The East is a Podcast

Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist)
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Oct 8, 2021 • 33min

(Preview) Episode 14 - Afghanistan 101 w/ Justin Podur

Friend of the podcast Amanda (@catcontentonly) interviews another friend of the podcast, Justin Podur (@justinpodur) about the history of Afghanistan Access this episode in its entirety by signing up at  https://www.patreon.com/radiofreeamanda
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Oct 7, 2021 • 1h 19min

Decolonization, not decolonize w/ Nasser Mufti

Long time friend of the podcast Nasser Mufti teaches at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Check out his article, "Hating Victorian Studies Properly"   Please consider supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, cash apps, and merch store.      
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Oct 2, 2021 • 1h 19min

Charles W. Mills: "Theorizing Racial Justice" (2020)

Charles W. Mills giving the Tanner Lecture on Human Values in 2020 at the University of Michigan   Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78wzAfQu9Mw&ab_channel=UniversityofMichigan
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Sep 23, 2021 • 18min

(Preview) Bonus Episode 112 - Three mining companies in a trench coat w/ Rob Rousseau

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.   You can donate directly through Gofundme, and PayPal/Venmo as well. Links to the latter on my website, eastpodcast.com   Rob Rousseau is a writer and streams on Twitch 
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Sep 21, 2021 • 56min

The point, however, is to change it w/ Midwestern Marx

Carlos L. Garrido, Edward L. Smith, and Alex Zambito are the force behind Midwestern Marx  Check out their Youtube channel    Please consider supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, cash apps, and merch store.  
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Sep 16, 2021 • 1h 9min

(Unlocked) Bonus Episode 109 - “Long Live the Yemeni Worker!" w/ Neama Alamri

Neama Alamri is a historian who recently completed her Ph.D at the University of California, Merced. Check out her article. Guest hosted by Alexander Aviña Unlocked from behind the paywall.  Sign up for the bonus feed at Patreon.com/east_podcast to get great bonus content and help sustain the show. Go to eastpodcast.com for links to Gofundme, merch store, and cash apps. 
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Sep 11, 2021 • 1h 41min

Never trust imperialism w/ Patrick Higgins

Guest hosted by Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) Patrick Higgins on Peter Dale Scott’s The Road to 9/11 – Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America Louis Allday, a writer and historian, is the founding editor of Liberatedtexts.com. Patrick Higgins is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History at the University of Houston. Please consider supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, cash apps, and merch store.  
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Sep 11, 2021 • 1h 7min

Mourning the unmournable: a forum on 9/11

Friend of the show Anjuli Raza Kolb (@anjulifatima) is joined by Mariam Ghani (@ghanimariam) and Chitra Ganesh to discuss the many legacies of the September 11th attacks. Anjuli Raza Kolb (University of Toronto) is a scholar, poet, essayist, and translator living in Harlem. Chitra Ganesh is a Brooklyn-based artist working in film, mural, photographs, painting, comics, and digital media. Mariam Ghani (Bennington College) is a filmmaker, artist, activist, and researcher based in New York. Chitra and Mariam have collaborated since 2004 as Index of the Disappeared, an experimental archive of post-9/11 renditions, redactions, detentions, deportations and disappearances, and a platform for dialogue around related issues and ideas. Please consider supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, cash apps, and merch store.  
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Sep 2, 2021 • 58min

Charting the logic of the Yemen war w/ Dawud Ansari

Dawud Ansari is a researcher based in Berlin and director of the Energy Access and Development Program  We discuss this research project (link). Please consider supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, cash apps, and merch store.    
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Aug 26, 2021 • 1h 26min

Another empire falls in Afghanistan w/ Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

Shah Mahmoud Hanifi teaches history at James Madison University and is the author of Connecting Histories in Afghanistan (2011)   Please consider supporting the show. Go to Eastpodcast.com for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, cash apps, and merch store.

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