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)
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 556
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Fidel Castro in Harlem (1995)
Cuban revolutionary hero Fidel Castro speaks in Harlem.
Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kBgGLHMfnU&ab_channel=AfroMarxist
(Preview) Radio Free Amanda #5 - The Orientalism of Sacha Baron Cohen w/ Sina Rahmani
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 Dictator…
Sudha Bharadwaj: Fighting in the courts and on the streets (2016)
A lecture hosted by Azim Premji University in August 2016
Source: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv4bdkxXT_h4NlnmNhDbq4w
(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…
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…
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 Wo…
National sovereignty in the era of multinational capital w/ Mick Wallace and Clare Daly
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
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
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
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.
The persistence of the Armenian question w/ Tamar Boyadjian and Rachel Goshgarian
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 N…
The Edward Said Mixtape (Vol. 8): Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (2001)
Edward Said talked about his book Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, published by Harvard University Press.
"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 …
Losing Hindustan (Pt. 2) w/ Manan Ahmed Asif
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 An…