PalCast - One World, One Struggle

Gaza bleeds as the world looks away

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Khaled Al-Qershali is a writer and journalist from Gaza, focusing on personal narratives and reporting on...

My Brother Was Food For Wild Dogs

22 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Please join me at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Editor's note: This podcast contains details that you might find upsetting. Amira Attiya, a writer and a...

Gaza Has Shown The World The Truth – Iran and Lebanon is Just a Continuation

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr. Belal Alakhras is a lecturer at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) who was born and...

Gaza, The Daily Reality As The World Looks Away

07 Apr 2026

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Editor's note: I'd recommend watching this episode as Noor shares some glimpses of Gaza now. Noor Alhinn...

Chasing My Dream

31 Mar 2026

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Shahd Ismail Mahmoud Miqdad , is a PhD student from Gaza, who dreams of a life beyond the genocide where ...

Displacement is not a Journey

16 Mar 2026

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Heba Zeineddin holds a Bachelors Degree in English language and Teaching Methods from Alaqsa University i...

‘It’s not just your life on the line’

11 Mar 2026

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack With over 250 journalists killed in Gaza since Oct 7th 2023, there is no more dangerous place in the worl...

Tomorrow Will Be Better

03 Mar 2026

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Editors Note: I’d recommend watching this interview in order to get a sense of the reality in Gaza righ...

Giving Up Was Never An Option

24 Feb 2026

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Shams Mazen Rajab is a Palestinian graduate in English Language and Teaching Methods from Al-Aqsa Univers...

Drones, Jets and Harry Potter in Gaza

17 Feb 2026

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Mohammed Isdodi is an English student in Al-Azhar University, Gaza, whose studies and plans were interrup...

‘I can’t recognise this life’

12 Feb 2026

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Abdalkhaliq Abugaza is a high school student living in Gaza. He was born in Saudi Arabia to Palestinian p...

From Novelty Socks to Reporting on a Genocide

07 Feb 2026

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Hassan Abo Qamar is a journalist and writer from Gaza. He’s also a first-year engineering student at th...

A Palestinian Refugee in Trump’s America

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon/com/tortoiseshack Karama Fadil is a teacher of Arabic language for non-Arabic speakers. She survived 5 months of the genoci...

Writing to Remember

23 Jan 2026

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Reem Hamadaqa is a Palestinian translator and storyteller from Gaza. She uses her writing to remember and...

Erasing Israeli War Crimes

20 Jan 2026

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this short PalCast, Yousef updates us on what is happening in Gaza, the ever expanding Yellow Line, th...

You’ll Have to Kill Me – Ali’s Story Part 2

15 Jan 2026

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack CW: This podcast contains a personal story that discusses topics that some listeners may find upsetting. ...

‘You’ll Have To Kill Me’ – Ali Skaik

08 Jan 2026

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack CW: This podcast contains a personal story that discusses topics that some listeners may find upsetting. ...

A Tent is Not a Home

02 Jan 2026

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Riwaa Abuquta is a young woman from Rafah city whose life has been shaped by displacement, loss, and the ...

The Palestinian Phoenix

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ali Al Omari is a Palestinian-Philippino artist and architecture graduate, who holds a masters degree from the Victoria University of Wellington. His ...

Gaza Floods as the Genocide Continues

13 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this PalCast, Yousef talks with Tony about the most recent events in Gaza, including the devastating f...

Balsam eases the pain

02 Dec 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Eva Abu Mariam is a 20 year-old woman from Gaza studying dentistry at Al-Azhar University–Gaza, who is ...

Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone

27 Nov 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Abdullah Al-Yazouri, is a 15-year old sophomore currently residing in Gaza. He came to global attention a...

If I Start To Grieve I Might Never Stop

21 Nov 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Maryam Elwaheidy is a translator with a strong foundation in English, Arabic. She holds a B.A. in English...

‘It’s 2026 soon, But to me it’s always October 2023’

14 Nov 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ayat Abuhelal is a poet, writer, translator, and student of English literature, born and raised in Gaza. ...

The World is a Hotel, Gaza is my Home

07 Nov 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Sojood Bakroon is a graduate of Literature at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza. She is a writer and a poet, who...

There’s No Ceasefire Outside My Window

31 Oct 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack CW: Contains personal stories that some listeners may find upsetting. This week Israel broke the ceasefi...

The Genocide Changed Me – Noor’s Story

23 Oct 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Noor Abu Mariam, is a Business Administration student, a writer, and the social media manager for Gaza Gr...

The Ceasefire and Counting Our Losses

19 Oct 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Baraa Qandeel is a Palestinian poet, translator and writer from Gaza. She works in marketing and has suff...

Creativity comes from Misery – Roaa’s Story

10 Oct 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Roaa Aladdin Missmeh is a Palestinian from Gaza who loves reading books and finds solace in them. Having ...

‘When Words Are All That Remain’

03 Oct 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ruba Khalid Al-Faleet is a Palestinian writer, artist, and poet based in Gaza. Her work explores the inte...

Drone Strikes on the Flotilla as Gaza City is Destroyed

26 Sep 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Chris Andrews is a Sinn Féin Senator and he's taking part in his fifth Gaza Flotilla. His ship was struc...

Chasing My Dream in a Genocide

17 Sep 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ahmad Abushawish is a 19-year-old writer and activist from Gaza. He has successfully conveyed his voice a...

Journalism Is Not A Crime – Al Jazeera Correspondent, Hani Mahmoud

12 Sep 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We Tell Our Stories Hani Mahmoud decided 23 months ago to shift from academia and to stand in front of t...

Gaza City under siege – Nour’s Story

11 Sep 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Nour Abo Aisha is a writer, journalist, and translator from Gaza. She writes about living under the siege...

The Global Sumud Flotilla

05 Sep 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Lynn Boylan is an Irish MEP for Dublin, who serves as the Chair for the EU's Relationship with Palestine ...

My Unseen Memories

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this PalCast we are joined by Imad Qudaih, who is a 22 year old visually impaired student at the Islam...

The Final Evacuation

28 Aug 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Sara Awad is an English literature student, writer, and storyteller based in Gaza. Passionate about captu...

Gaza, When The War Ends

21 Aug 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Nadera Mushtaha is a poet and writer from Gaza and a former student of Dr Refaat Alareer. She talks of lo...

Gaza, On Grief and Going On

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It was a great pleasure to be joined by Shahd Alnaami, who is a 21-year-old writer, poet, and translator ...

Writing our Stories – Taqwa Al-Wawi

07 Aug 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Taqwa Al-Wawi is a 19-year English literature student at the Islamic University of Gaza. She is also writ...

Gaza and Loss on Every Level

31 Jul 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dima Al-Madhoun is a translator in Gaza and joins us from her displacement tent in Al-Mawasi. She speaks ...

They Are Deliberately Starving Us

23 Jul 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ahmed Al-Najjar is a Palestinian journalist and academic based in Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip. He is...

Gaza and a Smile of Hope

19 Jul 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Huda Skaik is a writer from Gaza, who was displaced 12 times during the ongoing genocide. After being und...

69. Israel Killed my Mother Twice

13 Jul 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Journalist Ahmed Aldremly joined us from Gaza to discuss the latest massacres at the so-called Humanitari...

68. My Guitar vs Genocide – Gaza’s Birdsong

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this PalCast, Yousef and Tony are joined from Gaza by musician, teacher and father, Ahmed Abu Amsha, t...

67. Gaza and the People vs Politics

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this PalCast, Yousef talks to Tony about the latest news and events in Gaza, the cost of famine, Israe...

66. PalCast in Belfast

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this very special PalCast, Yousef Aljamal, as part of his book tour is joined for the first time in-pe...

65. Israel’s Deadly Humanitarian Aid Plan

03 Jun 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this PalCast hosts Yousef and Helena are joined by producer Tony to talk about the cruel and disastrou...

64. ‘I Saved Him Only For My Taxes To Pay For The Bomb That Then Killed Him’

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack US-based Dr. Feroze Sidhwa has travelled to Gaza over the course of the ongoing Genoide to heal the wound...

63. Banyas the Storyteller.

20 May 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast we are joined from Gaza by teacher, storyteller and mother, Banyas Abu Harab, who focuses...

62. I’m Not a Beast with a Horn, But a Freedom Fighter with a Stone

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Akram Habeeb is a professor of English at the Islamic University of Gaza. He taught and inspired many academics including Dr. Refaat Alareer. He l...

61. Goodbye from Genocide

08 May 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Shrouq Alaila is a journalist from Gaza. She won the Freedom of Press Award in 2024 for her journalism wo...

60. My Smile is Resistance

01 May 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Soliman Hijjy is an award winning visual journalist from Gaza. He’s also the fella in the group who kee...

59. One Day in Gaza

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ruwaida Amer is an award winning film-maker and producer from Gaza, yet she trained as a teacher. War has...

58. My Students Kept Me Going

12 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this very special PalCast we are joined by Abeer Barakat, who is a lecturer in the University of Appli...

57. We Are Not Doing Enough!

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this PalCast, Yousef and Tony discuss the latest news out of Gaza, the rapidly spreading famine and th...

56. When my Aunt died I stopped living – Maram’s Story

30 Mar 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Content Warning: This podcast contains topics that some people may find upsetting. Maram Mohammed Hammo ...

55. Gaza – Some Light in a Dark Week

24 Mar 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr Hashil Al-Saadi is a language lecturer, researcher and research trainer at Centre for Preparatory Stud...

54. The Three Times I Should Have Died

14 Mar 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Editors Note: Samah went to great lengths to record this PalCast and as a result the audio is variable, b...

53. Interrogated, Tortured and Still Determined – Dr Khaled Alser

08 Mar 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Content Warning: This podcast contains subjects that some listeners may find disturbing. In this PalCa...

52. Gaza – ‘We Stayed Knowing That We’d Either Live Together Or Die Together’

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack.com In this PalCast - One World, One Struggle, Yousef and producer Tony are joined from Gaza City by lect...

51. Rebuilding More than Buildings

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this very special PalCast - One World, One Struggle episode, Yousef and Tony are joined by educator, a...

50. Support Gazan Doctors

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Rajeh Al-Kahloot is a Gazan medical student who is currently in Istanbul. His medical studies were distur...

49. This is Gaza – Trump’s Clownish Ethnic Cleansing Plan

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this PalCast episode BAFTA and Emmy award winning filmmaker, Yousef Hammash joins us to discuss his wo...

48. Gaza – The Returning

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this PalCast, Yousef and Tony are joined by special guest, Gazan Political Analyst and Advocate, Muham...

47. Will the Ceasefire Hold?

23 Jan 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this PalCast, host Helena Cobban and producer Tony Groves turn the tables on new father (congratulatio...

46. #GazaCeasefire – A First Step

16 Jan 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As reports of a ceasefire deal are emerging, we are joined on the PalCast by a very special guest, Dr Aye...

45. Gaza and the Heroism of Those Who Don’t Want to be Heroes

02 Jan 2025

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr. Nour Nafez Hammad is a Palestinian educator and scholar who is engaged in the fields of literature an...

44. Gaza – A Child’s Christmas Wish for Peace

26 Dec 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Banias is a wonderful a 8-year old child living in Gaza, now displaced in Al-Zawayda. She joins us to spe...

43. Israel vs Ireland and the Israeli Projects Global Dictionary

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr. Mahmoud Alhirthani is an Associate Professor of Translation and Intercultural Studies at Alaqsa Unive...

42. If I Must Die – Remembering Refaat Alareer

13 Dec 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This is the live recording of the Remembering Refaat Alareer memorial that took place on the one year ann...

41. Gaza Latest and Remembering Refaat

05 Dec 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The situation in Gaza is getting worse. Three women were crushed to death by men who lined up to get aid ...

40 Gaza – Hungry, Displaced and Still Under Fire

21 Nov 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Aid trucks are looted in Gaza. People are desperate. But is all as it seems? A Washington Post article re...

39. A More Democratic Genocide with Ahmed Masoud

16 Nov 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ahmed Masoud is a Palestinian novelist and writer who grew up in Jabalyia refugee camp. He joins us to sp...

38. Gaza – Medics Under Fire

07 Nov 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr. Yipeng Ge is a primary care physician and public health practitioner who has witnessed the atrocities...

37. Lebanon, Iran and Israel’s Bloodiest Month

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this PalCast we talk to Executive Director of the International Forum for Justice in Palestine, Nabil ...

36. ‘Our Hope is a Reflection of Your Hope’ – Abubaker Abed in Gaza

24 Oct 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Abubaker Abed is a sports journalist in Gaza but since October last year he had to change his scope to co...

35. The Palestine Laboratory and Ethnic Cleansing via Algorithm

18 Oct 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr. Nour Naim holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. In this episode of PalCast she talks about the use ...

34. Gaza – One Year On

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It has been a year since October 7th. The world has changed, but the world of Palestinians has changed be...

33. The Israeli-American War Expands

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ayah Arafat has been organizing for Palestine in the Washington DC Metropolitan area for over 7 years. Sh...

32. Keeping Gaza Alive

29 Sep 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Asem Alnabih is an engineer and a PhD candidate from Gaza. He currently serves as a member of the emergen...

31. Refaat Writes Back

19 Sep 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Rawan Yaghi was a student of our dearly missed friend, Dr. Refaat Alareer. She holds an MA from CUNY in t...

30. Gaza – Art in a Genocide

12 Sep 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Malak Mattar is an artist from Gaza, known for her incredibly colorful paintings. She is now struggling t...

29. From Heaven to Hell: Seven Months in Gaza

04 Sep 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr. Mohammed H. Alaqad is a distinguished academic from Gaza, now based in Malaysia. In the Autumn of 202...

28. Gaza – Paralysed By Fear

28 Aug 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Anas Abu Samhan is a Palestinian writer and translator with a deep focus on the decolonization of mind an...

27. My Children Draw Pictures of a Home That No Longer Exists

21 Aug 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ibrahim Alsemeiri is a PhD Candidate at the University of Utarah in Malaysia. Being from and living in Ga...

26. Gaza: A Crucial Week To Come

14 Aug 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr. Hani Albassous is an Associate Professor in Security and Strategic Studies, he taught in Gaza, Qatar ...

Gaza, Hamas and Israel Expanding the War

08 Aug 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Hana Salah is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza who endured and reported on the genocide until she was a...

24. Gaza – The World Doesn’t Care Enough

31 Jul 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ahmad Al-Naouq is the co-founder of We Are Not Numbers. He lost his family due to Israeli bombing on his ...

23. Gaza, the Beijing Agreement and US Political Pantomime

24 Jul 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As if US politics couldn’t get any more chaotic, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived ...

22. ‘I Woke Crying Knowing That I Had To Leave’

17 Jul 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Shahd Safi is an Arabic/English translator and teacher, freelance journalist, social media coordinator, a...

21. Gaza – Lancet Report of 186,000 Dead

11 Jul 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr. Abdalhadi Alijla is a Palestinian social and political scientist, and a native of Shujayia in Gaza ci...

20. Gaza: Nine Months of Terror

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this PalCast, Yousef, Helena and Tony talk about the last nine months of the Israeli genocidal war on ...

19. Maha Hussaini in Gaza – You Cannot Be Neutral in a Genocide

26 Jun 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Maha Hussaini is a Palestinian award-winning journalist and the Strategy Director of Euro-Med Human Right...

18. Gaza – A Mother and a Teacher

19 Jun 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Deanna Othman is a Palestinian American, who is both a journalist and educator. She is from the West Bank...

17. Gaza and the Quakers – Decades of Solidarity

12 Jun 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Editors Note: This is the first PalCast since Yousef's sister, Fatima was killed in Gaza. Yousef talks ab...

16. Dark Humour for Dark Times with Tadhg Hickey

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack On this episode of PalCast, Yousef, Helena and Tony are joined by comedian, satirist and activist, Tadhg ...

15. The Tent Massacre and why the Streets are Still with Palestine

29 May 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Eman Abdelhadi is is a Palestinian professor who is involved in student encampments in the US. She joins ...

14. Gaza – Heartbreak and Heroism with Journalist, Aseel Mousa

22 May 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Helena Cobban of Just World Educational and Tony Groves of the Tortoise Shack send their deep condolences...

13. #GazaGenocide – Farming and the Land of Palestine

15 May 2024

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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Asmaa AbuMezied is a Palestinian agricultural expert from Gaza. Now based in New York, with family in Gaz...