The East is a Podcast

Carlos L. Garrido, Edward L. Smith, and Alex Zambito are the force behind Midwestern Marx Check out their Youtube channel Please consider supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, cash apps, and merch store.

Neama Alamri is a historian who recently completed her Ph.D at the University of California, Merced. Check out her article. Guest hosted by Alexander Aviña Unlocked from behind the paywall. Sign up for the bonus feed at Patreon.com/east_podcast to get great bonus content and help sustain the show. Go to eastpodcast.com for links to Gofundme, merch store, and cash apps.

Guest hosted by Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) Patrick Higgins on Peter Dale Scott's The Road to 9/11 – Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America Louis Allday, a writer and historian, is the founding editor of Liberatedtexts.com. Patrick Higgins is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History at the University of Houston. Please consider supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, cash apps, and merch store.

Friend of the show Anjuli Raza Kolb (@anjulifatima) is joined by Mariam Ghani (@ghanimariam) and Chitra Ganesh to discuss the many legacies of the September 11th attacks. Anjuli Raza Kolb (University of Toronto) is a scholar, poet, essayist, and translator living in Harlem. Chitra Ganesh is a Brooklyn-based artist working in film, mural, photographs, painting, comics, and digital media. Mariam Ghani (Bennington College) is a filmmaker, artist, activist, and researcher based in New York. Chitra and Mariam have collaborated since 2004 as Index of the Disappeared, an experimental archive of post-9/11 renditions, redactions, detentions, deportations and disappearances, and a platform for dialogue around related issues and ideas. Please consider supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, cash apps, and merch store.

Dawud Ansari is a researcher based in Berlin and director of the Energy Access and Development Program We discuss this research project (link). Please consider supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, cash apps, and merch store.

Shah Mahmoud Hanifi teaches history at James Madison University and is the author of Connecting Histories in Afghanistan (2011) Please consider supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, cash apps, and merch store.

Kwame Ture interviewed in 1995 for Howard University's"Evening Exchange" Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eM4rP-qHMc&ab_channel=AAPRPbritain

Seymour Hersh in conversation with Afshin Rattansi in 2018 and followed by an interview with Tariq Ali from 2016. Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI3ZkL9Soos&ab_channel=GoingUndergroundonRT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIBxGm08KY8&ab_channel=TeleSUREnglish

Judith Kalman is an author based in Toronto. Read her statement here. Co-hosted with Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb) Please consider supporting the show

Friends of the podcast Justin Podur and Zeyad el Nabolsy return for a deep dive into the concept of nonviolence and its strange origin story in the work of Gene Sharp. We discuss these two articles by Marcie Smith in the episode. Please consider supporting the show

Hugo Chávez speaking in 2006 (at the UNGA) and in 2009.

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. You can donate directly through Gofundme, and PayPal/Venmo as well. Links to the latter on my website, eastpodcast.com Bikrum Gill (@realDrcabbie) teaches in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. The episode opens with a discussion of this tweet.

Edward Said speaking to Bill Moyers and Tariq Ali respectively.

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. You can donate directly through Gofundme, and PayPal/Venmo as well. Links to the latter on my website, eastpodcast.com Friend of the podcast Olivia Giovetti returns to discuss HBO's fancypants new historical drama, Oslo (2021). Check out her article

Cuban revolutionary hero Fidel Castro speaks in Harlem. Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kBgGLHMfnU&ab_channel=AfroMarxist

Friend of the podcast Amanda (@catcontentonly) has launched her own podcast. Gain access to this episode in its entirety by signing up at https://www.patreon.com/radiofreeamanda.

Tamara Nassar is an associate editor at The Electronic Intifada Please consider supporting the show

Chris Bernadel is on the Haiti Committee of the Black Alliance for Peace. See their recent statement on the country's illegitimate government Hosted by Justin Podur, author of Haiti's New Dictatorship: The Coup, the Earthquake, and the UN Occupation (2012) Consider supporting the podcast patreon.com/East_podcast

A lecture hosted by Azim Premji University in August 2016 Source: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv4bdkxXT_h4NlnmNhDbq4w

(A preview of the latest episode of Rewatchability. For the entire episode, subscribe to Rewatchability wherever you get your podcasts) Grab your space-ankh, this week we walk like an Egyptian-from-another-planet with STARGATE! Starring Snake Plissken, I mean Kurt Russell, and the part of James Spader not obscured by his exceedingly floppy mop, this military sci-fi action flick combined your grade 4 history unit on Egypt with a random episode of Star Trek. Sina Rahmeni from The East Is A Podcast joins us once again to pick apart this Roland Emmerich blockbuster We thought it was fascinating and mysterious when we were kids, but how does it hold up now?

Suchitra Vijayan's book, Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India, is available now. Check out the Polis Project and their podcast. Consider supporting the podcast. Go to eastpodcast.com for links to patreon, Gofundme, merch store, and cash apps.

Ussama Makdisi is the Arab-​American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University. Check out his book, Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World Support the podcast https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast Consider supporting the podcast!

Mick Wallace (link) and Clare Daly (link) are Members of European Parliament. Check out their podcast, I4C Trouble with Daly and Wallace Support the podcast https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast

President Nasser interviewed in the Presidential Palace in Cairo by New York Times managing editor Clifton Daniel. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg9eC-otwCs&ab_channel=AfroMarxist

Arash Joblaghi returns to the podcast to talk about rocketry, missiles, and hegemony. Check out his YouTube channel. Support the podcast https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Richard Falk's keynote at the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture in October 2014, hosted by Columbia University. The lecture begins around min 15. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZAVjIfTBVo&ab_channel=SOFHeyman

Tamar Boyadjian (link) teaches at Michigan State University and is Editor of the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies (link) Rachel Goshgarian teaches at Lafayette College (Link) Support the podcast https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast

My teacher and comrade Saree Makdisi (@sareemakdisi) returns to the podcast to talk about the rapid transformation in the Palestine liberation struggle. Check out his recent article, "The Nakba is Now" Support the podcast https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Edward Said talked about his book Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, published by Harvard University Press. Source

(Note: This was recorded before the recent uprising) Ted Kelly (@teddyredder) speaks to Susan Abulhawa (@sjabulhawa) Palestinian writer, biologist, and Workers World Party member. Comrade Abulhawa's latest novel, Against the Loveless World, is out now. We're also joined by Susan's dogs, Luca, Lily, and Mika. !أبطال فلسطين توحّد الأشراف في العالم !تسقط الحركة صهيونية Against the Loveless World: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Agains…781982137038

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. You can donate directly through Gofundme, and PayPal/Venmo as well. Links to the latter on my website, eastpodcast.com My comrade and longtime patron of the podcast Nick Estes returns to explore the meaning of immigration against the historical backdrop of settler colonialism in the US.

A lecture hosted by Evergreen College in October 2012. Check out Michael Parenti's media archive

Justin Podur and I teamed up to interview Columbia University historian Manan Ahmed on his fantastic new book, The Loss of Hindustan. This is the second half of the conversation. Subscribe to the Anti-Empire project and download the first!

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. You can donate directly through Gofundme, and PayPal/Venmo as well. Links to the latter on my (almost up-to-date) website, eastpodcast.com Ambereen Dadabhoy is Associate Professor of Literature at Harvey Mudd College in California.

A lecture hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2013. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhZsPIrpYI4&ab_channel=WoodrowWilsonCenter

The second part of a three-part lecture series hosted by the SOAS titled "Six Decades of Development Debate" in 2013. (The first part is available on this feed as well, released back in September last year) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEq8OK4BUyM&ab_channel=SOASUniversityofLondon

"First-Hand Accounts of the Japanese American Internment Experience. It is our hope that these stories will build on the work and legacy of the late Mary Tsukamoto, who devoted her life to promoting social justice for all, regardless of race, creed, or ethnicity." Learn more about the Time Remembrance Project Source

Arash Joblaghi is a Strategic Adviser and the creator of the Iran Military Review Full text of Joint Statement on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between I.R. Iran, P.R. China Consider supporting the podcast

Fadil Aliriza is a journalist based in Tunis and the founder & editor-in-chief of Meshkal. Support the podcast on patreon

A reading of Dr. Salman Abu Sitta's article "Eleven Wars against Palestinians: How Palestinians are coping with their Elimination" Read by Nyla Matuk Unlocked from behind the paywall. Sign up for the bonus feed at Patreon.com/east_podcast to get great bonus content and help sustain the show.

Friend of the podcast Ehsani returns to discuss Lebanon's worsening cash crisis. Link to sign up for the MATCH4SARA Campaign Consider supporting podcast on Patreon or go to Eastpodcast.com for links to GofundMe, Paypal, and merch store.

A talk by Abdel Razzaq Takriti for the Global Middle East Seminar Series at Goldsmiths Centre for Postcolonial Studies. Introduction by friend of the show, Eskandar Sadeghi

Dr. Salman Abu Sitta is the Founder and President of the Palestine Land Society and the General Coordinator of the Right of Return Congress and has served as a member of the Palestine National Council. Nyla Matuk is the author of two collections of poetry and the editor of Resisting Canada: An Anthology of Poetry.

An excerpt from a recent episode of Justin Podur's fantastic podcast, The Anti Empire Project. If you like my show you will probably enjoy Justin's! Subscribe on your podcatcher or listen on his website

Alexander Aviña is Associate Professor of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Check out his article. Consider supporting podcast on Patreon or go to Eastpodcast.com for links to GofundMe, Paypal, and merch store.

A 2015 lecture hosted by the US National Archives. Get the book Source

Nasser Arrabyee is a journalist based in Sana'a. Consider supporting podcast on Patreon or go to Eastpodcast.com for links to GofundMe, Paypal, and merch store.

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. You can donate directly through Gofundme, and PayPal/Venmo as well. Links to the latter on my (almost up-to-date) website, eastpodcast.com Erik Wade is a Medievalist and currently teaches in Germany. Check out his thread

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An excerpt from Joelle Abi-Rached's book read by Alex Salamat Unlocked from behind the paywall. Sign up for the bonus feed at Patreon.com/east_podcast to get great bonus content and help sustain the show.