Can One Man Unite Palestine? The Story of Marwan Barghouti
4 November - 23 mins
Podcast Series
Newstalk Daily
For more than two decades, Marwan Barghouti has been locked in an Israeli prison — a man both revered and reviled, described by many as “the Palestinian Mandela,” who deployed the famous phrase, “our chains will be broken before we are.”
Now, as calls grow louder for his release — including from former Irish President Mary Robinson and the Elders — his son Arab Barghouti joins the podcast to speak about life in the long shadow of captivity.
Arab paints a portrait of his father as both political leader and family man — a man who has spent 23 years cut off from his wife and children, often in solitary confinement, yet who still finds ways to teach fellow prisoners about history, resistance...
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