The East is a Podcast

Chase Madar is an attorney, author, and journalist in New York. He is the author of The Passion of [Chelsea] Manning: The Story Behind the WikiLeaks Whistleblower (Verso, 2013) and part-time faculty at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Please support the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Sonja M. Thomas is Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Colby College. Please support the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Paul A. Bové is distinguished professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and editor of boundary 2, published by Duke University Press. Please support the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

A sneak preview of Nasser Mufti's second bonus episode. Sign up for the Patreon to gain access to this and other great bonus content. https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

A sneak preview of Sara Salem's bonus episode. Sign up for the Patreon to gain access to this and other great bonus content. https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

From February 2011, Shlomo Sand speaks in London at an event organized by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Writer and historian Shlomo Sand interrogates the foundations of nationhood, placing the idea of 'invention' above race, religion, and language.

Jake Aron is one half of Moloq and one of the earliest boosters of this podcast. I interviewed him recently ("No one is born angry") and we talked about Arabic, music, and American identity post-9/11. Support his work and check out these two tracks from Moloq's latest album. Buy their album Moloqmusic.com Follow Moloq: @moloqmusic Twitter & Instagram Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Max Ajl recently completed his doctorate in Development Sociology at Cornell University. Read his article, Beyond the Green New Deal Please support the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist and podcaster with Electronic Intifada. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Matt Dagher Margosian is the founder of Asia Art Tours based out of Taiwan and Seattle. asiaartours.com Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Jake Aron studied at Columbia's Middle East South Asian and African Studies department. He is one half of Moloq, an Atlanta-based psychedelic pop duo he co-founded with Paul Stevens. They just put out the band's second full length album, Moloq, this February. Moloqmusic.com @moloqmusic Twitter & Instagram. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Maryyum Mehmood is Research Associate at St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Edward Wastnidge is a Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, Open University, UK. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Revolution lecture by Egyptian author and activist Nawal El Saadawi at Folkteatern in Gothenburg, Sweden on October 12th, 2011. Presented by the Clandestino Institut. http://clandestinoinstitut.org/

As'ad AbuKhalil teaches at California State University, Stanislaus. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Ben Norton is a journalist based in New York. He is the co-host of Moderate Rebels. Ali Alizadeh is an independent political analyst based in London. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Yuri Kochiyama was a Japanese-American human rights activist, and is notable as one of the few prominent non-black Black separatists. A few years before her death in 2014, she sat down with Megan Asaka in Oakland to speak about her life and work. Produced by Densho, an organization dedicated to preserving the story of the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans in WWII.

Amy Wong is Assistant Professor at Dominican University of California. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Vidyaratha Kissoon lives in Guyana. He has been involved in the work to promote gender equality, child protection and LGBT equality. He blogs at http://churchroadman.blogspot.com/ He agreed to do this podcast because he was able to get a coffee in Georgetown from one of Sina's friends. Acknowledgments to Poonam Singh and her song "Guyana" Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Walter Rodney was a prominent Guyanese historian, political activist and academic. This is a recording of a lecture he gave in 1978, lightly edited for sound quality. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

"Human Rights in El Salvador" (1991), a report produced by Susan de Brava for Santa Barbara-based Behind the Headlines. Extremely graphic content, including descriptions of violence, sexual assault, torture, etc. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Max Ajl is a doctoral student in Development Sociology at Cornell University. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Ben Norton is a journalist based in New York. He is the co-host of Moderate Rebels. Ali Alizadeh is an independent political analyst based in London. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

*UNLOCKED* Bonus Episode 6 - Fatima Bhutto Fatima Bhutto's new novel is called The Runaways. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Max Ajl is a doctoral student in Development Sociology at Cornell University. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

A conversation with my friend and co-founder of "Two Brown Men with Four Green Thumbs Landscaping," Nasser Mufti. For $5+ Patrons only. Sign up here to get access today to all bonus content. created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

From C. L. R. James in conversation with Stuart Hall (1984). Directed by Mike Gibb, produced originally for Channel 4. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Fatima Bhutto's new novel is called The Runaways. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

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 "Critical Race Theory and New Directions for Victorian Studies." Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Nasser Mufti is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

*UNLOCKED* Bonus Episode 4 - Ali Shariati, Close-up w/ Arash Davari Arash Davari Arash Davari (@adavari21) is Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

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 on February 15th. Please support the show! Sign up here to get access today to all bonus content. created by Sina Rahmani (urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

A conversation with my mentor and friend, Saree Makdisi. You can get his books here. For $5+ Patrons only. Sign up here to get access today to all bonus content. created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Saree Makdisi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

*Preview: unlock full episode by subscribing* Patrick Higgins is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History at the University of Houston. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Ali Alizadeh is an independent journalist and political analyst based in London. https://www.eastpodcast.com/#/episode23/ *** Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

*Unlocked* Patrick Higgins is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History at the University of Houston. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

An archival tour through some of Hollywood's worst representations of South Asians in the last few decades. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

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 the late Barbara Harlow. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Ali Alizadeh is an independent journalist and political analyst based in London. https://www.eastpodcast.com/#/episode20/ *** Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

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 in 2015 and reflected on her experiences. https://www.eastpodcast.com/#/episode19/ *** Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

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* https://www.eastpodcast.com/#/episode18/ ***** Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] www.eastpodcast.com

Dr. Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. Original article available here: https://ajammc.com/2017/03/06/ann-lambton-in-iran/ Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] https://twitter.com/east_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 foreign policy. Here is a short conversation with radio host David Swanson from a few years ago, preceded by a short intro. Blum speaks about his career, his frustrations with the corporate media, and the Obama administration. created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] https://twitter.com/east_podcast

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 Colonised World: Lessons from Indigenous Translations (Palgrave, 2018). created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] https://twitter.com/east_podcast

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 two decades lavishing him with the kind of praise that only paid off toadies could provide. But the relationship soured in the 1970s. As the pressures on his regime increased internally, Western journalists were beginning to do their jobs. Foolishly, the last monarch of Iran let his narcissism get the best of him and chose to accept interview after interview, allowing himself to be pestered with questions about torture, beatings, and the opposition to his authoritarian rule. I've collected a bunch of interviews from mostly his later years, preceded by a brief introduction on the imperialist birthday party he threw for himself in 1971. created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) [email protected] https://twitter.com/east_podcast

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 University and a Master of Political Science and Historical Studies from The New School for Social Research, New York. Please send all comments and suggestions to [email protected] or reach us through Twitter https://twitter.com/east_podcast Podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist)

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' frightens the Middle East – and us." For more on Redeye, please consult their archive here. Please send all comments and suggestions to [email protected] or reach us through Twitter https://twitter.com/east_podcast Podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist)

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 Rahmani, "It's when there's more than one that there are problems" For more on Yasmina Adi's film, click here ***Trigger Warning: realistic sounds of violence are included between minute 5-8.*** Please send all comments and suggestions to [email protected] or reach us through Twitter https://twitter.com/east_podcast Podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist)

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 down, the two men helped manufacture one of the biggest intellectual frauds in recent memory: "The Clash of Civilizations." These two men, with the help of countless media appearances and glowing write ups, peddled the dumb but marketable idea that "Christendom" and "Islam," two entirely fictional entities woven solely out of words, were on track for a final showdown. Edward Said, who speaks here in selections from two different lectures I've edited lightly, was one of the brave few who took on this hoax and exposed it for what it was. Please send all comments and suggestions to [email protected] or reach us through Twitter https://twitter.com/east_podcast Podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist)