The East is a Podcast

Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist)
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Nov 30, 2020 • 1h 1min

Resisting Saddam w/ Amir Taha

Amir Taha is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam. Check out his article Please consider supporting the show and help me hit my goal of $1500 a month. I have a Patreon and Gofundme. You can also donate directly with Venmo or Paypal.  Links on the homepage, eastpodcast.com   
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Nov 27, 2020 • 55min

Asfuriyyeh: the Lebanon Hospital for the Insane w/Joelle M. Abi-Rached

Joelle Abi-Rached is an invited researcher at the École normale supérieure. Check out her book Please consider supporting the show and help me hit my goal of $1500 a month. I have a Patreon and Gofundme. You can also donate directly with Venmo or Paypal.  Links on the homepage, eastpodcast.com   
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Nov 22, 2020 • 45min

The Bruce Lee Mixtape

Bruce Lee gave relatively few interviews in English during his lifetime. I've compiled a few of them into an episode. Please consider supporting the show and help me hit my goal of $1500 a month. I have a Patreon and Gofundme. You can also donate directly with Venmo or Paypal.  Links on the homepage, eastpodcast.com 
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Nov 17, 2020 • 46min

(Preview) Fascism, Spectacle, and Politics with Maximillian Alvarez and Sina Rahmani

I went on The End of Sport to talk about the American election, sports, and fascism.  This is the first half (!) of the conversation. To listen to the entire episode, subscribe to The End of Sport on your podcatcher!     
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Nov 15, 2020 • 45min

Yemen can't wait w/ Shireen Al-Adeimi

Shireen Al-Adeimi is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University  Donate here to Yemen's reconstruction  
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Nov 10, 2020 • 1h 42min

Sanctions against liberation: a conversation on Zimbabwe today

Guest hosted by Paris Yeros Grasian Mkodzongi @Hondo1973 is a researcher whose work is focused on the political economy of land and natural resources in the Southern African sub-region. Richard R Runyararo @VaMahomva is a political scientist and Executive Coordinator of Leaders for Africa Network (LAN). Freedom Mawzi @FreedomMazwi is researcher at SMAIAS; his research is focused on political economy of land and agricultural financing.   Paris Yeros is Professor at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC) in São Paulo, Brazil, Editor of Agrarian South, Research Associate of Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies (SMAIAS) in Zimbabwe, and Coordinator of Novo Bandung Study Group at UFABC, the host of this conversation. 
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Nov 9, 2020 • 53min

A user's guide to Monopsony Capitalism w/ Ashok Kumar

Ashok Kumar is Lecturer in International Political at Birkbeck and author of Monopsony Capitalism: Power and Production in Twilight of the Sweatshop Age (2020)  Please consider supporting the show and help me hit my goal of $1500 a month. I have a Patreon and Gofundme. You can also donate directly with Venmo or Paypal.  Links on the homepage, eastpodcast.com 
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Nov 7, 2020 • 1h 32min

Michael Parenti: Reflections on the Overthrow of Communism (2009)

Exploring the complexities of the overthrow of communism, historical repression under communist regimes, challenges faced in socialist countries, Eastern European perspectives on post-communism, transitioning to a free market system, human behavior and preferences, reflections on Marxism, rewriting history from communism to fascism, and creativity under Marxism.
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Nov 3, 2020 • 20min

(Unlocked) Bonus Episode 78 - Steve Salaita "The Muslim Zionists"

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.   Check out Steve's website for the source of this episode
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Oct 27, 2020 • 34min

Let the System Die w/ Justin Kaliebe of #PrisonsKIll

  Justin Kaliebe is an incarcerated survivor of the so-called War on Terror, as one of 433 currently incarcerated or detained people charged with terrorism-related charges post 9/11 (according to the Intercept). The so-called War on Terror was a two-front assault on Muslims and those racialized as 'other' both within the US's colonial borders and western Asia. "Please write to Just at:  Justin Kaliebe #81912-053 FCI Jesup  2680 301 South Jesup, GA 31599   You can follow #PrisonsKill on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/prisonskill   You can read "#PrisonsKill" by Justin Kaliebe here - https://prisonskill.wordpress.com/2020/10/07/prisonskill/   You can read "Homegrown" by Justin Kaliebe here- https://prisonskill.wordpress.com/2020/10/09/homegrown/   You can read the whole catalog of #PrisonsKill pieces here- https://prisonskill.wordpress.com/

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