"It hasn't worked": Lebanese defiance of Zionist oppression w/ Karim, Ussama and Saree Makdisi

Makdisi Street

Bayt al Makdisi

News, Politics

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🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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**Producer's note: This is a special co-published episode with Psychic Militancy, hosted by Makdisi Street guest Lara Sheehi. Make sure to subscribe to her channel if you haven't already!!**

In this episode, I sit down with ‪Makdisi Street podcast hosts and brothers, Karim, Ussama and Saree Makdisi to discuss the current situation in Lebanon. We get into a lot, as you can imagine, including the US and Zionist interventionism in Lebanon, their attempt to foment sectarian hate and violence, internalized Arabophobia (and other potential explanations) and, importantly, how we believe they have not succeeded in whittling away solidarity or resistance.

Date of recording: Apr 7, 2026

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. I'm here recording the audio version of my book, from the clinic to the street,
0:05.6	Psychonautil for Revolutionary Futures. But that's not why I'm sending you this message. I wanted to let you know
0:10.9	that I have a new episode that just dropped with very special guests from Mechdesi Street,
0:15.9	the Mechdesi brothers, Karim, Osama, and Sari, who join me to talk about the realities of Lebanon, to talk about the ways in which Zionists have not won, and the ways in which people are coming together despite the atrocious and heinous war crimes that are being committed against them. So make sure to check it out. Make sure to watch it, like it, send it to a comrade, subscribe to our channel, and most importantly subscribe to MacDessie Street as well.
0:42.1	And consider signing up for both our Patreon so you can get exclusive content and announcements.
0:48.2	So psychic militancy, Patreon, you will get access to pre-releases and MacDecis Street Patreon as well.
0:54.7	Make sure you check it out and comment.
0:57.1	Let me know what you think.
0:58.8	See you soon. I'm I'mean, I'm I'm a man Kassolk, if they're trying to I'm, Hello,
1:29.3	Welcome to Psychic Militancy, and this is a special episode with my friends, Sariq Kareem and Osama, you might know them from Makhdhasties Street.
1:41.3	We are going to be releasing this on both our shows. Before we start,
1:46.6	make sure you subscribe to both the shows I know I do for the Makhti Street show. There's always
1:52.9	excellent content. So make sure you do that. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Share it with a
1:58.4	comrade. Share it with folks. This is what allows us to continue making content. Let me give you a little bit of a background about how this episode
2:06.7	came to be. I'm very excited to be speaking with these three folks, all three of whom I learned
2:13.3	so much from and have relationships with and happen to also share a homeland with me from
2:19.5	Lebanon. So I wanted us to come together, especially right now with everything happening
2:24.3	in our region, with this dynist entity, sort of raging against everywhere in the region,
2:30.0	but certainly Lebanon, Palestine, Iran. And for us to kind of sit down and have a conversation,
2:36.4	locate ourselves in Lebanon, and just see how we're doing,
2:40.1	and just kind of have a communal gathering across our podcast.
2:45.0	So, ahlous al-ah Fikon.
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