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Sorry I've been absent on the radio, I've been dealing with some intense pet health stuff. Hopefully I will be back next week

I wanted to share this article about my friend Hassan and his band Zanjeer who appears on the first No Genocide compilation. I think music from members of the #swana #diaspora and their complicated relationship with where they came from and where they are, is the most interesting and powerful thing happening in the underground scene. From alien kulture at the dawn of #punk to zanjeer, shakti, taqbir, ameretat, ikhras, haram and many others today.

https://homegrown.co.in/homegrown-creators/rage-across-borders-zanjeers-multilingual-hardcore-is-a-battle-cry-for-the-displaced

Rage Across Borders: Zanjeer’s Multilingual Hardcore Is A Battle Cry For The Displaced

Zanjeer’s Urdu Hardcore Is a Battle Cry From The Migrant Underground The band attacks religious authoritarianism, but it also goes after nationalism, xenophobia and the hostility migrants encounter in Europe.

Homegrown
Welche Rolle spielen Mobilität sowie kulturelle u politische Grenzen in der arabischen Welt? Der Artikel des Mediennetzwerks Independent media on the Arab world mit zahlreichen Links schlägt einen Bogen von der Antike bis zu aktuellen Konflikten #MENA #SWANA https://orientxxi.info/Monde-arabe-Frontieres-et-circulations-en-evolution
Monde arabe. Frontières et circulations en évolution

Quel est le rôle des frontières dans la construction des appartenances dans le monde arabe ? Comment une région, jadis ouverte à la circulation, a-t-elle (…)

Orient XXI

Fuck me, but I didn't think that the apocalypse would be SUCH an incompetent farce.

#ww3 #USPol #Trump #GlobalPol #israel #SWANA #war

"The hostage-takers, declaring their solidarity with other "oppressed minorities" and declaring their respect for "the special place of women in Islam," released one woman and two African Americans on

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#blackpeople #whitepeople #asian #swana #blackhistory #iranianhistory #blackmastodon

Heute startet das Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy #TIMEP
die Reihe „Die arabischen Aufstände 15 Jahre danach: Mehr als nur ein Moment“. Statt nur vom "Scheitern" zu sprechen, sollen Errungenschaften u Verluste in den Blick genommen u Perspektiven entwickelt werden. Ein Projekt zum Mitmachen #MENA #SWANA #ArabUprising https://timep.org/project/the-arab-uprisings-15-years-on-more-than-a-moment/
The Arab Uprisings 15 Years On: More Than a Moment

Through stories, analysis, and conversations, TIMEP revisits the Arab Uprisings fifteen years later, profiling those whose lives would never be the same, assessing what has changed in the time since, and reimagining what may come next.

- https://leftrenewal.org/interviews-en/makaremi-arian-a-new-age-of-protest-in-iran/

Source: https://pocketcasts.com/podcast/the-lrb-podcast/ec21add0-50c7-012f-0d15-525400c11844/on-politics-a-new-age-of-protest-in-iran/16dca299-7af4-4991-b362-db99d78e2194 (A New Age of Protest in Iran. Interview with Chowra Makaremi and Amir Ahmadi Arian – 28 January 2026)

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The protests that began in Iran last month have been suppressed with a level of state violence not seen since the 1980s, when the Islamic Republic executed thousands of leftists and other dissidents. In this episode, Adam Shatz talks to Chowra Makaremi and Amir Ahmadi Arian about the evolution of public dissent in Iran since 1979 and why the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ movement of 2022 opened the way to more overtly revolutionary protest.

They also discuss the economic collapse underpinning the most recent uprising and the ways in which the Iranian regime has refined the use of opacity and rumour to consolidate its power.

Chowra Makaremi is an anthropologist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris and Amir Ahmadi Arian is a novelist and assistant professor at Binghamton University, New York.

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#AdamShatz #AmirAhmadiArian #ChowraMakaremi #History #Iran #IranianUprisingof2026 #SWANA #SocialMovements #StateRepression

A New Age of Protest in Iran. Interview with Chowra Makaremi and Amir Ahmadi Arian – 28 January 2026 – Left Renewal Blog

le 23 janvier, 16h>17h, Manal Tass vous invite à échanger et expérimenter ensemble.

Cette recherche puise dans des expériences de résistance issues de la région SWANA, incarnées autant par des corps en performance que par des corps sociaux vivant la résistance au quotidien. Le solo s’inscrit dans une dynamique de rencontres avec la scène bruxelloise, notamment issue de la région #SWANA.

#Résistance #othering #prendreSoin #espoir #êtreAvec

Vous êtes les bienvenu·e·x !
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Africa: Habibi Fest Year 5, and Wally Seck Returns: [Afropop] This past week (October 8-12-25) New York hosted musical royalty from North and West Africa. First, the fifth annual Habibi Festival went down at Joe's Pub with five nights of music from Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA). And Saturday, October 11, brought the long-awaited return of Senegalese mbalax superstar, Wally Seck, for a late night show at the… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TNhCJF #HabibiFest #WallySeck #Afropop #SWANA #MusicFestival