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
Guest host and writer Amal Nura (@amaalnuura) interviews Aziz Faarah (@azizfaarah), independent archivist and collector of Somali artifacts. They discuss his auction adventures and encounters with vendors including one who spent a few weeks in Somali jails in the 1970s https://twitter.com/azizfaarah/status/1736547727821943090.
Their conversation touches on the value of material culture, the museum as a colonial invention and Aziz...
Rana Barakat is associate professor of history at Birzeit University in Palestine and director of the BZU Museum (@bzu.museum).
Abduljawad Omar (@HHamayel2) is a lecturer at Birzeit University.
Check out the article, "The parallel human: Walid Daqqah on the 1948 Palestinian political prisoners" by Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh
An archive of Walid Daqqa's writings
https://shorturl.at/hyzQX
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C...
On Day 191 the tankie therapy group convenes (Joe Emersberger (@rosendo_joe), Rob Rousseau (@robrousseau), Mikey Inouye (@karaokecomputer), Sina Rahmani (@UrOrientalist), Alex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina) but for an analytical discussion about Iran's missiles hitting Israeli airbases the day before. A summary of what happened, a media roundup, Jordan's role, the new equation, and more.
Watch this episode on Justin's YouTube channel
Co...
Investigative journalist William Van Wagenen (@WVanwagenen) from The Cradle returns to the podcast to discuss his deep dive into what really happened on Oct 7th.
Watch this episode on our YouTube channel
https://youtu.be/PP7ZBzTJFmU
Check out the article, "What Really Happened on October 7?" https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/what-really-happened-on-october-7/?feed_id=11264&_unique_id=65d3514b9b6fe
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Introductory Remarks by Professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya)
PANEL 3
“Seeing Palestine, Not Seeing the Palestinians: Gaza in the British Pathé Colonial Lens” Shahd Abusalama, Lebanese American University
My presentation will critically engage with the representation of the Palestine question in general and Gaza refugees in particular by British Pathé, which, as a leading ...
PANEL 2
Introductory Remarks by Professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya)
"Queer Threads: Activist Fashion in Palestine"
Roberto Filippello, University of Amsterdam
In this presentation I sketch the contours of the formation of an activist fashion scene across Palestine in the face of material challenges that the infrastructures of the occupation pose to the production and circulation of clothes. I theorize the cr...
Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine
An In-Person and Livestreamed Conference
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Panel 1
Introductory Remarks by Professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya)
“The Urgency of Anti-Imperial Feminism: Lessons from Palestine”
Walaa Alqaisiya, Ca' Foscari Universi...
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Trying out a new live format and was joined by friends of the show Alex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina) and Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) for an angry deep dive into some of the terrible articles written on the Gaza genocide.
Watch the video edition on The ...
Paris Yeros (@parisyeros) teaches at the Federal University of ABC in Brazil. Guest host and friend of the show Bikrum Gil (@bikrumsinghgill) discuss Paris' latest article published in Agrarian South, "A Polycentric World Will Only Be Possible by the Intervention of the ‘Sixth Great Power"
Read the article here
Tankie therapy session as we watch the newest atrocities unfolding at al-Shifa, make historical parallels with the Argentine Dirty War and the 1857 War in India, the Battle of Algiers and the film Downfall... with Nora (@norabf), Matteo (@capassomat) , Mikey (@karaokecomputer), Sina (@UrOrientalist), and Alex (@Alexander_Avina).
Watch the video edition on The Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel
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Vijay Prasad (@vijayprashad) in conversation with friend of the podcast Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya).
Sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute for Arts and Humanities, Departments of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and of Communication, and the Curriculums in Global Studies and in Peace, War, & Defense.
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Ottawa-based Physician Dr. Yipeng Ge (@yipengGe) reflects on being attacked by the Zionist lobby for speaking out on the Gaza genocide and his subsequent trip to Rafah as part of a medical delegation.
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The crew is back on the couch at the therapist's office with Alex (@Alexander_Avina), Nora (@norabf), Sina (@urorientalist) and two new guests: Mikey (@karaokecomputer) and Arama.
Watch the video edition on the East is a Podcast YouTube channel
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Abdaljawad Omar is a PhD student and part-time lecturer in the Philosophy and Cultural Studies Department at Birzeit University.
Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel
https://youtu.be/tDkaO2lmD4o
Check out his articles on Mondoweiss
https://mondoweiss.net/author/abdaljawad-omar/
Listen to his episodes on Millenials are Killing Capitalism
https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/turning-grief...
Duke Professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) interviews visual artist and filmmaker Jumana Manna for the third episode of her Palestine Seminar.
Professor Hasso will be convening a conference titled, "Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine" on Feb 28th, 2024. It will be livestreamed and open access.
Live stream link
https://duke.zoom.us/j/93556167414
Detailed schedule available here
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Friend of the podcast Max Ajl returns to the show to discuss his latest article, "Palestines's Great Flood: Part 1."
Download the article here
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378147524_Palestine%27s_Great_Flood_Part_I
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Justin Podur hosts another seesion of Tankie Group Therapy marking Day 135 of the war with Matteo, Alex, and Nora.
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Duke Professor France Hasso (@nasawiyya) in conversation with University of Exeter professor of History Ilan Pappe as part of her Palestine Seminar.
Professor Hasso will be convening a conference titled, "Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine" on Feb 28th, 2024. It will be livestreamed and open access.
Live s...
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Rob Rousseau (@robrousseau) returns to the podcast to answer the age-old question that has stumped generations of thinkers: what the hell is wrong with Canada?
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https://www.twitch.tv/robrousse...
Duke professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) guest hosts a conversation with Louis Allday, founding editor of LiberatedTexts.com, as part of her Spring 2024 course. The pair discuss the significance, relevance, and insight of three books highlighted by Liberated Texts previously; “Zionist Colonialism in Palestine” by Fayez Sayegh, “On Zionist Literature” by Ghassan Kanafani and “Zionist Relations with Nazi Germany” by Faris Glubb...
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