Journalists Basel Adra and Mohammed R. Mhawish join Hamza Yusuf for a virtual conversation on Israel's acceleration of genocide and annexation in Gaza and the West Bank under the cover of war on Iran and the invasion of Lebanon. (Recorded on May 7 2026, 7pm GMT)
Co-sponsored by Vashti Media and Equator Magazine. Introduced by Vashti executive editor Evan Robins and Equator founding editor Gavin Jacobson.
Basel Adra is an activist, journalist, and photographer from the village of At-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills. He is a West Bank Reporter for +972 Magazine and co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land.
Mohammed R. Mhawish is an award-winning Palestinian writer and journalist from Gaza City, currently living in exile. He is a contributor to The Nation, The New Yorker, and New York Magazine, a fellow at Type Media Center, and a contributing reporter to the Palestine Reporting Lab.
Hamza Yusuf is British-Palestinian writer and political researcher. His work has been featured in Declassified UK, Middle East Eye, The Nation, +972 Magazine, Mondoweiss, and elsewhere. He is a contributing writer at Vashti Media.
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