The East is a Podcast

*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!* Matteo Capasso (@capassomat) recently joined me for a two-part episode ("Lessons from the end of the Libyan Arab Jamāhīriyyah"), and I wanted to have him back to elaborate on some of the threads we didn't pick up on in our initial talk.  This is roughly 50% of our conversation.  Sign up on Patreon for to access the full episode   Check out his book, Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (2023)

Friend of the podcast Chris Beausang (@ilchinealach) returns to the show to explore the life and legacy of Roger Casement. Subscribe to Chris' fantastic podcast, Politics and Letters Check out his earlier episodes on the podcast James Connolly and Irish anticolonial resistance (Pt.1)  The Troubles and the Irish Question (Pt.1)   Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast    

*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!* Cindy Li is a DJ based in Toronto. She is currently on tour, and you can check out her recent set in Berlin.

*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!*   The second half of my conversation with Matteo Capasso (@capassomat), author of the new book,  Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (2023).      

**This episode contains roughly 60% of our conversation.  To listen to the second half, subscribe to the show on Patreon and help keep the show going** Matteo Capasso (@capassomat) is the author of Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (2023) Support www.patreon.com/east_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 the campaigns discussed in the interview:   https://www.refundraleigh.org/ https://www.heartdrm.com/   Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel   Check out Frances' recent episode about her amazing (and open-access!) book  Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine (2021)    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 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 watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel  Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast  

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 conversation (~20 mins). Also, you can help keep the show going! Hundreds of hours of bonus content are sitting behind the paywall, so if you like the podcast you can get a lot more great content for just five bucks a month!