The East is a Podcast

  Friend of the podcast Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) interviewed Dana Al-Hasan (@cuote32) about how she connects the dots on local and international activism from a socialist, feminist, and anti-imperialist perspective. They discussed Palestine, gentrification, racism, anti-policing, and reproductive rights activism in North Carolina, especially the Raleigh and Durham areas.   Learn more here about...

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.   Friend of the show Justin Podur (@justinpodur) sits down for yet another installment of "Sina needs to talk about his problems but records it for content." In the episode, Justin and I discuss the question of how to read the news (or not!) If you can't afford $5 you can...

My comrade Ian Anderson has been making amazing archival mixtapes and publishing them on the Anti-Imperialist Archive. Subscribe to the show on your podcatcher and check out their work.         

Friend of the podcast Alex Aviña returns to the podcast to discuss Mexico's populist-nationalist President,  Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Check out Alex's recent episode on the Drug War available only to Patrons of the show. Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast    

Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) is Professor in the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University. Check out the open-access edition of Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine (2021)  Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube Channel Consider signing up on Patreon to listen to the bonus episode which contains the rest of our conver...

*Note: This episode is pieced together from two different conversations.  Kit had some technical problems and disappears in the first half so I interviewed him after* Asa Winstanley writes for  The Electronic Intifada . Pre-order his book,  Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn (2023)   from  @orbooks. You can subscribe to his n ewsletter here: http:// asawinst...

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.   Returning guest  Fadil Aliriza is a journalist based in Tunis and the founder & editor-in-chief of Meshkal . Watch the  video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel  

Nasser Arrabyee is a journalist based in Sana'a. Make sure to check his previous appearances on the show! Watch the  video edition on the East is a Podcast YouTube channel  Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

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.   Friend of the show and recurring guest Amanda Yee (@catcontentonly) on the absurd (and completely fraudulent) panic around TikTok. Watch a preview on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel.  

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.   The conclusion of my conversation with Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt  (@HunnicuttWolfe) .   Check out his book,  The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy (2021) from Stanford University Press        

Yousef Baker ( @YousefKB ) teaches political science at California State University, Long Beach and worked briefly in the Green Zone in the early days of the US occupation. Watch the video edition of this episode on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel .  Check out the first half of this conversation with Nick Estes ( @NIckWestes ) on The Red Nation Podcast on your podcatcher to listen to the ent...

Brandon Wolfe-Honnecut is the author of The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq (2021). Video edition available on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the show and like the episodes! Check out his  earlier episodes available only to patrons hosted by friend of the show Max Ajl Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Amir Taha is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam. Check out his earlier episode, "Resisting Saddam." Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

*Friend of the podcast Chris Beausang has started his own podcast! Subscribe to his show here on Apple Podcasts and listen to the entire episode*   An interview with Conor McCarthy about the life and work of the Palestinian literary critic and activist Edward Said.   Conor McCarthy is a Senior Lecturer at Maynooth University. His books include The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said ,  Modernisa...

*Note: This is about 75% of our conversation.  The rest is available to patrons for $5 a month* Saree Makdisi  (@sareemakdisi) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA and the author of Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (2022) Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show     

Unlocked from behind the paywall!  Back by popular demand!  Alexander McKay from Red Star Radio returns to continue the conversation about the tragicomical decline of the UK. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel   Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Guest host and friend of the show Shep (@NeolithicSheep) joins me to talk to Madina Matin from ASEEL, an impact-driven tech start-up based in Afghanistan connecting underrepresented communities with global customers and donors  Check out ASEEL Website: http://aseelapp.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr2tsGFHrXkMZcG_01rJNLQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aseelapp/?hl=en TikTok:...

A preview of the latest episode of Anti Empire Radio by friend of the show Justin Podur.   Listen to the entire conversation by subscribing to Justin's show on your podcatcher or watch it on his YouTube channel.    Talking to Amaresh Mishra, author of the giant book India 1857: War of Civilisations about the immense scale of the Indian revolution against British imperialism that year: the scale of...

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.   Esha Krishnaswamy  (@eshalegal) is the host of the historicly podcast  Check out the unlocked  video edition on the nascent The East is a Podcast YouTube channel!

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.   Alexander Mckay is the host of the Red Star Radio Podcast   (Apologies for my sound; I selected the wrong mic like a complete noob!)

Gabriel Rockhill returns to the show to talk about Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. Check out Gabriel's article, "Capitalism's Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek" Watch the  video edition of this episode on the recently launched The East is a Podcast YouTube channel.  Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

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.   Friend of the podcast Ricardo Vaz is a writer and editor with VenezuelAnalysis.com Subscribe to their  podcast on your podcatcher and donate if you can at https://venezuelanalysis.com/donate    

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.   Friend of the podcast Alexander Aviña takes us deep into the long and dirty history of so-called "drug wars."    

Check out the article, "The role of UK intelligence services in the abduction, murder of James Foley" by William Van Wagenen (@wvanwagenen)     Considering support the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Check out Amanda 's latest article, "Why Chinese 'debt trap diplomacy' is a lie" Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast