The East is a Podcast

William Blum was one of the most critical voices in the US media sphere. After leaving behind a lucrative career with the State Dept in 1967, he began writing about the disastrous consequences of US …

Nikkie Hessel is Associate Professor School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Her most recent book is Romantic Literature and the Coloni…

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's reign was profoundly connected to the Western news media. The mainstream press played an active role in the ousting of his rival Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953, and spent the next…

Isa Blumi is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian, Middle Eastern, and Turkish Studies at Stockholm University. He holds a PhD in History and Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies from New York Un…

A interview with legendary English journalist Robert Fisk from 2015 produced by Vancouver's Redeye Collective.

The talk was titled: "Goodbye, Mr Sykes! Adieu, Monsieur Picot!" How the ISIS ‘caliphate…

This is the story of the now largely forgotten “dark night” of October 17, 1961, "the bloodiest act of state repression of street protest in Western Europe in modern history".

Adapted from Sina Rahma…

While they may not be household names, Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington can justifiably count themselves among the most influential academics of the last few decades. As the Cold War was winding d…

Sara Salem is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics. Sara's research interests include political sociology, postcolonial studies, Marxist theory, feminist theory, and glo…

Manu Samriti Chander is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. He holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and a PhD from Brown University. His first monograph, Brown Romant…

An interview with Gayatri Spivak fom the archives of Alternative Views, the legendary public access TV show based in Austin created and hosted by Douglas Kellner and Frank Morrow. In the episode, the…

Turkey has for decades been one of the most important allies of the Western powers. The rise of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan--a charismatic nationalist and polarizing figure who survived a coup attempt in Ju…

In April 1964, Malcolm X traveled to Saudi Arabia to complete the Hajj. Upon his return, he gave a press conference and explained what lessons his experiences abroad had taught him about the problems…

Recorded at the University of Colorado, Boulder on October 12, 1998, Eqbal Ahmad speaks about the dangers and dishonesty of the rhetoric  of terrorism.

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Edward Said on his close and intimate relationship with revolutionary political scientist and activist Eqbal Ahmad.

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Emran Feroz is an Austro-Afghan journalist and author based in Stuttgart.  He is the author "Tod per Knopfdruck" [Death at the Push of a Button] published by Westend in Oct 2017.  His work has appear…

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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