The Adnan Husain Show

The second half of Dr. Isa Blumi's brilliant exposition of the history of Yemen. Our conversation reviews how the earlier history continued to inform the fierce resistance to imperialism and its agents through the 2010's with the Saudi/Gulf/ZioAmerican attack and siege upon Yemen. Isa analyzes how Ansarullah's diverse coalition has combated the destruction of the country while forging new paths in...

Adnan discusses with Dr. Laleh Khalili her article in Jewish Currents "History Lesson" (https://jewishcurrents.org/history-lesson) on settler colonialism in response to an awful (and politically pernicious) book by Adam Kirsch "On Settler Colonialism". This excellent conversation is also great preparation for Office Hours when we will discuss the topic of settler colonialism further with Dr. Max A...

In this first part of a two part series, Adnan has an epic conversation with Dr. Isa Blumi, historian and Professor of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University, about Yemen's modern history of resisting colonialism geopolitically and global capitalism. Author of Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World , Dr. Blumi masterfully analyzes and integrates the geo...

Part 8 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). In this update episode covering the developments in the continuing Israeli genocide in Gaza from December 2024 (when Part 7 was recorded), Dr. Ariel Salzmann and Adnan discuss the Trump administration's policies, the displacement of UNRWA with the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" mercenary force, starvation as a wea...

Adnan introduces a new series on the spiritual and devotional tradition of the Divine Names. A collaboration with phenomenological psychologist and student of Sufism, the mystical dimension of Islam, Dr. Marc Applebaum, the series explores each of the 99 "Beautiful Names" through Sufi mystical theosophy, Qur'anic commentaries, and spiritual experience and meaning. Drawing inspiration from medieval...

**Adnan recently did an episode of Psychlib over at Resistance is Fertile .**   The Intersection of Islam, Marxism, and the roots of racism and Resistance: A Conversation with Adnan Husain. Welcome to a thought-provoking episode of PsychLib featuring Adnan Husain, an associate history professor from Queens University, Ontario. In this deep conversation, we explore topics such as the historical roo...

Adnan discusses the life, legacy and politics of Malcolm X with Dr. Jared Ball (@imixwhatilike ) of Morgan State University and host of the i MiXWHATiLiKE! . 100 years since the revolutionary was born & 60 since his brutal assassination, Malcolm X's biography radicalizes people globally against racism, colonialism and capitalism despite the distortions and lies used to moderate his political legac...

You loved Tankie Group Therapy? You will be inspired by the Struggle Session! This edition features Adnan hosting Breht O'Shea of RevLeft Radio. Dr. Chella Ward, Dr. Ambereen Dadabhoy, and Jared Ware from Millennials are Killing Capitalism The Struggle Session is not here to make you feel better, but rather to make you more ready for action. This livestream panel series with Adnan and guests will...

Rayan Freschi , a researcher with CAGE International, tells us about an anti-war/anti-genocide conference that was targeted by French police special forces recently. He also discusses his thesis that the stereotype of "Muslim Rage", an orientalist and Islamophobic construct, should be recuperated and turned to a productive political purpose in struggling for liberation and social justice against r...

Adnan is joined by Prof. Alexander Aviña, a historian and anti-imperialist scholar at Arizona State University, to explore the history and politics of race, immigration, and the border in US fascism and empire. As ever, Alex's in-depth knowledge and incisive analysis connects local and global conditions in an illuminating historical frame. Watch the video edition on our YouTube channel Dr. Aviña o...

Part 7 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). In this concluding episode, Ariel and Adnan reflect on the historical themes traced in the series to connect the fate of Gaza to a wider universal frame. In many ways, Gaza is not only a political litmus test or a moral challenge to our collective humanity but also a crucible in which the fate of our world future being forg...

You loved Tankie Group Therapy? You will be inspired by the Struggle Session! This edition features Adnan hosting Nora Barrows Friedman , Alex Aviña , and Nina Farnia The Struggle Session is not here to make you feel better, but rather to make you more ready for action. This livestream panel series with Adnan and guests will be analytical about the world, self-critical of our movements, denunciato...

Adnan discusses Thomas Piketty's recent paper, "discovering" that colonialism caused uneven development, with critical political economy and development scholar Dr. Ingrid Kvangraven (@ingridharvold) . What is data without a conceptual or theoretical framework in which to explain that uneven development and colonialism were integral to capitalist development? Dr. Kvangraven illuminates the necessa...

Dr. Gerald Horne joins Adnan and Henry in this cross-over episode of Guerrilla History and the Adnan Husain Show to discuss his recent book, Armed Struggle?: Panthers and Communists, black Nationalists and Liberals in Southern California, Through the Sixties and Seventies. As ever, Professor Horne connects the histories of organizing and resistance against racial capitalism to the contemporary sit...

**Producer's note: This is the sixth in a 7-part series. All 7 parts are now available to Patrons of the show, and we will release the subsequent parts every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks on the podcast. Support the show on Patreon if you can't wait!** Part 6 of  Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). Adnan and Ariel shift focus from the region to a global perspectives o...

Adnan welcomes Palestinian writer, scholar and analyst Abdaljawad Omar to discuss two related recent articles on the meaning of the new "Humanitarian Aid" structure imposed on Gaza and his analysis of the phenomenon of the "gangs" now armed by Israel. Check out his recent writings "Israel's gangsters in Gaza" "The 'chaos' of aid distribution in Gaza is not a system failure. The system is designed...

**Producer's note: This is the fifth in a 7-part series. All 7 parts will be available to Patrons of the show in the next few days, and we will release the subsequent parts every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks. Support the show on Patreon if you can't wait!** Part 5 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). Dr. Ariel Salzmann and Adnan discuss how the popular uprising of...

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 analysis about the place of Iran as the frontline state fighting for a sovereign future ag...

**Producer's note: This is the fourth in a 7-part series. All 7 parts will be available to Patrons of the show in the next few days, and we will release the subsequent parts every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks. Support the show on Patreon if you can't wait!** Part 4 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). This episode examines the colonial and settler colonial characte...

Dr. Marchella "Chella" Ward, a scholar of Critical Ancient World Studies joins Adnan to discuss the meaning of "Intifada" in response to the French prosecution of Elias D'Imzalène for his use of the word in a Palestine solidarity protest. Dr. Ward's expertise in philology—the historical study of the meaning of words— allows her to explore the historical range of the meaning and usage of "intifada"...

**Producer's note: This is the third in a 7-part series. All 7 parts will be available to Patrons of the show in the next few days, and we will release the subsequent parts every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks. Support the show on Patreon if you can't wait!** Part 3 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). Dr. Ariel Salzmann discusses with Adnan the age of mass migration...

**Producer's note: This is the second in a 7-part series. All 7 parts will be available to Patrons of the show in the next few days, and we will release the subsequent parts every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks. Support the show on Patreon if you can't wait!** Part 2 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). In this episode  Dr. Ariel Salzmann takes a global perspective o...

Adnan gives a video version of remarks he made on a panel "Muslims and the Making of History: Religion, Race, and Secularism" at Radboud University in the Netherlands in May 2025. He discussed the way historical narratives, particularly developed during the colonial era, of the European Middle Ages depend on various assumptions about Muslims and their historical character as medieval disrupters of...

**Producer's note: This is the first in a 7-part series. All 7 parts will be available to Patrons of the show in the next few days, and we will release the subsequent parts every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks. Support the show on Patreon if you can't wait!** Part 1 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial) examines the premodern paradigms of Latin Christendom's relationsh...

Adnan discusses a new book, The New Racial Regime, Recalibrations of White Supremacy , (Pluto, 2025) with its author Alana Lentin . This important study builds upon Cedric Robinson's crucial framework to investigate the mechanisms by which neoliberal capitalist societies of Europe and its settler colonies renew racist orderings of society through interlocking discourses and practices that adjust t...