The East is a Podcast

Friend of the podcast Henry Hakamäki (@Huck1995) from Guerrilla History Podcast and professor Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro translated Dominico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend (2008) (Note: This is part one of a two-part conversation. The second half is only available to $5 Patrons of The East is a Podcast or watch the entire episode on our YouTube channel) Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, holds public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case South Africa v. Israel. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f_yoal4gx8&ab_channel=SABCNews

Matt Hooley is Assistant Professor at Dartmouth and his book Against Extraction can be pre-ordered now through Duke University Press. Guest hosted by Ian Anderson (of the Anti-Imperialist Archive) Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Isa Blumi is Docent/Associate Professor of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University within the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. He is the author of among other works Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World (2018) Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Our usual group gets together to talk about the Gaza War but this time we're joined by Lara Sheehi, an actual therapist, who guides us through as we try to understand where things stand on Day 78 of the war. Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Interview with Daniel was conducted by Ian Anderson (of the Anti-Imperialist Archive) Daniel can be found at: Writing Jamaa Al-Yad Artists' Collective Blog 2006 war diary Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month to access the entire conversation and help keep the show going!* (Note: Apologies for my sound quality; selected the wrong mic like a noob!) Yemeni journalist Nasser Arrabyee (@narrabyee) returns to the show to talk about the closure of the Bab el Mandab strait to Israeli-linked vessels by Yemen in solidarity with Gaza.

Our usual group gets together to talk about the Gaza War, this time we all share some words about literature prof, teacher, poet and hero Refaat Alareer, assassinated by Israel a couple of days ago. Some discussion of military tactics and strategies as always. Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive episode dedicated to Refaat to hear him in his own words. Consider support the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Link to the Anti Imperialist Archive episode Anti Imperialist Archive is edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Their Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive. Subscribe via this RSS feed

Dr. Ussama Makdisi (@UssamaMakdisi) is Professor of History and Chancellor's Chair at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-host of the newly-launched podcast, Makidisi Street, Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

*A preview of the latest episode of Makdisi Street, a new podcast hosted by Saree, Ussama, and Karim Makdisi* The Makdisi brothers welcome Francesca Albanese (@FranceskAlbs), the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, to the podcast. The discussion covers international humanitarian law, the concept of self-defense as it is understood in international law, the right to resist military occupation, the specificities of settler colonial occupation, and the question of justice given the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. Follow us on X: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on YouTube: @MakdisiStreet Music by Hadiiiiii

Nora, Matteo, Rania, and Alex are gathered to talk about what we're seeing and trying to make sense of on Israel's War on Gaza after 8 weeks, a couple of days after the end of the "humanitarian pause". We open with a discussion of the five premature babies left to die in Al-Nasr hospital when doctors and parents were forced out of the hospital at gunpoint by the Israeli military. We conclude with a discussion of what wars of resistance and guerrilla wars have looked like in history. Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Lie down on the couch and prepare yourself for another session of Tankie Group Therapy featuring friend of the podcast Bikrum Gill (@bikrumsinghgill) and hosted by Matteo "Super Mario" Capasso (@capassomat). Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

This is only 65% of the conversation. Subscribe to the East is a Podcast on Patreon to listen to the rest of the episode.) Mary Turfah (@maryturfah) is a physician and writer. Check out her amazing piece on Mondoweiss, "Before the light goes out" Adam Horowitz (@mondowitz) is the Executive Editor at @Mondoweiss Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Miriam and Naye from the Palestinian Youth Movement do a deep dive into the modern history of Gaza and what role it plays in the Palestinian people's liberation struggle. Check out their teach-in at the People's Forum in NYC Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

The alliance between the East is a Podcast, the Brief, and the Anti-Empire Project continues as we discuss the Gaza War six weeks in (since October 7, 2023). Structured as group therapy (the fourth in the series) we cover some of the news, the dynamic of aggression and resistance, military analysis of guerrilla war, the painful search for historical analogies to help us understand the moment, and more. Watch the video edition on The Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. The conversation continued for another 45 minutes in which Ali discusses the current war in Gaza and its significance to global capitalism. Please subscribe to the show for as little as $5 a month to get access to this and hundreds of hours of great bonus content.* Ali Kadri is the author of numerous books including Arab Development Denied: Dynamics of Accumulation by Wars of Encroachment (2014), The Unmaking of Arab Socialism (2016), The Cordon Sanitaire: A Single Law Governing Development in East Asia and the Arab World (2019), and co-editor (with Linda Matar) of Syria: From National Independence to Proxy War (2019) Guest hosted by friend of the show Matteo Capasso (@capassomat) Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Amal Saad (@amalsaad_lb) is Lecturer in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University and one of the world's leading experts on Lebanon's Hizbullah movement. Guest hosted by long time friend of the show Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday), Founding Editor of Liberated Texts. Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Another round of group therapy featuring Justin Podur (@justinpodur) from The Anti-Empire Project, Nora Barrows-Friedman (@norabf) and Jon Elmer (@jonelmer) from The Electronic Intifada, and Nick Estes (@nickwestes) from The Red Nation. Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

*Editor's note: A glitch in the recording software used for this episode abruptly cut off the last couple of minutes of the conversation.* Charlotte Kates (@charlottekates) is International Coordinator with Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network Guest hosted by longtime friend of the show Max Ajl (@maxajl) Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Ali Jezzini (@Aly_jezzini) is a producer for Al Mayadeen English based in Beirut. Check out his very good thread on the limitations of missile defense. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the showwww.patreon.com/east_podcast

The second round of group therapy featuring friends of the podcast Nora Barrows-Friedman (@norabf) and Justin Podur (@justinpodur) Check out Justin's latest piece, "Gaza: The Combined West opts for genocide" Nora's author page at Electronic Intifada Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

A conversation about the recent developments in Palestine with MAKC's Jared Ware (@jaybeware) and Josh Briond (@queersocialism), and friend of the podcast Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) Co-published with Milenials are Killing Capitalism, which you can support on Patreon. Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

*This episode is divided into two parts; the full conversation clocks in at almost two hours! You can listen to the second half by becoming a patron of the podcast $5 level on Patreon.com or you can watch for free on the East is a Podcast YouTube channel* Friend of the podcast Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) guest hosts an extra-long conversation with Professor Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. Check out his latest book, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine (2020) *Episode recording date: Aug 25, 2023* Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

**Trying out something new and recorded a livestreamed episode with friend of the podcast Jared Ware. We recorded a live episode and plan to do more in the coming weeks. When we record next, I will promo it on the show beforehand and put it on the podcast socials. I hope you enjoy this episode and join us in the future! It was a lot of fun to interact live with listeners for the first time** Jared Ware (@jaybeware) is one of the co-hosts of (the very good and extremely prolific) Millenials are Killing Capitalism. We discuss the shameless embrace of Nazism by the Canadian political class, the Ukraine war hypocrisy, the generally abysmal state of the legacy media, and a whole lot more! Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube Channel Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Justin Boldaji is an artist and children's book author based in Seattle. Check out his designs for The East is a Podcast merch store! *This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month to access the entire conversation and help keep the show going!*

*Note: This is roughly 75% of the conversation. To listen to the entire episode, subscribe to the show on Patreon for as little as $5 a month* Friend of the podcast Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) and Minoo Moallem, a professor at UC Berkeley, had a conversation about Persian carpets as commodities and more than commodities, Iran, Islamophobia, diasporic loss, feminism, patriarchy, culture, and the making and unmaking of theory and area studies. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel The digital project Nation on the Move may be found here: http://vectors.usc.edu/projects/index.php?project=83; The essay on the prayer carpet: https://mavcor.yale.edu/sites/default/files/article_pdf/moallem_minoo_pdf.pdf; The new project on carpet artists: https://www.famsf.org/stories/weaving-connections-carpet-art-community-environment; The Meridians article, "Race, Gender, and Religion: Islamophobia and Beyond": https://read.dukeupress.edu/meridians/article-abstract/20/2/271/296649/Race-Gender-and-ReligionIslamophobia-and-Beyond Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Friends of the show Justin Podur (@justinpodur), Nora Barrows-Friedman (@norabf), and Matteo Capasso (@capassomat) joined me for a discussion about the ideological hellscape in which we are incarcerated. Watch the video edition of The East is a Podcast YouTube channel. Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month to access the entire conversation and help keep the show going!* Morgan Artyukhina (@LavenderNRed) is a historian, teacher, and writer. Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Kai Bosworth (@kaibosworth) teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University and is the author of Pipeline Populism: Affective Infrastructures of Grassroots Environmentalism in the 21st Century (2022) Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Kyle Ferrana (@KyleTrainEmoji)is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. Check out his amazing thread on China's rapid advances in renewable energy and infrastructure. Watch the video edition of the episode on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the podcast. www.patreon.com/east_podcast

*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month to access the entire conversation and help keep the show going!* Matteo Capasso (@capassomat) recently joined me for a two-part episode ("Lessons from the end of the Libyan Arab Jamāhīriyyah"), and I wanted to have him back to elaborate on some of the threads we didn't pick up on in our initial talk. This is roughly 50% of our conversation. Sign up on Patreon for to access the full episode Check out his book, Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (2023)

Friend of the podcast Chris Beausang (@ilchinealach) returns to the show to explore the life and legacy of Roger Casement. Subscribe to Chris' fantastic podcast, Politics and Letters Check out his earlier episodes on the podcast James Connolly and Irish anticolonial resistance (Pt.1) The Troubles and the Irish Question (Pt.1) Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month to access the entire conversation and help keep the show going!* Cindy Li is a DJ based in Toronto. She is currently on tour, and you can check out her recent set in Berlin.

*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month to access the entire conversation and help keep the show going!* The second half of my conversation with Matteo Capasso (@capassomat), author of the new book, Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (2023).

**This episode contains roughly 60% of our conversation. To listen to the second half, subscribe to the show on Patreon and help keep the show going** Matteo Capasso (@capassomat) is the author of Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (2023) Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Friend of the podcast Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) interviewed Dana Al-Hasan (@cuote32) about how she connects the dots on local and international activism from a socialist, feminist, and anti-imperialist perspective. They discussed Palestine, gentrification, racism, anti-policing, and reproductive rights activism in North Carolina, especially the Raleigh and Durham areas. Learn more here about the campaigns discussed in the interview: https://www.refundraleigh.org/ https://www.heartdrm.com/ Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Check out Frances' recent episode about her amazing (and open-access!) book Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine (2021) Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by signing up at the $5 level. Friend of the show Justin Podur (@justinpodur) sits down for yet another installment of "Sina needs to talk about his problems but records it for content." In the episode, Justin and I discuss the question of how to read the news (or not!) If you can't afford $5 you can watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

My comrade Ian Anderson has been making amazing archival mixtapes and publishing them on the Anti-Imperialist Archive. Subscribe to the show on your podcatcher and check out their work.

Friend of the podcast Alex Aviña returns to the podcast to discuss Mexico's populist-nationalist President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Check out Alex's recent episode on the Drug War available only to Patrons of the show. Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) is Professor in the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University. Check out the open-access edition of Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine (2021) Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube Channel Consider signing up on Patreon to listen to the bonus episode which contains the rest of our conversation (~20 mins). Also, you can help keep the show going! Hundreds of hours of bonus content are sitting behind the paywall, so if you like the podcast you can get a lot more great content for just five bucks a month!

*Note: This episode is pieced together from two different conversations. Kit had some technical problems and disappears in the first half so I interviewed him after* Asa Winstanley writes for The Electronic Intifada. Pre-order his book, Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn (2023) from @orbooks. You can subscribe to his newsletter here: http://asawinstanley.substack.com Kit Klarenberg is an investigative journalist who focuses on the role of intelligence services on the politics of perception. Check out their article, "Revealed: British government spied on Palestinian refugees" Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel! Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by signing up at the $5 level. Returning guest Fadil Aliriza is a journalist based in Tunis and the founder & editor-in-chief of Meshkal. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel

Nasser Arrabyee is a journalist based in Sana'a. Make sure to check his previous appearances on the show! Watch the video edition on the East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by signing up at the $5 level. Friend of the show and recurring guest Amanda Yee (@catcontentonly) on the absurd (and completely fraudulent) panic around TikTok. Watch a preview on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel.

A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by signing up at the $5 level. The conclusion of my conversation with Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt (@HunnicuttWolfe). Check out his book, The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy (2021) from Stanford University Press

Yousef Baker (@YousefKB) teaches political science at California State University, Long Beach and worked briefly in the Green Zone in the early days of the US occupation. Watch the video edition of this episode on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel. Check out the first half of this conversation with Nick Estes (@NIckWestes) on The Red Nation Podcast on your podcatcher to listen to the entire conversation or click the link at the end of this video. Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Brandon Wolfe-Honnecut is the author of The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq (2021). Video edition available on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the show and like the episodes! Check out his earlier episodes available only to patrons hosted by friend of the show Max Ajl Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Amir Taha is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam. Check out his earlier episode, "Resisting Saddam." Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

*Friend of the podcast Chris Beausang has started his own podcast! Subscribe to his show here on Apple Podcasts and listen to the entire episode* An interview with Conor McCarthy about the life and work of the Palestinian literary critic and activist Edward Said. Conor McCarthy is a Senior Lecturer at Maynooth University. His books include The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said, Modernisation, Crisis and Culture in Ireland 1969 - 1992. He has also edited The Revolutionary and Anti-Imperialist Writings of James Connolly 1893 - 1916. I blog at https://aonchiallach.github.io