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 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!  

*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 newsletter here: http://asawinstanley.substack.com Kit Klarenberg is an investigative journalist who focuses on the role of intelligence services on the politics of perception. Check out their article,  "Revealed: British government spied on Palestinian refugees"  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.   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