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January 30, 2026 Audio (Episode # 1,202)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac's response to Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that Israel is a safe-haven for Christians
  
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will have 2 segments:

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast - A summary of the latest developments in occupied Palestine including the Israeli genocide and catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip and the ongoing Israeli atrocities in the West Bank, presented by Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at the Electronic Intifada.

2) Reverend Dr. Munther Isaac responds to Netanyahu's claim that Israel protects Christians - Palestinian Christian Theologian, the Reverend Dr. Munther Isaac, the Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hope in Ramallah, Palestine, and the director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice, responds to the claims by war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, that Apartheid Israel is a safe-haven for Christians. He did so on January 24, 2026, in a segment from Christ at the Checkpoint Podcast with facts documented by Israeli institutions, heads of churches in Jerusalem, the Greek Patriarch of Jerusalem, Palestinian Christians living in occupied Palestine, and reports from polling institutions, and even going back to the first Nakba of 1948. He details Israeli attacks on Palestinian Christians in Palestine, including Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In this podcast, the Reverend Dr. Munther Isaac also delivers a message to Christians around the world and that is "talk to us, not about us".

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January 23, 2026 Audio (Episode # 1,201)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) Yanis Varoufakis on the so called "Board of Peace"; 3) "The Palestinian Genocide: The Ultimate Evidence"
  
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will have 3 segments:

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast - A summary of the latest developments in occupied Palestine including the Israeli genocide and catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip, presented by Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at the Electronic Intifada.

2) Yanis Varoufakis on the so called "Board of Peace" – we will air portion of an interview Democracy Now! conducted with Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, and author of several books, about President Trump's so called “Board of Peace” & Threat to Democratic World Order.

3) "The Palestinian Genocide: The Ultimate Evidence" – we will air a segment from Double Down News titled "The Palestinian Genocide: The Ultimate Evidence" by Chris Gunness, former chief spokesperson for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA.

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January 16, 2026 Audio (Episode # 1,200)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) "I Turned Out To Be a Story Myself" by Shrouq Al Aila; 3) Testimony of a Genocide Survivor by Dr. Haider Eid; 4) "Destruction of the Healthcare System: Bearing Witness to Genocide in Gaza" by Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim
  
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will have 4 segments:

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast - A summary of the latest developments in occupied Palestine including the Israeli genocide and catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip, presented by Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at the Electronic Intifada.

2) Shrouq Al Aila, Palestinian journalist in Gaza, addressing the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People organized by the UN Palestinian Rights Committee at the UN Headquarters in New York. Her talk is titled "I Turned Out To Be a Story Myself".

3) Testimony of a Genocide Survivor by Dr. Haider Eid, Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at what used to be Al-Aqsa University in Gaza (before Apartheid Israel destroyed it) speaking at the Gaza Tribunal Final Session held in Istanbul, Turkey in October 2025. During the Israeli genocide on Gaza, Dr. Eid lost 54 relatives, 39 colleagues from Al-Aqsa University, and over 280 students, including his best literature students, as well as his apartment, neighborhood, family home, children's school, and university.

4) Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim, emergency medicine physician and Médecins Sans Frontières international president, addressing the Gaza Tribunal Final Session on "Destruction of the Healthcare System: Bearing Witness to Genocide in Gaza". He bears witness to Israel's deliberate mass harm of civilians, use of food as weapon of war, and destruction of healthcare system as three key elements in its genocide in Gaza.

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January 9, 2026 Audio (Episode # 1,199)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) Mosab Abu Toha on Suffering of Palestinians in Gaza; 3) Sahar Francis on Sexual Assault and Mass Imprisonment
  
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will have 3 segments:

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast - A summary of the latest developments in occupied Palestine including the Israeli genocide and catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip, presented by Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at the Electronic Intifada.

2) Mosab Abu Toha on suffering of Palestinians in Gaza - On November 25, 2025, the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, held a special meeting at the UN headquarters in New York, to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian poet, writer, founder of the Edward Said Library, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for series of New Yorker essays on suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, spoke at that event as a survivor and witness to the genocide in Gaza. In his talk, he recounts his family’s history of displacement from Yaffa, his birth in a refugee camp, his abduction and torture, and the loss of loved ones to Israeli airstrikes. He also recited excerpts from his own poetry that capture childhood dreams, loss, and life "under the rubble" in Gaza.
 
3) Sahar Francis on sexual assault and mass imprisonment - During the Gaza Tribunal Final session held in Istanbul, Turkey in October 2025, Sahar Francis, Palestinian lawyer working with Palestinian prisoners' issues for 30 years, testified about sexual assault and mass imprisonment. She spoke about the 9,100 Palestinian prisoners, including 400 children, that are facing torture, arbitrary detention, mass detention campaigns, unfair trial procedures, lack of health treatment, solitary confinement, degrading treatment, killings inside prisons, and holding prisoners' bodies, and that these are not new practices but have been systematic since 1948. In her talk, Sahar shares testimonies of Palestinian prisoners from Gaza and the West Bank. She also references leaked video from Sde Teiman detention facility where in July 2024, one Palestinian detainee from Gaza was raped brutally and hospitalized in critical condition.

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January 2, 2026 Audio (Episode # 1,198)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) Katie Halper on media complicity in the genocide; 3) Lubna Massarra on difficulties reporting on the genocide; 4) Assal Rad on underlying biases of Western media; 5) Saga Hamdan on how governments and media turned a "blind eye" to Israel's genocidal war in Gaza
  
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will have a few segments:

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast - A summary of the latest developments in occupied Palestine including the Israeli genocide and catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip, presented by Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at the Electronic Intifada.

2) Katie Halper, journalist, filmmaker, podcaster, political commentator, and host of The Katie Halper Show, speaking about media complicity in the genocide at the Gaza Tribunal Final Session.

3) Lubna Massarra, journalist and Middle East Eye's Palestine and Israel bureau chief based in Jerusalem, discussing the difficulties of reporting on the ongoing genocide at the Gaza Tribunal Final Session.

4) Assal Rad, a scholar of modern Middle Eastern history, a fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC, and author of The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran, on the underlying biases of Western media at the Gaza Tribunal Final Session.

5) Saga Hamdan, Palestinian journalist and writer, discusses at SOAS University of London how governments and media outlets have turned a "blind eye" to Israel's genocidal war in Gaza.