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

(Preview) Bonus Episode 105 - What is hard power? w/ Bikrum Gill 28.07.2021

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 Bikrum Gill   (@realDrcabbie) teaches in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. The episode opens with a discussion of this tweet .

The Edward Said Mixtape (Vol. 9) 28.07.2021

Edward Said speaking to Bill Moyers and Tariq Ali respectively.        

(Preview) Bonus Episode 104 - Oslo (2021) w/ Olivia Giovetti 24.07.2021

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 Friend of the podcast Olivia Giovetti returns to discuss HBO's fancypants new historical drama, Oslo (2021). Check out her article    

Fidel Castro in Harlem (1995) 14.07.2021

Cuban revolutionary hero Fidel Castro speaks in Harlem. Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kBgGLHMfnU&ab_channel=AfroMarxist  

(Preview) Radio Free Amanda #5 - The Orientalism of Sacha Baron Cohen w/ Sina Rahmani 14.07.2021

Friend of the podcast Amanda ( @catcontentonly ) has launched her own podcast.  Gain access to this episode in its entirety by signing up at  https://www.patreon.com/radiofreeamanda.      

In the ruins of Oslo w/ Tamara Nassar 13.07.2021

Tamara Nassar is an associate editor at The Electronic Intifada   Please consider  supporting  the show  

Haiti's Presidential crisis w/ Chris Bernadel 07.07.2021

Chris Bernadel is on the Haiti Committee of the Black Alliance for Peace. See their recent statement on the country's illegitimate government   Hosted by Justin Podur, author of Haiti's New Dictatorship: The Coup, the Earthquake, and the UN Occupation (2012)   Consider supporting the podcast patreon.com/East_podcast

Sudha Bharadwaj: Fighting in the courts and on the streets (2016) 07.07.2021

A lecture hosted by Azim Premji University in August 2016   Source: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv4bdkxXT_h4NlnmNhDbq4w  

(Preview) Rewatchability 457- STARGATE with Sina Rahmani 25.06.2021

(A preview of the latest episode of Rewatchability.   For the entire episode, subscribe to Rewatchability wherever you get your podcasts) Grab your space-ankh, this week we walk like an Egyptian-from-another-planet with STARGATE! Starring Snake Plissken, I mean Kurt Russell, and the part of James Spader not obscured by his exceedingly floppy mop, this military sci-fi action flick combined your gra...

Bordering midnight w/ Suchitra Vijayan 21.06.2021

Suchitra Vijayan 's book, Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India , is available now . Check out the Polis Project and their podcast.   Consider supporting the podcast.  Go to eastpodcast.com  for links to patreon, Gofundme, merch store, and cash apps.

The ecumenical frame w/ Ussama Makdisi 13.06.2021

Ussama Makdisi is the Arab-​American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University. Check out his book, Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World   Support the podcast https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast Consider supporting the podcast!   

National sovereignty in the era of multinational capital w/ Mick Wallace and Clare Daly 06.06.2021

Mick Wallace (link) and Clare Daly (link) are Members of European Parliament. Check out their podcast , I4C Trouble with Daly and Wallace    Support the podcast https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast

News in Perspective: Gamal Abdel Nasser (1969) 06.06.2021

President Nasser interviewed in the Presidential Palace in Cairo by New York Times managing editor Clifton Daniel.   Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg9eC-otwCs&ab_channel=AfroMarxist

The meaning of missiles w/ Arash Joblaghi 31.05.2021

Arash Joblaghi returns to the podcast to talk about rocketry, missiles, and hegemony. Check out his YouTube channel . Support the podcast https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast  

Richard Falk: "The Palestinian Future After Gaza" (2014) 28.05.2021

Richard Falk's keynote at the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture in October 2014, hosted by Columbia University.  The lecture begins around min 15.   Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZAVjIfTBVo&ab_channel=SOFHeyman    

The persistence of the Armenian question w/ Tamar Boyadjian and Rachel Goshgarian 26.05.2021

Tamar Boyadjian (link) teaches at Michigan State University and is  Editor of the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies (link) Rachel Goshgarian teaches at Lafayette College (Link) Support the podcast https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast      

A third Intifada? w/ Saree Makdisi 18.05.2021

My teacher and comrade Saree Makdisi (@sareemakdisi) returns to the podcast to talk about the rapid transformation in the Palestine liberation struggle.  Check out his recent article, "The Nakba is Now" Support the podcast https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast  

The Edward Said Mixtape (Vol. 8): Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (2001) 15.05.2021

Edward Said talked about his book  Reflections on Exile and Other Essays , published by Harvard University Press.  Source

"This Isn't Something New": Susan Abulhawa on Palestine, Settler-Colonialism, and the Environment 13.05.2021

(Note: This was recorded before the recent uprising) Ted Kelly ( @teddyredder ) speaks to Susan Abulhawa ( @sjabulhawa ) Palestinian writer, biologist, and Workers World Party member. Comrade Abulhawa's latest novel, Against the Loveless World, is out now. We're also joined by Susan's dogs, Luca, Lily, and Mika. !أبطال فلسطين توحّد الأشراف في العالم !تسقط الحركة صهيونية Against the Loveless World:...

(Preview) Bonus Episode 99 - Statue of Oppression w/ Nick Estes 05.05.2021

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 My comrade and longtime patron of the podcast Nick Estes returns to explore the meaning of immigration against the historical backdrop of settler colon...

Michael Parenti: The 1% Pathology and the Myth of Capitalism (2012) 30.04.2021

A lecture hosted by Evergreen College in October 2012.  Check out Michael Parenti's media archive    

Losing Hindustan (Pt. 2) w/ Manan Ahmed Asif 29.04.2021

Justin Podur and I teamed up to interview Columbia University historian Manan Ahmed on his fantastic new book, The Loss of Hindustan .  This is the second half of the conversation. Subscribe to the Anti-Empire project and download the first!  

(Preview) Bonus Episode 93 - The Problem of Othello w/ Ambereen Dadabhoy 21.04.2021

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 (almost up-to-date) website, eastpodcast.com Ambereen Dadabhoy is Associate Professor of Literature at Harvey Mudd College in California.  

Stephan Weissman: The Lumumba Assassination and CIA Accountability (2013) 19.04.2021

A lecture hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2013.   Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhZsPIrpYI4&ab_channel=WoodrowWilsonCenter

Samir Amin: Neoliberalism and the Decline of the Bandung Project (1975-2000) 14.04.2021

The second part of a three-part lecture series hosted by the SOAS titled "Six Decades of Development Debate" in 2013. (The first part is available on this feed as well, released back in September last year)   Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEq8OK4BUyM&ab_channel=SOASUniversityofLondon

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