The East is a Podcast

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By: 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)

Tankie Group Therapy #14: Too much democracy!
04/30/2024

An extra large helping of Tankie Therapy featuring a big crowd of patients crammed together on the digital couch: Nora, Rob, Mikey, Arama, Justin, Alex, Joe, and Sina chaotically trying to host. We discussed the very irrational response on the part of the university administrators across the West to the encampments in solidarity with Palestinians sprouting up at dozens of schools.


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Buying Back Our Things: One Man’s Mission to Reclaim Somali Material Culture w/ Aziz Faarah
04/27/2024

Guest host and writer Amal Nura (@amaalnuura) interviews Aziz Faarah (@azizfaarah), independent archivist and collector of Somali artifacts. They discuss his auction adventures and encounters with vendors including one who spent a few weeks in Somali jails in the 1970s https://twitter.com/azizfaarah/status/1736547727821943090.

Their conversation touches on the value of material culture, the museum as a colonial invention and Aziz’s mission to reclaim and repatriate pieces to Somalis in the Horn of Africa and across the diaspora.

To read more and get a glimpse into Aziz’s collection: 
https://africasacountry.com/2024/04/buyin...


The Martyrdom of Walid Daqqa w/ Rana Barakat and Abdaljawad Omar
04/17/2024

Rana Barakat is associate professor of history at Birzeit University in Palestine and director of the BZU Museum (@bzu.museum).

Abduljawad Omar (@HHamayel2) is a lecturer at Birzeit University.  

Check out the article, "The parallel human: Walid Daqqah on the 1948 Palestinian political prisoners" by Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh

An archive of Walid Daqqa's writings
https://shorturl.at/hyzQX

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Tankie Group Therapy #13: We consider the matter closed
04/15/2024

On Day 191 the tankie therapy group convenes (Joe Emersberger (@rosendo_joe), Rob Rousseau (@robrousseau), Mikey Inouye (@karaokecomputer), Sina Rahmani (@UrOrientalist), Alex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina) but for an analytical discussion about Iran's missiles hitting Israeli airbases the day before. A summary of what happened, a media roundup, Jordan's role, the new equation, and more.

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The Mass Hannibal Event of October 7th w/ William Van Wagenen
04/11/2024

Investigative journalist William Van Wagenen (@WVanwagenen) from The Cradle returns to the podcast to discuss his deep dive into what really happened on Oct 7th.

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Check out the article, "What Really Happened on October 7?" https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/what-really-happened-on-october-7/?feed_id=11264&_unique_id=65d3514b9b6fe

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Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine, Panel 3
04/08/2024

 

Introductory Remarks by Professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya)


PANEL 3

“Seeing Palestine, Not Seeing the Palestinians: Gaza in the British PathĂ© Colonial Lens” Shahd Abusalama, Lebanese American University


My presentation will critically engage with the representation of the Palestine question in general and Gaza refugees in particular by British PathĂ©, which, as a leading media institution of the British Empire, was also a dedicated advocate of Zionist ambitions and Jewish settlement in Mandate Palestine. While presenting corresponding reels, I will interrogate Pathé’s discursive strategies in representing the 1947-48 Nakba (Arabic: catastrophe...


Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine, Panel 2
04/08/2024

PANEL 2
 

Introductory Remarks by Professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya)

 

"Queer Threads: Activist Fashion in Palestine"
Roberto Filippello, University of Amsterdam


In this presentation I sketch the contours of the formation of an activist fashion scene across Palestine in the face of material challenges that the infrastructures of the occupation pose to the production and circulation of clothes. I theorize the creative practices of Palestinian fashion designers and image-makers as makeshift acts of collective disidentification with the ecocidal, racist, and queerphobic Zionist enterprise, and argue that “queer decolonial fashion practices” offer a...


Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine, Panel 1
04/08/2024

Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine

An In-Person and Livestreamed Conference
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
 
Panel 1

Introductory Remarks by Professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya)

 

“The Urgency of Anti-Imperial Feminism: Lessons from Palestine”
Walaa Alqaisiya, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (via Zoom)
(08:30-38:30)

This talk maps the epistemic, political, and moral grounds informing the urgency of anti-imperial feminism that Palestine brings into sight. Combining decolonial and Third-Worldist Marxist theoretical approaches, the first part of the talk unpacks the functionality of gender to the onto-epistemic foundations of Zio...


(Preview) Bonus Episode 179 - The airing of the grievances w/ Alex Aviña and Louis Allday
04/04/2024

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Trying out a new live format and was joined by friends of the show Alex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina) and Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) for an angry deep dive into some of the terrible articles written on the Gaza genocide.

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"We are already in the phase of barbarism" w/ Paris Yeros
03/31/2024

Paris Yeros (@parisyeros) teaches at the Federal University of ABC in Brazil.  Guest host and friend of the show Bikrum Gil (@bikrumsinghgill) discuss Paris' latest article published in Agrarian South, "A Polycentric World Will Only Be Possible by the Intervention of the ‘Sixth Great Power"

Read the article here

https://www.agrariansouth.org/2023/12/16/a-polycentric-world-will-only-be-possible-by-the-intervention-of-the-sixth-great-power/

 

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