Featuring Helen Lackner on the Houthis, the politics of their attacks on Red Sea shipping, and the long history of Yemen from British colonial Aden through the current civil war. - Read Helen's artic

Featuring Ashley Mears on her book Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit. Mears, a sociologist and former fashion model, explores the super-elite "models and bottles" pa

Featuring Ussama Makdisi on how Western colonialism and Zionism exploited, exacerbated, and imposed sectarianism across the Arab Middle East. This is the SECOND of a two-part interview. - Support The

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Featuring Ussama Makdisi on the late Ottoman Empire's Arab culture of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish coexistencean ecumenical frame that was interrupted by European colonialism and Zionism, which exac

Featuring Shaul Magid on post-1948 Jewish Zionism and Jewish anti-Zionismincluding today's new generation of young, militant, left-wing, anti-Zionist American Jews and the Jewish establishment's quix

Featuring Shaul Magid on the long history of Jewish Zionism and its antagonist, Jewish anti-Zionism. Defenders of Israel defame anti-Zionists as antisemites. In fact, today's growing ranks of anti-Zio

Featuring Mohammed el-Kurd on Palestine. A short but expansive interview. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig - Check out our newsletters and vast archives at thedigradio.com - Shop Haymarket's AL

Featuring Richard Seymour on the global politics of the Palestinian struggle and Israels war on Gaza. The *second* of a two-part interview. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig - Check out our new

Featuring Richard Seymour on the global politics of the Palestinian struggle and Israel's war on Gaza. The first of a two-part interview. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig - Buy Ireland, Colonia