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I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. Today's episode is my interview

with the renowned Palestinian poet, journalist, and organizer

Mohammed Al-Kurd. It was recorded live at Amherst College on November 14th.

Two weeks later, the Palestinian death toll is

thousands of people higher, and Israel has temporarily agreed to a ceasefire

with Hamas, pausing its genocidal assault on Gaza.

It's a ceasefire that will require continued global pressure

to extend.

This movement, here in the US and everywhere around the world, is necessary and historic.

At the end of my interview with Mohammed, I ask him a number of questions submitted from an audience mostly made up of Amherst undergrads.

Some of those questions might at first sound like stupid questions to you or to me,

but Mohammed does a great and truly exemplary job answering them.

Before we get this conversation going, and truly exemplary job answering them.

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