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Jul 5, 2026
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Alex Boodrookas, "Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf" (Stanford UP, 2026) 05.07.2026 53:45
Podcast : New Books in Political Science (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Alex Boodrookas, "Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf" (Stanford UP, 2026) Pub date : 2026-06-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguably the most powerful citizen-led...
Interregnum - Peace in the Gulf? 05.07.2026 44:42
Podcast : Politics Theory Other (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Interregnum - Peace in the Gulf? Pub date : 2026-06-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization On the peace deal between Iran and the United States, which is expected to see the strait of Hormuz opened in exchange for a lifting of the US naval blockade of Iran. We t...
The ecological continuation of empire in the Arab world 05.07.2026 1:32:06
Podcast : Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Video Episode : The ecological continuation of empire in the Arab world Pub date : 2026-06-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This lecture by Marwa Daoudy, held in honour of the renowned scholar Fred Halliday, will explore the entanglement of colonialism, capitalism, and environmental...
How International Institutions and Structures Failed Palestine 20.06.2026 49:55
Podcast : Beyond the Ballot Box Episode : How International Institutions and Structures Failed Palestine Pub date : 2026-06-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Saul Takahashi is a Japanese human rights lawyer and academic known for his work on Palestine, international human rights law, and Islamophobia research. He served as Deputy Head of...
New Thinking: Chinese Firms in Africa w/ Elisa Gambino 20.06.2026 38:52
Podcast : SPERI Presents... Episode : New Thinking: Chinese Firms in Africa w/ Elisa Gambino Pub date : 2026-05-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization How are Chinese firms' activities in Africa shaped by local social, cultural and political processes? In what sense is this embeddedness flexible and how does this affect firms' internationalisa...
Mengqi Wang, "Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China's Housing Market" (Cornell UP, 2026) 14.06.2026 1:04:47
Podcast : New Books in Chinese Studies (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Mengqi Wang, "Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China's Housing Market" (Cornell UP, 2026) Pub date : 2026-05-19
How The British Made The Far Right Acceptable / Daniel Trilling 07.06.2026 1:20:54
Podcast : This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : How The British Made The Far Right Acceptable / Daniel Trilling Pub date : 2026-05-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Journalist and author Daniel Trilling returns to This Is Hell! to talk about his new book “If We Tolerate This: How the British establishment made t...
Weekend Listen: Writer Amitav Ghosh on Why India Has Lost Its Way 07.06.2026 33:36
Podcast : Big Take Asia (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Weekend Listen: Writer Amitav Ghosh on Why India Has Lost Its Way Pub date : 2026-05-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization For more than 30 years, the Indian-born writer Amitav Ghosh has built a global following with novels that draw on deep historical research. Bu...
EP. 872: TUPAC: FORGED IN REVOLUTIONARY FIRE ft. HAMZA SHEHRYAR 09.05.2026 1:53:08
Podcast : THIS IS REVOLUTION >podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : EP. 872: TUPAC: FORGED IN REVOLUTIONARY FIRE ft. HAMZA SHEHRYAR Pub date : 2026-04-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Read Hamza's article in Jacobin here: https://jacobin.com/.../tupac-biography-black-panthers.../ Since his death in 1996, Tupac Shaku...
The French Colonial Tourism Industry in Ifrane, Morocco 02.05.2026 15:01
Podcast : Maghrib in Past & Present | Podcasts (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : The French Colonial Tourism Industry in Ifrane, Morocco Pub date : 2026-04-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Episode 232: The French Colonial Tourism Industry in Ifrane, Morocco In this podcast, Reese Hollister discussed Morocco’s tourism indu...
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 95: On Crisis and the Origins of Modern Iran 02.05.2026 1:26:22
Podcast : The Podcast for Social Research (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : Podcast for Social Research, Episode 95: On Crisis and the Origins of Modern Iran Pub date : 2026-04-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode of the Podcast for Social Research, Suzanne Schneider and Soraya Batmanghelichi consider the cur...
Long Reads: Decoding the French Left w/ Sebastian Budgen (Part 1) 26.04.2026 35:58
Podcast : Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Long Reads: Decoding the French Left w/ Sebastian Budgen (Part 1) Pub date : 2026-04-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Two years ago, the French president Emmanuel Macron called snap elections for the National Assembly. The far right was widely expected to win and...
'Mar-a-Lago face:' MAGA's aesthetic loyalty test 26.04.2026 27:33
Podcast : Code Switch (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : 'Mar-a-Lago face:' MAGA's aesthetic loyalty test Pub date : 2026-04-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The MAGA look — you know the one: dramatic eyeliner, long, wavy hair, sheath dresses — is a defining feature of President Trump's Republican Party. And it's about a...
Epstein Files: Inside the Slovakia Connection | Karin Kőváry Sólymos 05.04.2026 36:39
Podcast : Talk Eastern Europe (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Epstein Files: Inside the Slovakia Connection | Karin Kőváry Sólymos Pub date : 2026-03-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization What do the Jeffrey Epstein files reveal about Slovakia? Inthis episode of Talk Eastern Europe, investigative journalist Karin Kőváry Sól...
Gendering the Archive: A Catalyst for Change in Women’s Rights in Egypt 05.04.2026 32:22
Podcast : LSE Middle East Centre Podcasts (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : Gendering the Archive: A Catalyst for Change in Women’s Rights in Egypt Pub date : 2026-03-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, Diana Magdy, a gender equality specialist, feminist researcher and oral historian has a conversation with P...
Long Reads: Trump’s Nation-Breaking War w/ Afshin Matin-Asgari 03.04.2026 32:02
Podcast : Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Long Reads: Trump’s Nation-Breaking War w/ Afshin Matin-Asgari Pub date : 2026-03-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We’ve now entered the second week of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Donald Trump’s War Secretary Pete Hegseth has boasted about the US military machine...
LSE: The Ballpark | China’s Three Personality Problem with Professor Todd Hall 21.03.2026 39:39
Podcast : LSE: The Ballpark (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : LSE: The Ballpark | China’s Three Personality Problem with Professor Todd Hall Pub date : 2026-03-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Understanding China’s role in the world has never been more important — or more complex. China projects itself variously as a mora...
#474 - A Modern History of Syria: A Dialogue with Daniel Neep 28.02.2026 2:10:45
Podcast : Converging Dialogues (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : #474 - A Modern History of Syria: A Dialogue with Daniel Neep Pub date : 2026-02-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Ini this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Daniel Neep about a modern history of Syria. They discuss internal and external divisions in...
Homeland Empire w/ Nikhil Pal Singh 15.02.2026 43:41
Podcast : Politics Theory Other (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Homeland Empire w/ Nikhil Pal Singh Pub date : 2026-01-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Nikhil Pal Singh joins PTO to discuss his recent article in Equator, titled Homeland Empire - in which Nikhil argues that from from Venezuela to Minnesota, Donald Trump...
Red Pill or Blue Pill? China's K-Visa Examined 06.02.2026 34:34
Podcast : All Things Policy (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Red Pill or Blue Pill? China's K-Visa Examined Pub date : 2026-01-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization China’s new K-Visa policy, introduced in October 2025, intends to attract global STEM talent by allowing young graduates and researchers to enter China without pri...
Imagining Wastelands: Turkey's Waste and Recycling Policy at the Periphery with Adnan Khan 18.01.2026 39:19
Podcast : Imagining Turkey Episode : Imagining Wastelands: Turkey's Waste and Recycling Policy at the Periphery with Adnan Khan Pub date : 2026-01-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, the Takhayyul Project welcomes Adnan Khan, an acclaimed Canadian writer, editor, photographer, and visual storyteller. We discuss Adnan's rece...
Ep 357 - Socialism with Chinese Characteristics with Yan Liang 20.12.2025 1:11:33
Podcast : Macro N Cheese (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Ep 357 - Socialism with Chinese Characteristics with Yan Liang Pub date : 2025-12-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In today’s world, anyone serious about anti-imperialism, global development, and monetary sovereignty needs to break through the well-funded US propag...
MAGA’s other immigration battle 20.12.2025 25:56
Podcast : Today, Explained (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : MAGA’s other immigration battle Pub date : 2025-11-25 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The debate over high-skill work visas is revealing cracks between President Trump and his base. This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen and Miles Bryan, edited by Mira...
Can Feminism be African?: A Conversation with Minna Salami 04.12.2025 34:01
Podcast : The Ideas Letter Podcast: A project of the Open Society Foundations Episode : Can Feminism be African?: A Conversation with Minna Salami Pub date : 2025-11-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Transcript of the interview Minna Salami is a writer, social critic, and thought leader on feminism, knowledge production, and the aesthetic...
Is China's "Engineering State" the New Development Model for the Global South? 30.11.2025 40:59
Podcast : The China in Africa Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Is China's "Engineering State" the New Development Model for the Global South? Pub date : 2025-11-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization China's rapid ascent from rural poverty to industrial superpower reshaped the global economy and established a new cent...
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