The East is a Podcast

**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 Thera…

Friend of the show Alex Avina returns to guesthost a conversation about writing and resistance with Mary Turfah and Taylor Miller.

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"Against These Walls: A …

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 i…

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 a…

*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_po…

*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 epi…

*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 f…

**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…

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 …

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://notjustyourpictu…

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.

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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 re…

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 th…

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.

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, a…