First published on The Final Straw on 15 March 2026.
Original text: This week, we’re sharing our interview with Elia Ayoub, an anti-authoritarian historian and essayist originally from Lebanon, co-founder of From The Periphery media collective, co-host of The Fire These Times podcast and many more things. We spoke about the US and Israeli war on Iran, it’s escalations into the wider region of west Asia, the Axis of Resistance, nuclear weapons, motivations of the various actors involved and thoughts on where that leaves anti-authoritarians in the imperial core countries like the US.
Elia links
- You can contact Elia by email at ayoub@thefirethesetimes.com or on Signal at @ ayoub.02
- Elia’s blog ( https://www.hauntologies.net/about ) and Ko-Fi account ( https://ko-fi.com/eliaayoub )
- Elia’s Lebanon class: https://thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass/
- Where you’ll soon find Elias latest +972 article: https://www.972mag.com/writer/elia-ayoub/
- From The Periphery Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fromtheperiphery
- FTP website: https://fromtheperiphery.com/
- The Fire These Times Podcast: https://firenexttime.net/why-neutral-anti-imperialism-keeps-losing/
Related Episodes:
- Our recent interview about Iran before the war: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/02/15/death-to-the-dictator-uprising-and-repression-in-iran-with-anarchism-perspective/
- Past interviews we’ve done with Elia: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/category/elia-j-ayoub/
Mutual Aid in Lebanon
- Instagrams featuring info on some mutual aid efforts in Lebanon:
- Lebanon Emergency Relief: https://www.chuffed.org/project/171933-lebanon-emergency-relief
- A Queer Lebanese mutual aid project involving Elia’s co-creator, Ayman Makruem: https://www.patreon.com/qmalebanon
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