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  • Podcasts and Videos

    Our growing collection of podcasts and video content offers new ways of thinking, listening, and learning. These multimedia pieces feature conversations with researchers, and students, as well as visual storytelling that captures the spirit of CELME’s work, on the ground, on the coast, and in the classroom.
    The InsurgenSeas Podcast
    This podcast opens up a new conversation about oceans and the politics of oceanic change. Hosted by Dr. Nikolas Kosmatopoulos, it draws on years of research and activism to challenge dominant views of the sea, whether as empty space, a securitized border, an investment frontier, or a lawless zone. Instead, it reimagines the sea as a site of radical possibility, resistance, and community reclaiming. Through interviews, stories, and critical reflections, the podcast explores what it means to think politically from the water, connecting frontline struggles and inviting listeners to see the sea differently, beyond borders and beyond empire.
    Listen to all the episodes here.
    CELME Mapping Initiatives: The Seas of Solidarity to Palestine
    This research documents and maps maritime geographies of solidarity with Palestine. It visualizes and connects three separate types of solidarity:

    1. Solidarity ships attempting to breach the illegal and inhumane siege of Gaza.
    2. Solidarity blockades of Mediterranean ports facilitating military material towards Israel;
    3. Solidarity embargoes on Israel-bound commercial shipping in the Red Sea.
    By visualizing these spatially distributed and strategically linked maritime actions, this mapping project suggests a conceptual model for understanding how global solidarity to Palestine engulfs the world seas.
    Principal Investigator: Prof. Nikolas Kosmatopoulos
    Research assistance: Dina Al Amood and Christopher Kababian
    Technical development: Patrick Daou, Hadi Knaiber, Sara Abou Zeid, and Maurice Salameh (ICIL (FAS) AUB)

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