Mariam Barghouti
Mariam Barghouti
In this podcast, Palestinian-American writer, journalist, and researcher Mariam Barghouti talks about the double labor of journalism when you are both its practitioner and its subject: the negotiations with editors, the hierarchy of credibility in international newsrooms, and what gets lost when the only legible Palestinian is the suffering one. As she argues, “before the bombs are dropped people are killed with language”. So we spend time dissecting seven systemic levers of narrative that sustain the manufacturing of consent and danger, that make Palestinian life either hypervisible as tragedy or invisible as politics. And we return, again and again, to a conviction that runs through all her work: Palestinians are not victims waiting to be documented. Palestinians are a people in struggle, determined to remain.