Elia J. Ayoub is a UK-based writer and researcher. He holds a PhD in Cultural Analysis from the University of Zurich on postwar Lebanon and an MA on the politics of Hebrew and Yiddish. He is the founder of The Fire These Times podcast and co-founder of From The Periphery media collective. He blogs at www.Iwritestuff.blog and can be found on Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky and Instagram.