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)
Devyn Springer is an Atlanta-based writer, editor, artist, and author. He is the host of the Groundings
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Abdel Razzaq Takriti is Associate Professor and the inaugural holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History at the University of Houston.
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Louis Allday is an academic and researcher based in London.
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Edward Said interviewed by Michaël Zeeman for the Dutch television programme Leven en Werken, VPRO
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Louis Allday is an academic and researcher based in London.
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Hrag Vartanian is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic
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Martha Mundy teaches at the London School of Economics.
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Nick Estes (Kul Wicasa, a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe) is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Our History is the Future: Standing R…
Nick Estes in conversation with Professor Hayden King, Anishinaabe from Beausoleil First Nation. Hosted by the Toronto Public Library as part of their "On Civil Society" series.
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Ather Zia is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern Colorado
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Christopher Sykes' moving documentary on Edward Said, first produced for the BBC more than three decades ago.
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A recording of an article I wrote almost 14 years ago. I cringe at some of the prose. Part two will be behind the paywall.
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Jorge Juan Rodríguez V is a Historian of Religion pursuing a PhD at Union Theological Seminary.
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Arash Davari is Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College.
Yousef Baker is Assistant Professor of International Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
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Pouya Alimagham is a historian of the modern Middle East based at MIT.
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