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)
Episodes
**I put the concluding 20 mins of the conversation behind the paywall on audio. If you want to listen to the entire episode, sign up for Patreon for less than $2 a month or watch it on our YouTube channel (linked below)**
**Note: I managed-yet again-to mess up my audio settings at the last minute before we started recording resulting in me sounding blown out. Apologies!**
Tankie Group Therapy is back! After a long hiatus, Sina is joined by TGT stalwarts Nora, Alex, Adnan, and Lara.
Video edition coming soon!
Fundraisers
Mohammed's family has been ordered to evacuate for the fourth time. Please consider donating to his campaign
https://chuffed.org/project/120676-mohammed-from-gaza
The Sameer Project
https://chuffed.org/project/113222-tent-campaign-the-sameer-project
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***I was invited by the good people at Resistance is Fertile to talk about 12-day-war. **
In this episode, Sacha and Benji welcome Sina Rahmani to analyze the recent 12-day conflict between Iran and Israel. They discuss the implications of the attacks, the psychological impact on ...
Longtime friend of the show Aalex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina) returns to guest host an episode with journalist Abraham Marquez (@abemarquez3) about the recent intensification of the war on racialized communities and undocumented people.
Check out Abraham's article, "Paramount and Compton rise up for undocumented workers"
on his Substack
Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel
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Longtime friend of the show and frequent guest host Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) was invited to Iran for an international media conference hosted by Press TV.
Watch the full episode on Press TV website
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/01/749030/Becoming-a-Critical-Thinker-&-an-Anti-Imperialist-Writer
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**Adnan invited me on his show to record on the latest development. We went for so long, I was eventually out of words!*
Adnan convenes an emergency panel to discuss and analyze the recent Israeli-US attack on Iran, its implications for Iran, the region and the world. Prof. David Yaghoubian (CSU-San Bernardino) and Sina Rahmani (East is a Podcast) share their insights and reflections along with passionate and deeply committed analy...
**Producer's note: This is the second episode of "Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial)," a 7-part series Adnan recorded for his podcast, The Adnan Husain Show with his colleague Dr. Ariel Salzmann. All 7 parts are available right to patrons of his show and will be released individually on the free feed over the next 5 weeks. Subscribe to his s...
Robert Massoud is the founder of Zatoun, which bottles and distributes olive oil from Palestine to North America. He also ran Beit Zatoun House, a cultural centre and meeting place in downtown Toronto for many years.
Zatoun is a grassroots, volunteer-powered initiative launched in 2004. As North America's longest-standing source for fair trade Palestinian olive oil, Zatoun uses this essential staple as a symbol of solidarity, resi...
Tankie Groupy Therapy is back! A lively, "dudes rock" episode featuring: Alex, Joe, Sina, Adnan, and our newest member, Jay Ware from Millennials are Killing Capitalism
Check out Adnan's conversation with Alana Lentin on his new podcast
Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel
Fundraisers
Mohammed's campaign has languished since the amazing boost he received last month. Please consider supporting him or hi...
Comrade and longtime friend of the show Alex Aviña recently gave a lecture the seminar "Global Laboratories of Repression, Global Visions of Liberation" and the organizers have kindly shared the audio for listeners of the show!
**Note: This extra-long conversation continued for another 25 mins, which has been posted for Patrons of the show.**
A very special episode featuring comrades and former guests of the show: Nora Barrows-Friedman from El, writer Morgan Artyukhina, filmmaker Dror Dayan, and Adam Horowitz from Mondoweiss
Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel
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*I was invited to the Psychlib podcast to discuss the power of rage and it resulted in ~90 mins of mostly me ranting*
In this wide-ranging and wide-ranting discussion, Sina, Sacha and Benji explore the psychological clay feet of the dying white empire. We explore the entanglement of settler colonies and how they can't genocide their way to victory over the rest of the world. We look at the psychological protective and mobilizing r...
A forum exploring some of the characteristics of Spanish imperialism in Latin America featuring comrade Alex Aviña, and co-hosts of Kuskalla podcast, Yojana Miraya Oscco and Renzo Aroni
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*I recently did two very long livestreams with friend of the show and comrade Jared Ware from Millenials are Killing Capitalism. I didn't want to subject all of you on the free feed to almost six hours of mostly Sina yeling so I put one of our conversations behind the paywall. You can watch that episode linked below*
Back by popular demand. Sina Rahmani will return to the show to discuss whether we are in the early days of World Wa...
*Producer's note: This episode begins with a request to help my friend Mohammed in Gaza. Please consider supporting Mohammed's fundraiser to support his family in their efforts to survive the genocide. As I explain in the episode, Mohammed's family has been displaced 5 times, most recently 10 days ago! Any sized donation is welcome!*
Prof. Adnan Husain hosts a conversation with Nora Barrrows Friedman (@norabf), Alex Aviña (@Alexand...
**Note: We recorded this episode on Sunday afternoon, one day before the Ziofash Entity committed a heinous massacre and ended their ceasefire pretense.**
After a brief hiatus, the Tankie Group Therapy crew (Sina, Alex, Nora, Mikey, Louis, Joe) reunite to discuss the ongoing genocide in Palestine and beyond.
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Friend of the show Alex Avina returns to guesthost a conversation about writing and resistance with Mary Turfah and Taylor Miller.
Check out some of their recent work below:
"Against These Walls: A Unity of Struggle from Gaza to Sonora"
Taylor Miller
"Peace From Our Point of View"
Mary Turfah
"Points of Entry"
Mary Turfah
"Silicon Wadi, Silicon Desert"
Taylor Miller
Watch the video edition on our YouTube channel
https://youtu.be/...
This is a preview of a recent episode of The Adnan Husain Show. The conversation continued for another full hour! Subscribe to Adnan's show on your podcatcher to listen to the full episode or watch it on YouTube linked below.
Prof. Adnan Husain discusses the modern history of Iran from the late nineteenth century to contemporary relations with the US with friend and colleague Prof. David N. Yaghoubian of California State University...
Longtime friends of the show and host of The Red Nation Podcast Nick Estes (@nickwestes) and Ali Alizadeh (@Ali7adeh) from Jedaal to look at the history of the Party of God and its martyred leaders against the wider backdrop of Indigenous resistance to settler colonialism.
Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel
Check out the documentary, Hezbollah: The Untold Story and subscribe to Jedaal English
*Producer's note: I put the audio of the final 15 mins of this conversation behind the paywall. You can listen to that portion of the conversation by signing up for $5 a month at patreon.com/east_podcast or you can watch the entire episode for free on the EIAP YouTube channel linked below*
A roundtable discussion featuring Tankie Group Therapy stalwarts Alex and Joe as well as Adnan Husain, who recently launched his own channel, t...
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