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Israel’s expanding war in Lebanon with Joseph Daher; plus poet Tahir Izgul recounts his life under China’s Uyghur genocide

0:08 – Joseph Daher, author of Hezbollah: The Political Economy of the Party of God.

0:33 – Tahir Hamut Izgil is one of the foremost poets writing in Uyghur. He fled China and now lives near Washington, DC. His latest book is a memoir entitled Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide. His translator, Joshua L. Freeman, is a specialist in Uyghur history and literature at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. [rebroadcast]