Expert Analyst: International Politics, Middle East & Nonviolent Action
Zunes Facebook Video July 17, 2025: Meanwhile, the Trump administration and the leadership of both parties in Congress continue to say yes. As the U.S./Israeli-imposed famine on Gaza increases, I keep getting solicitations to contribute to Democratic candidates who insist…
May 17, 2025, Stephen Zunes’s keynoteaddress at the 2025 Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation Spring Assembly
VIDEO of Stephen Zunes and Rebecca Solnit in conversation at the University of San Francisco April 22, 2025 [1:12] on a variety of topics related to growing authoritarianism in the United States and the resistance.
Episode 45 – West Asia on a Powder Keg: Lessons from the Arab Spring With Professor Stephen Zunes. British podcast on civil resistance pro-democracy struggles, contemporary Middle Eastern politics, and other issues (1 hour)
KQSD-FM March 2025 (30 mins.) on the crackdown on antiwar student activists and related issues
KPFA-FM news March 23, 2025 (segment starts at the 10:30)
Ukraine, Palestine, and other developments March 2025 (segment starts at 31:30) for a community radio station in northern California
Discussion with Dr. James Zogby of the Arab-American Institute, where we examined the trajectory of the pro-Palestinian movement over the past 50 years, including his history as an advocate for Palestinian rights from grassroots campaigns in the 1970s to his…
The Progressive February 3, 2025 Examines how a Trump presidency will make U.S. policy towards Israel/Palestine even worse than under Biden, but how it might spawn a bigger backlash that could end up forcing real change in U.S. policy in…
Zunes is one two faculty members interviewed in this
Oberlin College Nov. 1, 2024: Written transcript for the student newspaper after giving a series of talks October 2024 [source]
The Progressive May 17, 2024: Broadening the federal definition of antisemitism is a disingenuous attempt to quash dissent…
The Progressive May 15, 2024: During the wave of campus protests opposing the U.S.-backed war on Gaza and calling for divestment from Israel, students weren’t the only ones facing arrest…
“Flashpoints” on KPFA-FM and affiliated stations (20-minute interview begins at the 13:15 mark): Dr. Zunes contrasts blatant censorship and violent police suppression of Gaza War campus protests with anti-apartheid protests of the 1980s.
The Progressive, May 1, 2024: Unlike apartheid-era South Africa, many universities aren’t even recognizing Israel’s human rights abuses. A wave of sit-ins and encampments have swept college and university campuses… led—as in past anti-war campus protests in 1968—by Columbia University.…
Project on Middle East Political Science April 2024. [source]
Al Jazeera English Television, May 2, 2024 Anti-war, pro-divestment demonstrations on many campuses Police attacks on student protesters at UCLA
Gothenberg University Magazine May 2024 (Sweden; in English): Profile on Dr. Zunes’ visiting research fellowship at University of Gothenburg, pages 20-21
VIDEO of panel with 4 other activist presenters: “Nonviolence, Peace & Transnational Part 2“ and Dr. Zunes’ PowerPoint of Photos from Sudan. Sponsor: Movement for a New Society.