The East is a Podcast
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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***This is a preview of the latest episode of Pod Kapital, the new podcast series co-hosted by me and my comrade Nick Estes exploring Marx's Capital. The episodes are paywalled but we livestreaming our recordings, so subscribe to The East is a Podcast YouTube channel and watch us live for free!*** Nick and Sina return
Office Hours 13-Sudan: Resistance, Compradors, an Existential Fight for Liberation w/Hamza Al-Muqawi
In this edition of Office Hours, Friday Nov. 7 at a special time, 6pm ET, Adnan hosts Hamza Al-Muqawi a Sudanese writer and activist to talk about Sudan's history as a crucial and continuing front in the struggle against colonialism, imperialism, and capitalist exploitation of Eastern Africa and West Asia. We will lear
Reza Aslan is a religious scholar and bestselling author, including his biography of Jesus of Nazareth, Zealot (2013) and his history of Islam, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (2005). Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.co
NOTE: I have been helping the great people over at the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective launch their new show. Lots of great content has already been released on both audio and video feeds and more to come, so please make sure you subscribe to both! Imperialism's Political, Economic, and Military Machinations On t
**Note: Nick and I have been doing a new show behind our respective paywalls, Pod Kapital, going through the new translation of Marx's Capital published by Princeton University Press. We had originally envisioned it as short-run series but after the tremendous response we have received from listeners, we have decided t
The next installment of the Imperial '80s series is sure to be one for the ages. Evil Dead 2. Bruce Campbell. Chainsaw arm. Sawed off Shotgun. Necronomicon. Sina Rahmani from the East is a Podcast. What more could you want? We can't talk about this film without discussing settler colonialism, zionism, & orientalism (an