Ahmed Mour

Hello, everyone.

This is Dana Al-Kurd for It Could Happen Here.

I'm a professor and analyst of Palestinian and Arab politics.

And today we're joined by Ahmed Mour, who is the 2025 Foundation for Middle East Peace fellow.

He's also an author, an activist, just very, very involved in the Palestinian space and on the question of Palestinian liberation.

So I've invited Ahmed today to discuss with us what we can understand about pro-Palestine organizing in the past two years in comparison to prior to October 7th, 2023, and think kind of analytically about where we can go from here.

We're recording this on November 5th, 2025.

We had a very interesting night last night where Zohran Mamdani was named the mayor of New York City.

And a lot of think pieces since about how this means nothing and actually means everything.

And the pro-Palestine movement is winning.

It's really not winning enough, etc., etc.

So, yeah, we're in an interesting moment in American politics.

I think the Palestine question is obviously very, very relevant.

So, yeah, Ahmed, welcome to the podcast.

Thank you, Donna.

Huge pleasure to be here.

All right.

So maybe we can start with kind of an introduction to yourself.

You can tell us about your experience as an activist, as an organizer.

Sure.