The East is a Podcast

Dror Dayan (@DrorDayan) is a filmmaker, political activist and film scholar based in Berlin and Liverpool.  Check out "Not Just Your Picture: The Story of the Kilani Family" https://notjustyourpicture.com/ Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast      

Alex Axina ( @Alexander_Avina ) returns as guest host to interview Taylor Miller about the meaning of Gaza "humanitarian pier" against the wider historical backdrop of genocidal settler colonialism. Check out Taylor's article, "Land Grab, By Sea" Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

A reduced crew for Tankie Group Therapy featuring Nora, Alex, and Sina discussing the end of the Syrian Arab Republic and its wide-ranging consequences. Video edition coming soon!   Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Adnan Husain (@adnanahusain), Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian  at Queen's University and co-host of  Guerilla History , returns to discuss recent developments in the region. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast Youtube channel or Adnan's (still under construction) personal channel (Coming soon!) Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

A conversation with  GSC founders Bana Abu Zuluf and Cody O'Rourke. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel "The Good Shepherd Collective was formed in Palestine in 2017 in response to the restrictive NGO system and its inability to meet the needs of the moment. GSC understands oppression as rooted in the systems and laws guiding civil formation and order. As such, we are...

Actual therapist Lara Sheehi joins us with Justin, Sina, Mikey and Nora in the group. We talk about psychic intrusions, shame, the tricky ecosystem of the colonial assault on the mind, and setting the precondition as liberation. Watch the video edition on the Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel  

An extra large helping of Tankie Group Therapy featuring Sina, Mikey, Joe, Nick Estes and, in his debut, Adnan Husain, and also two surprise guests!  Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel   Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast  

Conor McCabe  (@CMacCaba)  is a research fellow with Queen's Business School, Queens University Belfast and editor of The Lost & Early Writings James Connolly (2024), published by Iskra Books. Download the book for free or purchase a copy here https://www.iskrabooks.org/lost-and-early-writings   Watch the fantastic conversation between Conor and Jay from Millenials are Killing Capitalism https://w...

Small therapy group convenes with Sina, Joe, and Alex. We talk about denial, shame, fear, historical lies and current ones. Watch the video edition on The Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

*Audio recording of a panel orgnized by friend of the show Frances Hasso . Video edition coming soon!* Convened by Dr. Frances S. Hasso, Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, History, and Sociology, as part of The Palestine Seminar at Duke University https://gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/literary-gaza-hybrid Speakers "My Age is Thirty-five Years Old and Five Wars" Basman Aldirawi...

Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley)  is an investigative journalist with the Electronic Intifada and author of Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn (2022).   Check out his latest bombshell on the widespread employment of the "Hannibal Directive" by the Zionist colonial military forces and police on October 7th, 2023.   https://www.asawinstanley.com/   Watch the vi...

Adam Horowitz ( @mondowitz ) is Executive Editor of Mondoweiss (@ Mondoweiss )   Nora Barrows-Friedman ( @norabf)  is Associate Editor of The Electronic Intifada ( @intifada ), radio broadcaster, author, co-host of the EI Podcast and  @thebriefpod   Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel     Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast Check out the Anti-Impe...

Tankie Therapy crew (Nora, Mikey, Alex, Joe, Sina, and Louis) gets together to reflect on one year after Al Aqsa Flood and the Gaza genocide. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Roqayah Chamseddine ( @roqchams ) is a journalist and writer based in Lebanon and co-host of Delete Ur Account Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive http://feeds.libsyn.com/437079/rss  

**Note 2: Given everything that's happened, I've unlocked this episode for the main feed** *Note: This is the part of my conversation with Karim. We continued for another 45 mins! To listen to the entire episode, join  The East is a Podcast Patreon. Help keep the show going and access hundreds of hours of bonus content!*  AUB professor and co-host of  Makdisi Street Karim Makdisi (@KarimMakdisi) r...

Louis, Mikey, Nora, Sina, Alex, and Joe join for our usual therapy session. We talk about the developing Israel-Lebanon war, the difficulty performing everyday life, Macklemore's new song, Hinds Hall 2, and the historical changes we're living through. Watch the episode  on the Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast Check out the Anti-Imperiali...

*Note: This is the part of my conversation with Adnan. We continued for another hour! To listen to the entire episode, join  The East is a Podcast Patreon  for $5 a month. Help keep the show going and access hundreds of hours of bonus content.  Alternatively, you can watch the episode for free on our YouTube channel linked below* Adnan Husain  (@adnanahusain)  is a Medieval European and Middle Eas...

Kyle Ferrana ( @KyleTrainEmoji)  is a writer, software engineer, and tenant organizer.  He is the author of Why the World Needs China: Development, Environmentalism, Conflict Resolution & Common Prosperity (2024) Check out his latest article, "The Occupation of East Asia"   Watch the video edition on the East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast  ...

Nora, Alex, Sina, Joe, and Mikey join for our normal therapy session just after Hizbollah's response and after a particularly rough week with the RNC and DNC disconnecting with multiple massacres in Gaza. We talk about our narrowing social circles and how we fend off the siren call of nihilism. Watch the episode on the Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.co...

*Note: This is the first hour of my conversation with Adnan. We continued for another 45 mins! To listen to the entire episode, join The East is a Podcast Patreon for $5 a month. Help keep the show going and access hundreds of hours of bonus content.  Alternatively, you can watch the episode for free on our YouTube channel linked below* Adnan Husain  (@adnanahusain)  is a Medieval European and Mid...

  The International People's Tribunal on US Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades and Economic Coercive Measures condemns the Israeli assassination of Yasser Adnan Ibrahim al-Derawi, 31 year old attorney from Gaza, Palestine. He served as an expert witness in our Gaza hearing on May 13, 2023.   We recently learned of Yasser's murder after local journalists searched for him to discuss his research on t...

The group gets together after two weeks of assassinations, literal mask-off moments, and massacres. The idea of the "single issue voter" arises - but perhaps it's a single-issue empire. Sina, Nora, Alex and Mikey all join for our therapy session. Watch the video edition on the Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alYojyLDoZE Consider supporting the show www.patreon.c...

Friend of the show Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) guest hosts a conversation with Fida Jiryis, author of Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home (2022) Read an excerpt of the book here https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/27/no-place-like-home-my-bitter-return-to-palestine Watch the episode on our YouTube channel https://youtu.be/NIcKWLqQ9iE Date of recording:...

Another session of Tankie Group Therapy featuring the old crew: @justinpodur ,  @norabf ,  @karaokecomputer ,  @rosendo_joe ,   @alexander_avina, and Urorientalist .The session seemed to revolve mostly around Ansarallah ("Houthis") statements after they attacked Tel Aviv and were bombed by Israeli F-35s. The disconnect between their response and Western solidarity. And then we got the news of Bide...

Founder of Liberated Texts and longtime supporter of the show Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday ) returns to guest host an episode with Mary Turfah ( @maryturfah) about her article on Zionist sadism.  Watch the episode on our YouTube channel "Running Amok"  https://thebaffler.com/latest/running-amok-turfah Liberated Texts https://liberatedtexts.com/ Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podc...