{"id":12427,"date":"2021-08-17T15:40:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T19:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/?p=12427"},"modified":"2021-08-24T20:58:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T00:58:28","slug":"fanon-the-struggle-for-justice-and-mental-health-august-24-200pm-edt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/fanon-the-struggle-for-justice-and-mental-health-august-24-200pm-edt\/","title":{"rendered":"Fanon, the struggle for justice and mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the second in the series of interviews with authors of chapters in the recently published Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth. On this occasion, the editor &#8211; Nigel C. Gibson &#8211; and the publisher of Daraja Press, Firoze Manji discuss with authors Samah Jabr, Elizabeth Berger, Rosemere Fereira da Silva, Miraj U. Desai and Deivison Mendes Faustino about their perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samah Jabr is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist living in East Jerusalem, serving as the Head of the Mental Health Unit within the Palestinian Ministry of Health.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elizabeth Berger is a child psychiatrist living in New York and a found- ing\/steering committee member of the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network (https:\/\/usapalmhn.com\/).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rosemere Ferreira da Silva is Titular Professor at the State University of Bahia (Universidade do Estado da Bahia \/ UNEB), where she has taught since 2012. She is a specialist in Brazilian Literature, Afro- Brazilian Literature, Comparative Literature and Ethnic and African Studies.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miraj U. Desai is a writer, psychologist, activist, dancer, artist, and author of Travel and Movement in Clinical Psychology: The World Outside the Clinic. 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