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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)

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Matches and Powderkegs w/ Yousef K. Baker

Matches and Powderkegs w/ Yousef K. Baker

Yousef K. Baker (@YousefKB) is Assistant Professor of International Studies at California State University, Long Beach. ... Read more

5 Jan 2020

38mins

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C.L.R. James in conversation with Studs Terkel (1970)

C.L.R. James in conversation with Studs Terkel (1970)

C.L.R. James and Studs Terkel discuss the Black Jacobins on WFMT Chicago(1970).

16 Jul 2019

46mins

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Ilan Pappé on Apartheid Israel and settler colonialism (January 2019)

Ilan Pappé on Apartheid Israel and settler colonialism (January 2019)

Ilan Pappé is one of the world's leading historians of Israel and the Zionist colonization of Palestine. With an introdu... Read more

30 Apr 2019

56mins

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Walter Rodney on Race and Class in Guyanese Politics (1978)

Walter Rodney on Race and Class in Guyanese Politics (1978)

Walter Rodney was a prominent Guyanese historian, political activist and academic.  This is a recording of a lecture he ... Read more

24 Feb 2019

1hr 11mins

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Toni Morrison's Nobel Lecture (1993)

Toni Morrison's Nobel Lecture (1993)

RIP Toni Morrison

6 Aug 2019

33mins

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"Postcolonialism? Have they left?" w/ Nick Estes

"Postcolonialism? Have they left?" w/ Nick Estes

Nick Estes (Kul Wicasa, a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe) is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the Univ... Read more

31 Aug 2019

50mins

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They're not gonna give it up that easily: Lebanon's revolt continues w/ Ali Kourani

They're not gonna give it up that easily: Lebanon's revolt continues w/ Ali Kourani

Ali Kourani is a grad student and political analyst based in Lebanon.  An appeal Please consider supporting the show. ... Read more

24 Oct 2019

48mins

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Islamophobia is a helluva drug w/Maryyum Mehmood

Islamophobia is a helluva drug w/Maryyum Mehmood

Maryyum Mehmood is Research Associate at St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford. Please support the show https://www.pa... Read more

17 Mar 2019

1hr 13mins

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Iran is a normal country w/ Zahra Shafei

Iran is a normal country w/ Zahra Shafei

Zahra Shafei studies dentistry in Iran. Please consider supporting the show. Please help me hit my goal of $1500 a mon... Read more

12 Feb 2020

30mins

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Abdel Takriti on Decolonising the Study of Palestine 71 Years after the Nakba (2019)

Abdel Takriti on Decolonising the Study of Palestine 71 Years after the Nakba (2019)

Abdel Razzaq Takriti is Associate Professor and the inaugural holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair i... Read more

22 Sep 2019

55mins

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On Hybrid War and riots in Iran w/ Ali Alizadeh

On Hybrid War and riots in Iran w/ Ali Alizadeh

Ali Alizadeh is a political analyst and media activist based in London. An appeal Please consider supporting the show.... Read more

21 Nov 2019

51mins

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The institutional farce of US elections w/ Sam Knight and Sam Sacks

The institutional farce of US elections w/ Sam Knight and Sam Sacks

Sam Sacks and Sam Knight are journalists based in DC and host the DC Sentinel. Please consider supporting the show. Pl... Read more

20 Feb 2020

54mins

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A better Green New Deal is possible w/ Max Ajl

A better Green New Deal is possible w/ Max Ajl

Max Ajl recently completed his PhD in Development Sociology at Cornell University. Please consider supporting the show. ... Read more

31 Dec 2019

46mins

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Basketball, Race, and Neoliberalism: a conversation with Nathan Kalman Lamb

Basketball, Race, and Neoliberalism: a conversation with Nathan Kalman Lamb

Nathan Kalman-Lamb is author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport (Fernwood Publishing) and co-... Read more

12 Jun 2019

56mins

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The Edward Said Mixtape (Vol. 1) - Said on Eqbal Ahmad

The Edward Said Mixtape (Vol. 1) - Said on Eqbal Ahmad

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

10 Nov 2018

42mins

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Graveyard of Empires: US surrenders in Afghanistan w/ Emran Feroz and Ali Latifi

Graveyard of Empires: US surrenders in Afghanistan w/ Emran Feroz and Ali Latifi

Emran Feroz and Ali Latifi return to the podcast to discuss the US surrender in Afghanistan. Please consider supporting ... Read more

2 Mar 2020

44mins

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Egypt: the forgotten revolution? w/ Josh Stacher

Egypt: the forgotten revolution? w/ Josh Stacher

Joshua Stacher is associate professor of political science at Kent State University and the author of Watermelon Democra... Read more

25 Mar 2020

1hr 7mins

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(PREVIEW) Bonus Episode 46 - On the assassination of Qasem Soleimani

(PREVIEW) Bonus Episode 46 - On the assassination of Qasem Soleimani

I went on the District Sentinel Radio to talk recent events in the region. Sign up at patreon.com/east_podcast for acces... Read more

4 Jan 2020

7mins

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The Edward Said Mixtape (Vol. 4) - The Nakba

The Edward Said Mixtape (Vol. 4) - The Nakba

Edward Said sharing his memories of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine (Nakba, catastrophe), marked annually by people ar... Read more

15 May 2019

34mins

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Another look at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (pt. 1) w/ Ali Alizadeh

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/#/episode... Read more

29 Dec 2018

48mins

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