

The East is a Podcast
Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist)
A critical lens on the history of the present on West Asia and North Africa. Interviews with experts and archival mashups.
Created by Sina Rahmani (twitter: @urorientalist)
Created by Sina Rahmani (twitter: @urorientalist)
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Jul 28, 2021 • 22min
(Preview) Bonus Episode 105 - What is hard power? w/ Bikrum Gill
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 Bikrum Gill (@realDrcabbie) teaches in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. The episode opens with a discussion of this tweet.

Jul 28, 2021 • 43min
The Edward Said Mixtape (Vol. 9)
Edward Said speaking to Bill Moyers and Tariq Ali respectively.

Jul 24, 2021 • 18min
(Preview) Bonus Episode 104 - Oslo (2021) w/ Olivia Giovetti
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 Friend of the podcast Olivia Giovetti returns to discuss HBO's fancypants new historical drama, Oslo (2021). Check out her article

Jul 14, 2021 • 1h 8min
Fidel Castro in Harlem (1995)
Cuban revolutionary hero Fidel Castro speaks in Harlem. Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kBgGLHMfnU&ab_channel=AfroMarxist

Jul 14, 2021 • 30min
(Preview) Radio Free Amanda #5 - The Orientalism of Sacha Baron Cohen w/ Sina Rahmani
Friend of the podcast Amanda (@catcontentonly) has launched her own podcast. Gain access to this episode in its entirety by signing up at https://www.patreon.com/radiofreeamanda.

Jul 13, 2021 • 1h 13min
In the ruins of Oslo w/ Tamara Nassar
Tamara Nassar is an associate editor at The Electronic Intifada Please consider supporting the show

Jul 7, 2021 • 30min
Haiti's Presidential crisis w/ Chris Bernadel
Chris Bernadel is on the Haiti Committee of the Black Alliance for Peace. See their recent statement on the country's illegitimate government Hosted by Justin Podur, author of Haiti’s New Dictatorship: The Coup, the Earthquake, and the UN Occupation (2012) Consider supporting the podcast patreon.com/East_podcast

Jul 7, 2021 • 43min
Sudha Bharadwaj: Fighting in the courts and on the streets (2016)
A lecture hosted by Azim Premji University in August 2016 Source: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv4bdkxXT_h4NlnmNhDbq4w

Jun 25, 2021 • 20min
(Preview) Rewatchability 457- STARGATE with Sina Rahmani
(A preview of the latest episode of Rewatchability. For the entire episode, subscribe to Rewatchability wherever you get your podcasts) Grab your space-ankh, this week we walk like an Egyptian-from-another-planet with STARGATE! Starring Snake Plissken, I mean Kurt Russell, and the part of James Spader not obscured by his exceedingly floppy mop, this military sci-fi action flick combined your grade 4 history unit on Egypt with a random episode of Star Trek. Sina Rahmeni from The East Is A Podcast joins us once again to pick apart this Roland Emmerich blockbuster We thought it was fascinating and mysterious when we were kids, but how does it hold up now?

Jun 21, 2021 • 46min
Bordering midnight w/ Suchitra Vijayan
Suchitra Vijayan's book, Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India, is available now. Check out the Polis Project and their podcast. Consider supporting the podcast. Go to eastpodcast.com for links to patreon, Gofundme, merch store, and cash apps.