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
(UNLOCKED) Bonus Episode 6 - Fatima Bhutto
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Bonus Episode 6 - Fatima Bhutto
Fatima Bhutto's new novel is called The Runaways.
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Váyanse al carajo, yanquis de mierda (Hands off Venezuela) w/ Max Ajl
Max Ajl is a doctoral student in Development Sociology at Cornell University.
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(PREVIEW) Bonus Episode 5 - Nasser Mufti
A conversation with my friend and co-founder of "Two Brown Men with Four Green Thumbs Landscaping," Nasser Mufti.
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C. L. R. James in conversation with Stuart Hall (1984)
From C. L. R. James in conversation with Stuart Hall (1984). Directed by Mike Gibb, produced originally for Channel 4.
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Resistance is not a hashtag w/ Fatima Bhutto
Fatima Bhutto's new novel is called The Runaways.
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Live from Chicago, it's the MLA! w/ Ronjaunee Chatterjee
Ronjaunee Chatterjee is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Concordia University.
She co-organized a roundtable at the 2019 annual convention of the Modern Language Association on "…
Imagined Partitions: Cricket, Empire, and Civil War w/ Nasser Mufti
Nasser Mufti is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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UNLOCKED: Bonus Episode 4 - Ali Shariati, Close-up w/ Arash Davari Arash Davari
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Bonus Episode 4 - Ali Shariati, Close-up w/ Arash Davari Arash Davari
Arash Davari (@adavari21) is Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College.
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The East is a Podcast Radio (vol.1)
A compilation of folk, pop, and experimental songs from Morocco to India. Track list available here
Curated by Moloq (@moloqmusic)
Check out Moloq at https://www.moloqmusic.com. New album available …
The Afterglow of Empire (pt.1) w/ Saree Makdisi
Saree Makdisi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA.
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(PREVIEW) Bonus Episode 2 - The History of Ba'athism (pt.2) w/Patrick Higgins
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Patrick Higgins is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History at the University of Houston.
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Another look at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (pt. 2) w/ Ali Alizadeh
Ali Alizadeh is an independent journalist and political analyst based in London.
https://www.eastpodcast.com/#/episode23/
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UNLOCKED: Bonus Episode #1 - The History of Ba'athism (pt.1) w/Patrick Higgins
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Patrick Higgins is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History at the University of Houston.
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Brownface and the Convenience Store Clerk
An archival tour through some of Hollywood's worst representations of South Asians in the last few decades.
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The Edward Said Mixtape (Vol. 3) - The Gulf Crisis: a Palestinian Perspective
Another unabridged interview from the archives of Alternative Views, the legendary cable access show based in Austin, TX. Recorded on Sept. 19, 1990, Said is being interviewed by Douglas Kellner and …
Another look at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (pt. 1) w/ Ali Alizadeh
Ali Alizadeh is an independent journalist and political analyst based in London.
https://www.eastpodcast.com/#/episode20/
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Leila Khaled goes to South Africa
In 1969, Leila Khaled's face became etched into the global political imaginary as one of the leading militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
She visited South Africa…
Bye, Felicia: A century of failed imperialism in Syria w/ Patrick Higgins
Patrick Higgins is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History at the University of Houston.
*Discussion of US withdrawal from Syria begins roughly halfway through the episode*
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Scholarship in the service of Empire w/ Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
Dr. Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.
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