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The East is a Podcast

Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist)www.eastpodcast.com
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)
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Episodes

(Unlocked) Bonus Episode 109 - “Long Live the Yemeni Worker!" w/ Neama Alamri

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 Unlocked from behind the paywall. Sign up for the bonus feed at Patreon.com/east_podcast to get great bonus content and help sustain the show. Go to eastpodcast.com for links to Gofundme, merch store, and cash apps....

Sep 16, 20211 hr 9 min

Never trust imperialism w/ Patrick Higgins

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 Liberatedtexts.com. Patrick Higgins is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History at the University of Houston. Please consider supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, cash apps, and merch store....

Sep 11, 20211 hr 41 min

Mourning the unmournable: a forum on 9/11

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. Chitr...

Sep 11, 20211 hr 7 min

Charting the logic of the Yemen war w/ Dawud Ansari

Dawud Ansari is a researcher based in Berlin and director of the Energy Access and Development Program We discuss this research project (link) . Please consider supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, cash apps, and merch store.

Sep 02, 202158 min

Another empire falls in Afghanistan w/ Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

Shah Mahmoud Hanifi teaches history at James Madison University and is the author of Connecting Histories in Afghanistan (2011) Please consider supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, cash apps, and merch store.

Aug 26, 20211 hr 26 min

Interview with Kwame Ture (1995)

Kwame Ture interviewed in 1995 for Howard University's"Evening Exchange" Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eM4rP-qHMc&ab_channel=AAPRPbritain

Aug 24, 20211 hr 3 min

Seymour Hersh: "There's much more to the story" (2018)

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

Aug 22, 202158 min

Generations of displacement w/ Judith Kalman

Judith Kalman is an author based in Toronto. Read her statement here . Co-hosted with Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb) Please consider supporting the show

Aug 18, 20211 hr 12 min

The scam of nonviolence w/ Justin Podur and Zeyad el Nabolsy

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. Please consider supporting the show

Aug 10, 20211 hr 7 min

(Preview) Bonus Episode 105 - What is hard power? w/ Bikrum Gill

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 can donate directly through Gofundme , and PayPal/Venmo as well. Links to the latter on my website, eastpodcast.com Bikrum Gill (@realDrcabbie) teaches in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. The episode opens with a discussion of this tweet ....

Jul 28, 202122 min

(Preview) Bonus Episode 104 - Oslo (2021) w/ Olivia Giovetti

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 can donate directly through Gofundme , and PayPal/Venmo as well. Links to the latter on my website, eastpodcast.com Friend of the podcast Olivia Giovetti returns to discuss HBO's fancypants new historical drama, Oslo (2021). Check out her article...

Jul 24, 202118 min

Fidel Castro in Harlem (1995)

Cuban revolutionary hero Fidel Castro speaks in Harlem. Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kBgGLHMfnU&ab_channel=AfroMarxist

Jul 14, 20211 hr 8 min

Haiti's Presidential crisis w/ Chris Bernadel

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) Consider supporting the podcast patreon.com/East_podcast...

Jul 07, 202130 min

(Preview) Rewatchability 457- STARGATE with Sina Rahmani

(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...

Jun 25, 202120 min

Bordering midnight w/ Suchitra Vijayan

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. Consider supporting the podcast. Go to eastpodcast.com for links to patreon, Gofundme, merch store, and cash apps....

Jun 21, 202146 min

The ecumenical frame w/ Ussama Makdisi

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 Support the podcast https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast Consider supporting the podcast!...

Jun 13, 20211 hr 6 min

News in Perspective: Gamal Abdel Nasser (1969)

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

Jun 06, 202158 min

The meaning of missiles w/ Arash Joblaghi

Arash Joblaghi returns to the podcast to talk about rocketry, missiles, and hegemony. Check out his YouTube channel . Support the podcast https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast

May 31, 20211 hr 10 min

Richard Falk: "The Palestinian Future After Gaza" (2014)

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

May 28, 20211 hr 31 min

A third Intifada? w/ Saree Makdisi

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" Support the podcast https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast

May 18, 20211 hr 11 min

"This Isn't Something New": Susan Abulhawa on Palestine, Settler-Colonialism, and the Environment

(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...

May 13, 202148 min

(Preview) Bonus Episode 99 - Statue of Oppression w/ Nick Estes

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 can donate directly through Gofundme , and PayPal/Venmo as well. Links to the latter on my website, eastpodcast.com 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....

May 05, 202124 min
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