This Is Not a Watermelon | Palestinian History & Culture
Episodes
Our Own Stories in Our Own Voices | Yara Hawari, Co-Director of Al-Shabaka
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about Palestinian storytelling from oral histories that transmit our stories across generations, to policy analysis that explains what is happ...
Director of Oscar-Nominated All That's Left of You Cherien Dabis | "Our Humanity Is Also Resistance"
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Actress, director, producer, and screenwriter Cherien Dabis discusses her career, from directing shows like Ramy, Mo, and Only Murders in the Building...
Reclaiming Our Revolutionary Legacy | Tareq Baconi
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our conversation with writer, scholar, and activist, Tareq Baconi, about the many forms of containment forced onto Palestinians and the need to reclai...
Resurgent Nahda: The Arab Exhibitions in Mandate Jerusalem | Nadi Abusaada at Dar El-Nimer
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We go back to 1931, when Palestinian journalist Issa El-Issa visited Paris's Colonial Exhibition and discovered Palestinian pavilions had been co-opte...
Palestinian Property Rights and Reparations | Lena El-Malak
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to Lena El-Malak, author of "Stolen Nation: The Right to Reparation of Palestinian Refugees." The discussion explores the unique challenges fa...
Global Justice Movement and Solidarity With Palestine | Frank Barat
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Activist, producer, writer and editor Frank Barat shares his journey into activism, focusing on Palestine, and the significant moments that shaped his...
Growing Up in Jaffa & Getting an Oscar Nomination as a Palestinian Director | Scandar Copti
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of This is Not a Watermelon podcast, we're joined by Oscar-Nominated and award-winning Palestinian filmmaker, Scandar Copti. We dive i...
Israel’s Starvation Campaign: The UN Tried & Failed to Suppress Our Report | UN Special Rapporteur Michael Fakhri & Comic Artist Omar Khouri
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of This Is Not a Watermelon podcast, we talk to UN special rapporteur Michael Fakhri, and comic journalist and film writer Omar Khouri...
Chloe Kattar | @leb.historian Explains Zionist Propaganda on Lebanon
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Better known to many through her Instagram account @leb.historian which has gained a large audience especially since Lebanon's 17 October Revolution, ...
Beirut Southern Suburbs & Hezbollah: History & Truth | Mona Harb
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of This Is Not a Watermelon podcast, we speak to Professor Mona Harb, co-founder of the Beirut Urban Lab at the American Unive...
Ghada Karmi | I Returned to My Stolen Home in Palestine
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Palestinian doctor, scholar and research fellow Ghada Karmi offers powerful, truthful and hard-hitting words on Palestine's past, present and future. ...
Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance | Louis Brehony
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of This Is Not a Watermelon, we talk about positioning Palestinian music within a global music scene, cassettes as precious as diamond...
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi | An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before & After 1948
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was recorded on July 10th, 2024.Check out Sonja's reading recommendations for Palestinian literature from the 20th Century 👉https://ww...
Justice in Palestine... But For Whom? | Victor Kattan
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was recorded on May 21st, 2024 at 5pm Palestine time.Victor Kattan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham School of La...
The British Betrayal of Palestine | Salman Abu Sitta
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Salman Abu Sitta was born in 1937 in Ma‘in Abu Sitta, in the Beersheba district of Mandate Palestine. An engineer by profession, and the founder ...
A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature | Refqa Abu-Remaileh
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was recorded on March 20th at 4:15pm Palestine time.If you're curious to learn more about Palestinian prison literature, read our full a...
A Moment of Becoming: Understanding Palestine Through Its Art | Yazid Anani
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Starting with the Qattan Foundation's recent exhibition "Gaza: A Moment of Becoming", Yazid explains why this is not an ordinary exhibition, reflectin...
RERUN: Visualizing Palestine | Creating Narrative Interventions
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Visualizing Palestine is a data-visualization platform that produces factual infographics and visuals to build a rights-based narrative of Palestine a...
RERUN: Mai Masri | Fostering a Sense of Belonging Through the Camera
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mai Masri is a Palestinian filmmaker, director and producer. The majority of her work to date are documentaries which focus on the day-to-day realitie...
RERUN: Sliman Mansour | Palestinian Art & Resistance
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Distinguished Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour – whose work has become synonymous with the Palestinian identity and struggle – talks to us about ...
The Native and the Refugee | Malek Rasamny
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Taking his film "Spaces of Exception" as a starting point, we talk about reservations and refugee camps as uniquely dual spaces that are all at once a...
Apartheid, BDS & Palestinian-South African Transnational Solidarity | Andy Clarno
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"This is not a watermelon" is a podcast about Palestinian history and culture. In this episode, we sat down with Andy Clarno, author of "Neoliberal Ap...
100 Years War on Palestine with Rashid Khalidi [Rerun 2021 Podcast Episode]
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
THIS SERIES IS PART OF THE AFIKRA PODCAST NETWORKPalestinian history and culture will not be erased. History warns us how media's dehumanizing rhetori...
Unpacking the Phrase “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free” | Maha Nassar
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was recorded on Friday, November 24 at 5pm Palestine Time. Please note that we're recording special podcast episodes relevant to understa...
The Nakba on Netflix: Through the Eyes of a 14-year old Palestinian Girl | Darin Sallam
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this special podcast episode, Darin explains how the story of Farha found her, offers context for viewers who aren’t familiar with events around ...
Reporting the Truth About Palestine & the Failure of Western Journalism | Dima Khatib
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was recorded on Tuesday, November 14 at 6:45pm Palestine Time Hosted by: Mikey Muhanna, afikra Founder Executive Director👉: https://w...
Violence, Nonviolence & the Palestinian National Movement | Wendy Pearlman
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wendy shares her views on realistic outcomes for the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli condition, and takes us through the history of Palestinian grassroots...
A Collective Responsibility Towards the Children of Palestine | Steve Sosebee
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Steve lays out the state of the healthcare system in Gaza pre- and post-October 7 and how the absolute destruction taking place is impacting their abi...
The Architecture of Occupation | Nadi Abusaada
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was recorded on October 28, 10:42 Palestine time Hosted by: Mikey Muhanna, afikra Founder Executive Director👉: https://www.instagram....
German Guilt or Structural Racism Towards Palestinians | Sarah El Bulbeisi
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was recorded on Friday Oct 27 at 16:41 Palestine time. Hosted by: Mikey Muhanna, afikra Founder Executive Director👉: https://www.inst...
غزة: التاريخ الاجتماعي تحت الاستعمار البريطاني | أباهر السقا
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
سجلت هذه الحلقة في 26 أكتوبر.**** عن هذه ليست بطيخة ****لن يُمحى التاريخ والثقافة الفلسط...
Centuries of Social History in Palestine | Professor Beshara Doumani
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Doumani gives us a critical historical context for what's happening in Palestine right now, explaining why and how Palestine's colonial hist...
Justice & Transnational Solidarity | Brendan Ciaran Browne
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A native of Belfast, Dr Brendan Ciarán Browne is an interdisciplinary scholar with degrees in Law (LL.B, LL.M Human Rights) and a PhD in Sociology. H...
Humanitarian Catastrophe in Gaza #Palestine | Mara Kronenfeld | UNRWA-USA
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was recorded on October 20 at 15:30 Palestine time. Hosted by: Mikey Muhanna, afikra Founder Executive Director👉: https://www.instagr...