Arab Voices (Episode # 1,181)
1) Electronic Intifada Newscast (occupied Palestine); 2) Remarks of Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and Mahmoud Khalil at the People’s Conference for Palestine: Gaza is the Compass
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will have a couple of segments:
1) Electronic Intifada Newscast: A summary of the latest developments in occupied Palestine, including the ongoing Israeli genocide, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing, presented by Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at the Electronic Intifada.
2) People’s Conference for Palestine: Gaza is the Compass - On August 29 through 31, 2025, the second annual People’s Conference for Palestine was held in Detroit, Michigan, attended by over 4600 people with thousands more joining them online. The conference slogan was “Gaza is the Compass”. There were many great speakers covering critical and timely topics, and we are going to share during this episode of Arab Voices a couple of the remarks delivered at that conference, including the remarks of Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress, and Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian graduate of Columbia University who was unlawfully detained for 104 days by the Trump administration for his Palestine advocacy.