An Scéal
An Scéal
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An Scéal is an interview podcast from members of the Irish Bloc Berlin. It aims to amplify voices from the Palestine solidarity movement in Germany and beyond, featuring interviews, stories, and analysis from activists, organisers, and cultural workers. Focused on the connections between Irish and Palestinian solidarity and struggles, the podcast explores shared histories, current challenges, and practical ways to support justice and liberation efforts. The podcast will also engage with other themes relating to the current historical moment, and the role of culture and art in global struggles.
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The podcast focuses on themes of solidarity between Ireland and Palestine, exploring shared struggles and histories. Episode examples include interviews with the Stimmen aus Gaza team discussing public poetry readings and the HeART of Gaza team highlighting children's art exhibitions, addressing current challenges and advocating for justice through cultural initiatives.
An Scéal is an interview podcast from members of the Irish Bloc Berlin. It aims to amplify voices from the Palestine solidarity movement in Germany and beyond, featuring interviews, stories, and analysis from activists, organisers, and cultural workers. Focused on the connections between Irish and Palestinian solidarity and struggles, the podcast explores shared histories, current challenges, and practical ways to support justice and liberation efforts. The podcast will also engage with other themes relating to the current historical moment, and the role of culture and art in global struggles.
This episode is a rebroadcast of an episode of ‘Not to Forgive, but to Understand’, a podcast series discussing topics in genocide studies with scholars and individuals deeply involved in understanding the complexities of genocide and its perpetrators, presented by Saba Carrim, a writer and scholar of Genocide Studies, along with co-host Luis Gonzalez-Aponte.
The interview is with Saira Hussain, an an aesthetist who has worked in Gaza at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis through humanitarian deployments with Medical Aid for Palestinians and IDEALS. The conversation explores what it means to deliver critical care inside a collapsing health system. Drawing on firsthand experience, Saira discusses blockade conditions, mass-casualty medicine, famine and forced starvation, and the daily ethical and clinical decisions faced by medical professionals working under extreme constraint. The discussion also looks beyond the present moment, asking what rebuilding medical education, infrastructure, and professionalcapacity might entail in post-conflict settings.
This interview was recorded in September 2025, during a period of enforced starvation in Gaza. It remains acutely relevant today, as United Nations reporting indicates that over 400 Palestinians have been killed since the October ceasefire, underscoring the ongoing humanitarian and medical crisis.
Collapse of Gaza’s Health SystemWhy a Doctor Goes to GazaPracticing Medicine Below StandardsPatient Testimony Under SiegeMass Graves Near Medical FacilitiesBlockade, Aid Restrictions, Hospital FailurePatterns of War-Related InjuriesFamine and Enforced StarvationWhat Global Reporting MissesRebuilding Gaza’s Medical CommunityPersonal Cost of Medical WitnessingMedical Ethics After AtrocityUnprecedented Weapons and TraumaAid Sites and Civilian Death
LINKS:
Not to Forgive, But to Understand: https://perpetratorstudies.sites.uu.nl/2025/07/28/podcast-series-not-to-forgive-but-to-understand/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@NottoForgivebuttoUnderstand
Medical Aid for Palestinians: https://www.map.org.uk/
IDEALS: https://www.ideals.org.uk/
Irish Bloc Berlin: https://www.instagram.com/irishblocberlin/
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