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The East is a Podcast

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)

Islam Politics News Religion & Spirituality
Update frequency
every 5 days
Average duration
53 minutes
Episodes
556
Years Active
2018 - 2025
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(Preview) Bonus Episode 113 - Uprooting birthrights w/ Nora Barrows-Friedman

(Preview) Bonus Episode 113 - Uprooting birthrights w/ Nora Barrows-Friedman

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…

00:20:44  |   Fri 22 Oct 2021
Samir Amin:

Samir Amin: "The Second Wave of the Rise of the South; the Emerging Countries (as of 2000)"

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 t…

00:56:21  |   Mon 18 Oct 2021
(Unlocked) Bonus Episode 111 - The importance of close reading w/ Louis Allday

(Unlocked) Bonus Episode 111 - The importance of close reading w/ Louis Allday

Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) is a writer, historian and founding editor of Liberatedtexts.com

Unlocked from behind the paywall.  Sign up for the bonus feed at Patreon.com/east_podcast to get great bo…

01:16:40  |   Wed 13 Oct 2021
(Preview) Episode 14 - Afghanistan 101 w/ Justin Podur

(Preview) Episode 14 - Afghanistan 101 w/ Justin Podur

Friend of the podcast Amanda (@catcontentonly) interviews another friend of the podcast, Justin Podur (@justinpodur) about the history of Afghanistan

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00:32:35  |   Fri 08 Oct 2021
Decolonization, not decolonize w/ Nasser Mufti

Decolonization, not decolonize w/ Nasser Mufti

Long time friend of the podcast Nasser Mufti teaches at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Check out his article, "Hating Victorian Studies Properly"  

Please consider supporting the show. Go to E…

01:18:56  |   Thu 07 Oct 2021
Charles W. Mills:

Charles W. Mills: "Theorizing Racial Justice" (2020)

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

01:19:08  |   Sat 02 Oct 2021
(Preview) Bonus Episode 112 - Three mining companies in a trench coat w/ Rob Rousseau

(Preview) Bonus Episode 112 - Three mining companies in a trench coat w/ Rob Rousseau

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…

00:17:41  |   Thu 23 Sep 2021
The point, however, is to change it w/ Midwestern Marx

The point, however, is to change it w/ Midwestern Marx

Carlos L. Garrido, Edward L. Smith, and Alex Zambito are the force behind Midwestern Marx 

Check out their Youtube channel 

 

Please consider supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to P…

00:55:56  |   Tue 21 Sep 2021
(Unlocked) Bonus Episode 109 - “Long Live the Yemeni Worker!

(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

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01:09:05  |   Thu 16 Sep 2021
Never trust imperialism w/ Patrick Higgins

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 …

01:41:03  |   Sat 11 Sep 2021
Mourning the unmournable: a forum on 9/11

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…

01:06:46  |   Sat 11 Sep 2021
Charting the logic of the Yemen war w/ Dawud Ansari

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 Eastpodcas…

00:58:12  |   Thu 02 Sep 2021
Another empire falls in Afghanistan w/ Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

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)

 

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01:26:25  |   Thu 26 Aug 2021
Interview with Kwame Ture (1995)

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

01:02:53  |   Tue 24 Aug 2021
Seymour Hersh:

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

00:58:17  |   Sun 22 Aug 2021
Generations of displacement w/ Judith Kalman

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)

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01:12:00  |   Wed 18 Aug 2021
The scam of nonviolence w/ Justin Podur and Zeyad el Nabolsy

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

01:06:44  |   Tue 10 Aug 2021
The Hugo Chávez Mixtape

The Hugo Chávez Mixtape

Hugo Chávez speaking in 2006 (at the UNGA) and in 2009.

 

 

00:51:47  |   Mon 09 Aug 2021
(Preview) Bonus Episode 105 - What is hard power? w/ Bikrum Gill

(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…

00:22:19  |   Wed 28 Jul 2021
The Edward Said Mixtape (Vol. 9)

The Edward Said Mixtape (Vol. 9)

Edward Said speaking to Bill Moyers and Tariq Ali respectively.  

 

 

 

00:42:38  |   Wed 28 Jul 2021
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