The East is a Podcast

Friend of the show Alex Aviña guests hosts an episode with geographer Taylor Miller about the intertwined systems of carceral border control policing the US/Mexico border and Palestine.  Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel "A Pause, On Possibility"  https://www.averyreview.com/issues/65/a-pause-on-possibility The University of Arizona's Institutionalized Border Violenc...

[Producer's note: My conversation with Louis went on for another 30 minutes so if you are interested in listening sign up for Patreon at $5 a month ]  Longtime friend of the show Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday)  is back to discuss the 52nd anniversary of Ghassan Kanafani's martyrdom. Check out Anni Kanafani's Ghassan Kanafani which features Louis' fantastic introductory text,  "A Race Against Time":...

On June 18, The Baffler published an article by Mary Turfah called "Running Amok" in which Mary tried to understand the psychology underlying Israeli troops and citizens' production of trophy videos and photos we have been seeing during the war. Our therapy group ( @justinpodur , @norabf , @karaokecomputer , @rosendo_joe , @louis_allday , @alexander_avina ), got together with Mary to talk through...

On 10 May 2024, the Early Caribbean Society hosted a virtual, communal, poetry reading noting connections between Haiti, Sudan, DRC, Palestine, and Indigenous people on Turtle Island, facing invasion and genocide. Program available here https://earlycaribbeansociety.org/events/poetry-for-liberation-from-haiti-to-palestine/ Watch the video edition of The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Donate to ...

This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month to  access the entire conversation. Friend of the show Alex Aviña  (@Alexander_Avina)  joined me for an episode on the perennial questions of violence and self-defence. CBC Documentary about Palestinian resistance in Gaza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J__Burgr8qU&t=312s&ab_channel=AnnaBens

  Walaa Alqaisiya   (@walqaisiya) is a Palestinian academic born and raised in Hebron in the West Bank. She is a Marie Curie Fellow based at the University of Venice, Italy. Walaa's work draws on anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist, and feminist approaches to highlight the deeply gendered and ecocidal nature of Zionist settler colonialism and US-led imperialism. Madonna Thunder Hawk is a Lakota act...

We're back for another round of group therapy talking about the latest developments in the Gaza genocide with a small group of Tankie therapees: Sina (@UrOrientalist) , Rob (@robrousseau) and Mikey (@karaokecomputer ). Sadly, our comrade Joe Emersburger was on the call but his file didn't upload so we sometimes reference his contribution. Please send your complaints to Podcastle.ai for their shitt...

[The latest episode of The End of Sport podcast co-hosted by my old friend Nathan Kalman-Lamb , Johanna Mellis , and Derek SIlva .] In this episode, Derek and Nathan are immensely privileged to be joined by UCLA historian Robin D. G. Kelley for a discussion of the remarkable and obscene events that took place at the UCLA anti-genocide encampment and an assessment of the encampment movement in the...

Our regular therapy session debriefing the events of the week. Rob Rousseau (@robrousseau) , Alex Avina ( @Alexander_Avina ), Joe Emersberger (@rosendo_joe ), Nora Barrows Friedman ( https://x.com/norabf ) all join. Hosted by Justin Podur ( @justinpodur ) Watch the episode  on The Anti-Empire Project  YouTube channel   Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

**The Arabic half of the conversation begins around minute 72** Essam Elkorgle  (@elkorgle) guesthosts a special dual-language episode with Tunis-based sociologist Haithem Gasmi (@HaithemGasmii) on the sociocultural dimensions of the Zionist boycott and the wider question of delinking from the neocolonial world system. Check out the short video discussed in the episode. Cover art by Suhaib Tantous...

Get out your most painful traumies cause it's that time again.  A smaller helping of Tankie Group Therapy featuring Justin, Joe, and Sina. Watch the episode on The Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel   Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

(A preview of the latest episode of Justin Podur's World War Civ series on his very excellent Anti-Empire Project podcast ) General Allenby, Sharif Hussein and his son Feisal, and their handler TE Lawrence array the forces of the British Empire and the Arab Revolt against the Turco-German forces in Palestine. The battle starts in Gaza and ends with Allenby walking into the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem....

Nora (@norabf) , Sina (@UrOrientalist) , Rob ( @robrousseau ), and Alex ( @Alexander_Avina) are back on the couch for another session of Tankie Group Therapy. Watch the episode on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

An extra large helping of Tankie Therapy featuring a big crowd of patients crammed together on the digital couch: Nora , Rob , Mikey , Arama, Justin , Alex , Joe , and Sina chaotically trying to host. We discussed the very irrational response on the part of the university administrators across the West to the encampments in solidarity with Palestinians sprouting up at dozens of schools. Watch the ...

Guest host and writer Amal Nura (@amaalnuura) interviews Aziz Faarah (@azizfaarah) , independent archivist and collector of Somali artifacts. They discuss his auction adventures and encounters with vendors including one who spent a few weeks in Somali jails in the 1970s https://twitter.com/azizfaarah/status/1736547727821943090 . Their conversation touches on the value of material culture, the muse...

Rana Barakat is associate professor of history at Birzeit University in Palestine and director of the BZU Museum ( @bzu.museum) . Abduljawad Omar (@HHamayel2 ) is a lecturer at Birzeit University.   Check out the article , "The parallel human: Walid Daqqah on the 1948 Palestinian political prisoners" by Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh An archive of Walid Daqqa's writings https://shorturl.at/hyzQX Watch the...

On Day 191 the tankie therapy group convenes (Joe Emersberger (@rosendo_joe) , Rob Rousseau (@robrousseau) , Mikey Inouye (@karaokecomputer) , Sina Rahmani (@UrOrientalist) , Alex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina) but for an analytical discussion about Iran's missiles hitting Israeli airbases the day before. A summary of what happened, a media roundup, Jordan's role, the new equation, and more. Watch this...

Investigative journalist William Van Wagenen  (@WVanwagenen)  from The Cradle returns to the podcast to discuss his deep dive into what really happened on Oct 7th. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel https://youtu.be/PP7ZBzTJFmU Check out the article, "What Really Happened on October 7?" https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/what-really-happened-on-october-7/?feed_id=11264&_unique_id=65d...

  Introductory Remarks by Professor Frances Hasso  (@nasawiyya) PANEL 3 " Seeing Palestine, Not Seeing the Palestinians: Gaza in the British Pathé Colonial Lens " Shahd Abusalama, Lebanese American University My presentation will critically engage with the representation of the Palestine question in general and Gaza refugees in particular by British Pathé, which, as a leading media institution of...

PANEL 2   Introductory Remarks by Professor Frances Hasso  (@nasawiyya)   " Queer Threads: Activist Fashion in Palestine " Roberto Filippello, University of Amsterdam In this presentation I sketch the contours of the formation of an activist fashion scene across Palestine in the face of material challenges that the infrastructures of the occupation pose to the production and circulation of clothes...

Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine An In-Person and Livestreamed Conference Wednesday, February 28, 2024   Panel 1 Introductory Remarks by Professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya)   " The Urgency of Anti-Imperial Feminism: Lessons from Palestine " Walaa Alqaisiya, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (via Zoom) (08:30-38:30) This talk maps the epistemic, political, and moral grounds infor...

*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month to  access  the entire conversation and help keep the show going or  watch the full episode  on our YouTube channel*   Trying out a new live format and was joined by friends of the show Alex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina) and Louis Allday ( @Louis_Allday ) for an angry deep dive into some of the terrible articles written on the Gaza...

Paris Yeros ( @parisyeros ) teaches at the Federal University of ABC in Brazil.  Guest host and friend of the show Bikrum Gil (@bikrumsinghgill) discuss Paris' latest article published in Agrarian South, " A Polycentric World Will Only Be Possible by the Intervention of the 'Sixth Great Power" Read the article here https://www.agrariansouth.org/2023/12/16/a-polycentric-world-will-only-be-possible-...

Tankie therapy session as we watch the newest atrocities unfolding at al-Shifa, make historical parallels with the Argentine Dirty War and the 1857 War in India, the Battle of Algiers and the film Downfall ... with Nora ( @norabf ), Matteo (@capassomat) , Mikey (@karaokecomputer) , Sina (@UrOrientalist) , and Alex (@Alexander_Avina) .   Watch the video edition on The Anti-Empire Project YouTube ch...

Vijay Prasad (@vijayprashad) in conversation with friend of the podcast Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) .     Sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute for Arts and Humanities, Departments of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and of Communication, and the Curriculums in Global Studies and in Peace, War, & Defense.   Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast