Professor Lara Sheehi is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at George Washington University’s Professional Psychology Program, where she is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Lara’s work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author with Professor Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022), which won the Middle East Monitor’s 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book.
Lara is the President of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA, Division 39), co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and co-editor of Counterspace in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Lara is also a contributing editor to the Psychosocial Foundation’s Parapraxis Magazine and on the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network advisory board.
Prof. Stephen Sheehi’s work meets at the intersection of cultural, visual, art, and social history of the modern Arab world, starting with the late Ottoman Empire and the Arab Renaissance. His scholarly interests include photography theory, psychoanalysis, decoloniality, Palestine, Race and Islamophobia.
He is the co-author of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation and Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims, published by Clarity Press, Inc.
His latest book, Camera Palestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine, published by the University of California Press, is available for open access.
Voices included in this episode include excerpts of Frantz Fanon in Göran Olasson’s 2014 film Concerning Violence, narrated by Lauryn Hill.
Additional voices include Eqbal Ahmad conversing with Edward Said on Frant Fanon, from the BBC Four-part documentary, “The Idea of Empire,” and a recording of James Baldwin on Love.
You also heard voices from the children of Gaza from the film “Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege” by Abdallah Alkhatib and Marc Lamont Hill speaking on Israel Hamas on the Breakfast Club Power, 105.1 FM.
Special thanks to Justine Liv Olausson for reading the Case of Amjad, an excerpt from Psychoanalysis Under Occupation.
This episode of Asian Provocation was produced by Ayoto—special thanks to Avgi Saketoupoulou for the introduction, courage and inspiration.
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Western mainstream media are currently censoring the genocide and promoting propaganda for war. Since Meta has removed Eye.On.Palestine, which was the largest account providing updated information. Stay up to date with some of these journalists and media:
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Instagram accounts to follow:
Democracy Now! — is an American TV, radio and Internet news program hosted by Amy Goodman, Juan González and Nermeen Shaikh.
Yara | يارا — is a Palestinian war journalist and Human Rights Advocate. Gaza born and raised.
subhi صبحي — is providing education and awareness on Gaza
Motaz Azaiza مُعْتَز عزايزة — Journalist reporting from Palestine
Lara — provides information and analysis updates on Gaza
Wael Al Dahdouh — is providing coverage on the ground in Gaza
Al Jazeera English — provides non-Western propaganda updates in English.
The Intercept — an online American nonprofit news organization
DiEM25.org — Political Organization advocating for democracy and ceasefire and firmly supports Palestine.
IMEU — posts untold stories, facts and expert sources on all things Palestine.
Jewish Voice for Peace — Jews organizing toward Palestinian liberation and Judaism beyond Zionism
Psychoanalysis Under Occupation with Lara Sheehi, PsyD and Stephen Sheehi, MA, PhD