The East is a 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

*Note: This is about 75% of our conversation. The rest is available to patrons for $5 a month* Saree Makdisi (@sareemakdisi) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA and the author of Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (2022) Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show

Unlocked from behind the paywall! Back by popular demand! Alexander McKay from Red Star Radio returns to continue the conversation about the tragicomical decline of the UK. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Guest host and friend of the show Shep (@NeolithicSheep) joins me to talk to Madina Matin from ASEEL, an impact-driven tech start-up based in Afghanistan connecting underrepresented communities with global customers and donors Check out ASEEL Website: http://aseelapp.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr2tsGFHrXkMZcG_01rJNLQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aseelapp/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aseelapp_ Twitter: https://twitter.com/aseelapp_ Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

A preview of the latest episode of Anti Empire Radio by friend of the show Justin Podur. Listen to the entire conversation by subscribing to Justin's show on your podcatcher or watch it on his YouTube channel. Talking to Amaresh Mishra, author of the giant book India 1857: War of Civilisations about the immense scale of the Indian revolution against British imperialism that year: the scale of Hindu-Muslim unity, the class aspect of the revoution, the scale of the genocidal British massacres that followed (Mishra's estimate is that the British killed 10 million Indians), and the importance of the so-called "1857 line": the spiritual, cultural, political and economic connection between Hindu and Muslim in South Asia and resistance to Anglo-American imperialism, the recovery of which is the only way for South Asia to take its place in the world. We analyze Modi's politics since 2014 and the continuing weakness of pro-Western ideologies (whether of the Congress or Hindutva variety) when faced with revolutionary politics. https://podur.org/2023/02/28/aer-119-that-time-when-britain-killed-10-million-indian-people-with-amaresh-mishra/ Get the printed transcript of this episode here

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. Esha Krishnaswamy (@eshalegal) is the host of the historicly podcast Check out the unlocked video edition on the nascent 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. Alexander Mckay is the host of the Red Star Radio Podcast (Apologies for my sound; I selected the wrong mic like a complete noob!)

Gabriel Rockhill returns to the show to talk about Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. Check out Gabriel's article, "Capitalism's Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek" Watch the video edition of this episode on the recently launched The East is a Podcast YouTube channel. 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 podcast Ricardo Vaz is a writer and editor with VenezuelAnalysis.com Subscribe to their podcast on your podcatcher and donate if you can at https://venezuelanalysis.com/donate

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 podcast Alexander Aviña takes us deep into the long and dirty history of so-called "drug wars."

Check out the article, "The role of UK intelligence services in the abduction, murder of James Foley" by William Van Wagenen (@wvanwagenen) Considering support the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Check out Amanda's latest article, "Why Chinese 'debt trap diplomacy' is a lie" 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. Justin Podur from the Anti Empire Project returns to the show to talk about the tire fire that was 2022.

Longtime friend of the podcast Ben Norton from Multopolarista returns to the show to discuss the coup in Peru. Consider supporting the show

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. Catherine Liu is Professor of Film & Media Studies in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine and author of Virtue Hoarders The Case against the Professional Managerial Class (2021)

Radio Drama starring Sir Ralph Richardson as the Storyteller and Scrooge. Cast: Frederick Treves as Bob Cratchit Mary Wimbush as Mrs Cratchit John Ruddock as Jacob Marley Ralph Truman as the Ghost of Christmas Present Wilfred Carter as the Ghost of Christmas Past Bruce Beeby as Fred Sheila Grant as Tiny Tim Broadcast on 25 December 1965. Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc2J3xq1geQ&ab_channel=RomanStyran

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. Sardana Nikolaeva shares her memories of the Wild 90s following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

A webinar organized by the Committee of Anti-Imperialists in Solidarity with Iran, leading up to International People's Tribunal on US Imperialism: Sanctions, Embargoes, Economic Coercive Measures The Tribunal will expose the effects of unilateral and multilateral sanctions on peoples and nations targeted by imperialism — and explore legal and political strategies to challenge these regimes of coercion. Donate to support the Tribunal: https://gofund.me/b67e2378 Watch the video edition on the CASI YouTube Channel https://solidarityiran.org/ Originally recorded: December 18, 2022 Speakers: Dr. Bikrum Gill | Professor in Political Science Department at Virginia Tech University; Dr. Corinna Mullin | Professor in Global Politics and Political Economy at City University of New York (CUNY); David Paul | Sanctions Kill; Eunha Jeong Wood | Nodutdol for Korean Community Development. Moderated by Charlotte Kates | International Coordinator of Samidoun & Member of the Steering Committee of the Tribunal