The East is a Podcast

Updated: 13 Feb 2025 • 530 episodes
www.eastpodcast.com

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)

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*Producer's note: I put the audio of the final 15 mins of this conversation behind the paywall.  You can listen to that portion of the conversation by signing up for $5 a month at patreon.com/east_podcast or you can watch the entire episode for free on the EIAP YouTube channel linked below* A roundtable discussion feat

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*I have been helping friend of the show Adnan Husain with his new media project.  This episode we recorded after our previous episode was lost (albeit temporarily) by our recording software. That episode is now available behind the paywall on my patreon and Adnan's linked below*  Professor Adnan Husain and Sina Rahmani

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*Friend of the show Nora Barrows-Friedman collected some of Refaat's audio archive.* In a special audio podcast episode dedicated to the voice and the words of Dr. Refaat Alareer, we weave together five separate interviews we conducted between 2014 and 2018. Alareer was a beloved professor, poet and mentor who helped s

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**A preview of the latest bonus episode: the second half of my conversation with Dror Dayan about Germany's role in the Axis of Genocide. Subscribe on Patreon to access hundreds of bonus episodes and help support the show. Alternatively, you can watch the episode for free on YouTube**  Dror Dayan (@DrorDayan) is a film

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Lara Sheehi joins as our therapist with Jon Elmer(successfully pressured by your comments on the Day 467 Sit Rep), Nora, Mikey, Alex, and Joe. Hours before the ceasefire is set to go into effect, we debrief our worry, our awe and pride in the Palestinians, our rage at genocide, why we did this series of so-called "tank

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Two beloved members of the Tankie Group Therapy crew (Joe and Matteo) return after long absences to join Alex, Nora, and Sina to discuss some of the recent (not so very good) news. Watch the video edition on our YouTube channel Check out Joe's essay, "My Health Ordeal of 2024" Consider supporting the show www.patreon.c

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