The East is a Podcast: Recent Episodes
Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist)
A critical lens on the history of the present on West Asia and North Africa. Interviews with experts and archival mashups.
Created by Sina Rahmani (twitter: @urorientalist)
*Jay and I did a very long livestream, and I'm posting the first half of it here on the free feed. To listen to the entire episode, please consider joining the Patreon, watching the episode on YouTube, OR donating to a Gaza fundraiser! If you donate $25 or more to a fundraiser, I'll gift you a free year-long subscription to the podcast. Just send me an email at eastisapodcast@gmail.com with a screenshot of your donation and I will send you back a gift link***
You asked for more (at least according to Sina you did) and we're here to give the people they want. Another edition of "Inside the Podcaster's Studio" brought to you by Millennials Are Killing Capitalism and The East is a Podcast.
Watch the livestream edition on the East is a Podcast Youtube channel https://youtube.com/live/oVnu_rlN1_E?feature=share To support MAKC: https://www.patreon.com/millennialsar...
I successfully bullied Justin from the Anti-Empire Project into a Saturday morning livestream!!! We talk, in a roundabout way, about ZIoAmerican regime change wars and what the defeat at the hands of Iran means for the future of the US empire.
Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast Youtube channel https://youtu.be/9pqgROaVlWc
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This week's episode of Delete Your Account is a special collaboration with The East is a Podcast.
Kumars, Navid Zarrinnal and Sina Rahmani review bad takes on Iran by left-liberal academics and journalists in the Iranian diaspora.
Navid is now on Twitter @navidwahraman and Sina is still @UrOrientalist. Find East is a Podcast on YouTube and more of Navid's coverage on Instagram.
Watch the video edition of every episode of the Delete Your Account free feed on Patreon at patreon.com/deleteyouraccount and on YouTube @kumarsontv.
Welcome to episode 266 of DYA and also The East is a Podcast!
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I did an episode of the @penandmachete Livestream with comrades Navid and Diego
Join AISC livestream producer Sina Rahmani along with AISC members Navid Farnia and Diego Alcalá for a conversation on the latest developments in the global anti-imperialist struggle.
Watch the video edition on the AISC YouTube channel https://youtube.com/live/kTSftJUL87s?feature=share
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Masha and Sardana are the Sakha scholars and co-hosts of the podcast TYMSYY, a multilingual podcast on global Indigenous topics produced by Red Media.
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*This was supposed to be a bonus episode but since I haven't been posting I decided to unlock it. Apologies again for the long delay between episodes!!!**
Tehran-based Sara discusses some of her experiences during the war, the rage she feels for Iranians who advocated for bombing, and the different meaning of resistance.
You can follow Sara on Instagram @Sarasg2026
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Sorry for the long absence from the podcast. I am getting more content in the can! Here is a live episode of Lara Sheehi's show, Psychic Militancy
I thought it was time to bring Sina from behind the scenes, to the limelight. Can you believe this is his first solo appearance on Psychic Militancy? This episode's graphic is Sina's brainchild, which should already tell you everything you need to know and have to look forward to for this episode. All things Iran, anti-imperialism, and empire's decay on full sight.
Sina Rahmani is a producer extraordinaire and the mastermind behind a growing Tankieverse of spinoffs, including the very popular Everybody (still) loves Nora, AKA, TGT the musical. When he's not suffering over bad lighting, a bad angle, or a horrible mic, he's planting peas and planning for world domination through greenhouse farming. He frequently threatens to shut down the Strait of Hormuz as a disciplinary tactic against his podcast talking heads. (Written by me since he stopped responding and I needed a bio)
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Sina, Adnan, and Nora are back on the couch for another round of Tankie Group Therapy.
Please consider supporting Mohammed. He is trying to raise $1600 towards his laptop and tuition https://chuffed.org/project/168100-mohammed-and-siblings-need-our-help
Lara Sheehi is helping a comrade to raise some money for a Palestinian family https://www.instagram.com/p/DZidHejxHtH/
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This episode ends abruptly when Sara's internet connection cut off suddenly! We picked up the conversation as best as we could the next day. Part 2 will be available to Patrons (soonish) and on YouTube
Tehran-based Sara discusses some of her experiences during the war, the rage she feels for Iranians who advocated for bombing, and the different meaning of resistance.
You can follow Sara on Instagram @Sarasg2026
Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast
Days of Rage: The Young Palestinians is a documentary film produced by Jo Franklin-Trout about Palestinian views on the Israeli occupation, first aired on PBS in 1989
"Days of Rage takes an inside look at the Palestinian intifada, which began in late 1987. Filmed in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza, this documentary reveals the horrors of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. Aired on September 6, 1989, Days of Rage drew one of the largest viewing audiences in the history of PBS."
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX16FuQg-ek
*Thank you to everyone who signed up and helped make this episode free. I appreciate the support*
Mujamma Haraket returns to the show for an overview of the complex relationship between Iran and Hamas, and the Palestinian resistance.
Check out his article, "How the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Developed its Relationship with Iran and Hajj Ramadan" Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/HKHEfCAtpFk Consider supporting the showwww.patreon.com/east_podcast
I was once again forcibly conscripted into another edition of Iran vs. Epstein Empire. This is about 60% of the episode. You can listen to the entire episode if you become an EIAP Patreon or watch the livestream edition here
"Have the tables turned" is the 17th installment of this collaborative livestream series Iran vs. the Epstein Empire or the Axis of Resistance vs. the Axis of Epstein.
As ever, co-hosts of Resistance is Fertile Podcast, Benji and Indi, will be there, but Adnan will be asleep on his travels East (but return next week!), so two special guests return to the panel, Sina Rahmani of East is a Podcast and Mikey.
Follow Resistance is Fertile podcast: resistanceisfertilepodcast.substack.com and on YT @indications Please consider supporting Iman in Gaza https://chuffed.org/project/help-iman-in-gaza?
This conversation went longer than expected. I have posted the first 75 mins of the episode here, to listen to the rest of it sign up for EIAP Patreon or watch the fulll episode on YouTube*
Navid, Sina Rahmani, Adnan Husain, and Kumars discuss the prospect of renewed bombing by the US and Israel, how Iranians view the global impact of Iran's military and economic resilience, how support for the Axis of Resistance registers on the Iranian domestic political spectrum, whether good anti-imperialists should all convert to Islam, and much more.
Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/Gn5991QxY5s Check out Navid's Insta https://www.instagram.com/navidwahraman/
Delete Ur Account http://feeds.libsyn.com/82171/showrss
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I did another episode of Iran vs. Epstein Empire with the boys of Resistance is Fertile. This is the first half of the conversation. You can watch the full episode on YouTube (link below) or subscribe to the East is a Podcast on Patreon, where I post all my guest spots on other shows.*
Please consider supporting Ameer https://chuffed.org/project/176452-help-ameer-live * Watch the livestream edition https://youtube.com/live/9oaRcv7l1Ek "Iran Breaks the Siege" is the 16th installment of this collaborative livestream series Iran vs. the Epstein Empire or the Axis of Resistance vs. the Axis of Epstein. As ever, co-hosts of Resistance is Fertile Podcast, Benji and Indi, will be there, but Adnan will be asleep on his travels East (but return next week!), so two special guests return to the panel, Sina Rahmani of East is a Podcast and Prof. Navid Farnia. The crew discusses the latest developments of the Ramadan hot and cold War, the geopolitics and economics of war and "ceasefire" negotiations. Join with your questions and comments. This is your haven for anti-imperialist analysis, solidarity and community.
Journalist and Al Mayadeen Producer Ali Jezzinni (@Aly_jezzini) returns to the show to discuss the much hyped "defeat" of Lebanon's Party of God and how the emergence of First Person View drone warfare represents a watershed moment in the fight for liberation.
Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast Youtube channel
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I did a long livestream with Jay from MAKC on making media in a time of fascism and genocide. This is about 50% of the episode. You can listen to the entire episode by becoming a member of the EIAP Patreon or watch it for free on YouTube*
In this episode, East is a Podcast and Millennials Are Killing Capitalism will co-stream to discuss the world of podcasting. How we do our work, what our struggles are, what our gripes are, and perhaps, what is to be done? Watch the livestream edition on the EIAP YouTube channel
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Note: In the first half of the episode, there is an abrupt break in the conversation where we briefly discussed this clip of Martyred IRGC General Hajizadeh. Sorry for the confusion!
Arash Joblaghi returns to the show (after a very long hiatus!) to discuss some of the broader historical trends that the Ramadan War demonstrated about the future (and present) of military conflict.
Check out his earlier episode of the podcast, "The Meaning of Missiles" Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast
Tankie Group Therapy is back! Sina, Jay, Lara, Adnan, Mikey, and Nora join the episode for a long debrief, and joining us for the first time is longtime friend of the show, Ali Alizadeh!
Some of the campaigns mentioned in the episode https://chuffed.org/project/168100-mohammed-and-siblings-need-our-help https://chuffed.org/project/174168-support-a-third-round-of-spocs-for-gaza
https://www.freefunder.com/campaign/support-yusof-azizi Watch the livestream edition on our YouTube channel
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Aman Ullah Tariq from the EON podcast returns to the show to discuss the negotiations between US and Iran in Pakistan and the latter's role in mediating all the actors in this conflict and the wider region.
Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/GwYsbmOimys
Make sure to check out his earlier episode https://youtu.be/hYC1aqErss8
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Jared Ware from Millennials are Killing Capitalism and Tankie Group Therapy alum Mikey joined me to talk about the latest developments from the war.
Watch the livestream edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel https://youtube.com/live/bReHZ4POy90
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We managed to get Navid online for a conversation on the perception of Iranians on this war. This episode is co-published with Kumars Salehi at Delete Ur Account
This week's episode is another collaboration with The Colony Archive and The East is a Podcast. As Roqayah continues to document the resistance to Israel's attempted ethnic cleansing of south Lebanon, Kumars and friend of the show Sina Rahmani reconnected with Navid Zarrinnal in Tehran after two weeks.
Navid updates us on the current mood in Iran as US-Israeli bombardment continues, sharing his experiences of the significance of Quds Day and Palestinian liberation to people in Iran, and how Iranians are responding to their country's resilience. The gang also discusses the political divisions within the Iranian establishment, the source of accusations of corruption and economic mismanagement, and what a strategic defeat for the US and Israel means for Iran and the world.
Don't miss Navid's urgent reporting and analysis for The Colony Archive on YouTube.
Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel
Sara Larijani is a PostDoc fellow in Political Geography at the University of Tehran. Her research is on British colonialism in Iran's oil frontiers.
Taha Zeinali (@tahazeinalih) is a doctoral researcher in development studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research focus is imperialist hybrid war, sanctions and sovereign development in Iran.
They are both co-founders of the Center for Resistance, Sovereignty and Development Studies at the University of Tehran. Watch the video edition on The East Is a Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/PKc1RPqnca8
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I did an episode with comrads Jay from MAKC and Kumars from Delete Ur Account last week and forgot to post it! The episode explores the concept "kayfabe" in governing American cultural and political life
In this episode Sina Rahmani from The East is a Podcast & Kumars Salehi from Delete Your Account will join us to talk about the wrestling term "kayfabe" which is about maintaining the illusions that staged storylines and pre-determined matches are authentic, and that wrestlers are actually the characters they portray. We'll talk about this idea in relation to how the US Empire projects itself globally, and particularly in light of massive setbacks being faced by Israel & the US in their war on Iran and the Arab-Iranian region.
Friend of the show Bikrum Gill is joined by Helyeh Doutaghi to discuss the resistance of the Islamic Republic of Iran against the US-Zionist war of aggression. The discussion focuses on the strategic objectives pursued by Iran in its resistance, and what the larger stakes are for the region and the world-system as a whole. It considers how Iran's resistance represents a historic advance for forces of anti-imperialism. Finally, the episode explores the basis of the specific social, historical, and theological bases of Iranian sovereignty.
Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/PaY4Rfdyerw Helyeh Doutaghi is scholar of international law and geopolitical economy. Her research explores the intersections of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), encompassing postcolonial critiques of law, sanctions, and international political economy. Her research draws on the mechanisms, harms, and beneficiaries of the sanctions regime imposed on Iran, centering questions of value transfer and wealth drain. Additionally, she is interested in International Humanitarian Law (IHL), having written about its history, practice, and the production of knowledge (and ignorance), particularly in the context of the US military. She was expelled from Yale Law School and the LPE project for speaking up for Palestinian liberation last year. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Tehran, where she will focus on completing her manuscript on the Iranian sanctions regime and neoliberalism. Bikrum Gill is a scholar of international political economy and author of The Political Ecology of Colonial Capitalism: Race, Nature, and Accumulation, published by Manchester University Press.
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*I recorded an episode with some friends earlier this week but forgot to upload it until today! Apologies for the lateness
As the imperialist war rages on a group of us will gather to talks through the developments of the last few days to analyze and discuss. Adnan Husain from the Adnan Husain Show: / @adnanhusainshow Lara Sheehi from Psychic Militancy: / @psychicmilitancy Sina Rahmani from East is a Podcast: / @theeastisapodcast Watch the livestream edition on MAKC YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZh7WXn9ovY To support our platform please contribute to / millennialsarekillingcapitalism
***I did an episode with the lovely folks at Out of Left Field from the End of Sport podcast. Nathan is one of my older friends and comrades, and their show has been going strong for several years In this emergency episode of the End of Sport's Out of Left Field, Nathan, Derek, and Priyansh talk to The East is a Podcast's Sina Rahmani about the current situation in Iran, exploring the historical context, the role of imperialism, and the resilience of the Iranian state against foreign interference. We discuss the implications of the ongoing conflict across the world, the intersection of sports and politics, and the broader narrative surrounding the Islamic Republic's stance in the face of imperialist aggression.
Hosts: Derek Silva, Anna Posbergh, Priyansh, Johanna Mellis & Nathan Kalman-Lamb ________________________________________ Support & Follow The End of Sport Patreon: patreon.com/Theendofsport (Support the show!) Bluesky: @endofsportpod.bsky.social Instagram: @endofsportpod Twitter/X: @EndofSportPod YouTube: The End of Sport
Listen, share, and support The End of Sport, a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network, a community of over sixty leftist podcasts at harbingermedianetwork.com.
#sports #labor #capitalism #marxism
*Help support Mohammed and his siblings. They are having a difficult time with their living expences and donations have completely dropped off*
Tankie Group Therapy is back! Lara, Jay, Mikey, Adnan, Nora and Sina got together to discuss the ZioAmerican imperialist aggression on the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Note: This episode was recorded a few hours before the announcement of the martyrdom of Imam Ali Khamenei
Watch the livestream edition on the East is a Podcast YouTube edition https://youtube.com/live/wKEJ2N2hGA0
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Note: This episode contains a lot of discussion of screenshares. Unfortunately, we didn't do the best job describing every graph for audio listeners, so watch the video edition if you are interested in seeing the graphs cited and the slides prepared by the guest.* Filmmaker Dror Dayan returns to the show to provide us with an overview of the Zionist media machine in Occupied Palestine.
You can follow him on Twitter https://x.com/DrorDayan Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/5fkp6GdlgcE
Consider supporting the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast
*This conversation with Mujamma stretched slightly over two hours and covered a lot of terrain. Part 2 is now available to patrons, as will the video edition of the entire episode. If a few of you sign up for the Patreon, I will unlock it in a couple of weeks on the free feed.*
The first half of a two-part episode with academic and translator Mujamma Haraket about the historical trajectory of actors, social forces, and ideologies that propelled the Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine (HAMAS) from its early history to today.
Support Mujamma's fantastic work on SubStack https://substack.com/@mujammaharaket
Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/529Uh9WoapU Consider supporting the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast
Producer's note: The folks at Popular Front asked me to moderate this discusssion of Gabriel Rockhill's latest book on the history of the Frankfurt School. Make sure to check out Popular Front!
We're thrilled to host author and philosopher Gabriel Rockhill on his book tour in Toronto. One of the key intellectuals of our movement today, his latest work explores ideas that are essential to understanding the challenges and necessities in building a socialist movement—especially for those of us living in the West.
Starting with a talk from the author, followed by a discussion with a guest panel and an audience Q&A – this will be an important evening to explore the past, present, and future of socialist thought, and the principles we need to uphold in order to succeed (which the ruling class desperately wants us to abandon).
Featuring an exciting guest panel, including: Sina Rahmani (co-host) Sardana Nikolaeva Justin Podur Zeyad El-Nabolsy
Special thanks to our partners in co-organizing this event: Qiao Collective (@qiaocollective) Critical Theory Workshop (@criticaltheoryworkshop) Monthly Review (@monthlyreview) East is a Podcast (@eastpodcast) And to our additional media partners: Anti-Empire Project (@jpodur) Journal of International Solidarity (@journalofintlsolidarity)
ABOUT THE BOOK: "Rockhill's book elucidates how the intellectual world war on the socialist alternative has sought to promote a "compatible left" intelligentsia while misrepresenting, maligning, and trying to destroy the revolutionary left. […] The volume concludes by bringing to the fore the guiding methodological framework: a thoroughly anticolonial and anti-imperialist Marxism dedicated to building socialism in the real world."
More info at Monthly Review Press: https://monthlyreview.org/9781685901349/
Canada: Available at most online book sellers, including University of Toronto Bookstore: https://utpdistribution.com/9781685901349/who-paid-the-pipers-of-western-marxism/
Note: As I explain in the introduction to this video, this is a very special episode that consists of two halves featuring three Palestinians in Gaza sharing their stories. It has become more than evident that our racist ruling class and their media warriors are simply refusing to allow anything that humanizes Palestinians in the slightest into the mainstream. It falls to us to help break the narrative blockade on Palestinians and their liberation struggle. I hope to do more of this content in the future, so if you know people in Gaza who want to make their own episodes in this format, reach out to me, and we can work with Lina to get it translated into English and posted. Maybe if we have enough episodes, we can spin it off into its own channel A very special episode featuring my friends Mohammed and Mahmoud, who both share their stories of the early days of the genocide and some of their memories of the last two years. Please consider donating to their campaigns Mohammed's campaign https://chuffed.org/project/120676-mohammed-from-gaza Mahmoud's campaign https://chuffed.org/project/141277-help-mahmoud-and-his-family-survive-and-stand-again In the second half of the episode, long-time friend of the podcast Migdalia Arcila-Valenzuela interviews Lina Jehad, an Arabic teacher and translator based in Gaza, about her work and struggles during the genocide. Hire Lina for Arabic lessons or translation work https://www.instagram.com/lina_jehad1212/
Donate directly to Lina and her family
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*Note: Navid's internet has been very unreliable for weeks now, so when I managed to get hold of him with a stable VPN, we decided to hurriedly record. In haste, both of us managed to mangle our respective recordings. I have been forced to resort to--please forgive me, cruel podcast gods---AI audio enhancer tools to see if it could be improved, which it mostly did but there are some funny spots on my side.*
Navid Zarrinal, host of the Colony Archive, and one of the oldest friends of The East is a Podcast, described what he witnessed during the last few weeks in Tehran. Support Navid on Patreon
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Tankie Group Therapy is back after a long, long hiatus! Lara Sheehi from Psychic Militancy hosts this special, extra-super-duper-sized edition featuring all your TGT faves: Justin Podur, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Alex Avina, Joe Emersberger, Sina Rahmani, Arama Rata, Jared Ware, Adnan Husain, Asa Winstanley, and more!
Watch the livestream edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel
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*RIP Michael Parenti*
Michael Parenti speaks at the University of Colorado, Boulder: "US interventionism, the 3rd world, and the USSR" April 15, 1986 Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP8CzlFhc14
Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive for more great archival mixes Join us for a live edition of Tankie Group Therapy Sunday @ 3:30 https://www.youtube.com/live/rX2hbS3eKqg
**Note: When stuff in Iran goes down, my natural inclination is to avoid doing content and stay above the fray, at least until the media hysteria dies down. Not the best way to run a media project, I know, but I just have a hard time with all the breathless coverage--BREAKING!!!--and don't really want to feed it. Even then, I am still Iranian, and if people ask me to record during these times, my cultural programming compels me to accept the invitation.
This episode of Peacemongers with Mehmet and Erik was recorded as I was travelling for work recently and at the end of a busy, emotional day. The scale of what had just transpired in Iran was becoming clear to me that morning in between working on the footage I had recorded the day earlier, itself an intense and emotional experience for entirely different, non-Iran-related reasons.
All of this is to say that by the time I recorded with these guys that afternoon, I was feeling pretty loopy. You can kinda hear it at the beginning of the episode when I had the giggles and infected everyone else with them! I have no idea how I come off in this episode (too lazy to check it too, sorry), and I was reluctant to even post to this feed!! In my memory, I was exceptionally wandering in my rants. Maybe I'm wrong and it's the same Sini as usual. IDK.****
"Listen to the Iranians" they kept saying. Well, we give you Sina Rahmani, the indomitable host of @eastpodcast and producer of countless other anti imperialist shows.
We talk about the events in Iran which have been one-sidedly and sensationally presented in the west. In the background the Empire and the Ethno-state have their fingers dirty.
So why is Iran such an important target for the Empire and what does it mean to be sovereign?
We discuss some of the contents of the imperial toolbox and factors leading up to the protests. Economic pressure with sanctions and currency manipulation, smuggling of Starlink units and weapons to foment violent riots and the media machinery.
We discuss the Shah and his son, the clown-prince in exile, Iranian diaspora, support for Palestine and what the destruction of the Iranian state would mean to people in the area.
While the battle may be over the war might just have begun. The peoples and states in the crosshairs of a dying empire will keep being demonised. If they resist they are authoritarian, if they open up they'll be vulnerable. What the future holds and what the way forward to avoid a devastating war is unknown.
Early in the episode Sina reads a testimony from his friend Navid Zarinnal, who is living in Teheran. He hosts a podcast on imperialism called The Colony Archive, which we highly recommend.
Please note that we had some technical difficulties in the beginning, that led to a lot of chaos and laughter. Big thanks to Sina for being such a joyful human being even in these difficult times.
The genocide in Gaza continues. We urge you to support the Palestinians in these very dire times by donating:
- via @thesameerproject - via @lifeline4gaza
I have been on the road and unable to do a proper episode on what's happening on Iran, so I decided to post this quick spot I did with The Freedom Side from BT News. You can watch the full episode on their YouTube channel
If you can't wait until I am able to record a full episode on Iran (I will try to do one tomorrow night or Saturday morning), my comrade Nick and I recently did an episode of our paywalled show, Pod Kapital, and we discussed a little bit about what has been happening but that is already three days ago and out of date!
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*I have been working with Lara Sheehi on her new show. Make sure you subscribe to her video and audio feeds to listen to the rest of this episode**
Ghassan Abu Sittah: Clinic as site of resistance
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah to discuss the centrality of the clinic in the genocidal violence perpetrated by the Zionist settler state in Gaza, his concept of the biosphere of genocide, and importantly, the site of the clinic as central to resistance, refusal, and liberation. Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah is a British-Palestinian Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon. He completed his medical education at University of Glasgow in the U.K and his postgraduate residency training in London. In April of 2024 he was awarded and Honorary Doctorate from the American University of Beirut, where is currently Professor of Conflict Medicine. His work was featured by numerous newspapers and media outlets notably La Monde, The Independent, Telegraph, BBC and CNN. Follow us on IG: @psychicmilitancypod & TikTok: @psychic.militancy Consider becoming a Patron to support the show! https://www.patreon.com/psychicmilitancy
[NOTE: This is the first portion of the latest episode of The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective podcast. Lots of great content has already been released on both audio and video feeds and more to come, so please make sure you subscribe to both!]
Hosted by AISC co-founder Nina Farnia, this episode features two distinguished guests and friends of AISC, Venezuela's former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Ron and University of Tehran professor Mohammad Marandi. We initially filmed a 2025 anti-imperialist roundup on December 30, 2025, but just a few days later the US invaded Venezuela and abducted President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flires. We brought our guests back after the abduction to discuss the invasion, the abduction, and the future of the Bolivarian Revolution in the face of US imperialism. Both episodes are included here.
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Visit our website to join the newsletter and find our blog, The Pen is My Machete. Donations to the producer of this show, Sina Rahmani, are welcome at www.patreon.com/east_podcast
Producer's note: Apologies for the long absence from the show. As I explain in the first few minutes of this episode, I have been busy launching some new shows in addition to this special episode, currently only available on the YouTube channel. More great content for the main feed and bonus feed coming soon!
Max Ajl returns to the show to reflect on some of the wider historical contexts that laid the groundwork for the calamity that was 2025.
This was recorded 2 days before the flagrant kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro
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The Struggle Session is back for November on Sunday Nov 23rd at 3pmET! This monthly livestream panel program is not convening to make you feel better--the unvarnished analysis and fierce self-criticism may make you feel a bit worse! But, it will inform and, hopefully, spur you to taking action. As Marx said, the point isn't just to understand the world but to change it. This is an activist panel for a much needed Struggle Session: Nerdeen Kiswani, founder of Within our Lifetime; Sina Rahmani, host of East is a Podcast and impressario/producer of the online tankie left; Henry Hakamaki, editor at ISKRA Books and co-host of Guerrilla History podcast; and Mehmet Ali Arslan, musician, activist, and co-host of Fredshetsarna podcast in Swedish and English.
Join us for a wide-ranging discussion of the key developments and issues for the anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-genocide left. We'll talk about directions of the Palestine solidarity movement and Gaza resistance in light of the ceasefire/UN occupation force resolution that Russia and China didn't veto, Mamdani on the Left and MAGA civil war on the Right, Jolani at the White House and Kremlin, imperial wars on Venezuela, Lebanon, Iran brewing and much more. Post your questions, suggested topics, and comments.
Note there are now two livestream formats: landscape and portrait depending on which fits best on your screen. So do choose the alternative if it doesn't show up properly on your mobile device or computer monitor/screen.
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Aman Ullah Tariq is a Pakistani analyst and is one of the hosts of EON. Check out his episode of The Colony Archive
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This is a preview of the latest episode of Pod Kapital, the new podcast series co-hosted by me and my comrade Nick Estes exploring Marx's Capital.* The episodes are paywalled but we livestreaming our recordings, so subscribe to The East is a Podcast YouTube channel and watch us live for free!*
Nick and Sina return for another episode of Pod Kapital. Today we discuss parts 4+5, chapters 14-21.
Subscribe to Nick's Substack to watch the video edition or watch the livestream.
In this edition of Office Hours, Friday Nov. 7 at a special time, 6pm ET, Adnan hosts Hamza Al-Muqawi a Sudanese writer and activist to talk about Sudan's history as a crucial and continuing front in the struggle against colonialism, imperialism, and capitalist exploitation of Eastern Africa and West Asia. We will learn about Sudan's strategic place on the Red Sea and the geopolitical factors fueling imperial and subimperial designs and interventions as well as the resistance and struggle for liberation by Sudan's people facing terror, deliberate starvation and genocide. Hamza's analysis will help illuminate a central battleground in resisting empire and the struggle for liberation. This is a crucial conversation about a major crisis that is thoroughly ignored. Join us and post your questions and comments.
You can prepare for Office Hours 13 by reading Hamza's article on substack: https://abuhureirah.substack.com/p/su...
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Reza Aslan is a religious scholar and bestselling author, including his biography of Jesus of Nazareth, Zealot (2013) and his history of Islam, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (2005).
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NOTE: I have been helping the great people over at the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective launch their new show. Lots of great content has already been released on both audio and video feeds and more to come, so please make sure you subscribe to both!
Imperialism's Political, Economic, and Military Machinations
On this episode of the AISC podcast, members Bikrum Gill and Navid Farnia address the US's ongoing military buildup in the Caribbean and the energy conflict between the US and China. They also provide more analysis of the Gaza "ceasefire" and comment on the flareup between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Follow AISC on X (@penandmachete) and Instagram (@penandmachete).
Visit anti-imperialists.com to join the newsletter and find our blog, The Pen is My Machete.
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Note: Nick and I have been doing a new show behind our respective paywalls, Pod Kapital, going through the new translation of Marx's Capital published by Princeton University Press. We had originally envisioned it as short-run series but after the tremendous response we have received from listeners, we have decided to make the show permanent. At this point, most of the episodes are locked but we will be figuring out ways to make future episodes accessible to non-Patrons in one way or another.
In this episode, we discuss Marx's chapter on cooperation. We also change the structure of our reading of Capital, slowing down and stretching out our study sessions. There's so much we want to cover.
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The next installment of the Imperial '80s series is sure to be one for the ages. Evil Dead 2. Bruce Campbell. Chainsaw arm. Sawed off Shotgun. Necronomicon. Sina Rahmani from the East is a Podcast. What more could you want?
We can't talk about this film without discussing settler colonialism, zionism, & orientalism (and therefore imperialism)!
As always to support our show, please become an Imperial 80s patron, where you get first access to bonus episodes and support both Mtume and J's work on this series. We do hope to have the time to record a bonus episode for this one with Sina as well.
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Millennials Are Killing Capitalism and the East is a Podcast will reflect upon the events of the week and talk about all of the unknowns. There is a ceasefire again, but will it hold? If we know that "Israel" violates every ceasefire, and every agreement, what form will their violation take this time? We will throughout this live-stream ask folks to support some families in Gaza who still are living in a state of tremendous devastation.
Support Doaa Osama and her family in Gaza https://chuffed.org/project/149565-support-doaa-osama-and-her-family-in-gaza
Help Ahmed and his family start over after losing everything https://chuffed.org/project/139183-help-ahmed-and-his-family-start-over-after-losing-everything
Help Reem’s family Survive https://chuffed.org/project/146196-help-reems-family-survive
Help Mahmoud and His Family Survive and Stand Again https://chuffed.org/project/141277-help-mahmoud-and-his-family-survive-and-stand-again
A collaborative livestream discussion meant to support and fundraise for the Sameer Project, a Palestinian led mutual aid organization operating within Gaza, and especially its Mass Displacement Response Campaign for emergency relief.
Streaming on multiple channels, the discussion is also sponsored by Jay of Millennials are Killing Capitalism and we will be joined by Sina of East is a Podcast, Benji and Sacha of Resistance is Fertile, Lara Sheehi, Jared of iMWiL!, Renee of Saturdays w/Renee on BLM, and Nick of The Red Nation Podcast.
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Please consider supporting Mahmoud.
*Note: Jay and I did another fundraiser episode. This time, we used the website Lifeline4Gaza to help lift up some slow-moving campaigns. During the episode, I linked to two other campaigns whose organizers I know and who need your help: consider donating to Ahmed or Mahmoud*
As promised we are back to air more grievances! This week Sina and Jared are combining forces once again! Nora Barrows-Friedman from Electronic Intifada, and our frequent guest and comrade Alexander Aviña will be joining us, and some other special guests will join us as well!
Last week Adnan Husain, Nick Estes, Mtume Gant, Sina Rahmani, and Jared Ware all joined forces for an "airing of the grievances" and to raise money for Mohammed and his siblings in Gaza
For this conversation - in between the airing of the grievances - we will be promoting the work of Lifeline4Gaza.
lifeline4gaza gathers links to existing appeals from families, individuals & grassroots community efforts in Gaza. Appeals are automatically ordered according to urgency, or cumulative donations, using software designed to prioritize those receiving the least donations over the past five days (calculated in real-time & accounting for currency conversions).
Appeals supported by @gazafunds, @radiowatermelon & @palestineasdiqa are tagged as such (when identified).
lifeline4gaza is an ever-evolving, open-source collaborative volunteer initiative to provide a lifeline to people in Gaza, Palestine during the usa-zionist genocide. Volunteers working on developing & maintaining this website met on x/twitter & can be reached at:
@ll4gaza on x/twitter @lifeline4gaza on instagram
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Note: Nick Estes and I have launched a new project called Pod Kapital in which we will be reading canonical Marxist texts for weekly episodes on his Substack. I will be posting the audio editions for all my patrons but if you want to watch the video edition, you will have to sign up behind his paywall! I encourage you to do so anyway for the great content he is posting !
The Red-Brown alliance is finally happening! The American Indian-Iranian alliance, that is. Host of the East Is a Podcast, Sina Rahmani, joins the Red Scare Podcast for the “Pod Kapital” series, where we dissect and discuss classic Marxist texts. We’re aiming for the fences for the first reading, starting with Karl Marx’s magnum opus: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1 (1867).
We’re offering this introduction for free, hoping that you will subscribe to the Substack to join our semi-weekly classes.
This eight-week course will meet via livestream on Substack every Tuesday at 1 pm CT. Recordings will be reposted for those who cannot attend the livestreams but still want to follow along.
Here’s the reading and podcast schedule:
September 9: Introduction: Seeing the Monster
September 16: Part 1: The Commodity and Money
September 23: Part 2: Money and Capital
September 30: No Class
October 7: No Class
October 14: Part 3: Absolute Surplus Value
October 21: Part 4: Relative Surplus Value
October 28: Parts 5 & 6: Surplus Value and Wages
November 4: Part 7: Process of Accumulation
November 11: Part 8: Original Accumulation
November 18: Conclusion: The Secrets of Political Economy
There are several English translations of Capital. For this series, we’ll be using the recent Princeton version, translated and edited by Paul Reitter. We also recommend, and will be referencing, the Ben Fowkes translation and the English version available for free at Marxists.org. Purchasing a copy of the book isn’t a prerequisite for participating in this study group. (If you’re interested in a critical conversation about the Princeton translation, check out the episode of Guerrilla History with Paul North and Paul Reitter.)
Sina will also be referring directly to the original German texts found at the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) archives.
Jonathan Sperber’s Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life (2013) is an excellent intellectual biography of Karl Marx. We will be referring to it throughout the series.
We hope that you read along. But we also want to provide you with enough context and analysis that may inspire you to read or give a foundational overview of Capital.
Each episode will be structured with an introduction, a summary, and a critical reflection on the reading, concluding with answering subscriber questions about the text. We hope you tune in to the livestream or post your questions in the comments section or chat function.
Pilamayaye ota!
Many thanks for your continued support.
UPDATE
***Yesterday, Jay from MAKC hosted a livestream for me, Adnan Husain, and Nick Estes partly as a mini-fundraiser for my friend Mohammed in Gaza. The response has been amazing. As I mention in the episode, donations started pouring in from listeners/ viewers. Someone even donated $500!. It was really moving for me--I even shed a tear on the livestream!
Thank you to all who donated. Mohammed was elated to see some money come in, as he has been trying to arrange for transport south for him and his siblings. For a few weeks, donations had dried up, and it was a source of anguish for him. Seeing him get excited as he watched the donations come in made me really happy.
The happiness was short-lived. This afternoon (Tuesday) Mohammed messaged me to let me know his brother's wife just had a miscarriage. The Zionists have been shelling the north heavily as they accelerate the genocide, and it caused her to miscarry. Needless to say, they are devastated. Martyred before life!
It goes without saying that there are a lot of really worthy campaigns. Here are two being run by a friends of mine
https://chuffed.org/project/139183-help-ahmed-and-his-family-start-over-after-losing-everything
https://chuffed.org/project/141277-help-mahmoud-and-his-family-survive-and-stand-again
I once again want to thank all of you who have been donating and sharing/organizing campaigns. Our ruling class has decided that this starvation war is normal, and it's up to us to do everything we can to support Palestinians fighting to stay alive. I encourage you to adopt your own campaigns. Even if you don't have a large social media following, you can find ways to fundraise. There are a lot of people out there who are not online and would like to show their support. I have learned this first hand!
I hope you enjoy this episode. It's a livestream and clocks in at over 2.5 hours. It was fun and chaoatic and very adhoc. I will endevour to do more in the coming weeks and months!
-Sina
The East is a Podcast will host a conversation with multiple friends, airing grievances, covering multiple topics, discussing news and raising funds for Mohammed and his siblings amid evacuation orders. This stream will feature Nick Estes from The Red Nation, Adnan Husain from The Adnan Husain Show, Jared Ware from Millennials Are Killing Capitalism, and possibly other special guests.
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EIAP shadow commander in charge of finding guests Max Ajl returns to the show after a long hiatus to discuss what lessons can be drawn from the 12-day war between Iran and ZioAmerikkan Empire.
Check out his piece, "Peoples and Regimes: Anti-Imperialism and the Islamic Republic of Iran"
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Tankie Group Therapy is back! This time with an actual licensed therapist! Sina hosts alongside Adnan from @adnanhusainshow , Jay from @MAKCapitalism , and Lara Sheehi!
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The first half of a long conversation with longtime friend of the show Navid Zarrinnal about Iran's perpetually tortured relationship with the West and how anti-imperialist resistance shapes attitudes of the population.
Check out the second half of the conversation on @TheColonyArchive or subscribe to The East is a Podcast on Patreon to listen to the audio.
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Nick Estes from The Red Nation Podcast invited me on his new project on Substack to talk about John Carpenter's They Live *(1988). This is a preview of the episode. Support Nick on Substack to access this and other great bonus content!*
Nick Estes in conversation with TRN Podcast producer and host of The East is a Podcast Sina Rahmani (@UrOrientalist) exploring what John Carpenter’s They Live (1988) can teach us how the ruling class uses ideaology to govern our daily lives—and how to break free of that control.
Tankie Group Therapy is back! Sina, Alex, Nora, and Jay get together for another session to discuss the latest news from the Gaza Holocaust.
Support Palestinians in Gaza through their fundraisers
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I put the concluding 20 mins of the conversation behind the paywall on audio. If you want to listen to the entire episode, sign up for Patreon for less than $2 a month or watch it on our YouTube channel (linked below)
Note: I managed-yet again-to mess up my audio settings at the last minute before we started recording resulting in me sounding blown out. Apologies!
Returning guest Alexander Mckay and Kit Klarenberg, co-hosts of the Decline and Fall, discuss the deepening crisis Western imperialism faces as it wages proxy wars against Iran and Russia simultaneously and economic war against China.
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Tankie Group Therapy is back! After a long hiatus, Sina is joined by TGT stalwarts Nora, Alex, Adnan, and Lara.
Video edition coming soon!
Fundraisers
Mohammed's family has been ordered to evacuate for the fourth time. Please consider donating to his campaign https://chuffed.org/project/120676-mohammed-from-gaza
The Sameer Project https://chuffed.org/project/113222-tent-campaign-the-sameer-project
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*I was invited by the good people at Resistance is Fertile to talk about 12-day-war.
In this episode, Sacha and Benji welcome Sina Rahmani to analyze the recent 12-day conflict between Iran and Israel. They discuss the implications of the attacks, the psychological impact on both nations, and the broader geopolitical stakes involving external actors like China and Pakistan. The conversation delves into the strengths and weaknesses revealed on both sides, the significance of Iran’s capacity to retaliate, and the ongoing narrative wars shaping public perception. Tune in for an in-depth exploration of this complex and evolving situation.
Watch the video edition on The Resistance is Fertile YouTube channel
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Don't give us any money! Give instead toward Gaza reconstruction, for example, https://x.com/munigaza
Or help Gazans provide essential services to Gazans with the Sameer Project: https://chuffed.org/project/113222-te... or https://doctorsagainstgenocide.org/no...
Or contribute to Benji's chuffed appeal for Omar and his family of seven in Gaza: https://chuffed.org/project/133857-he...
And for Ibrahim, his pregnant wife, 6 mo baby and extended family! https://chuffed.org/project/134655-he...
RIF Linktree https://linktr.ee/resistanceisfertile
Longtime friend of the show Aalex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina) returns to guest host an episode with journalist Abraham Marquez (@abemarquez3) about the recent intensification of the war on racialized communities and undocumented people.
Check out Abraham's article, "Paramount and Compton rise up for undocumented workers" on his Substack
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Longtime friend of the show and frequent guest host Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) was invited to Iran for an international media conference hosted by Press TV.
Watch the full episode on Press TV website https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/01/749030/Becoming-a-Critical-Thinker-&-an-Anti-Imperialist-Writer
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*Adnan invited me on his show to record on the latest development. We went for so long, I was eventually out of words!
Adnan convenes an emergency panel to discuss and analyze the recent Israeli-US attack on Iran, its implications for Iran, the region and the world. Prof. David Yaghoubian (CSU-San Bernardino) and Sina Rahmani (East is a Podcast) share their insights and reflections along with passionate and deeply committed analysis about the place of Iran as the frontline state fighting for a sovereign future against Western imperial hegemony.
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Co-published on The East is a Podcast
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Producer's note: This is the second episode of "Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial)," a 7-part series Adnan recorded for his podcast, The Adnan Husain Show with his colleague Dr. Ariel Salzmann. *All 7 parts are available right to patrons of his show and will be released individually on the free feed over the next 5 weeks. Subscribe to his show on your podcast app or watch the episode on YouTube channel linked below*
Part 2 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). In this episode Dr. Ariel Salzmann takes a global perspective on the failures of emancipation and liberation in the "long 19th century" from the promise of universal rights in the republican revolution in France and its continual subversion and violent suppression of resistance. The promise of emancipation from slavery, colonization, class oppression, patriarchy, minorities under nationalism, and antisemitism in Europe was systematically derailed. This process historically and its contradictions had important consequences on the shape of resistance globally and on Jewish nationalism. "The Minority Question" in the older empires, especially in the Ottoman Empire, becomes the frame for Dr. Salzmann's analysis of the fateful consequences for the Middle East.
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Robert Massoud is the founder of Zatoun, which bottles and distributes olive oil from Palestine to North America. He also ran Beit Zatoun House, a cultural centre and meeting place in downtown Toronto for many years. Zatoun is a grassroots, volunteer-powered initiative launched in 2004. As North America's longest-standing source for fair trade Palestinian olive oil, Zatoun uses this essential staple as a symbol of solidarity, resilience, and cultural connection. The organization not only helps Palestinian farmers earn a livelihood under challenging conditions, but also sparks meaningful dialogue across continents. Zatoun is behind impactful projects like Trees for Palestine, which plants 10,000s olive trees each year in Palestine, and Project Hope, offering creative arts therapy to children in refugee camps. Since its inception, Zatoun has invested close to $600,000 into these efforts, blending advocacy with practical support for communities living under occupation. Check out this 4-part radio documentary. The Beit Zatoun legacy site offers event archives using the Wayback Machine and media articles. Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast
Tankie Groupy Therapy is back! A lively, "dudes rock" episode featuring: Alex, Joe, Sina, Adnan, and our newest member, Jay Ware from Millennials are Killing Capitalism
Check out Adnan's conversation with Alana Lentin on his new podcast
Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel
Fundraisers
Mohammed's campaign has languished since the amazing boost he received last month. Please consider supporting him or his brother's fundraiser
https://chuffed.org/project/120676-mohammed-from-gaza
Consider supporting his brother's campaign as well https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ameer-and-his-family-rebuild-their-lives
Support 'Mahmoud Khalil Center for Children in Northern Gaza https://www.chuffed.org/project/128465-help-bring-life-back-to-a-neighborhood-in-gaza The Sameer Project https://chuffed.org/project/113222-tent-campaign-the-sameer-project
Comrade and longtime friend of the show Alex Aviña recently gave a lecture the seminar "Global Laboratories of Repression, Global Visions of Liberation" and the organizers have kindly shared the audio for listeners of the show!
Note: This extra-long conversation continued for another 25 mins, which has been posted for Patrons of the show.
A very special episode featuring comrades and former guests of the show: Nora Barrows-Friedman from El, writer Morgan Artyukhina, filmmaker Dror Dayan, and Adam Horowitz from Mondoweiss
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I was invited to the Psychlib podcast to discuss the power of rage and it resulted in ~90 mins of mostly me ranting
In this wide-ranging and wide-ranting discussion, Sina, Sacha and Benji explore the psychological clay feet of the dying white empire. We explore the entanglement of settler colonies and how they can't genocide their way to victory over the rest of the world. We look at the psychological protective and mobilizing role of rage. If, like us, you consider that ranting Sina is peak Sina, you'll enjoy this episode!
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A forum exploring some of the characteristics of Spanish imperialism in Latin America featuring comrade Alex Aviña, and co-hosts of Kuskalla podcast, Yojana Miraya Oscco and Renzo Aroni
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I recently did two very long livestreams with friend of the show and comrade Jared Ware from Millenials are Killing Capitalism. I didn't want to subject all of you on the free feed to almost six hours of mostly Sina yeling so I put one of our conversations behind the paywall. You can watch that episode linked below
Back by popular demand. Sina Rahmani will return to the show to discuss whether we are in the early days of World War 3. Has it been "quietly" raging for a few years now? Are such questions hyperbolic or alarmist by nature? What possible futures actually await us in an era of extreme violence and geopolitical fluctuation?
In particular, we will discuss the possibility of a US-Israeli detente with Iran, the continuation of hybrid war, or the escalation to a more direct hot war. How does the "trade war" with China figure into this?
Check out Friday's discussion if you missed it. Because 3 hours is a long conversation, we included "key moments" in the show description so you can navigate to specific parts if you prefer:
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Producer's note: This episode begins with a request to help my friend Mohammed in Gaza. Please consider supporting Mohammed's fundraiser to support his family in their efforts to survive the genocide. As I explain in the episode, Mohammed's family has been displaced 5 times, most recently 10 days ago! Any sized donation is welcome!
Prof. Adnan Husain hosts a conversation with Nora Barrrows Friedman (@norabf), Alex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina), and Sina Rahmani (@UrOrientalist) about the increasingly violent and dangerous turn of events both in the imperial core and West Asia.
Co-published with The Adnan Husain Show Watch the video edition on Adnan's YouTube channel
Check out Adnan's video series on Ramadan and fasting
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Note: We recorded this episode on Sunday afternoon, one day before the Ziofash Entity committed a heinous massacre and ended their ceasefire pretense.
After a brief hiatus, the Tankie Group Therapy crew (Sina, Alex, Nora, Mikey, Louis, Joe) reunite to discuss the ongoing genocide in Palestine and beyond.
Video edition available here
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Friend of the show Alex Avina returns to guesthost a conversation about writing and resistance with Mary Turfah and Taylor Miller.
Check out some of their recent work below:
"Against These Walls: A Unity of Struggle from Gaza to Sonora" Taylor Miller
"Peace From Our Point of View" Mary Turfah
"Points of Entry" Mary Turfah
"Silicon Wadi, Silicon Desert" Taylor Miller
Watch the video edition on our YouTube channel https://youtu.be/2XEPGfRF5-4
Bonus episode available now!
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This is a preview of a recent episode of The Adnan Husain Show. The conversation continued for another full hour! Subscribe to Adnan's show on your podcatcher to listen to the full episode or watch it on YouTube linked below.
Prof. Adnan Husain discusses the modern history of Iran from the late nineteenth century to contemporary relations with the US with friend and colleague Prof. David N. Yaghoubian of California State University-San Bernardino. We discuss Iran's traditions of statecraft and geopolitical relations with imperial powers, Russia and Britain, until the Cold War, when Iran became a pillar of US hegemony in the Middle East after subverting and overthrowing the nationalist government of Mossadegh. Prof. Yaghoubian shares his analysis of the current Iranian state's alliances with Russia and China to evade unremitting US sanctions as one of "grievances" rather than "interests" created by aggressive US policy. A wide-ranging conversation benefiting from Prof. Yaghoubian's thorough historical knowledge and trenchant political analysis.
Dr. David N. Yaghoubian is Professor of Modern west Asian and Islamic History at California State University-San Bernardino and author of "Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran" (Syracuse, 2014) and co-editor of "Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East" (3rd edition forthcoming).
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Longtime friends of the show and host of The Red Nation Podcast Nick Estes (@nickwestes) and Ali Alizadeh (@Ali7adeh) from Jedaal to look at the history of the Party of God and its martyred leaders against the wider backdrop of Indigenous resistance to settler colonialism.
Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel
Check out the documentary, Hezbollah: The Untold Story and subscribe to Jedaal English
Nick's latest piece for his substack, "A prayer for Leonard Peltier"
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Producer's note: I put the audio of the final 15 mins of this conversation behind the paywall. You can listen to that portion of the conversation by signing up for $5 a month at patreon.com/east_podcast or you can watch the entire episode for free on the EIAP YouTube channel linked below
A roundtable discussion featuring Tankie Group Therapy stalwarts Alex and Joe as well as Adnan Husain, who recently launched his own channel, to discuss the recent trade war threats from the Trump regime to his two largest trading partners. Watch the full conversation on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel
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I have been helping friend of the show Adnan Husain with his new media project. This episode we recorded after our previous episode was lost (albeit temporarily) by our recording software. That episode is now available behind the paywall on my patreon and Adnan's linked below**
Professor Adnan Husain and Sina Rahmani (The East is a Podcast) discuss the political lessons and implications of the Gaza ceasefire agreement for the cause of Palestine, regional and geopolitics of resistance against US/Western empire, and on the direction of the anti-imperial solidarity movements across Europe and North America.
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Friend of the show Nora Barrows-Friedman collected some of Refaat's audio archive.
In a special audio podcast episode dedicated to the voice and the words of Dr. Refaat Alareer, we weave together five separate interviews we conducted between 2014 and 2018. Alareer was a beloved professor, poet and mentor who helped sharpen countless young minds and who still inspires people all over the world. He was murdered by Israel on 6 December, 2023, along with six other members of his family in Gaza.
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A preview of the latest bonus episode: the second half of my conversation with Dror Dayan about Germany's role in the Axis of Genocide. Subscribe on Patreon to access hundreds of bonus episodes and help support the show. Alternatively, you can watch the episode for free on YouTube
Dror Dayan (@DrorDayan) is a filmmaker, political activist and film scholar based in Berlin and Liverpool.
Make sure to check out the first half of this conversation, posted on the main feed
Check out "Not Just Your Picture: The Story of the Kilani Family" https://notjustyourpicture.com/
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Lara Sheehi joins as our therapist with Jon Elmer(successfully pressured by your comments on the Day 467 Sit Rep), Nora, Mikey, Alex, and Joe. Hours before the ceasefire is set to go into effect, we debrief our worry, our awe and pride in the Palestinians, our rage at genocide, why we did this series of so-called "tankie therapy" and why some of us had to avoid it sometimes over the past 15 months. Will this be the last one?
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Two beloved members of the Tankie Group Therapy crew (Joe and Matteo) return after long absences to join Alex, Nora, and Sina to discuss some of the recent (not so very good) news.
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Dror Dayan (@DrorDayan) is a filmmaker, political activist and film scholar based in Berlin and Liverpool.
Check out "Not Just Your Picture: The Story of the Kilani Family" https://notjustyourpicture.com/
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Alex Axina (@Alexander_Avina) returns as guest host to interview Taylor Miller about the meaning of Gaza "humanitarian pier" against the wider historical backdrop of genocidal settler colonialism.
Check out Taylor's article, "Land Grab, By Sea"
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A reduced crew for Tankie Group Therapy featuring Nora, Alex, and Sina discussing the end of the Syrian Arab Republic and its wide-ranging consequences.
Video edition coming soon!
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Adnan Husain (@adnanahusain), Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian at Queen's University and co-host of Guerilla History, returns to discuss recent developments in the region.
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A conversation with GSC founders Bana Abu Zuluf and Cody O'Rourke.
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"The Good Shepherd Collective was formed in Palestine in 2017 in response to the restrictive NGO system and its inability to meet the needs of the moment. GSC understands oppression as rooted in the systems and laws guiding civil formation and order. As such, we are an anti-zionist, anti-colonial, and, by definition, anti-capitalist organization. We advocate for justice through a process of decolonization that ushers in a future where the material resources and political process are decoupled from capitalist systems of control and returned to the indigenous peoples. To learn more about our programs, click here."
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Actual therapist Lara Sheehi joins us with Justin, Sina, Mikey and Nora in the group. We talk about psychic intrusions, shame, the tricky ecosystem of the colonial assault on the mind, and setting the precondition as liberation.
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An extra large helping of Tankie Group Therapy featuring Sina, Mikey, Joe, Nick Estes and, in his debut, Adnan Husain, and also two surprise guests!
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Conor McCabe (@CMacCaba) is a research fellow with Queen’s Business School, Queens University Belfast and editor of The Lost & Early Writings James Connolly (2024), published by Iskra Books.
Download the book for free or purchase a copy here https://www.iskrabooks.org/lost-and-early-writings Watch the fantastic conversation between Conor and Jay from Millenials are Killing Capitalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj6oMP4mMyM&ab_channel=MillennialsAreKillingCapitalismLive%21 Video edition available on the East is a Podcast Youtube channel https://youtu.be/UMr1D29SB-A TikTok played during the episode Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast
Small therapy group convenes with Sina, Joe, and Alex. We talk about denial, shame, fear, historical lies and current ones.
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Audio recording of a panel orgnized by friend of the show Frances Hasso. Video edition coming soon!
Convened by Dr. Frances S. Hasso, Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, History, and Sociology, as part of The Palestine Seminar at Duke University https://gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/literary-gaza-hybrid
Speakers
“My Age is Thirty-five Years Old and Five Wars" Basman Aldirawi
Basman Aldirawi (also Basman Derawi) is a Palestinian and Gazan, a refugee from Bi’r al-Saba`, and currently in Egypt due to the aggression on Gaza. He works as a physiotherapist at the Gaza Ministry of Health and since 2018 has been a member of the Gaza Poets Society, the first spoken word community in Gaza. He has contributed dozens of stories and poems to many online platforms and publications, including We Are Not Numbers (2019), Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire (2022), and the We Are Not Numbers online platform that gives a voice to the victims of Israeli aggression in Gaza/Palestine.
"The Demon of Gaza" Esmat Elhalaby
Esmat Elhalaby is an Assistant Professor of transnational history at the University of Toronto. He works principally on the intellectual history of West and South Asia, particularly colonial and anti-colonial thought.
“The 5 Stages of Grief, According to a Palestinian” Samah Serour Fadil
Samah Serour Fadil is an Afro-Palestinian writer, editor and translator. Her work has been featured at the Yale University Art Gallery, Fresno State University and The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, among others.
“Tent in the Sky” Alaa NaeemAli Al-Qatrawi:
Alaa NaeemAli al-Qatrawi completed her PhD in 2022 in Arabic Literature and Criticism at the Islamic University in Gaza, focused on the poetry of Adonis. Her MA thesis at the Islamic University, which examined Ahmed Bakhit’s poetry, won the Award for Best MA thesis in the Humanities in 2015. Dr. Al-Qatrawi is an accomplished poet and short story and operetta writer, winning among others the Abdulaziz Al-Babtain Award for the best poetry collection in the category of young poets in 2022, first in the Union of Palestinian Writers Competition in 2015, first in the Ministry of Culture’s poetry competition among all Palestinian universities in 2013, first in short stories in the Arab world in the international competition organized by Chinese Books and Dar Fadaat Publishing House in Amman (2019), and first in the Letter to Jerusalem competition (2010). She works as an Arabic Language teacher in UNRWA schools at the elementary and secondary levels. She has previously worked as a linguist and screenwriter for UNRWA children’s programming. Dr. Alaa’s Instagram and Facebook pages.
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Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University
Co-Sponsor(s) Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Program (AMES); History Department; Middle East Studies Center (DUMESC); Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program
Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) is an investigative journalist with the Electronic Intifada and author of Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn (2022).
Check out his latest bombshell on the widespread employment of the "Hannibal Directive" by the Zionist colonial military forces and police on October 7th, 2023. https://www.asawinstanley.com/ Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast
Adam Horowitz (@mondowitz) is Executive Editor of Mondoweiss (@Mondoweiss) Nora Barrows-Friedman (@norabf) is Associate Editor of The Electronic Intifada (@intifada), radio broadcaster, author, co-host of the EI Podcast and @thebriefpod Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast
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Tankie Therapy crew (Nora, Mikey, Alex, Joe, Sina, and Louis) gets together to reflect on one year after Al Aqsa Flood and the Gaza genocide.
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Roqayah Chamseddine (@roqchams) is a journalist and writer based in Lebanon and co-host of Delete Ur Account
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Note: This is the part of my conversation with Karim. We continued for another 45 mins! To listen to the entire episode, join The East is a Podcast Patreon. Help keep the show going and access hundreds of hours of bonus content!
AUB professor and co-host of Makdisi Street Karim Makdisi (@KarimMakdisi) returns to the show after a five-year hiatus(!) to discuss the history of Israeli state terrorism against Lebanon and the decades-long histories of resistance that have confronted it.
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Louis, Mikey, Nora, Sina, Alex, and Joe join for our usual therapy session. We talk about the developing Israel-Lebanon war, the difficulty performing everyday life, Macklemore's new song, Hinds Hall 2, and the historical changes we're living through.
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Adnan Husain (@adnanahusain) is a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian at Queen's University and co-host of Guerilla History. He returns to the show to talk in-depth about the meaning of the Crusades to our understanding of contemporary imperialism.
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Kyle Ferrana (@KyleTrainEmoji) is a writer, software engineer, and tenant organizer. He is the author of Why the World Needs China: Development, Environmentalism, Conflict Resolution & Common Prosperity (2024)
Check out his latest article,"The Occupation of East Asia"
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Nora, Alex, Sina, Joe, and Mikey join for our normal therapy session just after Hizbollah's response and after a particularly rough week with the RNC and DNC disconnecting with multiple massacres in Gaza. We talk about our narrowing social circles and how we fend off the siren call of nihilism.
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Adnan Husain (@adnanahusain) is a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian at Queen's University and co-host of Guerilla History.
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The International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades and Economic Coercive Measures condemns the Israeli assassination of Yasser Adnan Ibrahim al-Derawi, 31 year old attorney from Gaza, Palestine. He served as an expert witness in our Gaza hearing on May 13, 2023.
We recently learned of Yasser’s murder after local journalists searched for him to discuss his research on the Israeli blockade and other war crimes in Gaza, Palestine. They informed us that Yasser was targeted during an Israeli bombing campaign of his home in December 2023, following a series of letters he sent to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in collaboration with the Center for the Protection of Human Rights documenting Israeli war crimes in Palestine and Gaza specifically. He testified before the International People’s Tribunal (@sanctionstribunal) during the fifth day of an active Israeli bombardment campaign against Gaza. Two witnesses left the hearing abruptly because the homes near them were being bombed as they testified.
In the morning of Yasser’s testimony, he attended a fact-gathering meeting at Al-Shifa Hospital, which has since been completely destroyed by the Israelis and is described by the World Health Organization as “an empty shell with human graves.” He explained that this meeting was to document Israeli atrocities committed during the May 2023 bombardment. In his powerful testimony before the Tribunal, he stated repeatedly that the “Israelis don’t distinguish between women, children, elderly. They kill all civilians without distinguishing between targets. They declare war on civilians, targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure.”
He noted the use of internationally banned weapons and cited multiple violations of international law, including Article 33 of the Geneva Convention. He stated that the Israeli objective is to “destroy the Palestinian will to resist and live.” Yasser was keenly aware of the US role in perpetrating war crimes against Palestinians and the people of Gaza. He noted that the Israelis cannot make any decisions unless they get an agreement from Washington DC, and that just two days prior, the US blocked the condemnation of Israel before the Security Council. “We call it the United States of imperialism, that’s what supports the Israelis.” Yasser concluded his testimony with the following statement: “We join this Tribunal with the hope that we can prosecute the apartheid regime of Israel. We are ready to present any evidence that you want us to provide to document and show the crimes of the Zionist occupation in Gaza…. We’ve asked multiple times for the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into these crimes, but the Court is slow to respond.”
The People’s Tribunal on US imperialism understands that international institutions such as the ICC are rooted in legacies of colonialism and shaped by the diktats of US imperialism, which materially and politically supports the settler colonial state of Israel as its imperial outpost. This has undermined the international community’s ability to take the action needed–action Yasser so powerfully called for in his testimony–to prevent the genocide currently underway in Gaza. Had the world heeded the calls of Yasser and other Palestinians, we could have prevented the deaths of over 186,000 Palestinians and the extensive destruction and waste of life, land and infrastructure produced by this imperialist-zionist assault on the Palestinian people.
Despite its limitations, Yasser was committed to working within the framework of international law. He held a Masters degree in Public Law and his dissertation was entitled “The Powers of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.” At the time of his assassination, he was attending a doctoral program in International Criminal Law, and had participated in numerous conferences advocating for Palestinian liberation. He was actively training to participate in prosecuting Israel in international legal fora and was a member of the War Crimes Protection Committee of the Center for the Protection of Human Rights. Yasser is survived by his wife and children.
We send our profound condolences to his family during this unimaginable time of grief. In addition to this personal loss, we understand Yasser’s martyrdom as a loss for the Palestinian national liberation movement, as well as for the international community of anti-imperialist lawyers. The best way we can honor Yasser is to continue his fight for justice and accountability for Zionist crimes and for the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.
https://solidarityiran.org/2024/08/20/israel-assassinates-sanctions-tribunal-expert-witness-in-gaza/
https://sanctionstribunal.org/
The group gets together after two weeks of assassinations, literal mask-off moments, and massacres. The idea of the "single issue voter" arises - but perhaps it's a single-issue empire. Sina, Nora, Alex and Mikey all join for our therapy session.
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Friend of the show Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) guest hosts a conversation with Fida Jiryis, author of Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home (2023)
Read an excerpt of the book here https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/27/no-place-like-home-my-bitter-return-to-palestine
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Date of recording: July 9, 2024
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Another session of Tankie Group Therapy featuring the old crew: @justinpodur, @norabf, @karaokecomputer, @rosendo_joe, @alexander_avina, and Urorientalist.The session seemed to revolve mostly around Ansarallah ("Houthis") statements after they attacked Tel Aviv and were bombed by Israeli F-35s. The disconnect between their response and Western solidarity. And then we got the news of Biden stepping down, so some quick reactions to that at the end.
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Founder of Liberated Texts and longtime supporter of the show Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) returns to guest host an episode with Mary Turfah (@maryturfah) about her article on Zionist sadism.
Watch the episode on our YouTube channel "Running Amok" https://thebaffler.com/latest/running-amok-turfah Liberated Texts https://liberatedtexts.com/ Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast
Friend of the show Alex Aviña guests hosts an episode with geographer Taylor Miller about the intertwined systems of carceral border control policing the US/Mexico border and Palestine.
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"A Pause, On Possibility" https://www.averyreview.com/issues/65/a-pause-on-possibility The University of Arizona's Institutionalized Border Violence https://thenewinquiry.com/the-university-of-arizonas-institutionalized-border-violence/
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Longtime friend of the show Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) is back to discuss the 52nd anniversary of Ghassan Kanafani's martyrdom.
Check out Anni Kanafani's Ghassan Kanafani which features Louis' fantastic introductory text, “A Race Against Time”: The life and death of Ghassan Kanafani
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On June 18, The Baffler published an article by Mary Turfah called "Running Amok" in which Mary tried to understand the psychology underlying Israeli troops and citizens' production of trophy videos and photos we have been seeing during the war. Our therapy group (@justinpodur, @norabf, @karaokecomputer, @rosendo_joe, @louis_allday, @alexander_avina), got together with Mary to talk through the article and use it to understand the Israeli mentality that has left us stunned for all these months.
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On 10 May 2024, the Early Caribbean Society hosted a virtual, communal, poetry reading noting connections between Haiti, Sudan, DRC, Palestine, and Indigenous people on Turtle Island, facing invasion and genocide.
Program available here https://earlycaribbeansociety.org/events/poetry-for-liberation-from-haiti-to-palestine/
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Friend of the show Alex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina) joined me for an episode on the perennial questions of violence and self-defence.
CBC Documentary about Palestinian resistance in Gaza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J__Burgr8qU&t=312s&ab_channel=AnnaBens
Walaa Alqaisiya (@walqaisiya) is a Palestinian academic born and raised in Hebron in the West Bank. She is a Marie Curie Fellow based at the University of Venice, Italy. Walaa's work draws on anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist, and feminist approaches to highlight the deeply gendered and ecocidal nature of Zionist settler colonialism and US-led imperialism.
Madonna Thunder Hawk is a Lakota activist best known as a member and leader in the American Indian Movement (AIM), co-founding Women of All Red Nations (WARN) and the Black Hills Alliance,and as an organizer against the Dakota Access Pipeline. She established the Wasagiya Najin Grandmothers' Group on the Cheyenne River to help build kinship networks while also developing Simply Smiles Children Village. She also serves as the Director of Grassroots Organizing for the Red Road Institute. Thunderhawk has spoken around the world as a delegate to the United Nations and is currently the Lakota People's Law Project principal and Tribal liaison. She was an international Indian Treaty Council delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva and a delegate to the U.N. Decade of Women Conference in Mexico City.
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The US regime has spent over 300 million USD constructing a port on the Gaza coast and is calling it a "humanitarian pier". Ahmed Alqarout (@MENAUnleashed), a political economist from Gaza based in the UK, explores the darker motivations behind the construction of the port.
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We're back for another round of group therapy talking about the latest developments in the Gaza genocide with a small group of Tankies therapees: Sina (@UrOrientalist, Rob (@robrousseau) and Mikey (karaokecomputer).
Sadly, our comrade Joe Emersburger was on the call but his file didn't upload so we sometimes reference his contribution. Please send your complaints to Podcastle.ai for their shitty, unstable platform.
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[The latest episode of The End of Sport podcast co-hosted by my old friend Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Johanna Mellis, and Derek SIlva.]
In this episode, Derek and Nathan are immensely privileged to be joined by UCLA historian Robin D. G. Kelley for a discussion of the remarkable and obscene events that took place at the UCLA anti-genocide encampment and an assessment of the encampment movement in the context of the neoliberal university and racial capitalism more broadly. We also talk about the role of sport in protest politics.
Robin D.G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He honestly does not need any introduction from me, but just to gesture to his impact, he is the author of books including, Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012); Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (The Free Press, 2009); Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination(Beacon Press, 2002); with Howard Zinn and Dana Frank, Three Strikes: The Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century (Beacon Press, 2001); Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (Boston: Beacon Press, 1997); Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (New York: The Free Press, 1994); Into the Fire: African Americans Since 1970 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) [Vol. 10 of the Young Oxford History of African Americans series]; and Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990). Very recently, he is also the author of an astounding appraisal of the events at the UCLA encampment in Boston Review.
The End of Sport Podcast is a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network, your left podcast community. Find us in great company with over 60 other shows at Harbinger Media Network. As always, if you’re enjoying the show, please feel free to subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform and, please, leave us a five-star review as those always help us read a wider audience.
Our regular therapy session debriefing the events of the week. Rob Rousseau (@robrousseau), Alex Avina (@Alexander_Avina), Joe Emersberger (@rosendo_joe), Nora Barrows Friedman (https://x.com/norabf) all join. Hosted by Justin Podur (@justinpodur)
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Get out your most painful traumies cause it's that time again. A smaller helping of Tankie Group Therapy featuring Justin, Joe, and Sina.
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(A preview of the latest episode of Justin Podur's World War Civ series on his very excellent Anti-Empire Project podcast)
General Allenby, Sharif Hussein and his son Feisal, and their handler TE Lawrence array the forces of the British Empire and the Arab Revolt against the Turco-German forces in Palestine. The battle starts in Gaza and ends with Allenby walking into the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem. The story of the fateful campaign that brought British imperialism to Palestine (and Lebanon, and Syria…). We note that the British found Gaza to be a “fortress” from which it was impossible to dislodge the Turkish forces; Justin felt TE Lawrence was overrated, just another imperialist; and we compare admiration of the stoicism with which Allenby took news of his son’s death, with an analogous situation today.
https://podur.org/2024/05/13/world-war-civ-40-how-britain-took-palestine-in-1917/
Nora (@norabf), Sina (@UrOrientalist), Rob (@robrousseau), and Alex (@Alexander_Avina) are back on the couch for another session of Tankie Group Therapy.
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An extra large helping of Tankie Therapy featuring a big crowd of patients crammed together on the digital couch: Nora, Rob, Mikey, Arama, Justin, Alex, Joe, and Sina chaotically trying to host. We discussed the very irrational response on the part of the university administrators across the West to the encampments in solidarity with Palestinians sprouting up at dozens of schools.
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Guest host and writer Amal Nura (@amaalnuura) interviews Aziz Faarah (@azizfaarah), independent archivist and collector of Somali artifacts. They discuss his auction adventures and encounters with vendors including one who spent a few weeks in Somali jails in the 1970s https://twitter.com/azizfaarah/status/1736547727821943090. Their conversation touches on the value of material culture, the museum as a colonial invention and Aziz’s mission to reclaim and repatriate pieces to Somalis in the Horn of Africa and across the diaspora.
To read more and get a glimpse into Aziz’s collection: https://africasacountry.com/2024/04/buying-back-our-things
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Rana Barakat is associate professor of history at Birzeit University in Palestine and director of the BZU Museum (@bzu.museum).
Abduljawad Omar (@HHamayel2) is a lecturer at Birzeit University.
Check out the article, "The parallel human: Walid Daqqah on the 1948 Palestinian political prisoners" by Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh
An archive of Walid Daqqa's writings https://shorturl.at/hyzQX
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On Day 191 the tankie therapy group convenes (Joe Emersberger (@rosendo_joe), Rob Rousseau (@robrousseau), Mikey Inouye (@karaokecomputer), Sina Rahmani (@UrOrientalist), Alex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina) but for an analytical discussion about Iran's missiles hitting Israeli airbases the day before. A summary of what happened, a media roundup, Jordan's role, the new equation, and more.
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Investigative journalist William Van Wagenen (@WVanwagenen) from The Cradle returns to the podcast to discuss his deep dive into what really happened on Oct 7th.
Watch this episode on our YouTube channel https://youtu.be/PP7ZBzTJFmU
Check out the article, "What Really Happened on October 7?" https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/what-really-happened-on-october-7/?feed_id=11264&_unique_id=65d3514b9b6fe Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive https://feeds.libsyn.com/437079/rss
Introductory Remarks by Professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya)
PANEL 3 “Seeing Palestine, Not Seeing the Palestinians: Gaza in the British Pathé Colonial Lens” Shahd Abusalama, Lebanese American University
My presentation will critically engage with the representation of the Palestine question in general and Gaza refugees in particular by British Pathé, which, as a leading media institution of the British Empire, was also a dedicated advocate of Zionist ambitions and Jewish settlement in Mandate Palestine. While presenting corresponding reels, I will interrogate Pathé’s discursive strategies in representing the 1947-48 Nakba (Arabic: catastrophe), the 1956-7 Israeli occupation of Gaza, and Israel’s subsequent occupation of Gaza beginning in 1967, exposing its ideological framing of the Palestinian people as either “terrorists” or “helpless victims” and the glorification of the newborn state of Israel. I argue that British Pathé provided a consolidating hegemonic discourse on Palestine-Israel that prevails to this day in mainstream Western political, media, and academic discourse to shield Israel and its allies from responsibility. (25 minutes) PLENARY PANEL
Art credit:
"Untitled 2022" by Heba Zaqout, artist and fine arts teacher, martyred 13 October 2023 with two of her children in Gaza.
PANEL 2
Introductory Remarks by Professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya)
"Queer Threads: Activist Fashion in Palestine" Roberto Filippello, University of Amsterdam
In this presentation I sketch the contours of the formation of an activist fashion scene across Palestine in the face of material challenges that the infrastructures of the occupation pose to the production and circulation of clothes. I theorize the creative practices of Palestinian fashion designers and image-makers as makeshift acts of collective disidentification with the ecocidal, racist, and queerphobic Zionist enterprise, and argue that “queer decolonial fashion practices” offer a model of creative activism wherein environmental ethics, anti-racism, and queer claims are fundamentally interconnected. Conjoining Gramscian analytical categories and queer epistemologies from the South, I highlight how sartorial praxis and embodiment figure in the imagination of Palestinian youth. (25 minutes)
“Laboratories of Speculation: Rethinking Jericho, ‘the City of the Moon’” Ronak K. Kapadia, University of Illinois Chicago (via Zoom) Critical queer feminist study has lovingly brought renewed methodological attention to long-forgotten, once-inhabited sites, archives, geographies, and histories, which can be newly reanimated for the service of contemporary collective social life. One such instance in present-day Palestine has been the international art, writing, and research residency called el-Atlal (“The Ruins”) co-founded by Karim Kattan, Victoria Dabdoub, Rebecca Topakian, Céleste Haller from 2014-2019 in the town of Jericho, the “oldest city in the world.” Given its historical heritage and complex station in the local imagination, Jericho is a generative utopian site for enacting new incubatory spaces for alternative political and aesthetic possibility in the dystopian here and now. If Palestine, and the Palestinian people subject to Israeli rule, have long served as one of the foremost paradigmatic “laboratories” for the development of late modern settler security states and their fabrication of new technologies of policing, maiming, and killing perfected on Palestinians under siege, this talk explores how we might reimagine an archetypal “Palestine” instead as an experimental site of decolonial fantasy and creative freedom, one that also portends the ends of the conjoined US/Israeli settler security states and their forever wars on terror. (25 minutes)
Art credit:
"Untitled 2022" by Heba Zaqout, artist and fine arts teacher, martyred 13 October 2023 with two of her children in Gaza.
Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine An In-Person and Livestreamed ConferenceWednesday, February 28, 2024 Panel 1 Introductory Remarks by Professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya)
“The Urgency of Anti-Imperial Feminism: Lessons from Palestine” Walaa Alqaisiya, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (via Zoom) (08:30-38:30) This talk maps the epistemic, political, and moral grounds informing the urgency of anti-imperial feminism that Palestine brings into sight. Combining decolonial and Third-Worldist Marxist theoretical approaches, the first part of the talk unpacks the functionality of gender to the onto-epistemic foundations of Zionist settler colonialism under US-led imperialism. The second part discusses how the centering of the Palestinian national question redefines the moral and political parameters of feminist and queer mobilisation. In doing so, the last part shows the limitations and tensions that post-structural feminist and queer approaches carry, when dealing with the question of liberation, violence, and development in global South contexts, such as Palestine. (25 minutes)
“Christian Zionism, Displacement, and the Role of Travel” Jennifer Kelly, University of California, Santa Cruz (via Zoom)(~39:00-1:03:00) A central tenet of Falwell’s Moral Majority, founded in 1979, was unequivocal support for Israel and, by 1983, he began his first of many “Friendship Tours to Israel,” which included meetings with government officials and tours of Israeli military installations. Today, Christian Zionism tours follow this template, pairing pilgrimage with celebrations of Israel’s sustained displacement of Palestinians. At the center of displacement in Jerusalem, for example, is a biblical theme park—run by settlers—planned for Silwan that comprises a cable car, a seven-story Jewish cultural center on Wadi Hilweh land, and shopping centers and homes for settlers. And, during this current genocidal war on Gaza, Christian Zionists across the U.S. are once again eagerly seeing Israel’s destruction of Gaza as a sign of end times and calling for unchecked Israeli control over all of Palestine. In this paper, I show not only how tourism is never a thing apart from colonial state violence, but also how tourism is part of the fabric of a U.S. Christian Zionism that both enables and facilitates Palestinian displacement. (25 minutes)
Art credit:
"Untitled 2022" by Heba Zaqout, artist and fine arts teacher, martyred 13 October 2023 with two of her children in Gaza.
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Trying out a new live format and was joined by friends of the show Alex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina) and Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) for an angry deep dive into some of the terrible articles written on the Gaza genocide.
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Some of the "articles" we discussed
https://damagemag.com/2024/03/05/seven-realities-of-israel-palestine/ https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n21/adam-shatz/vengeful-pathologies
Paris Yeros (@parisyeros) teaches at the Federal University of ABC in Brazil. Guest host and friend of the show Bikrum Gil (@bikrumsinghgill) discuss Paris' latest article published in Agrarian South, "A Polycentric World Will Only Be Possible by the Intervention of the ‘Sixth Great Power"
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Tankie therapy session as we watch the newest atrocities unfolding at al-Shifa, make historical parallels with the Argentine Dirty War and the 1857 War in India, the Battle of Algiers and the film Downfall... with Nora (@norabf), Matteo (@capassomat) , Mikey (@karaokecomputer), Sina (@UrOrientalist), and Alex (@Alexander_Avina).
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Vijay Prasad (@vijayprashad) in conversation with friend of the podcast Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya).
Sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute for Arts and Humanities, Departments of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and of Communication, and the Curriculums in Global Studies and in Peace, War, & Defense.
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Ottawa-based Physician Dr. Yipeng Ge (@yipengGe) reflects on being attacked by the Zionist lobby for speaking out on the Gaza genocide and his subsequent trip to Rafah as part of a medical delegation.
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The crew is back on the couch at the therapist's office with Alex (@Alexander_Avina), Nora (@norabf), Sina (@urorientalist) and two new guests: Mikey (@karaokecomputer) and Arama.
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Abdaljawad Omar is a PhD student and part-time lecturer in the Philosophy and Cultural Studies Department at Birzeit University.
Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/tDkaO2lmD4o
Check out his articles on Mondoweiss https://mondoweiss.net/author/abdaljawad-omar/ Listen to his episodes on Millenials are Killing Capitalism https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/turning-grief-into-defiance-abdaljawad-omar-on-resistance-possibility-in-palestine
Interview with Louis Allday https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/an-unyielding-will-to-continue
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Duke Professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) interviews visual artist and filmmaker Jumana Manna for the third episode of her Palestine Seminar.
https://www.jumanamanna.com/
Professor Hasso will be convening a conference titled, "Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine" on Feb 28th, 2024. It will be livestreamed and open access. Live stream link https://duke.zoom.us/j/93556167414
Detailed schedule available here
https://tickets.duke.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=concreteimaginings&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=
From the syllabus:
"My initial goal was to give a platform to Palestinian artists and intellectuals working in Palestine but with limited opportunities to work or share their work outside of a permanent crisis mode produced by the myriad forms of violence attached to Israeli colonization. This violence regularly reaches university campuses and touches every dimension of life. The syllabus is idiosyncratic in the sense that it represents my intellectual and pedagogical interests for this seminar. I encourage people to use it as an educational resource and to take parts for their own teaching."
Download syllabus https://franceshasso.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/the-palestine-seminar-sp-2024-syllabus.pdf
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Friend of the podcast Max Ajl returns to the show to discuss his latest article, "Palestines's Great Flood: Part 1."
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Justin Podur hosts another seesion of Tankie Group Therapy marking Day 135 of the war with Matteo, Alex, and Nora.
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Duke Professor France Hasso (@nasawiyya) in conversation with University of Exeter professor of History Ilan Pappe as part of her Palestine Seminar.
Professor Hasso will be convening a conference titled, "Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine" on Feb 28th, 2024. It will be livestreamed and open access. Live stream link https://duke.zoom.us/j/93556167414
Detailed schedule available here
https://tickets.duke.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=concreteimaginings&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=
From the syllabus:
"My initial goal was to give a platform to Palestinian artists and intellectuals working in Palestine but with limited opportunities to work or share their work outside of a permanent crisis mode produced by the myriad forms of violence attached to Israeli colonization. This violence regularly reaches university campuses and touches every dimension of life. The syllabus is idiosyncratic in the sense that it represents my intellectual and pedagogical interests for this seminar. I encourage people to use it as an educational resource and to take parts for their own teaching."
Download syllabus https://franceshasso.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/the-palestine-seminar-sp-2024-syllabus.pdf Course listing https://gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/palestine-seminar-gsf-648 Donate https://linktr.ee/palestine.donation.suggestions
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Rob Rousseau (@robrousseau) returns to the podcast to answer the age-old question that has stumped generations of thinkers: what the hell is wrong with Canada? Check out his Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/robrousseau
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Duke professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) guest hosts a conversation with Louis Allday, founding editor of LiberatedTexts.com, as part of her Spring 2024 course. The pair discuss the significance, relevance, and insight of three books highlighted by Liberated Texts previously; “Zionist Colonialism in Palestine” by Fayez Sayegh, “On Zionist Literature” by Ghassan Kanafani and “Zionist Relations with Nazi Germany” by Faris Glubb. They also discuss these articles by Louis:
“What existence is worth”: The Martyrdom of Refaat Alareer https://electronicintifada.net/content/what-existence-worth-martyrdom-refaat-alareer/42491
“A Race Against Time”: The life and death of Ghassan Kanafani https://mondoweiss.net/2023/09/a-race-against-time-the-life-and-death-of-ghassan-kanafani/
From the syllabus:
"My initial goal was to give a platform to Palestinian artists and intellectuals working in Palestine but with limited opportunities to work or share their work outside of a permanent crisis mode produced by the myriad forms of violence attached to Israeli colonization. This violence regularly reaches university campuses and touches every dimension of life. The syllabus is idiosyncratic in the sense that it represents my intellectual and pedagogical interests for this seminar. I encourage people to use it as an educational resource and to take parts for their own teaching."
Download syllabus https://franceshasso.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/the-palestine-seminar-sp-2024-syllabus.pdf Course listing https://gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/palestine-seminar-gsf-648 Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast
Longtime friend of the show Alex Aviña returns to the podcast to discuss the latest round of US border panic.
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Friend of the podcast Matteo Capasso (@capassomat) is joined by guest host Essam Abdelrasul Bubaker Elkorghli (@elkorgle) in a conversation with Norwegian scholar of Russia Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen) His latest work is The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order (2024) https://www.claritypress.com/product/the-ukraine-war-the-eurasian-world-order/
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Quick reaction to today's International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on provisional measures at South Africa's request that the court take urgent action to prevent Israel from committing genocide in Gaza.
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The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) - Request for the indication of provisional measures - The Court to deliver its Order on Friday, 26 January 2024,
Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRsprNTNiNM&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish
The Tankie Group Therapy team--Nora, Justin, Alex, and Sina--is back on the couch and joined by our newest member, Tamara Nassar from The Electronic Intifada
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Friend of the podcast Henry Hakamäki (@Huck1995) from Guerrilla History Podcast and professor Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro translated Dominico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend (2008)
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, holds public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case South Africa v. Israel.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f_yoal4gx8&ab_channel=SABCNews
Matt Hooley is Assistant Professor at Dartmouth and his book Against Extraction can be pre-ordered now through Duke University Press.
Guest hosted by Ian Anderson (of the Anti-Imperialist Archive)
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Isa Blumi is Docent/Associate Professor of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University within the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
He is the author of among other works Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World (2018)
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Our usual group gets together to talk about the Gaza War but this time we're joined by Lara Sheehi, an actual therapist, who guides us through as we try to understand where things stand on Day 78 of the war. Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast
Interview with Daniel was conducted by Ian Anderson (of the Anti-Imperialist Archive)
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Yemeni journalist Nasser Arrabyee (@narrabyee) returns to the show to talk about the closure of the Bab el Mandab strait to Israeli-linked vessels by Yemen in solidarity with Gaza.
Our usual group gets together to talk about the Gaza War, this time we all share some words about literature prof, teacher, poet and hero Refaat Alareer, assassinated by Israel a couple of days ago. Some discussion of military tactics and strategies as always. Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive episode dedicated to Refaat to hear him in his own words. Consider support the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast
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Dr. Ussama Makdisi (@UssamaMakdisi) is Professor of History and Chancellor's Chair at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-host of the newly-launched podcast, Makidisi Street,
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A preview of the latest episode of Makdisi Street, a new podcast hosted by Saree, Ussama, and Karim Makdisi
The Makdisi brothers welcome Francesca Albanese (@FranceskAlbs), the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, to the podcast. The discussion covers international humanitarian law, the concept of self-defense as it is understood in international law, the right to resist military occupation, the specificities of settler colonial occupation, and the question of justice given the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
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Nora, Matteo, Rania, and Alex are gathered to talk about what we're seeing and trying to make sense of on Israel's War on Gaza after 8 weeks, a couple of days after the end of the "humanitarian pause". We open with a discussion of the five premature babies left to die in Al-Nasr hospital when doctors and parents were forced out of the hospital at gunpoint by the Israeli military. We conclude with a discussion of what wars of resistance and guerrilla wars have looked like in history.
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Lie down on the couch and prepare yourself for another session of Tankie Group Therapy featuring friend of the podcast Bikrum Gill (@bikrumsinghgill) and hosted by Matteo "Super Mario" Capasso (@capassomat).
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Mary Turfah (@maryturfah) is a physician and writer. Check out her amazing piece on Mondoweiss, "Before the light goes out"
Adam Horowitz (@mondowitz) is the Executive Editor at @Mondoweiss
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Miriam and Naye from the Palestinian Youth Movement do a deep dive into the modern history of Gaza and what role it plays in the Palestinian people's liberation struggle.
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The alliance between the East is a Podcast, the Brief, and the Anti-Empire Project continues as we discuss the Gaza War six weeks in (since October 7, 2023). Structured as group therapy (the fourth in the series) we cover some of the news, the dynamic of aggression and resistance, military analysis of guerrilla war, the painful search for historical analogies to help us understand the moment, and more.
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Ali Kadri is the author of numerous books including Arab Development Denied: Dynamics of Accumulation by Wars of Encroachment (2014), The Unmaking of Arab Socialism (2016), The Cordon Sanitaire: A Single Law Governing Development in East Asia and the Arab World (2019), and co-editor (with Linda Matar) of Syria: From National Independence to Proxy War (2019)
Guest hosted by friend of the show Matteo Capasso (@capassomat)
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Amal Saad (@amalsaad_lb) is Lecturer in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University and one of the world's leading experts on Lebanon's Hizbullah movement.
Guest hosted by long time friend of the show Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday), Founding Editor of Liberated Texts.
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Another round of group therapy featuring Justin Podur (@justinpodur) from The Anti-Empire Project, Nora Barrows-Friedman (@norabf) and Jon Elmer (@jonelmer) from The Electronic Intifada, and Nick Estes (@nickwestes) from The Red Nation.
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Editor's note: A glitch in the recording software used for this episode abruptly cut off the last couple of minutes of the conversation.
Charlotte Kates (@charlottekates) is International Coordinator with Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Guest hosted by longtime friend of the show Max Ajl (@maxajl)
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Ali Jezzini (@Aly_jezzini) is a producer for Al Mayadeen English based in Beirut.
Check out his very good thread on the limitations of missile defense.
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The second round of group therapy featuring friends of the podcast Nora Barrows-Friedman (@norabf) and Justin Podur (@justinpodur)
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A conversation about the recent developments in Palestine with MAKC's Jared Ware (@jaybeware) and Josh Briond (@queersocialism), and friend of the podcast Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya)
Co-published with Milenials are Killing Capitalism, which you can support on Patreon.
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Friend of the podcast Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) guest hosts an extra-long conversation with Professor Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. Check out his latest book, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine (2020)
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Trying out something new and recorded a livestreamed episode with friend of the podcast Jared Ware. We recorded a live episode and plan to do more in the coming weeks. When we record next, I will promo it on the show beforehand and put it on the podcast socials. I hope you enjoy this episode and join us in the future! It was a lot of fun to interact live with listeners for the first time
Jared Ware (@jaybeware) is one of the co-hosts of (the very good and extremely prolific) Millenials are Killing Capitalism. We discuss the shameless embrace of Nazism by the Canadian political class, the Ukraine war hypocrisy, the generally abysmal state of the legacy media, and a whole lot more!
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Friend of the podcast Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) and Minoo Moallem, a professor at UC Berkeley, had a conversation about Persian carpets as commodities and more than commodities, Iran, Islamophobia, diasporic loss, feminism, patriarchy, culture, and the making and unmaking of theory and area studies.
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The digital project Nation on the Move may be found here:
http://vectors.usc.edu/projects/index.php?project=83;
The essay on the prayer carpet: https://mavcor.yale.edu/sites/default/files/article_pdf/moallem_minoo_pdf.pdf;
The new project on carpet artists:
https://www.famsf.org/stories/weaving-connections-carpet-art-community-environment;
The Meridians article, "Race, Gender, and Religion: Islamophobia and Beyond”: https://read.dukeupress.edu/meridians/article-abstract/20/2/271/296649/Race-Gender-and-ReligionIslamophobia-and-Beyond
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Friends of the show Justin Podur (@justinpodur), Nora Barrows-Friedman (@norabf), and Matteo Capasso (@capassomat) joined me for a discussion about the ideological hellscape in which we are incarcerated.
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Kai Bosworth (@kaibosworth) teaches at Viriginia Commonwealth University and is the author of Pipeline Populism: Affective Infrastructures of Grassroots Environmentalism in the 21st Century (2022)
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Kyle Ferrana (@KyleTrainEmoji)is a writer based in Portland, Oregon.
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This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month to access the entire conversation and help keep the show going! Matteo Capasso (@capassomat) recently joined me for a two-part episode ("Lessons from the end of the Libyan Arab Jamāhīriyyah"), and I wanted to have him back to elaborate on some of the threads we didn't pick up on in our initial talk.
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Check out his book, Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (2023)
Friend of the podcast Chris Beasang (@ilchinealach) returns to the show to explore the life and legacy of Roger Casement.
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James Connolly and Irish anticolonial resistance (Pt.1)
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Cindy Li is a DJ based in Toronto. She is currently on tour, and you can check out her recent set in Berlin.
This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month to access the entire conversation and help keep the show going! The second half of my conversation with Matteo Capasso (@capassomat), author of the new book, Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (2023).
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Matteo Capasso (@capassomat) is the author of Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (2023)
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Friend of the podcast Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) interviewed Dana Al-Hasan (@cuote32) about how she connects the dots on local and international activism from a socialist, feminist, and anti-imperialist perspective. They discussed Palestine, gentrification, racism, anti-policing, and reproductive rights activism in North Carolina, especially the Raleigh and Durham areas. Learn more here about the campaigns discussed in the interview: https://www.refundraleigh.org/ https://www.heartdrm.com/ Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Check out Frances' recent episode about her amazing (and open-access!) book Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine (2021) Support
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Friend of the show Justin Podur (@justinpodur) sits down for yet another installment of "Sina needs to talk about his problems but records it for content." In the episode, Justin and I discuss the question of how to read the news (or not!)
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Friend of the podcast Alex Aviña returns to the podcast to discuss Mexico's populist-nationalist President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) is Professor in the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University.
Check out the open-access edition of Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine (2021)
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Note: This episode is pieced together from two different conversations. Kit had some technical problems and disappears in the first half so I interviewed him after
Asa Winstanley writes for The Electronic Intifada. Pre-order his book, Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn (2023)from @orbooks. You can subscribe to his newsletter here: http://asawinstanley.substack.com
Kit Klarenberg is an investigative journalist who focuses on the role of intelligence services on the politics of perception.
Check out their article, "Revealed: British government spied on Palestinian refugees"
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Returning guest Fadil Aliriza is a journalist based in Tunis and the founder & editor-in-chief of Meshkal.
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Nasser Arrabyee is a journalist based in Sana'a. Make sure to check his previous appearances on the show!
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Friend of the show and recurring guest Amanda Yee (@catcontentonly) on the absurd (and completely fraudulent) panic around TikTok.
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The conclusion of my conversation with Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt (@HunnicuttWolfe).
Check out his book, The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy (2021) from Stanford University Press
Yousef Baker (@YousefKB) teaches political science at California State University, Long Beach and worked briefly in the Green Zone in the early days of the US occupation. Watch the video edition of this episode on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel.
Check out the first half of this conversation with Nick Estes (@NIckWestes) on The Red Nation Podcast on your podcatcher to listen to the entire conversation or click the link at the end of this video.
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Brandon Wolfe-Honnecut is the author of The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq (2021).
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Amir Taha is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam. Check out his earlier episode, "Resisting Saddam."
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Friend of the podcast Chris Beausang has started his own podcast! Subscribe to his show here on Apple Podcasts and listen to the entire episode An interview with Conor McCarthy about the life and work of the Palestinian literary critic and activist Edward Said. Conor McCarthy is a Senior Lecturer at Maynooth University. His books include The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said, Modernisation, Crisis and Culture in Ireland 1969 - 1992. He has also edited The Revolutionary and Anti-Imperialist Writings of James Connolly 1893 - 1916. I blog at https://aonchiallach.github.io
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Saree Makdisi (@sareemakdisi) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA and the author of Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (2022)
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Back by popular demand! Alexander McKay from Red Star Radio returns to continue the conversation about the tragicomical decline of the UK.
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Guest host and friend of the show Shep (@NeolithicSheep) joins me to talk to Madina Matin from ASEEL, an impact-driven tech start-up based in Afghanistan connecting underrepresented communities with global customers and donors
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A preview of the latest episode of Anti Empire Radio by friend of the show Justin Podur. Listen to the entire conversation by subscribing to Justin's show on your podcatcher or watch it on his YouTube channel.
Talking to Amaresh Mishra, author of the giant book India 1857: War of Civilisations about the immense scale of the Indian revolution against British imperialism that year: the scale of Hindu-Muslim unity, the class aspect of the revoution, the scale of the genocidal British massacres that followed (Mishra’s estimate is that the British killed 10 million Indians), and the importance of the so-called “1857 line”: the spiritual, cultural, political and economic connection between Hindu and Muslim in South Asia and resistance to Anglo-American imperialism, the recovery of which is the only way for South Asia to take its place in the world. We analyze Modi’s politics since 2014 and the continuing weakness of pro-Western ideologies (whether of the Congress or Hindutva variety) when faced with revolutionary politics. https://podur.org/2023/02/28/aer-119-that-time-when-britain-killed-10-million-indian-people-with-amaresh-mishra/
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Esha Krishnaswamy (@eshalegal) is the host of the historicly podcast
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Alexander Mckay is the host of the Red Star Radio Podcast
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Gabriel Rockhill returns to the show to talk about Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek.
Check out Gabriel's article, "Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek"
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Friend of the podcast Ricardo Vaz is a writer and editor with VenezuelAnalysis.com
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Check out the article, "The role of UK intelligence services in the abduction, murder of James Foley" by William Van Wagenen (@wvanwagenen)
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Justin Podur from the Anti Empire Project returns to the show to talk about the tire fire that was 2022.
Longtime friend of the podcast Ben Norton from Multopolarista returns to the show to discuss the coup in Peru.
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Catherine Liu is Professor of Film & Media Studies in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine and author of Virtue Hoarders The Case against the Professional Managerial Class (2021)
Radio Drama starring Sir Ralph Richardson as the Storyteller and Scrooge. Cast: Frederick Treves as Bob Cratchit Mary Wimbush as Mrs Cratchit John Ruddock as Jacob Marley Ralph Truman as the Ghost of Christmas Present Wilfred Carter as the Ghost of Christmas Past Bruce Beeby as Fred Sheila Grant as Tiny Tim Broadcast on 25 December 1965.
Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc2J3xq1geQ&ab_channel=RomanStyran
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Sardana Nikolaeva shares her memories of the Wild 90s following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
A webinar organized by the Committee of Anti-Imperialists in Solidarity with Iran, leading up to International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism: Sanctions, Embargoes, Economic Coercive Measures The Tribunal will expose the effects of unilateral and multilateral sanctions on peoples and nations targeted by imperialism — and explore legal and political strategies to challenge these regimes of coercion. Donate to support the Tribunal: https://gofund.me/b67e2378
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https://solidarityiran.org/ Originally recorded: December 18, 2022
Speakers: Dr. Bikrum Gill | Professor in Political Science Department at Virginia Tech University; Dr. Corinna Mullin | Professor in Global Politics and Political Economy at City University of New York (CUNY); David Paul | Sanctions Kill; Eunha Jeong Wood | Nodutdol for Korean Community Development. Moderated by Charlotte Kates | International Coordinator of Samidoun & Member of the Steering Committee of the Tribunal
Sardana Nikolaeva is from Sakha Republic, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto.
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Clare Daly (@ClareDalyMEP) and Mick Wallace (@Wallacemick) are Members of European Parliament.
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Friends of the podcast Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost) and Mo (@Askari_3) dive into the completely bonkers world of American video games.
Ndongo Samba Sylla (@nssylla) is a Senegalese development economist. He is the co-author of Africa's Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story (2021)
Guest hosted by Max Ajl
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Friends of the podcast Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost) and Mo (@Askari_3) dive into the completely bonkers world of American video games.
Vik Sohonie is the Founder of Ostinato Records & Grammy-nominated producer.
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Corey (@JamaicanJihadi) is a member of LANDS (Left Alliance for National Democracy and Socialism)
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Corey (@JamaicanJihadi) is a member of LANDS (Left Alliance for National Democracy and Socialism)
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DSA International Commitee (@dsa_intl_comm) member Mirah Wood (@snackvampire) guests hosts an interview with friend of the podcast Sun Feiyang (@moghilemear13) about the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.
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DSA International Commitee (@dsa_intl_comm) member Mirah Wood (@snackvampire) guests hosts an interview with friend of the podcast Sun Feiyang (@moghilemear13) about the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Friend of the show Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost) joins the podcast to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the launch of the show and make a special announcement for an exciting new project.
The Anti-Imperialist Archive is an archival podcast dedicated to compiling radical anti-imperialist content from around the world. Subscribe on your podcast app directly by using this link:
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A preview of a recent episode by our friends at Guerrilla History. Listen to the entire episode by subscribing on your podcatcher.
This episode of Guerrilla History is a continuation of our Sanctions As War miniseries. In this fascinating episode, we have a discussion with Professor Muhammad Sahimi on the history and the impacts of sanctions on Iran, which is both an immensely enlightening and heartbreaking conversation. This episode is particularly timely given the current situation in Iran, which the last question of the interview addresses. Be sure to also stay turned for more installments of our Sanctions As War series!
Muhammad Sahimi is a Professor at the University of Southern California, where he analyses Iran’s political development, its nuclear program, and its foreign policy. From 2008 to 2012 he was the lead political analyst at E0*/Frontline/Tehran Bureau website.
https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/the-history-and-impact-of-sanctions-on-iran-w-muhammad-sahimi
Jared Ware (@jaybeware) is a journalist and host of Millennials are Killing Capitalism
More information on US prisoner resistance
https://perilouschronicle.com/list-of-events-by-date/
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Jared Ware (@jaybeware) is a journalist and host of Millennials are Killing Capitalism
More information on US prisoner resistance
https://perilouschronicle.com/list-of-events-by-date/
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Ludovic Leroy (@princertitude) is an engineer with the French Petroleum Institute (IFPEN). Check out his very informative thread on the Nord Steam pipelines.
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Rania Khalek from BreakThrough News invited me on her show to talk about the absurd media circus surrounded the death of Queen Elizabeth
The British Queen’s death has given rise to conversations about the crimes of colonialism as well as defenses and denials of it. Meanwhile the US can’t impose itself on the Global South the way it used to, it appears both at home and abroad to be an empire in decline.
To discuss empires, both dead and dying, why colonialism still matters and the anti-imperialist struggle around the world, Rania Khalek was joined by Sina Rahmani, creator of East Is A Podcast.
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Rania Khalek from BreakThrough News invited me on her show to talk about the absurd media circus surrounded the death of Queen Elizabeth
The British Queen’s death has given rise to conversations about the crimes of colonialism as well as defenses and denials of it. Meanwhile the US can’t impose itself on the Global South the way it used to, it appears both at home and abroad to be an empire in decline.
To discuss empires, both dead and dying, why colonialism still matters and the anti-imperialist struggle around the world, Rania Khalek was joined by Sina Rahmani, creator of East Is A Podcast.
Video edition available here
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Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) is a writer, historian and founding editor of Liberatedtexts.com
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Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) is a writer, historian and founding editor of Liberatedtexts.com
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Ljubica (@srecniprinc) is based in Belgrade.
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Ljubica (@srecniprinc) is based in Belgrade.
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Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) is a writer with MintPress News.
Check out the MintPress News podcast, The Watchdog, hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline).
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I was invited to speak with some comrades at The Cadre Journal, a student-run Journal and Podcast on Anti-Imperialism and Communism, about a section of Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism (1993).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL3b_QmNV2Y&ab_channel=AmbakisyeDukuzumurenyi
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26643479M/Inventing_reality_the_politics_of_the_mass_media
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Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) returns to the show to talk about the recent wave of left electoral victories across Latin America. Subscribe to Multipolarista!
I was invited to friend of the show Ben Norton's Multipolarista to discuss Wag the Dog, an excellent, somewhat forgotten political satire of US media and war.
The 1997 Hollywood film "Wag the Dog" perfectly predicted the propaganda tactics the US government and media would use decades later in its wars in Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and beyond. In this special joint episode, Multipolarista host Benjamin Norton is joined by Sina Rahmani of The East Is a Podcast to discuss the movie and how shockingly relevant it still is today.
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Gabriel Rockhill (@GabrielRockhill) is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University.
Check out his earlier episode of the podcast and his recent article: https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-the-frankfurt-schools-anti-communism/
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Friend of the show Amanda Yee returns to talk about Chinese rural social media celebrities.
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I was invited to join What the Huck?! to talk translation, Eurocentrism, and the 3% problem. This is roughly half of the conversation. Check out What the Huck?! on your podcatcher to download the entire episode or watch it on YouTube
Today we're joined by special a very special guest, our friend Sina Rahmani from The East Is A Podcast! In our interview with Sina, we discussed what gets to be translated and who decides what's worth translating. This has implications in both the literary world as well as in the scholarly realm, and it was fascinating to discuss these sorts of questions.
We highly recommend checking out Sina's show The East Is A Podcast wherever you get your pods (or at https://eastisapodcast.libsyn.com/). You also should definitely follow Sina on Twitter @UROrientalist.
Special shoutouts also go to our dear friend Katya Kazbek, who we wanted to cite in this episode but only got permission to after recording, as well as The Cadre Journal and Louis Allday, who themselves had a very similar conversation together between when we planned this episode with Sina and the time we actually got it recorded.
Your hosts are Safie and Henry, and this episode will introduce the show, which aims to wherever the hosts are interested.
Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt (@HunnicuttWolfe) is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Stanislaus. Friend of the podcast Max Ajl (@maxajl) interviews him about his new book, The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq (2021)
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I was invited by friend of the podcast Justin Podur to discuss the very excellent work of the Mapping Project In June 2022, a small activist group in Boston created mapliberation.org, a project mapping primarily policing institutions in Massechussetts and their connections to corporations, organizations, and politicians who are implicated in the prison-industry complex, in throwing people out of their homes to create investment opportunities, in grabbing Indigenous land, in colonizing Palestinian land, and other harms. When the website came out, the very institutions discussed in the mapping project unleashed a storm of criticism, bullied them off of two servers, and hurled a wide ranging set of ridiculous accusations. A roundup of the mapping project and the “freakout” about it.
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https://podur.org/2022/07/02/aer-112-bds-boston-makes-a-map-and-chaos-ensues/
Part 1: An interview with Isaac Saney on the relationship of Cuba, under Castro, and Africa.
Isaac Saney is Director and Black Studies Senior Instructor, he holds a PhD in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in the United Kingdom. The SOAS is recognized as one the world's premiere centres for the study of Africa. His teaching has encompassed courses on Africa, the Caribbean, Cuba, and Black Canadian history. He is the author of the widely acclaimed book Cuba: A Revolution in Motion (Zed Books, 2004). Part 2: In this second part of Amandla's look at the life of Fidel Castro and his role on the African continent, Amanda regular Doug Miller talks to Montreal anthropologist, writer, radio broadcaster and filmmaker Ole Gjerstad who was a witness of the Cuban presence in Angola. Gjertad offers a rare first-hand look at the Cuban presence in Africa and how Cubans contributed to the liberation struggles on the continent. Produced by CKUT 90.3
Source
https://archive.org/details/TheLegacyOfCastroInAfrica
https://archive.org/details/CastrosLegacyInAfricaPart2OleGjerstagRemembersAngolaAndEthiopia
Special thanks to Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost)
Bikrum Gill (@bikrumsinghgill) teaches in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. Consider supporting the show
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Robert K. Beshara (@decolonialpsych) in conversation with Dr. Neveen Zewar.
To learn more about the Arab Psychoanalytic Group in Cairo: sites.google.com/site/egypsa2
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Chris Beausang (@ilchinealach) is a writer and critic based in Dublin. His novel Tunnel of Toads is forthcoming from Marrowbone Books.
Supplementary readling: https://analoguehumanist.wordpress.com/2022/04/11/the-irish-revolution-in-three-parts/ Listen to Chris's latest bonus by signing up as a $5 patron https://www.patreon.com/posts/66261345
I was invited to join the comrades at The Red Nation Podcast to discuss Dune (2021) Red Power Hour host Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) is joined by Sungmanitu (@BandsIsland) and Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) to discuss Denis Villeneuve's Dune (2021).
Chris Beausang (@ilchinealach) is a writer and critic based in Dublin. His novel Tunnel of Toads is forthcoming from Marrowbone Books.
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Friend of the podcast Zeyad el Nabolsy (@ZNabolsy) returns to guest host this episode with Ayesha Umaña Dajud (@AyeshaUmanaD) on the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army (FARC) and the prospects for peace in Colombia.
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Friend of the podcast Amanda (@catcontentonly) in conversation with another friend of the podcast, journalist Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton):
"The Ukraine war is a government subsidy straight to the military industrial complex...another massive wealth transfer to the US capitalist class"
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Francis Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law.
Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G6uo7hLAq4&ab_channel=UPTV6
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Chris Beausang (@ilchinealach) returns to the show to discuss the recent elections in Norther Ireland. A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by signing up at the $5 level. You're gonna be noticing more paywalled content going forward. As much as I want more people to listen for free, recent changes in my life require me to start pushing the Patreon more. Unfortunately, this means the occasional passive aggressive addenda like this one reminding you, dear listener, that I have been doing this show alone for almost 4 years and I get no sponsorships or outside help. I rely on normal people like you to keep going so if you can donate, please do! It will make a big difference for me and let me keep making this content.
Gabriel Rockhill (@GabrielRockhill) is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. Check out his episode on Anti-Empire Radio with Justin Podur, titled "Are your favorite academic theorists really CIA spooks?"
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Aaron Thorpe (@borgposting) is a writer and podcaster with The Trillbillies and Everybody Loves Communism.
(Apologies for my poor sound quality! I selected the wrong mic!!!)
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Friend of the podcast Tarek Loubani (@trklou) returns to the show to discuss the Stop the Bleed campaign.
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Old friend of the podcast Manu Chander is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark.
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Check out his article, "Squid Game and the Long Shadow of the American Empire"
A 2003 documentary produced by Journeyman Pictures titled Operation Persuasion: What is the role of the media in modern day war reporting? Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3GINVv9-9s&ab_channel=JourneymanPictures Special thanks to Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost)
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Vijay Prashad (@vijayprashad) is Director of the Tricontinental Institute (@tri_continental)
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A conversation between Visualizing Palestine and Dr. Salman Abu Sitta, filmed at Dar El-Nimer for Arts & Culture, Beirut on 30 January 2019. The interview took place in the context of the exhibition “A National Monument”, a collaboration between Visualizing Palestine and the artist Marwan Rechmaoui. A National
Monument: https://visualizingpalestine.org/anm
Palestine Land Society (Dr. Salman Abu Sitta): http://www.plands.org
Visualizing Palestine: https://visualizingpalestine.org
Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0p-jgm0YUQ&ab_channel=VisualizingPalestine
In collaboration with international scholar activists and legal experts, the People’s Tribunal hosted an introductory webinar to discuss the urgent need to take legal action against U.S. sanctions and economic coercive measures session on March 18.
More information
https://solidarityiran.org/
Moderator: Helyeh Doutaghi, Doctoral Candidate in Law & Legal Studies at Carleton University, Canada
Dr. Eva Nanopoulos, Senior Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary University of London, England
Dr. Grasian Mkodzongi, Executive Director at Tropical Africa-Land and Natural Resources Research Institute, Zimbabwe
Carlos Ron, President of the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples, Venezuela
Vira Ameli, Interdisciplinary Researcher, Iran
Motee Abumusabeh, Political and Media Activist, Gaza, Palestine
María Lucrecia Hernández, Attorney, Directora de la ONG Sures, Venezuela
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Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) is Co-Founder and Director of The Electronic Intifada http://electronicintifada.net.
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A panel discussion hosted by Nodutdol (@nodutdol) on March 1 (삼일절) with past participants of our Korea Education and Exposure Program (KEEP) trips. They speak to their first-hand experience traveling to North Korea. We hope to provide an alternative narrative about the North Korean people, promote peace, and share work on the campaign to lift the travel ban to North Korea. More info https://nodutdol.org/
A group of students at Penn State University have organized in solidarity with Dr. Oliver Baker, who is being unjustly threatened with termination by the university administration for protecting students from right-wing extremists.
Read more here
https://www.pyriscence.ca/home/oliverbaker
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Muhammad Ali Mojaradi (@sharqhzadeh) is the creator of Persian Poetics (@persianpoetics on Instagram)
Check out his video, "Debunking Fake Rumi"
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A film biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and with the North Chinese Army during the Sino-Japanese War. Directed by Donald Brittain
Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrf8tUKorz4
William Vanwagenen (@WVanwagenen) is the author of "Salafis Throwing Bombs: How American and British Planners Partnered With Al-Qaeda Affiliated Groups At the Start of the Syrian Civil War" and "Creative Chaos: How U.S. Planners Sparked the Anti-Government Protests of the So-Called Arab Spring in Syria"
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Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGcl359SMxE&t=1143s&ab_channel=AfroMarxist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAkIwHOSmI4&ab_channel=AfroMarxist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9iaDjOstzk&t=776s&ab_channel=AfroMarxist
Black power : the politics of liberation in America
Friend of the podcast Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) makes his long awaited return to talk about the smearing of Jeremy Corbyn. Check out Asa's work at Electronic Intifada and subscribe to his Substack Support the show on Patreon
Friend of the podcast Amanda (@catcontentonly) has launched her own show. Gain access to this episode in its entirety by signing up at
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Friends of the show Kevin and Mo from Turnip Greens Radio (@GreensRadio) join me to talk about small farms and neoliberal food systems.
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Chris Beausang (@ilchinealach) is a writer and critic based in Dublin. His novel Tunnel of Toads is forthcoming from Marrowbone Books.
Check out his piece on Liberated Texts, "Ireland’s Struggle for Self-determination"
https://liberatedtexts.com/reviews/irelands-struggle-for-self-determination-robbie-mcveigh-and-bill-rolstons-ireland-colonialism-and-the-unfinished-revolution/
An excerpt from the latest episode of The Anti Empire Project hosted by friend of the show, Justin Podur
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Tarek Loubani is a physician who splits his time between London, Ont and Gaza,Palestine.
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My comrade Nick Estes (@nickwestes) from The Red Nation Podcast joined me (in person!) to discuss the rise of a self-described group of "patriotic socialists."
https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-on-60196864
A long interview with General Qasem Soleimani on the 2006 Lebanon war.
Transcript available here
I was invited by The Communiqué with Richard Medhurst to share my reflections on the second anniversary of the assassination of Qasem Soleimani.
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Chris Beausang (@ilchinealach) is a writer and critic based in Dublin. His novel Tunnel of Toads is forthcoming from Marrowbone Books.
Check out his piece, "Ireland’s Struggle for Self-determination"
https://liberatedtexts.com/reviews/irelands-struggle-for-self-determination-robbie-mcveigh-and-bill-rolstons-ireland-colonialism-and-the-unfinished-revolution/
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Friend of the show Sun Feiyang (@moghilemear13) returns to talk about the Chinese blockbuster The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021).
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This week we get into the Christmas spirit with literal Christmas spirits, yes we're talking about the classic tale A CHRISTMAS CAROL in it many iterations. It's a beloved classic adored by millions, but how does it hold up today?
A conversation on the state of contemporary professional news journalism featuring Justin Podur (@justinpodur) from the Anti-Empire Project, and co-hosts of The Brief Podcast (@thebriefpod) Nora Barrows-Friedman (@norabf), and John Elmer (@jonelmer)
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An excerpt from the latest episode of The Anti Empire Project hosted by friend of the podcast Justin Podur
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Luna oi! is a Vietnamese YouTuber based in Hanoi.
Check out her essay on life under US embargo
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Ricardo Vaz is a writer and editor with VenezuelAnalysis.com
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Ju-Hyun Park is a poet and essayist. Check out their essay, "Life During Wartime" Thanks for you supporting the show!
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Friend of the podcast Nathan Kalman Lamb is co-host of The End of Sport Podcast. Please enjoy this short preview from their latest episode and subscribe to their amazing show on your podcatcher.
Ju-Hyun Park is a poet and essayist and part of Nodutdol.
Check out their essay, "Life During Wartime"
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Friends of the podcast Zeyad el-Nabolsi and Yara Shoufani take up the legacy of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
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Nora Barrows-Friedman (@norabf) is a staff writer and associate editor at The Electronic Intifada, and is co-host of the EI Podcast and @thebriefpod
The third of a three-part lecture series hosted by the SOAS in 2013 titled "The Second Wave of the Rise of the South; the Emerging Countries (as of 2000)"
(The first two parts are also available on this feed)
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac8Fsu0WVKg&ab_channel=SOASUniversityofLondon
Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) is a writer, historian and founding editor of Liberatedtexts.com
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Friend of the podcast Amanda (@catcontentonly) interviews another friend of the podcast, Justin Podur (@justinpodur) about the history of Afghanistan
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Long time friend of the podcast Nasser Mufti teaches at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Check out his article, "Hating Victorian Studies Properly"
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Charles W. Mills giving the Tanner Lecture on Human Values in 2020 at the University of Michigan
Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78wzAfQu9Mw&ab_channel=UniversityofMichigan
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Rob Rousseau is a writer and streams on Twitch
Carlos L. Garrido, Edward L. Smith, and Alex Zambito are the force behind Midwestern Marx
Check out their Youtube channel
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Neama Alamri is a historian who recently completed her Ph.D at the University of California, Merced.
Check out her article. Guest hosted by Alexander Aviña
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Guest hosted by Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday)
Patrick Higgins on Peter Dale Scott’s The Road to 9/11 – Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America
Louis Allday, a writer and historian, is the founding editor of Libertedtexts.com.
Patrick Higgins is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History at the University of Houston.
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Friend of the show Anjuli Raza Kolb (@anjulifatima) is joined by Mariam Ghani (@ghanimariam) and Chitra Ganesh to discuss the many legacies of the September 11th attacks.
Anjuli Raza Kolb (University of Toronto) is a scholar, poet, essayist, and translator living in Harlem.
Chitra Ganesh is a Brooklyn-based artist working in film, mural, photographs, painting, comics, and digital media.
Mariam Ghani (Bennington College) is a filmmaker, artist, activist, and researcher based in New York.
Chitra and Mariam have collaborated since 2004 as Index of the Disappeared, an experimental archive of post-9/11 renditions, redactions, detentions, deportations and disappearances, and a platform for dialogue around related issues and ideas.
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Dawud Ansari is a researcher based in Berlin and director of the Energy Access and Development Program
We discuss this research project (link).
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Shah Mahmoud Hanifi teaches history at James Madison University and is the author of Connecting Histories in Afghanistan (2011)
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Kwame Ture interviewed in 1995 for Howard University's"Evening Exchange"
Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eM4rP-qHMc&ab_channel=AAPRPbritain
Seymour Hersh in conversation with Afshin Rattansi in 2018 and followed by an interview with Tariq Ali from 2016.
Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI3ZkL9Soos&ab_channel=GoingUndergroundonRT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIBxGm08KY8&ab_channel=TeleSUREnglish
Judith Kalman is an author based in Toronto. Read her statement here.
Co-hosted with Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb)
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Friends of the podcast Justin Podur and Zeyad el Nabolsy return for a deep dive into the concept of nonviolence and its strange origin story in the work of Gene Sharp.
We discuss these two articles by Marcie Smith in the episode.
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Bikrum Gill (@realDrcabbie) teaches in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech.
The episode opens with a discussion of this tweet.
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Friend of the podcast Olivia Giovetti returns to discuss HBO's fancypants new historical drama, Oslo (2021).
Check out her article
Cuban revolutionary hero Fidel Castro speaks in Harlem.
Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kBgGLHMfnU&ab_channel=AfroMarxist
Friend of the podcast Amanda (@catcontentonly) has launched her own podcast. Gain access to this episode in its entirety by signing up at https://www.patreon.com/radiofreeamanda.
Tamara Nassar is an associate editor at The Electronic Intifada
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Chris Bernadel is on the Haiti Committee of the Black Alliance for Peace. See their recent statement on the country's illegitimate government
Hosted by Justin Podur, author of Haiti’s New Dictatorship: The Coup, the Earthquake, and the UN Occupation (2012)
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A lecture hosted by Azim Premji University in August 2016
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv4bdkxXT_h4NlnmNhDbq4w
(A preview of the latest episode of Rewatchability. For the entire episode, subscribe to Rewatchability wherever you get your podcasts)
Grab your space-ankh, this week we walk like an Egyptian-from-another-planet with STARGATE! Starring Snake Plissken, I mean Kurt Russell, and the part of James Spader not obscured by his exceedingly floppy mop, this military sci-fi action flick combined your grade 4 history unit on Egypt with a random episode of Star Trek. Sina Rahmeni from The East Is A Podcast joins us once again to pick apart this Roland Emmerich blockbuster We thought it was fascinating and mysterious when we were kids, but how does it hold up now?
Suchitra Vijayan's book, Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India, is available now. Check out the Polis Project and their podcast.
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Ussama Makdisi is the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University.
Check out his book, Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World
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Mick Wallace (link) and Clare Daly (link) are Members of European Parliament.
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President Nasser interviewed in the Presidential Palace in Cairo by New York Times managing editor Clifton Daniel.
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg9eC-otwCs&ab_channel=AfroMarxist
Arash Joblaghi returns to the podcast to talk about rocketry, missiles, and hegemony.
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Richard Falk's keynote at the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture in October 2014, hosted by Columbia University.
The lecture begins around min 15.
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZAVjIfTBVo&ab_channel=SOFHeyman
Tamar Boyadjian (link) teaches at Michigan State University and is Editor of the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies (link)
Rachel Goshgarian teaches at Lafayette College (Link)
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My teacher and comrade Saree Makdisi (@sareemakdisi) returns to the podcast to talk about the rapid transformation in the Palestine liberation struggle.
Check out his recent article, "The Nakba is Now"
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Edward Said talked about his book Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, published by Harvard University Press.
Source
(Note: This was recorded before the recent uprising)
Ted Kelly (@teddyredder) speaks to Susan Abulhawa (@sjabulhawa) Palestinian writer, biologist, and Workers World Party member.
Comrade Abulhawa's latest novel, Against the Loveless World, is out now. We're also joined by Susan's dogs, Luca, Lily, and Mika.
!أبطال فلسطين توحّد الأشراف في العالم
!تسقط الحركة صهيونية
Against the Loveless World:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Agains…781982137038
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My comrade and longtime patron of the podcast Nick Estes returns to explore the meaning of immigration against the historical backdrop of settler colonialism in the US.
A lecture hosted by Evergreen College in October 2012.
Check out Michael Parenti's media archive
Justin Podur and I teamed up to interview Columbia University historian Manan Ahmed on his fantastic new book, The Loss of Hindustan.
This is the second half of the conversation. Subscribe to the Anti-Empire project and download the first!
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Ambereen Dadabhoy is Associate Professor of Literature at Harvey Mudd College in California.
A lecture hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2013.
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhZsPIrpYI4&ab_channel=WoodrowWilsonCenter
The second part of a three-part lecture series hosted by the SOAS titled "Six Decades of Development Debate" in 2013. (The first part is available on this feed as well, released back in September last year)
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEq8OK4BUyM&ab_channel=SOASUniversityofLondon
"First-Hand Accounts of the Japanese American Internment Experience. It is our hope that these stories will build on the work and legacy of the late Mary Tsukamoto, who devoted her life to promoting social justice for all, regardless of race, creed, or ethnicity."
Learn more about the Time Remembrance Project
Source
Arash Joblaghi is a Strategic Adviser and the creator of the Iran Military Review
Full text of Joint Statement on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between I.R. Iran, P.R. China
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Fadil Aliriza is a journalist based in Tunis and the founder & editor-in-chief of Meshkal.
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A reading of Dr. Salman Abu Sitta's article "Eleven Wars against Palestinians: How Palestinians are coping with their Elimination" Read by Nyla Matuk
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Friend of the podcast Ehsani returns to discuss Lebanon's worsening cash crisis.
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A talk by Abdel Razzaq Takriti for the Global Middle East Seminar Series at Goldsmiths Centre for Postcolonial Studies. Introduction by friend of the show, Eskandar Sadeghi
Dr. Salman Abu Sitta is the Founder and President of the Palestine Land Society and the General Coordinator of the Right of Return Congress and has served as a member of the Palestine National Council.
Nyla Matuk is the author of two collections of poetry and the editor of Resisting Canada: An Anthology of Poetry.
An excerpt from a recent episode of Justin Podur's fantastic podcast, The Anti Empire Project. If you like my show you will probably enjoy Justin's!
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Alexander Aviña is Associate Professor of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Check out his article.
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A message from my friend Naffy:
My mom, Sara, is a 42-year-old Iranian woman living in the UK, and she urgently needs needs a stem cell donor. Stem cell donation is simple, straightforward, and painless. Registration takes a minute, they’ll post you 3 swabs, leave in mouth for 60 secs, dry for 5 mins and then freepost them back. In a few weeks you’ll know if you’re a match or not. And it’s that simple to be a hero!
Link to sign up
Note: Once you click on the link, it will take you to the UK website. When you click “Not UK Resident” it will redirect you here; click on the US flag and proceed to donate!!
Nasser Arrabyee is a journalist based in Sana'a.
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Erik Wade is a Medievalist and currently teaches in Germany. Check out his thread
An excerpt from Joelle Abi-Rached's book read by Alex Salamat
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Shireen Al-Adeimi is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University
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Hosted by Committee of Anti-Imperialists
in Solidarity with Iran
An-depth look at US-Iran relations following the change in administrations, the long history of US imperialism directed against Iran, and the ongoing sanctions regime threatening the people of Iran.
Presentations include:
“Continuity or Discontinuity: Iran as Biden’s first major foreign policy test”
Richard A. Falk
Albert G. Milibank Professor Emeritus of International Law, Princeton University
“The politics of US economic sanctions against Iran revisited”
Sasan Fayazmanesh, Professor Emeritus of Economics California State University, Fresno
“Sanctions in the age of ‘Sustainable Development Goals’: Long-term implications”
Vira Ameli Dphil/PhD Candidate, Center for Evidence-Based Intervention, University of Oxford
Moderator:
Vida Samiian Visiting Researcher, Linguistics, UCLA Professor and Dean Emerita, CSU Fresno
Source
Featuring Amayed Aymen and Heythem Guesmi and guest hosted by friend of the show Max Ajl
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Anjuli Raza Kolb teaches at the University of Toronto
Get the book through the publisher's website and use code UCPLIT for 20% off.
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Dan Cohen is a journalist based in DC with Behind the Headlines and director of Killing Gaza.
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Ambereen Dadabhoy is an Assistant Professor of Literature at Harvey Mudd College in California. Check out her article
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Christopher Helali fought in Syria with the International Freedom Battalion.
P. S. A lot of acronyms thrown around in this one:
PKK: Kurdistan Workers’ Party
YPG: People’s Protection Units
SDF: Syrian Democratic Forces
PYD: Democratic Union Party (Syria)
SAA: Syrian Arab Army
KDPI: Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran
KDP: Kurdistan Democratic Party
Christopher Helali fought in Syria with the International Freedom Battalion.
P. S. A lot of acronyms thrown around in this one:
PKK: Kurdistan Workers’ Party
YPG: People’s Protection Units
SDF: Syrian Democratic Forces
PYD: Democratic Union Party (Syria)
SAA: Syrian Arab Army
KDPI: Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran
KDP: Kurdistan Democratic Party
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Organized by the Committee of Anti-Imperialists in Solidarity with Iran
Speakers:
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Nick Estes
Toussaint Losier
Navid Farnia
Zhun Xu
Moderator:
Suzanne Adely
Recorded Dec 14. If you have any questions, please contact CASI.
An excerpt from a recent episode of Justin Podur's fantastic podcast, The Anti Empire Project. Subscribe today on your podcatcher!
https://podur.org/2020/12/09/aep-76-punjab-farmers-movement-confronts-the-modi-juggernaut/
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Amir Taha discusses the origins of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (Hashd).
Paul Robeson was a singer, activist, and open Communist during the heyday of McCarthyite America.
Great thanks to Hami Bahadori for putting this amazing mix together. Check out volume 1 if you missed it!
Amir Taha is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam. Check out his article
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Joelle Abi-Rached is an invited researcher at the École normale supérieure. Check out her book
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Bruce Lee gave relatively few interviews in English during his lifetime. I've compiled a few of them into an episode.
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I went on The End of Sport to talk about the American election, sports, and fascism. This is the first half (!) of the conversation.
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Shireen Al-Adeimi is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University
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Guest hosted by Paris Yeros
Grasian Mkodzongi @Hondo1973 is a researcher whose work is focused on the political economy of land and natural resources in the Southern African sub-region.
Richard R Runyararo @VaMahomva is a political scientist and Executive Coordinator of Leaders for Africa Network (LAN).
Freedom Mawzi @FreedomMazwi is researcher at SMAIAS; his research is focused on political economy of land and agricultural financing.
Paris Yeros is Professor at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC) in São Paulo, Brazil, Editor of Agrarian South, Research Associate of Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies (SMAIAS) in Zimbabwe, and Coordinator of Novo Bandung Study Group at UFABC, the host of this conversation.
Ashok Kumar is Lecturer in International Political at Birkbeck and author of Monopsony Capitalism: Power and Production in Twilight of the Sweatshop Age (2020)
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Justin Kaliebe is an incarcerated survivor of the so-called War on Terror, as one of 433 currently incarcerated or detained people charged with terrorism-related charges post 9/11 (according to the Intercept). The so-called War on Terror was a two-front assault on Muslims and those racialized as 'other' both within the US's colonial borders and western Asia.
"Please write to Just at: Justin Kaliebe #81912-053 FCI Jesup 2680 301 South Jesup, GA 31599 You can follow #PrisonsKill on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/prisonskill You can read "#PrisonsKill" by Justin Kaliebe here - https://prisonskill.wordpress.com/2020/10/07/prisonskill/ You can read "Homegrown" by Justin Kaliebe here- https://prisonskill.wordpress.com/2020/10/09/homegrown/ You can read the whole catalog of #PrisonsKill pieces here- https://prisonskill.wordpress.com/
From our friends at the Decolonized Buffalo Podcast:
In this episode we speak to Satine about the current situation in the Armenia – Azerbaijan conflict, and the history which led to the current conflict.
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Intro Music: Armenian War Dance Yarkhushta
An excerpt from a recent episode of Justin Podur's fantastic podcast, The Anti Empire Project. If you like my show you will probably enjoy Justin's!
https://podur.org/2020/10/10/civilizations-20a-1857-indias-war-of-independence-pt1/
Ben Norton is a journalist and writer with the Grayzone. Check out his article on the recent leaks.
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Seymour Hersh is one of the most respected and trusted investigative journalists in the US. However, he has all but disappeared from mainstream news venues for the last few years.
A big reason for this is his refusal to accept the media hysteria around Syria and chemical weapons. I have compiled a series of clips from various interviews he gave on the question beginning in 2013 and through 2017.
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Nadia Ben Youssef interview her father about the legacy of her grandfather Salah Ben-Youssef.
Nadia Ben-Youssef (@nadiaby) is Advocacy Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Nada Trigui (@TrNada) is a political economist based in Tunisia. Please consider supporting the show and help me hit my goal of $1500 a month. I have a Patreon and Gofundme.
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This lecture was given at SOAS, University of London on 25 April 2013 as part of the series "Samir Amin: Six Decades of Development Debate".
Source
The Committee of Anti-Imperialists in Solidarity with Iran (CASI) opposes U.S. imperialism against Iran, and is united against U.S. intervention in Iran, Iraq and throughout the world. We are a group of internationalist activists, Iranian and otherwise, located in the United States and Canada, and we consider ourselves part of the anti-imperialist and anti-war movements throughout the world.
Speakers:
Max Ajl
Nina Farnia
Vida Samiian
Micol Savia
More info available here
https://solidarityiran.org/
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Danny Haiphong is Contributing Editor of Black Agenda Reporter and Co-Host of The Left Lens,
He is the co-author of American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News―From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
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Friend and patron of the podcast Justin Podur reviews Planet of the Humans (2020). Check out Justin's blog
Maurice Bishop Speaks to U.S. Working People, 5 June 1983, Hunter College, New York City
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Fatima Bhutto returns to the show to talk about her most recent novel, The Runaways
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David Jefferess teaches English and Cultural Studies at UBC Okanagan.
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Three previous guests of the show (Amanda Yee, Amy Wong, and Carl Zha), return to share their thoughts on Chinese American identity, race, language, and a whole lot more! Please consider supporting the show and help me hit my goal of $1500 a month. I have a Patreon and Gofundme.
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Three previous guests of the show (Amanda Yee, Amy Wong, and Carl Zha), return to share their thoughts on Chinese American identity, race, language, and a whole lot more! Please consider supporting the show and help me hit my goal of $1500 a month. I have a Patreon and Gofundme.
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Jana Nakhal is a Marxist feminist organizer, urban activist and member of the Lebanese Communist Party's central committee
Ashraf Mtaweh is a Lebanese artist and filmmaker.
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A preview of a new podcast from The Red Nation. Subscribe on your podcatcher!
Melanie , Andrew , and Nick talk with Diné activist and social worker Amanda Blackhorse
Unlocked from behind the paywall! Please enjoy this episode with AUB professor Karim Makdisi originally recorded in November 2019
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(Content Warning: brutal violence described graphically)
Thank you to Benjamin Bartu for putting this mix together.
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I was invited to talk with Uproar in the Studio (@ChinaFilmPod on Twitter) about the Chinese military film Sky Hunter (2017). Subscribe to their podcast on your podcatcher.
Link to the full episode
https://uproarinthestudio.home.blog/2020/07/21/bonus-sky-hunter/
Aaron Maté is a journalist based in NYC. Check out his podcast, Pushback.
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Read by the authors. Link to original article (link). Check out The End of Sport if you haven't already!
Friend of the podcast Justin Podur (https://www.podur.org/) returns to talk about his new book, America's Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the DR Congo.
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Paul Robeson was a singer, activist, and open Communist during the heyday of McCarthyist America.
Great thanks to Hami Bahadori for putting this amazing mix together.
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One of my earliest patrons, Amanda Yee (@catcontentonly), makes her first appearance on the show to talk NYC protests, COVID, and a horrible article about the legacy of Edward Said.
Cavid Ağa is a journalist and translator based in Ankara.
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Almost two decades ago, author and scholar Jack G. Shaheen gave this lecture about Hollywood's vilification of Arabs and Muslims based on his book, Reel Bad Arabs.
Link to the original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnQND1g_y3Q
[I went back on one of my favourite podcasts, Rewatchability, to talk about Team America : World Police. Enjoy!]
Happy Birthday America! In celebration we light up some fireworks with TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE!
Ehsani returns to discuss Lebanon's worsening financial crisis.
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Nick Estes returns to the podcast to talk about something really good: tearing down settler monuments.
Writing Revolutions: History and Theory between Ethiopia and Iran
Conversation hosted by Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies
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Elleni Centime Zeleke (Bio) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. Her book is available here Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is Lecturer in Comparative Political Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. Check his recent book. Conversation facilitated by Arash Davari
A 30-min preview of the latest episode of The Anti-Empire Podcast with Justin Podur (https://twitter.com/justinpodur) and Carl Zha (https://twitter.com/CarlZha)
Subscribe today wherever you get your podcasts or listen here
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This is based on an book chapter I contributed to an edited collection published by U Toronto Press.
Read by Alex Salamat
Nasser Arrabyee returns to the podcast to talk about the Saudi exit strategy in Yemen.
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Carl Zha is the host of the Silk and Steel podcast.
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My longtime friend and guest of the show Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb) recently launched a podcast with Derek Silva (@DerekCrim). Enjoy this short clip from episode 15. Subscribe today wherever you get your podcasts.
Andray Domise is a Contributing Editor at Macleans magazine.
#blackilvesmatter
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Sharmine Narwani is a freelance journalist based in London and Beirut
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Aditya Desai is a freelance writer and adjunct writing instructor based in Baltimore.
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Hope you enjoy this short extract from Josh Stacher's most recent book, Watermelon Democracy: Egypt’s Turbulent Transition (2019).
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For Nakba day, a conversation with Seth (aka "kabbalah bitch"), a Jewish American anti-Zionist Palestine solidarity activist and self-described "Twitter dumbass."
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Guest host and longtime supporter of the podcast Shama Rangwala in conversation with journalist Desmond Cole about the 2002 film Minority Report.
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A 2017 lecture by Ilan Pappé titled "The Value of Viewing Israel-Palestine Through the Lens of Settler-Colonialism" hosted by the WRMEA. Introduced by Dale Sprusansky.
https://www.wrmea.org/017-may/viewing-israel-palestine-through-the-lens-of-settler-colonialism.html
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Alex B. Jreisat is the translator of Ghalib Halasa's Sultana (1988).
Apologies for the sound quality!
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Fatema Latifi is a Respiratory Therapist working in a research hospital in Northern California.
Guest hosted by Ali Latifi
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Soraya Lennie is a freelance journalist and analyst.
http://www.sorayalennie.com/
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Guest host and former guest Nathan Kalman-Lamb of Duke University talks to Derek Silva, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Kings at Western University in London, Ontario.
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Frontline healthcare workers share their perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Guest produced by Mary Turfah
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Pouya Alimagham teaches history at MIT
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The second installment of the Orientalism reading group with Nick Estes.
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Christian Lehmann teaches literature at Bard High School Early College Cleveland.
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Joshua Stacher is associate professor of political science at Kent State University and the author of Watermelon Democracy: Egypt’s Turbulent Transition
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Hope you enjoy this wide ranging conversation with Hussein Kesvani. Check out his book, Follow me Akhi (2019).
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An excerpt from a recent episode of the Red Nation Podcast. For the entire episode, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!
Justin Podur is an associate professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. His new novel is Siegebreakers.
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Nudrat Kamal (@nudratkamal) is a professor of comparative literature at IBA in Karachi. She has also recently published a chapter titled ‘The Post Colonial Cyborg’ in Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan).
Mushba Said (@HeyMushba)is a writer, designer, and artist from Karachi who recently completed her undergrad in Communication Studies, double-minoring in Policy and Comparative Literature.
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Emran Feroz and Ali Latifi return to the podcast to discuss the US surrender in Afghanistan.
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Maryam Aras, Denijal Jegić , and Adem Ferizaj return to the podcast to share their insights into the racist violence in Germany
Check out Denijal's article
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Zakaria Mokdad is the co-owner of Aleppo Kebab in Toronto
http://www.aleppokebab.ca/
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Sam Sacks and Sam Knight are journalists based in DC and host the DC Sentinel.
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Zahra Shafei studies dentistry in Iran.
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A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by signing up at the $5 level. I do this show independently and get no sponsorships or advertising. It is my primary income and I'm hoping to make it sustainable.
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Guest hosted and produced by Mushba Said
Nudrat Kamal is a professor of comparative literature at IBA in Karachi. She has also recently published a chapter titled ‘The Post Colonial Cyborg’ in Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan).
Mushba Said is a writer, designer, and artist from Karachi who recently completed her undergrad in Communication Studies, double-minoring in Policy and Comparative Literature.
Had a great conversation with Maryam Aras, Denijal Jegić , and Adem Ferizaj. English-language conversation begins around min 39:00.
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Tamara Nassar is an associate editor at The Electronic Intifada
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[I went on one of my favourite podcasts, Rewatchability, to talk about Argo. Enjoy!]
With the Oscars approaching we take a look back at ARGO! Directed by and starring Ben Affleck, Argo beat out a crowded field to win Best Picture at the 2012 ceremony. But is it all CIA propaganda?
@UrOrientalist joins us to extract the truth!
Hilbourne A. Watson is an Emeritus Professor at Bucknell University. Jeb Sprague is a Research Associate at the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California, Riverside
Hilbourne A. Watson is an Emeritus Professor at Bucknell University. Jeb Sprague is a Research Associate at the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California, Riverside
Special series on the Iraqi revolts by guest host Yousef K. Baker
Dena Al-Adeeb is Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the American Studies Department at UC Davis.
Recorded on November 9, 2019
Yousef K. Baker (@YousefKB) is Assistant Professor of International Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
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I went on the District Sentinel Radio to talk recent events in the region.
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Max Ajl recently completed his PhD in Development Sociology at Cornell University.
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Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi interviews his Goldsmiths colleague David Brenner
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Special series on the Iraqi revolts by guest host Yousef K. Baker Shamiran Mako is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi interviews his Goldsmiths colleague Martina Tazzioli.
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Ehsani returns to discuss Lebanon's spiraling financial crisis.
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Isa Blumi in conversation with Adem Ferizaj on the question of Albanian identity.
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Apologies for the sound quality Mfalme Sikivu is an incarcerated scholar and mentor. He is fighting the carceral state from the inside and needs outside support. Mfalme and a team of outside supporters are pushing Governor Cuomo of NY to grant him clemency in 2019. Mfalme has three cases pending against DOCCS; one which urges DOCCS to organize his mentoring organization, Ujamaa Fraternal Dynasty (UFD), and two cases to expose the inhumane treatment of our incarcerated comrades by COs and staff. Please visit his facebook page for ways to get involved We are also doing coordinated phone calls to push Cuomo to free Mfalme and Jalil Muntaqim on every Friday from 1-3 PM. You can write to Mfalme at the following address Dontie Mitchell #98A0071 Great Meadow Correctional Facility PO Box 51 Comstock, NY 12821-0051
Jared Ware is an abolitionist and host of Millennials are Killing Capitalism
An appeal
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Special series on the Iraqi revolts by guest host Yousef K. Baker. Zahra Ali is a sociologist and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, she is the author of Women and Gender in Iraq: between Nation-building and Fragmentation (2018)
Olivia Giovetti is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, NPR, VAN Magazine and other venues.
We discuss this article
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Karim Makdisi is Associate Professor of International Politics at the American University of Beirut.
An appeal
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Tim Anderson is an academic based in Australia and the author of the forthcoming book, Axis of Resistance: Towards an Independent Middle East.
Thanks to Nazanin Zarepour for arranging and conducting this interview.
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Ali Alizadeh is a political analyst and media activist based in London.
An appeal
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Louis Allday is an academic and researcher based in London.
Read the piece here
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Assal Rad is a Research Fellow at the National Iranian American Council. Check out her article.
Federico Fuentes is a political analyst and writer based in Australia.
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Suchitra Vijayan is the founder and Executive Director of the Polis Project.
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Here is a short archival mashup exploring the widely-held belief in Hollywood liberalism and ways in which women/PoC actors are often conscripted into gender/racewashing the not-so-pretty parts of US pop culture history.
Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, has long been lauded as some kind of firebrand radical who pushed the boundaries of the respectable. The reality is a bit more nuanced.
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One year ago today we launched our first show. It's been a lot of fun-- and a lot of work. I hope you have been enjoying the show. Please consider donating to keep my work going. You can sign up on Patreon or give a one time donation on Gofundme
Thank you to everyone who has listened, promoted, supported, or been on the show.
Three generations of the Turfah family narrate the story of Salha, a Palestinian Shi'a village ethnically cleansed by the Zionists over seven decades ago this week.
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A conversation with Syria analyst and blogger Ehsani
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Ali Kourani is a grad student and political analyst based in Lebanon.
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Ben Ehrenreich is an author and journalist. He recently spent time working on a migrant rescue boat. Read his article here.
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Jana Nakhal is an urban planner, Marxist feminist organizer, and member of the Central Committee of the Lebanese Communist Party.
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Dimitri Lascaris is a lawyer, journalist and activist.
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A preview of the first episode of the newly revamped podcast for the Red Nation. Three episodes are dropping today on their feed, so please make sure you subscribe on your favourite podcatcher.
A conversation with returning guest Chris (aka Babylonian Bolshevik) on the recent invasion of Syria by Turkish armed forces.
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Yousef K. Baker (@YousefKB) is Assistant Professor of International Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
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Isa Blumi returns to talk about the latest developments in Yemen. Thanks to Adem Ferizaj for making this happen.
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Bernard Bavarian has worked in the oil industry for over four decades.
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Fatima Bhutto's most recent book is called New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop
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Devyn Springer is an Atlanta-based writer, editor, artist, and author. He is the host of Groundings
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Happy to share with an episode of Some Noise, a fantastic podcast you should subscribe to.
Some Noise is an independent documentary podcast that unpacks many of life’s contradictions, one topic at a time. It started in 2015 and has covered stories that range from the life and times of an immigrant Muslim community miles away from the Pentagon, a working-class fishing community in the Hamptons and a group of Northern Californian separatists who believe their salvation comes in the form of a 51st state. Follow the show @thisissomenoise, subscribe and leave a glowing review.
Devyn Springer is an Atlanta-based writer, editor, artist, and author. He is the host of the Groundings
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Abdel Razzaq Takriti is Associate Professor and the inaugural holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History at the University of Houston.
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Louis Allday is an academic and researcher based in London.
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Edward Said interviewed by Michaël Zeeman for the Dutch television programme Leven en Werken, VPRO
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Louis Allday is an academic and researcher based in London.
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Hrag Vartanian is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic
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Martha Mundy teaches at the London School of Economics.
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Nick Estes (Kul Wicasa, a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe) is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance(2019).
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Nick Estes in conversation with Professor Hayden King, Anishinaabe from Beausoleil First Nation. Hosted by the Toronto Public Library as part of their "On Civil Society" series.
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Daniel Rád is a journalist and co-founder of Bourse & Bazaar (@BourseBazaar) An appeal:
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Ather Zia is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern Colorado
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Christopher Sykes' moving documentary on Edward Said, first produced for the BBC more than three decades ago.
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Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!
A recording of an article I wrote almost 14 years ago. I cringe at some of the prose. Part two will be behind the paywall.
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Jorge Juan Rodríguez V is a Historian of Religion pursuing a PhD at Union Theological Seminary.
The archival audio is extracted from the 50th anniversary celebration of the Young Lord's held in NYC in July 2019 features Martha Aguello, Olguie Robles-Toro, and Minerva Solla sharing the 13-Point Program. Throughout the rest of the year the New York Young Lords will host events celebrating their 50th anniversary. You can follow those events through
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Arash Davari is Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College.
Yousef Baker is Assistant Professor of International Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
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Pouya Alimagham is a historian of the modern Middle East based at MIT.
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Fisk on his "From Beirut to Bosnia" documentary:
"Back in 1993, I made a 3 part documentary film for the Discovery Channel in the United States, and also for Channel 4 in Britain. It was called Beirut to Bosnia and it attempted to find out why an increasing number of Muslims had come to hate the West. Indeed, the title was "Why Muslims Have Come to Hate the West." We filmed in Beirut, Southern Lebanon, Israel, the occupied West Bank and Gaza, Egypt, Bosnia and Croatia."
Unlocked from behind the paywall Patrick Higgins is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History at the University of Houston. Please support the show. I do this show alone with no sponsorships or any kind of employment. If you can spare a few bucks a month, you can gain access to the bonus content.
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Alina Sajed is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University.
Timothy Seidel is Assistant Professor in the Center for Justice & Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University.
Check out their co-edited issue of Interventions
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Albert Brent Chase is a member of the Diné (Navajo) nation and leader of the Pollen Trail Dancers.
Audio on the "Long Walk" taken from this video
David Puckett is a human being currently incarcerated by the US state. Through his pen pal, he passes a long a message about life in the land of the free.
You can write David personally (he welcomes any letter) or send him books (preferably Sci-Fi/Fantasy). He passes on these books to other incarcerated human beings.
His address is
David Puckett #1081033
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Shervin Malekzadeh is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Colgate University where he is completing a book manuscript on post-revolutionary schooling in Iran from the perspective of ordinary families and local officials tasked with educating “the New Islamic Citizen.”
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Hussein Kesvani is UK/Europe editor with Mel Magazine. He is the author of Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims.
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I recently went on the podcast Trashfuture and spoke about the Iran invasion plans floated by the B-team. I hope you enjoy the short extract! The entire episode is available from Trashfuture's main feed.
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Neda Maghbouleh is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She is Principal Investigator and lead researcher of the RISE (Refugee Integration, Stress, and Equity) Team.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb is author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport (Fernwood Publishing) and co-author of Out of Left Field: Social Inequality and Sports (with Gamal Abdel-Shehid). He is a Lecturing Fellow at Duke University, where he teaches on social inequality and sports.
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Tamara Nassar is an assistant editor at The Electronic Intifada
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Nasser Arrabyee is a Yemeni Journalist, filmmaker, and founding Director of Yemen Alaan (Yemen Now) in Sanaa.
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Ali Latifi is a journalist based in Kabul.
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Unlocked from behind the paywall! A conversation with my friend and comrade Nasser Mufti on the lingering questions of nationalism.
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From the archives of Alternative Views
"TV/film producer-director Chris Thomas brings with him an insightful documentary which he made showing the nature and extent of racism on English television, using clips from documentaries, panel discussions, interviews and entertainment programs. The program, which was shown on the BBC's public access hour, created a furor, resulting in threats of lawsuits, an unusual disclaimer by the BBC and attempts by the BBC to prevent further public showings of the program."
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Another very special episode produced by three students at Whitman College as part of Arash Davari's Middle East Politics course. This episode explores the strange case of "good immigrant" Mohamed Salah.
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Ilan Pappé is Professor of History and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter.
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A short mashup on the Millennium Challenge 2002.
#nowarwithIran
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It's been almost three years since the death of Abbas Kiarostami, one of the titans of modern cinema. Included in this episode is a tribute by Martin Scorsese as well as a portion of a long sit-down interview with Kiarostami at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016.
Edward Said sharing his memories of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine (Nakba, catastrophe), marked annually by people around the world on May 15th.
Music Credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiRcMrcMHTk
A very special episode produced by three students at Whitman College as part of Arash Davari's Middle East Politics course. This episode explores both the overwhelmingly negative portrayal of Iranians in American pop culture/news media and how to undo it by engaging Iranians both as individuals and a national culture.
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Dr. Isa Blumi is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian, Middle Eastern, and Turkish Studies at Stockholm University.
This talk was given at a public event at the University of Copenhagen organized by The Turban Times in May 2018
A sneak preview of Reza Zia-Ebrahimi's bonus episode. Sign up for the Patreon to gain access to this and other great bonus content.
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Reza Zia-Ebrahimi is Senior Lecturer in History at King's College, London.
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This episode of The East Is A Podcast is brought to you by students from Levi Thompson’s University of Colorado Boulder course Representing Islam. In it, they cover the operations of the Franklin Book Program, an American book-publishing and translation initiative that operated in the Middle East from 1953 to 1979. Levi and his students examine the program as an instance of American soft power within the context of Cold War cultural imperialism and give listeners a number of bibliographical notes for further investigation.
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Ilan Pappé is one of the world's leading historians of Israel and the Zionist colonization of Palestine. With an introduction by Dima Khalidi.
Lecture organized by the Lannan Foundation from January 2019
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Ronald Stokes was an activist and community leader connected to the Nation of Islam. He was murdered by the Los Angeles Police Department on April 27, 1962. Malcolm X gave a powerful eulogy, a long sample of which is included in this episode.
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As'ad AbuKhalil teaches at California State University, Stanislaus.
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Chase Madar is an attorney, author, and journalist in New York. He is the author of The Passion of [Chelsea] Manning: The Story Behind the WikiLeaks Whistleblower(Verso, 2013) and part-time faculty at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
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Sonja M. Thomas is Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Colby College.
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Paul A. Bové is distinguished professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and editor of boundary 2, published by Duke University Press.
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A sneak preview of Nasser Mufti's second bonus episode. Sign up for the Patreon to gain access to this and other great bonus content.
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A sneak preview of Sara Salem's bonus episode. Sign up for the Patreon to gain access to this and other great bonus content.
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From February 2011, Shlomo Sand speaks in London at an event organized by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Writer and historian Shlomo Sand interrogates the foundations of nationhood, placing the idea of 'invention' above race, religion, and language.
Jake Aron is one half of Moloq and one of the earliest boosters of this podcast. I interviewed him recently ("No one is born angry") and we talked about Arabic, music, and American identity post-9/11.
Support his work and check out these two tracks from Moloq's latest album. Buy their album Moloqmusic.com
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Max Ajl recently completed his doctorate in Development Sociology at Cornell University.
Read his article, Beyond the Green New Deal
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Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist and podcaster with Electronic Intifada.
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Matt Dagher Margosian is the founder of Asia Art Tours based out of Taiwan and Seattle.
asiaartours.com
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Jake Aron studied at Columbia’s Middle East South Asian and African Studies department. He is one half of Moloq, an Atlanta-based psychedelic pop duo he co-founded with Paul Stevens. They just put out the band’s second full length album, Moloq, this February. Moloqmusic.com @moloqmusic Twitter & Instagram.
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Maryyum Mehmood is Research Associate at St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford.
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Edward Wastnidge is a Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, Open University, UK.
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Revolution lecture by Egyptian author and activist Nawal El Saadawi
at Folkteatern in Gothenburg, Sweden on October 12th, 2011.
Presented by the Clandestino Institut.
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As'ad AbuKhalil teaches at California State University, Stanislaus.
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Ben Norton is a journalist based in New York. He is the co-host of Moderate Rebels.
Ali Alizadeh is an independent political analyst based in London.
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Yuri Kochiyama was a Japanese-American human rights activist, and is notable as one of the few prominent non-black Black separatists. A few years before her death in 2014, she sat down with Megan Asaka in Oakland to speak about her life and work.
Produced by Densho, an organization dedicated to preserving the story of the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans in WWII.
Amy Wong is Assistant Professor at Dominican University of California.
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Vidyaratha Kissoon lives in Guyana. He has been involved in the work to promote gender equality, child protection and LGBT equality.
He blogs at http://churchroadman.blogspot.com/ He agreed to do this podcast because he was able to get a coffee in Georgetown from one of Sina's friends.
Acknowledgments to Poonam Singh and her song "Guyana"
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Walter Rodney was a prominent Guyanese historian, political activist and academic.
This is a recording of a lecture he gave in 1978, lightly edited for sound quality.
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"Human Rights in El Salvador" (1991), a report produced by Susan de Brava for Santa Barbara-based Behind the Headlines.
Extremely graphic content, including descriptions of violence, sexual assault, torture, etc.
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Max Ajl is a doctoral student in Development Sociology at Cornell University.
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Ben Norton is a journalist based in New York. He is the co-host of Moderate Rebels.
Ali Alizadeh is an independent political analyst based in London.
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Bonus Episode 6 - Fatima Bhutto
Fatima Bhutto's new novel is called The Runaways.
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Max Ajl is a doctoral student in Development Sociology at Cornell University.
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A conversation with my friend and co-founder of "Two Brown Men with Four Green Thumbs Landscaping," Nasser Mufti.
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From C. L. R. James in conversation with Stuart Hall (1984).
Directed by Mike Gibb, produced originally for Channel 4.
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Fatima Bhutto's new novel is called The Runaways.
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Ronjaunee Chatterjee is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Concordia University.
She co-organized a roundtable at the 2019 annual convention of the Modern Language Association on "Critical Race Theory and New Directions for Victorian Studies."
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Nasser Mufti is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Bonus Episode 4 - Ali Shariati, Close-up w/ Arash Davari Arash Davari
Arash Davari (~~@~~adavari21) is Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College.
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A compilation of folk, pop, and experimental songs from Morocco to India. Track list available here
Curated by Moloq (@moloqmusic)
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A conversation with my mentor and friend, Saree Makdisi. You can get his books here.
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Saree Makdisi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA.
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Patrick Higgins is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History at the University of Houston.
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Ali Alizadeh is an independent journalist and political analyst based in London.
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Patrick Higgins is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History at the University of Houston.
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An archival tour through some of Hollywood's worst representations of South Asians in the last few decades.
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Another unabridged interview from the archives of Alternative Views, the legendary cable access show based in Austin, TX. Recorded on Sept. 19, 1990, Said is being interviewed by Douglas Kellner and the late Barbara Harlow.
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Ali Alizadeh is an independent journalist and political analyst based in London.
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In 1969, Leila Khaled's face became etched into the global political imaginary as one of the leading militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
She visited South Africa in 2015 and reflected on her experiences.
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Patrick Higgins is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History at the University of Houston.
Discussion of US withdrawal from Syria begins roughly halfway through the episode
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Dr. Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.
Original article available here:
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William Blum was one of the most critical voices in the US media sphere. After leaving behind a lucrative career with the State Dept in 1967, he began writing about the disastrous consequences of US foreign policy.
Here is a short conversation with radio host David Swanson from a few years ago, preceded by a short intro. Blum speaks about his career, his frustrations with the corporate media, and the Obama administration.
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Nikkie Hessel is Associate Professor School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Her most recent book is Romantic Literature and the Colonised World: Lessons from Indigenous Translations (Palgrave, 2018).
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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's reign was profoundly connected to the Western news media. The mainstream press played an active role in the ousting of his rival Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953, and spent the next two decades lavishing him with the kind of praise that only paid off toadies could provide.
But the relationship soured in the 1970s. As the pressures on his regime increased internally, Western journalists were beginning to do their jobs. Foolishly, the last monarch of Iran let his narcissism get the best of him and chose to accept interview after interview, allowing himself to be pestered with questions about torture, beatings, and the opposition to his authoritarian rule.
I've collected a bunch of interviews from mostly his later years, preceded by a brief introduction on the imperialist birthday party he threw for himself in 1971.
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Isa Blumi is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian, Middle Eastern, and Turkish Studies at Stockholm University. He holds a PhD in History and Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies from New York University and a Master of Political Science and Historical Studies from The New School for Social Research, New York.
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A interview with legendary English journalist Robert Fisk from 2015 produced by Vancouver's Redeye Collective.
The talk was titled: "Goodbye, Mr Sykes! Adieu, Monsieur Picot!" How the ISIS ‘caliphate’ frightens the Middle East – and us."
For more on Redeye, please consult their archive here.
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This is the story of the now largely forgotten “dark night” of October 17, 1961, "the bloodiest act of state repression of street protest in Western Europe in modern history".
Adapted from Sina Rahmani, "It's when there's more than one that there are problems"
For more on Yasmina Adi's film, click here
Trigger Warning: realistic sounds of violence are included between minute 5-8.
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While they may not be household names, Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington can justifiably count themselves among the most influential academics of the last few decades. As the Cold War was winding down, the two men helped manufacture one of the biggest intellectual frauds in recent memory: "The Clash of Civilizations." These two men, with the help of countless media appearances and glowing write ups, peddled the dumb but marketable idea that "Christendom" and "Islam," two entirely fictional entities woven solely out of words, were on track for a final showdown.
Edward Said, who speaks here in selections from two different lectures I've edited lightly, was one of the brave few who took on this hoax and exposed it for what it was.
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Sara Salem is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics. Sara's research interests include political sociology, postcolonial studies, Marxist theory, feminist theory, and global histories of empire and imperialism.
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Manu Samriti Chander is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. He holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and a PhD from Brown University. His first monograph, Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century (Bucknell, 2017), examined the appropriation of British Romantic tropes by colonial poets throughout the nineteenth century.
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An interview with Gayatri Spivak fom the archives of Alternative Views, the legendary public access TV show based in Austin created and hosted by Douglas Kellner and Frank Morrow. In the episode, the hosts ask Spivak about her experiences teaching in the KSA. Interview begins around 5:00.
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Turkey has for decades been one of the most important allies of the Western powers. The rise of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan--a charismatic nationalist and polarizing figure who survived a coup attempt in July 2016--has stirred up consternation among the establishment about his loyalty to the geopolitical status quo.
This episode revisits the Western media's love affair with a Turkish strongman who didn't offend the fickle tastes of the Anglo-American foreign policy elite. In 1958, CBS produced a made-for-TV documentary "The Incredible Turk" about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk-- narrated by none other than Walter Cronkite. I have included the entire documentary (lightly edited for time) and a short preamble from contemporary commentators who long for the return of our man in Ankara.
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In April 1964, Malcolm X traveled to Saudi Arabia to complete the Hajj. Upon his return, he gave a press conference and explained what lessons his experiences abroad had taught him about the problems facing African-Americans.
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Recorded at the University of Colorado, Boulder on October 12, 1998, Eqbal Ahmad speaks about the dangers and dishonesty of the rhetoric of terrorism.
For more on Ahmad's remarkable life:
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Edward Said on his close and intimate relationship with revolutionary political scientist and activist Eqbal Ahmad.
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Emran Feroz is an Austro-Afghan journalist and author based in Stuttgart. He is the author "Tod per Knopfdruck" [Death at the Push of a Button] published by Westend in Oct 2017. His work has appeared with The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Atlantic, The Hindu, Alternet and several other media outlets. He is also a regular contributor to German-language newspapers and magazines.
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Dr. Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.
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