And he is the author of the book we'll be talking about today, Terms of Servitude,

Zionism, Silicon Valley, and digital settler colonialism.

That's a mouthful.

In the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, Omar, thank you so much for coming on the program.

Thank you so much for having me. It's great to be here.

Congratulations on the book, certainly very timely, and I wanted to talk a little bit about that.

I know the genesis of this book predates the ongoing genocide in Gaza. So talk a little bit,

and we'll talk about the process of writing it while that was going on, but talk a little bit

about what prompted you to write this book. I know you talk about the Sheikh Jarrah evictions,

and that incident is sort of, you know, kind of, you know,

bringing some awareness of the what digital media can do both for and against the Palestinians.

But what were some of the things that kind of influenced you in this topic?

Yeah.

So, you know, as I've been noting, I really wrote this book, and I feel like it's at least

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