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Sana Saeed joins Protean View to discuss what it means to be a journalist and how journalists of various political stripes have responded to the genocide in Gaza. If you enjoyed this episode and want more from Protean View, please subscribe to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠ and support us on ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Follow Protean View on ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , and wherever you podcast. We p...

Adnan Husain joins Protean View to discuss the crisis in academia, the responsibility of intellectuals, the genocide in Gaza, and much more. If you enjoyed this episode and want more from Protean View, please subscribe to our ⁠⁠⁠newsletter⁠⁠⁠ and support us on ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Follow Protean View on ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠X⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠ , and wherever you podcast. We publish on  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ...

Benjamin Schonthal joins Protean View to discuss his book Courts, Constitutions and Karma: Buddhism, Law and the Practices of Legal Pluralism in Sri Lanka (Cambridge 2026) in addition to related topics on Islam, Sharia, and secularism. If you enjoyed this episode and want more from Protean View, please support us on ⁠⁠ Patreon⁠⁠ . You can also support us by becoming a ⁠paid supporter⁠ of Muftah Ma...

Alexander Thurston joins Protean View to discuss the recent developments in Mali, the politics of the Sahel, and the War on Terror. If you enjoyed this episode and want more from Protean View, please support us on ⁠ ⁠Patreon⁠⁠ . You can also support us by becoming a  ⁠paid supporter⁠ of Muftah Magazine. To stay up to date on the latest from us, subscribe to our newsletter for free. Follow Protean...

Thomas Pierret joins Protean View again, this time to discuss the debate on Syria among the Left. This episode is a follow-up to  Syria and the Future of Islamism . If you enjoyed this episode and want more from Protean View, please subscribe to our newsletter and become a  paid supporter . You can also support us on ⁠ Patreon⁠ . Follow Protean View on ⁠⁠ ⁠X⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠ ⁠Bluesky⁠ , and wherever you pod...

Olivier Jutel joins Protean View to discuss the crisis of over-accumulation, accelerationism, and the utopian delusions of our tech overlords. If you enjoyed this episode and want more from Protean View, please subscribe to our ⁠⁠⁠newsletter⁠⁠⁠ and become a ⁠⁠⁠paid supporter⁠⁠⁠ . You can also support us on ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Follow Protean View on ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠X⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠ , and wherever...

Daniel Bessner and Ajay Singh Chaudhary join Protean View to help us understand the fascism debate in America and beyond. If you enjoyed this episode and want more from Protean View, please subscribe to our ⁠⁠newsletter⁠⁠ and become a ⁠⁠paid supporter⁠⁠ . You can also support us on ⁠ ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠ . Follow Protean View on ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠X⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠ , and wherever you podcast. We publish on  ⁠⁠⁠...

Thomas Pierret joins Protean View to discuss the new Syrian state, the future of Islamism, and more. If you enjoyed this episode and want more from Protean View, please subscribe to our ⁠newsletter⁠ and become a ⁠paid supporter⁠ . You can also support us on ⁠ ⁠Patreon⁠⁠ . Follow Protean View on ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠X⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠ , and wherever you podcast. We publish on  ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠ ,  ⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠...

Melani McAlister joins Protean View to discuss the history of the Christian Right in the United States, its recent split on the question of Israel, the future of U.S.-Israel relations, and the evangelical discourse on Christian persecution by Muslims. If you enjoyed this episode and want more from Protean View, please subscribe to our newsletter and become a paid supporter . You can also support u...

William Barylo joins Protean View to discuss his new book, Muslims in the Neoliberal Empire: Resisting, Healing, and Flourishing in the Metacolonial Era (Oxford, 2025). If you enjoyed this episode and want more from Protean View, please subscribe to our newsletter and become a paid supporter. You can also support us on  Patreon . Follow Protean View on ⁠⁠ X⁠ , ⁠⁠ Bluesky , and wherever you podcast...

Zaid Adhami joins Protean View   to discuss his new book, Dilemmas of Authenticity: The American Muslim Crisis of Faith (UNC Press, 2025) and what authenticity, crisis, and belief mean in relation to each other. If you enjoyed this episode and want more from Protean View, please subscribe to our newsletter and become a paid supporter. You can also support us on  Patreon . Follow Protean View on ⁠⁠...

Christoph Schuringa joins Protean View to discuss his new book,  A Social History of Analytic Philosophy: How Politics Has Shaped an Apolitical Philosophy (Verso, 2025). If you enjoyed this episode and want more from Protean View, please subscribe to our newsletter and become a paid supporter. You can also support us on  Patreon . Follow Protean View on ⁠⁠ X⁠ , ⁠⁠ Bluesky , and wherever you podcas...

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd joins Protean View   to discuss her new book,  Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States  (Chicago, 2025). If you enjoyed this episode and want more from Protean View, please subscribe to our newsletter and become a paid supporter. You can also support us on  Patreon . Follow Protean View on ⁠⁠ X⁠ , ⁠⁠ Bluesky , and wherever you podcast. We publish o...

Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm joins Protean View to discuss the superstition-secular-religion "trinary" as well as his upcoming book,  The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of History  (Chicago, 2026). If you enjoyed this episode and want more from Protean View , including exclusive content, please follow and support us on ⁠Patreon⁠: https://patreon.com/ProteanVie...

Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza join Protean View to discuss their new book, Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur'an: A Patronage of Piety (Oxford, 2024). If you enjoyed this episode and want more from Protean View , including exclusive content, please follow and support us on ⁠Patreon⁠: https://patreon.com/ProteanView Follow us on ⁠X: ⁠https://x.com/ProteanView⁠ Follow us on ⁠Bluesky:...

Norman Finkelstein joins Protean View to discuss the recent crackdown on the student protest movement, as well as BDS, free speech, leftist politics, and more. If you enjoyed this episode and want more from Protean View, including exclusive content, please follow and support us on ⁠Patreon⁠: https://patreon.com/ProteanView Follow us on ⁠X: ⁠https://x.com/ProteanView⁠ Follow us on ⁠Bluesky: ⁠https:...

This episode of Protean View features Nader Hashemi, a political theorist and the Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. Hashemi joined Protean View to discuss his 2017 book, Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East , and whether it remains relevant in the aftermath of October 7. Sectarianization  was published during the t...

This episode of Protean View features Daniel Tutt, a philosopher, writer, and host of the Emancipations  podcast. Tutt joined Protean View to discuss a recent article he published with Muftah titled "Loser Politics," as well as his new book on Nietzsche, How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche (Random House, 2024). In different ways, Tutt's article and book both address how...

This episode of  Protean View features Sherman Jackson on the subject of his new book, The Islamic Secular (OUP, 2024). Jackson’s central claim in the book is that Islam has its own version of the secular, distinct from other common understandings and applications in both Western scholarly and quotidian discourses. His book represents an attempt to theorize this form of the secular in conversation...

This episode of Protean View features Salman Sayyid, a leading scholar in Critical Muslim Studies and Professor of Social Theory & Decolonial Thought at the University of Leeds. Sayyid addresses a range of relevant topics, including the “Muslim question,” the intersections of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, the genocide in Palestine, and the complex relationship between Islam and the state. He...

Our first episode of Protean View features Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, a political theorist and professor of modern culture and media at Brown University. She discusses her latest book,  The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World (Verso, 2024), which examines how French colonialism in the Maghreb and Zionist colonization in Palestine effaced a vibrant “Jewish Muslim world...