The East is a Podcast

*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       

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 entire conversation or click the link at the end of this video. Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

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, Modernisation, Crisis and Culture in Ireland 1969 - 1992. He has also edited The Revolutionary and Anti-Imperialist Writings of James Connolly 1893 - 1916.   I blog at https://aonchiallach.github.io

*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