In this episode we will speak with Lara Sheehi & Stephen Sheehi about the relationship between zionist settler colonialism and the peoples of Palestine & Lebanon. We will discuss recent events, including the terror attacks on pagers and communication devices, the aerial bombardment, the assassination of Hizbu'llah's Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and the IOF's announcement of a ground invasion of Lebanon. Importantly we will discuss the psychic dimensions of these developments, how western media portrays them, and the historical interconnectedness of the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance to zionist settler colonialism in the region.
Lara Sheehi is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology. She got her Doctorate of Psychology from the George Washington University's Professional Psychology Program where she also taught doctoral level students and is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Lara's work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022) which won the Middle East Monitor's 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is the author of the forthcoming book, From the Clinic to the Street: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto Press, 2025)
Stephen Sheehi is the Sultan Qaboos Professor of Middle East Studies at William and Mary, where he also directs the Decolonizing Humanities Project. His scholarship engages the long tentacle of empire, colonialism, racial capitalism and cisheternormativy in the Arab world and the Global North. Among his recent books are Psychoanalysis Under Occupation (with Lara Sheehi), Camera Palaestina: Photography and the Displaced History of Palestine and Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims.
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