And So, I have the pleasure of being joined by Menar Adley who is the founder and

executive director of Mint Press and behind the headlines. Menar it's a pleasure to

have you on the podcast.

We actually met for the first time in Caracas and Venezuela.

That was such a beautiful trip and yes, thank you so much for having me here today.

I was thinking as I was preparing for this interview,

it's like whenever you invite a Palestinian or an indigenous person

from the United States on a show,

it's probably to discuss something that is pretty bad.

There's a lot of bad news out there, but I want to talk about Mint Press and the idea behind

alternative media and how Mint Press got its start.

And so if you can, can you just maybe talk about what was the inspirations

and what was the initial coverage?

That's a pretty good question to start out with because it really brings us to where we are today

with everything that we're seeing in Palestine.

As a Palestinian American and the founder of Mitt Press, Mint Press is, you know, starting, I should say, really began when I was at the age of nine years old when my parents decided to move us from the pristine perfectly manicured

lawns of Minneapolis, Minnesota and moved us overseas to Palestine where they were where they are originally from my parents are both Palestinian they're from Jerusalem

Al-Qudz they lived and grew up in the holy land in the old city near mer the Al-Uxa mosque. And so they really wanted to give

myself and the whole family and all the kids, the oldest of five kids, you know, a taste of Palestine because our land is under occupation.

And so we moved over there and little did I realize at nine years old, this life, this move would be life changing. It was obvious at

nine years old that I had just moved into an apartheid state, a police state, and I

had just lived under Israeli occupation.

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