The East is a Podcast

Ilan Pappé is Professor of History and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter.     Please consider  supporting  the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

A short mashup on the Millennium Challenge 2002. #nowarwithIran   Please consider  supporting  the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

It's been almost three years since the death of Abbas Kiarostami, one of the titans of modern cinema. Included in this episode is a tribute by Martin Scorsese as well as a portion of a long sit-down interview with Kiarostami at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016.

Edward Said sharing his memories of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine (Nakba, catastrophe), marked annually by people around the world on May 15th.   Music Credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiRcMrcMHTk

A very special episode produced by three students at Whitman College as part of Arash Davari's Middle East Politics course. This episode explores both the overwhelmingly negative portrayal of Iranians in American pop culture/news media and how to undo it by engaging Iranians both as individuals and a national culture.  Thank you to Arash Davari and Whitman's Politics Department for their support o...

Dr. Isa Blumi is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian, Middle Eastern, and Turkish Studies at Stockholm University. This talk was given at a public event at the University of Copenhagen organized by The Turban Times in May 2018  

A sneak preview of Reza Zia-Ebrahimi's bonus episode. Sign up for the Patreon to gain access to this and other great bonus content.   https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

Reza Zia-Ebrahimi is Senior Lecturer in History at King's College, London.   Please consider supporting the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

This episode of  The East Is A Podcast  is brought to you by students from Levi Thompson's University of Colorado Boulder course  Representing Islam . In it, they cover the operations of the Franklin Book Program, an American book-publishing and translation initiative that operated in the Middle East from 1953 to 1979. Levi and his students examine the program as an instance of American soft power...

Ilan Pappé is one of the world's leading historians of Israel and the Zionist colonization of Palestine. With an introduction by Dima Khalidi. Lecture organized by the Lannan Foundation from January 2019

A sneak preview of Paul Bové's bonus episode. Sign up for the Patreon to gain access to this and other great bonus content.   https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

Ronald Stokes was an activist and community leader connected to the Nation of Islam.  He was murdered by the Los Angeles Police Department on April 27, 1962.  Malcolm X gave a powerful eulogy, a long sample of which is included in this episode.    Please support the show.     

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As'ad AbuKhalil teaches at California State University, Stanislaus.       Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

Chase Madar is an attorney, author, and journalist in New York. He is the author of  The Passion of [Chelsea] Manning: The Story Behind the WikiLeaks Whistleblower  (Verso, 2013) and part-time faculty at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.   Please  support  the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com  

Sonja M. Thomas is Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Colby College.   Please  support  the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

  Paul A. Bové is distinguished professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and editor of boundary 2, published by Duke University Press.   Please  support  the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

A sneak preview of Nasser Mufti's second bonus episode. Sign up for the Patreon to gain access to this and other great bonus content.   https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

A sneak preview of Sara Salem's bonus episode. Sign up for the Patreon to gain access to this and other great bonus content.   https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

From February 2011, Shlomo Sand speaks in London at an event organized by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.  Writer and historian Shlomo Sand interrogates the foundations of nationhood, placing the idea of 'invention' above race, religion, and language.    

Jake Aron is one half of Moloq and one of the earliest boosters of this podcast. I interviewed him recently ("No one is born angry") and we talked about Arabic, music, and American identity post-9/11.  Support his work and check out these two tracks from Moloq's latest album. Buy their album Moloqmusic.com  Follow Moloq: @moloqmusic Twitter & Instagram   Please support the show https://www.patreon...

Max Ajl recently completed his doctorate in Development Sociology at Cornell University. Read his article,  Beyond the Green New Deal     Please support the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist and podcaster with Electronic Intifada.    Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com  

Matt Dagher Margosian is the founder of Asia Art Tours based out of Taiwan and Seattle. asiaartours.com   Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com  

Jake Aron studied at Columbia's Middle East South Asian and African Studies department. He is one half of Moloq, an Atlanta-based psychedelic pop duo he co-founded with Paul Stevens. They just put out the band's second full length album, Moloq, this February. Moloqmusic.com @moloqmusic Twitter & Instagram. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urori...