Welcome everybody to a new edition of the Magtasi Street podcast. This is Sari, and on behalf of my

brothers, Osama and Karim, I'm introducing this special episode of a discussion with our mother,

Gene Saeed Makd Maktisi, that we recorded last summer at around the same time as we recorded

that special episode with our dad that we released a few

weeks ago. This one we're releasing between Christmas and New Year's, which is obviously a special

time of the year for everybody, 2025, even though it's been a dark and miserable 2025 and indeed

2024 and 23 for many of us, especially in and in connection to Palestine.

But we hope that listening to our mother will provide some historical, cultural, intellectual,

political reflection on not just the past three years, but obviously the past 30 years,

the past more than that, even

60 years, 70 years, going back to the 1940s, to the Nakaba, to the period afterwards, to our

mother's experience in America in the 1950s and 60s, roughly parallel to our dads, and then, of

course, to the experience of the war in Lebanon,

and of course where we've been ever since.

So I hope you enjoy listening to that, and I'm sure you will.

And separately, we have, we recently recorded another edition of the show with the Palestinian physician and

intellectual and political leader, Mustafa Barguti, Dr. Mustafa Barhouti, we will be releasing

that to our Patreon feed soon and to our main feed shortly afterwards.

And I want to thank all of our listeners and especially our main feed shortly afterwards.

And I want to thank all of our listeners and especially our Patreon supporters because your support on Patreon makes the show possible.

It's what allows us to pay for production and distribution and all the equipment and

platforms and all the stuff we need to make the show available to so many people.

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