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, 2021•1 hr 9 min
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, 2021•1 hr 41 min
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, 2021•1 hr 7 min
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, 2021•58 min
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, 2021•1 hr 26 min
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, 2021•1 hr 3 min
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, 2021•58 min
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, 2021•1 hr 12 min
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, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Hugo Chávez speaking in 2006 ( at the UNGA ) and in 2009.
Aug 09, 2021•52 min
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, 2021•22 min
Edward Said speaking to Bill Moyers and Tariq Ali respectively.
Jul 28, 2021•43 min
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, 2021•18 min
Cuban revolutionary hero Fidel Castro speaks in Harlem. Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kBgGLHMfnU&ab_channel=AfroMarxist
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 8 min
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.
Jul 14, 2021•30 min
Tamara Nassar is an associate editor at The Electronic Intifada Please consider supporting the show
Jul 13, 2021•1 hr 13 min
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, 2021•30 min
A lecture hosted by Azim Premji University in August 2016 Source: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv4bdkxXT_h4NlnmNhDbq4w
Jul 07, 2021•43 min
(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, 2021•20 min
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, 2021•46 min
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, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Mick Wallace (link) and Clare Daly (link) are Members of European Parliament. Check out their podcast , I4C Trouble with Daly and Wallace Support the podcast https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast
Jun 06, 2021•58 min
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, 2021•58 min
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, 2021•1 hr 10 min
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, 2021•1 hr 31 min
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) Support the podcast https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast...
May 26, 2021•59 min
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, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Edward Said talked about his book Reflections on Exile and Other Essays , published by Harvard University Press. Source
May 15, 2021•57 min
(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, 2021•48 min
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, 2021•24 min