📚 Book: Decolonizing Palestine | ✍️ Author: Somdeep Sen

In Episode 45 of Book Café Podcast, we speak to Prof. Dr. Somdeep Sen about his 2020 book "Decolonizing Palestine". Hosted by: ​⁠​⁠  Follow Omar on Twitter / X: @OmarNizam Author"s bio: Somdeep Sen is Associate Professor in International Development Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark.  His research focuses include spatial politics, race and racism in international relations, liberation movements, settler colonialism, postcolonial studies and migration.  He is the author of Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial (Cornell University Press, 2020) and the co-editor of Globalizing Collateral Language: From 9/11 to Endless Wars (University of Georgia Press, 2021).  His work has also appeared in Foreign Policy, The Huffington Post, Open Democracy, Jacobin, The London Review of Books, The Palestine Chronicle and The Disorder of Things. #israel #palestine #gaza #westbank #palestinian #palestinianstruggle #palestinianrights #palestinewillbefree #palestine_tv #palestinians #fatah #hamas  Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode Trailer 0:30 - Author"s introduction 5:10 - Inspiration behind the book 12:15 - The origins of Hamas 16:35 - Yasser Arafat & The First Intifada 19:40 - Gaza as the second Singapore 24:30 - India & Palestine compared 31:30 - "From the river to the sea" slogan 33:00 - October 7th & Netanyahu"s personal agenda 39:45 - Surprise guest question 42:45 - Hamas"s popularity 47:10 - The future of Israel-Palestine 50:45 - Staple questions regarding books Related Episodes on Israel-Palestine:  📚 Book: The Punishment Of Gaza ✍️ Author: Gideon Levy 🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/C7Tkny47fXs?si=gvIFL9FBphKjptBM 📚 Book: On Palestine ✍️ Author: Frank Barat 🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/PRf1Pk4UbF8?si=l55G1zSmwcGbldoU 📚 Book: The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine ✍️ Author: Ilan Pappé 🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/T-CWN4YZuAI?si=gulwS78hic1VxS20 📚 Book: The Invention Of Palestine ✍️ Author: Zachary Foster 🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/eGDTtlQNh_0?si=JA2AHQIHRBst2rOU 📚 Book: Palestine In Israeli School Books ✍️ Author: Nurit Peled-Elhanan 🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/rXs1zkvHDGc?si=ct85SNylCYk_stDq 📚 Book: Arafat: The Biography ✍️ Author: Andrew Gowers 🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/7qVKnorXELE?si=zEU4d-T-S-3F8dEO 📚 Book: The Palestine Laboratory ✍️ Author: Antony Loewenstein 🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/51-VVciGz88?si=-tRLPPXNfkpEM3io 📚 Book: Erasing Palestine ✍️ Author: Rebecca Ruth Gould 🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/lPxtYvfS0kk?si=S0Ok3SFxh0NF6PAR 📚 Book: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict ✍️ Author: Martin Bunton 🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/SvcNdbO-mlk?si=w-wAl5ol Support the show