The East is a Podcast

The East is a Podcast


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The Martyrdom of Walid Daqqa w/ Rana Barakat and Abdaljawad Omar
April 16, 2024

is associate professor of history at Birzeit University in Palestine and director of the BZU Museum (. Abduljawad Omar ) is a lecturer at Birzeit University. , "The parallel human: Walid Daqqah on t

Tankie Group Therapy #13: We consider the matter closed
April 14, 2024

On Day 191 the tankie therapy group convenes (Joe Emersberger , Rob Rousseau , Mikey Inouye , Sina Rahmani , Alex Avia but for an analytical discussion about Iran's missiles hitting Israeli airbases

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

Investigative journalist William Van Wagenenfrom returns to the podcast to discuss his deep dive into what really happened on Oct 7th. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel Check out the arti

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

Introductory Remarks by Professor Frances Hasso PANEL 3 Seeing Palestine, Not Seeing the Palestinians: Gaza in the British Path Colonial Lens Shahd Abusalama, Lebanese American University My p

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

PANEL 2 Introductory Remarks by Professor Frances Hasso "Queer Threads: Activist Fashion in Palestine" Roberto Filippello, University of Amsterdam In this presentation I sketch the contours of th

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

Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine An In-Person and Livestreamed ConferenceWednesday, February 28, 2024 Panel 1 Introductory Remarks by Professor Frances Hasso The Urgency of An

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

*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month tothe entire conversation and help keep the show going oron our YouTube channel* Trying out a new live format and was joine

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

Paris Yeros () teaches at the Federal University of ABC in Brazil. Guest host and friend of the show Bikrum Gil discuss Paris' latest article published in Agrarian South, "A Polycentric World Will O

Tankie Group Therapy #12: Fear and Impatience
March 26, 2024

Tankie therapy session as we watch the newest atrocities unfolding at al-Shifa, make historical parallels with the Argentine Dirty War and the 1857 War in India, the Battle of Algiers and the film Dow

Palestine and the Global South w/ Vijay Prasad and Frances Hasso
March 21, 2024

Vijay Prasad in conversation with friend of the podcast Frances Hasso . Sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute for Arts and Humanities, Departments of Asian and Mi