Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist)

The East is a Podcast

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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)

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Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist)

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www.eastpodcast.com

Latest episode

Jun 15, 2026

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Episodes

The kidnapping of Alex Saab w/ Ricardo Vaz 21.11.2021

Ricardo Vaz is a writer and editor with VenezuelAnalysis.com   Subscribe to their new podcast on your podcatcher.  Please consider supporting the show patreon.com/east_podcast

Gary Webb: The CIA, the Contras, and Crack Cocaine (1999) 16.11.2021

RIP Gary Webb ✊🏾  Source  

The modern history of Korea (pt.2) w/ Ju-Hyun Park 11.11.2021

Ju-Hyun Park is a poet and essayist. Check out their essay, "Life During Wartime"  Thanks for you supporting the show!   Please consider  supporting  the show

(Preview) The End of Sport #89: The NLRB Memo with Jennifer Abruzzo 10.11.2021

Friend of the podcast Nathan Kalman Lamb is co-host of The End of Sport Podcast .  Please enjoy this short preview from their latest episode and subscribe to their amazing show on your podcatcher.        

Michael Parenti - Globalization and Terrorism (2001) 08.11.2021

Read Michael Parenti    Source 

The modern history of Korea (pt.1) w/ Ju-Hyun Park 02.11.2021

Ju-Hyun Park is a poet and essayist and part of Nodutdol . Check out their essay, "Life During Wartime"     Please consider  supporting  the show

A century of Palestinian resistance: the legacy of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam 25.10.2021

Friends of the podcast Zeyad el-Nabolsi and Yara Shoufani take up the legacy of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Please consider  supporting  the show  

(Preview) Bonus Episode 113 - Uprooting birthrights w/ Nora Barrows-Friedman 22.10.2021

A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by  signing  up at the $5 level.   You can donate directly through  Gofundme , and PayPal/Venmo as well. Links to the latter on my website, eastpodcast.com Nora Barrows-Friedman ( @norabf ) is a staff writer and associate editor at The Electronic Intifada , and is co-host of the EI Podcast and @thebriefpod

Samir Amin: "The Second Wave of the Rise of the South; the Emerging Countries (as of 2000)" 18.10.2021

The third of a three-part lecture series hosted by the SOAS in 2013 titled "The Second Wave of the Rise of the South; the Emerging Countries (as of 2000)" (The first two parts are also available on this feed) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac8Fsu0WVKg&ab_channel=SOASUniversityofLondon

(Unlocked) Bonus Episode 111 - The importance of close reading w/ Louis Allday 13.10.2021

Louis Allday ( @Louis_Allday ) is a writer, historian and founding editor of Liberatedtexts.com Unlocked from behind the paywall.  Sign up for the bonus feed at Patreon.com/east_podcast to get great bonus content and help sustain the show. Go to eastpodcast.com for links to Gofundme, merch store, and cash apps. 

(Preview) Episode 14 - Afghanistan 101 w/ Justin Podur 08.10.2021

Friend of the podcast Amanda ( @catcontentonly ) interviews another friend of the podcast, Justin Podur ( @justinpodur ) about the history of Afghanistan Access this episode in its entirety by signing up at  https://www.patreon.com/radiofreeamanda

Decolonization, not decolonize w/ Nasser Mufti 07.10.2021

Long time friend of the podcast Nasser Mufti teaches at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Check out his article, " Hating Victorian Studies Properly "   Please consider  supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, cash apps, and merch store.      

Charles W. Mills: "Theorizing Racial Justice" (2020) 02.10.2021

Charles W. Mills giving the Tanner Lecture on Human Values in 2020 at the University of Michigan   Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78wzAfQu9Mw&ab_channel=UniversityofMichigan

(Preview) Bonus Episode 112 - Three mining companies in a trench coat w/ Rob Rousseau 23.09.2021

A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by  signing  up at the $5 level.   You can donate directly through  Gofundme , and PayPal/Venmo as well. Links to the latter on my website, eastpodcast.com   Rob Rousseau is a writer and streams on Twitch  

The point, however, is to change it w/ Midwestern Marx 21.09.2021

Carlos L. Garrido, Edward L. Smith, and Alex Zambito are the force behind Midwestern Marx   Check out their Youtube channel     Please consider  supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, cash apps, and merch store.  

(Unlocked) Bonus Episode 109 - "Long Live the Yemeni Worker!" w/ Neama Alamri 16.09.2021

Neama Alamri is a historian who recently completed her Ph. D at the University of California, Merced. Check out her article . Guest hosted by Alexander Aviña Unlocked from behind the paywall.  Sign up for the bonus feed at Patreon.com/east_podcast to get great bonus content and help sustain the show. Go to eastpodcast.com for links to Gofundme, merch store, and cash apps. 

Never trust imperialism w/ Patrick Higgins 11.09.2021

Guest hosted by Louis Allday ( @Louis_Allday) Patrick Higgins on Peter Dale Scott's The Road to 9/11 – Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America Louis Allday, a writer and historian, is the founding editor of Liberatedtexts.com. Patrick Higgins is a Ph. D candidate in the Department of History at the University of Houston. Please consider  supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to Pa...

Mourning the unmournable: a forum on 9/11 11.09.2021

Friend of the show Anjuli Raza Kolb (@anjulifatima ) is joined by Mariam Ghani ( @ghanimariam ) and Chitra Ganesh to discuss the many legacies of the September 11th attacks. Anjuli Raza Kolb (University of Toronto) is a scholar, poet, essayist, and translator living in Harlem. Chitra Ganesh is a Brooklyn-based artist working in film, mural, photographs, painting, comics, and digital media. Mariam...

Charting the logic of the Yemen war w/ Dawud Ansari 02.09.2021

Dawud Ansari is a researcher based in Berlin and director of the Energy Access and Development Program   We discuss this research project (link) . Please consider  supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, cash apps, and merch store.    

Another empire falls in Afghanistan w/ Shah Mahmoud Hanifi 26.08.2021

Shah Mahmoud Hanifi teaches history at James Madison University and is the author of Connecting Histories in Afghanistan (2011)   Please consider  supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, cash apps, and merch store.

Interview with Kwame Ture (1995) 24.08.2021

Kwame Ture interviewed in 1995 for Howard University's"Evening Exchange"     Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eM4rP-qHMc&ab_channel=AAPRPbritain

Seymour Hersh: "There's much more to the story" (2018) 22.08.2021

Seymour Hersh in conversation with Afshin Rattansi in 2018 and followed by an interview with Tariq Ali from 2016.  Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI3ZkL9Soos&ab_channel=GoingUndergroundonRT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIBxGm08KY8&ab_channel=TeleSUREnglish

Generations of displacement w/ Judith Kalman 18.08.2021

Judith Kalman is an author based in Toronto. Read her statement here . Co-hosted with Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb) Please consider  supporting  the show  

The scam of nonviolence w/ Justin Podur and Zeyad el Nabolsy 10.08.2021

Friends of the podcast Justin Podur and Zeyad el Nabolsy return for a deep dive into the concept of nonviolence and its strange origin story in the work of Gene Sharp.   We discuss these two articles by Marcie Smith in the episode. Please consider  supporting  the show

The Hugo Chávez Mixtape 09.08.2021

Hugo Chávez speaking in 2006 ( at the UNGA ) and in 2009.    

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