A Palestinian's Right to Return & Resolve to Stay

A rich episode with Nadya Tannous, host of Arab Amp Folktales.

Nadya is a passionate community organizer, writer and researcher, born and raised in the Bay Area (Unceded Ohlone Territory), with a focus on refugee rights, inter-community empowerment, and returning land to the people and people returning to the land. She is a Creative Partner of Donkeysaddle Projects and is a member of the Arab.Amplify Team through Temescal Arts Center, entering their second season of Arab.Amp Folktales. She is published most recently in Al-Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network, The Funambulist, The Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, and is a panelist this year in the Palestine Writes Literature Festival. She holds an MSc in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies from the University of Oxford and a BA in Anthropology and Sociology from UC Santa Cruz. She is a founding member of the Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Scholarship, a project of the Palestinian Youth Movement. Nadya currently serves as the Director of Operations at Honor the Earth.

The beats for this season were produced by local artists ⁠Monk HTS⁠  and ⁠Evaclear⁠.

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