On Gaza and Humanity with Mosab Abu Toha

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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As the world confronts images of the suffering in Gaza, Jon is joined by Pulitzer Prize winning Palestinian poet and author Mosab Abu Toha to hear the human story behind the photos. He shares his experience as a refugee, the voices of those still living through the devastation, and what he hopes for the future of his homeland. Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more: > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast> TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod > BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyshowpodcast.com Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer – James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Lead Producer – Lauren Walker Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic Video Editor & Engineer – Rob Vitolo Audio Editor & Engineer – Nicole Boyce Researcher & Associate Producer – Gillian Spear Music by Hansdle Hsu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. It's me. John Stewart, we're doing the weekly show podcast. It is Wednesday,
0:14.4	August 6th. Tomorrow is Thursday, I guess, August 7th. The summer's supposed to be quiet.
0:20.4	I think that's the way things
0:21.7	are supposed to go, but it hasn't really worked out that way. I'm not going to talk actually
0:26.3	too much moving into this because we have a conversation today that I think is, I think it's
0:33.2	an important one. I think it's a sobering one, certainly. And so I just kind of want to get into it.
0:38.4	I've had conversations over these past many months with Jewish people and Arab people and
0:45.7	Palestinian people. But I really wanted to give some time to someone from Gaza, someone whose family is there, who was born there, grew up there,
0:58.9	and hear that perspective, one that I don't necessarily see a lot of.
1:07.5	So I'm just going to get in.
1:09.4	He's an incredible writer, an incredible poet, the winner of a Pul of. So I'm just going to get in. He's an incredible writer, an incredible poet, the winner of a
1:14.0	Pulitzer for his writing. And I'm just going to introduce him. His name is Mossab Abu Toha. He's a poet. He's an
1:22.8	author. And I want to get him in right now.
1:30.7	All right, folks.
1:31.6	So we're going to talk.
1:34.8	Obviously, this is an incredibly fraught situation and a difficult one.
1:43.1	But I became aware of a gentleman whose writings I quite admired as an author and a poet.
1:45.4	His name is Mossab Abu Toha.
1:47.0	He joins us now.
1:51.2	Mosab, thank you so much for joining us and taking some time today.
1:52.6	Thank you so much, John.
1:54.1	Looking forward to the conversation.
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