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My live conversation with Tom Hall for WYPR-Baltimore

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In a live appearance on WYPR Baltimore’s Midday with Tom Hall, on Oct. 17, we discussed Palestine and my book Fugitive Dreams. I am grateful to host Tom Hall and producers Sam Bermas-Dawes and Teria Rogers for their invitation, and for featuring voices not often heard.

With Tom Hall in his studio at WYPR Baltimore (Photo by Sam Bermas-Dawes, with permission, Oct. 17, 2024)

An abridged transcript follows. You can listen to the audio interview here (starting at 19:41 min.):

Tom Hall

You were on a book tour in Ramallah on the 7th of October last year. Tell us what that experience was like.

Ramsey Hanhan

By evening, I could hear the airplanes flying. They were flying on their way to drop bombs on Gaza and we could hear one every five minutes, you know, sometimes 10. In the night, they step it up. And it continued the…