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The East is a Podcast

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)

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01:01:47

The humble olive w/ Robert Massoud

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2025/05/25

Robert Massoud is the founder of Zatoun, which bottles and distributes olive oil from Palestine around the world. He also ran Bayt Zatoun in downtown Toronto for many years. Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

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01:39:35

Tankie Group Therapy #32: The West is not worth saving

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2025/05/21

Tankie Groupy Therapy is back! A lively, "dudes rock" episode featuring: Alex, Joe, Sina, Adnan, and our newest member, Jay Ware from Millennials are Killing Capitalism Check out Adnan's conversation with Alana Lentin on his new podcast Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Fundraisers Mohammed's campaign has languished since the amazing boost he received last month. Please consider supporting him or his brother's fundraiser

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01:06:38

Alex Aviña: "Ayotzinapa and Palestine: Global...

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2025/05/18

Comrade and longtime friend of the show Alex Aviña recently gave a lecture the seminar "Global Laboratories of Repression, Global Visions of Liberation" and the organizers have kindly shared the audio for listeners of the show!

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01:43:05

Fascism has no ethnicity: a forum on the Ziofash...

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2025/05/06

**Note: This extra-long conversation continued for another 25 mins, which has been posted for Patrons of the show.** A very special episode featuring comrades and former guests of the show: Nora Barrows-Friedman from El, writer Morgan Artyukhina, filmmaker Dror Dayan, and Adam Horowitz from Mondoweiss Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

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01:38:24

Is your Rage Pure Enough? w/Sina Rahmani - Psychlib ep.5

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2025/04/30

*I was invited to the Psychlib podcast to discuss the power of rage and it resulted in ~90 mins of mostly me ranting* In this wide-ranging and wide-ranting discussion, Sina, Sacha and Benji explore the psychological clay feet of the dying white empire. We explore the entanglement of settler colonies and how they can't genocide their way to victory over the rest of the world. We look at the psychological protective and mobilizing role of rage. If, like us, you consider that ranting Sina is peak

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01:11:53

Syncretic imperialism: A forum on Spanish imperialism...

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2025/04/25

A forum exploring some of the characteristics of Spanish imperialism in Latin America featuring comrade Alex Aviña, and co-hosts of Kuskalla podcast, Yojana Miraya Oscco and Renzo Aroni Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

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02:38:07

Is the Apocalypse Avoidable? Are We Headed for World...

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2025/04/16

*I recently did two very long livestreams with friend of the show and comrade Jared Ware from Millenials are Killing Capitalism. I didn't want to subject all of you on the free feed to almost six hours of mostly Sina yeling so I put one of our conversations behind the paywall. You can watch that episode linked below* Back by popular demand. Sina Rahmani will return to the show to discuss whether we are in the early days of World War 3. Has it been "quietly" raging for a few years now? Are such

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01:27:45

Team Barbarism is winning!

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2025/03/27

*Producer's note: This episode begins with a request to help my friend Mohammed in Gaza. Please consider supporting Mohammed's fundraiser to support his family in their efforts to survive the genocide. As I explain in the episode, Mohammed's family has been displaced 5 times, most recently 10 days ago! Any sized donation is welcome!* Prof. Adnan Husain hosts a conversation with Nora Barrrows Friedman (@norabf), Alex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina), and Sina Rahmani (@UrOrientalist) about the increasingly

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01:15:39

Tankie Group Therapy #31: This is what imperial...

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2025/03/19

**Note: We recorded this episode on Sunday afternoon, one day before the Ziofash Entity committed a heinous massacre and ended their ceasefire pretense.** After a brief hiatus, the Tankie Group Therapy crew (Sina, Alex, Nora, Mikey, Louis, Joe) reunite to discuss the ongoing genocide in Palestine and beyond. Video edition available here Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

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01:15:44

Why we write w/ Mary Turfah and Taylor Miller

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2025/03/09

Friend of the show Alex Avina returns to guesthost a conversation about writing and resistance with Mary Turfah and Taylor Miller. Check out some of their recent work below: "Against These Walls: A Unity of Struggle from Gaza to Sonora" Taylor Miller "Peace From Our Point of View" Mary Turfah "Points of Entry" Mary Turfah "Silicon Wadi, Silicon Desert" Taylor Miller Watch the video edition on our YouTube channel https://youtu.be/2XEPGfRF5-4 Bonus episode available now! Consider supporting the

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56:36

Iran's History and Geopolitical Relations w/Prof....

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2025/03/02

This is a preview of a recent episode of The Adnan Husain Show. The conversation continued for another full hour! Subscribe to Adnan's show on your podcatcher to listen to the full episode or watch it on YouTube linked below. Prof. Adnan Husain discusses the modern history of Iran from the late nineteenth century to contemporary relations with the US with friend and colleague Prof. David N. Yaghoubian of California State University-San Bernardino. We discuss Iran's traditions of statecraft and

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01:16:33

The tallest trees in the forest: Indigenous...

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2025/02/23

Longtime friends of the show and host of The Red Nation Podcast Nick Estes (@nickwestes) and Ali Alizadeh (@Ali7adeh) from Jedaal to look at the history of the Party of God and its martyred leaders against the wider backdrop of Indigenous resistance to settler colonialism. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Check out the documentary, Hezbollah: The Untold Story and subscribe to Jedaal English Nick's latest piece for his substack, "A prayer for Leonard Peltier" Consider

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59:36

Canada vs. Mexico: Two models of anti-sovereignty

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2025/02/13

*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 featuring Tankie Group Therapy stalwarts Alex and Joe as well as Adnan Husain, who recently launched his own channel, to discuss the recent trade war threats from the Trump regime to his

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01:03:21

Gaza is Unconquered, Palestine is STILL the Issue w/...

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2025/02/09

*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 (The East is a Podcast) discuss the political lessons and implications of the Gaza ceasefire agreement for the cause of Palestine, regional and geopolitics of resistance against

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01:38:32

Refaat Alareer's voice from the archives

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2025/01/29

*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 sharpen countless young minds and who still inspires people all over the world. He was murdered by Israel on 6 December, 2023, along with six other members of his family in Gaza. Read

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10:17

Never again? Germany and the Gaza Holocaust w/ Dror...

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2025/01/19

**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 filmmaker, political activist and film scholar based in Berlin and Liverpool. Make sure to check out the first half of this conversation, posted on the main feed Check out "Not Just Your

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01:05:14

Tankie Group Therapy #30: They will never break them...

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2025/01/19

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 "tankie therapy" and why some of us had to avoid it sometimes over the past 15 months. Will this be the last one? Watch the episode on The Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Consider

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01:09:17

Tankie Group Therapy #29: No disclaimers necessary

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2025/01/14

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.com/east_podcast

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01:05:14

Never again? Germany and the Gaza Holocaust w/ Dror...

The East is a Podcast ·

2025/01/10

Dror Dayan (@DrorDayan) is a filmmaker, political activist and film scholar based in Berlin and Liverpool. Check out "Not Just Your Picture: The Story of the Kilani Family" https://notjustyourpicture.com/ Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

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01:03:48

Imperial Debris: From 1492 to the Gaza pier w/ Taylor...

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2024/12/27

Alex Axina (@Alexander_Avina) returns as guest host to interview Taylor Miller about the meaning of Gaza "humanitarian pier" against the wider historical backdrop of genocidal settler colonialism. Check out Taylor's article, "Land Grab, By Sea" Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

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