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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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01:05:00

Iran War Diary (Day 29) w/ Kumars Salehi and Navid...

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2026/03/28

**We managed to get Navid online for a conversation on the perception of Iranians on this war. This episode is co-published with Kumars Salehi at Delete Ur Account** This week's episode is another collaboration with The Colony Archive and The East is a Podcast. As Roqayah continues to document the resistance to Israel's attempted ethnic cleansing of south Lebanon, Kumars and friend of the show Sina Rahmani reconnected with Navid Zarrinnal in Tehran after two weeks. Navid updates us on the current

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01:18:13

"War, War until Victory!": Iran resists ZioAmerican...

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2026/03/23

Sara Larijani is a PostDoc fellow in Political Geography at the University of Tehran. Her research is on British colonialism in Iran's oil frontiers. Taha Zeinali (@tahazeinalih) is a doctoral researcher in development studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research focus is imperialist hybrid war, sanctions and sovereign development in Iran. They are both co-founders of the Center for Resistance, Sovereignty and Development Studies at the University of Tehran. Watch the video

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02:09:23

Iran Vs. The Declining Kayfabe Empire featuring Sina...

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2026/03/16

**I did an episode with comrads Jay from MAKC and Kumars from Delete Ur Account last week and forgot to post it! The episode explores the concept "kayfabe" in governing American cultural and political life** In this episode Sina Rahmani from The East is a Podcast & Kumars Salehi from Delete Your Account will join us to talk about the wrestling term "kayfabe" which is about maintaining the illusions that staged storylines and pre-determined matches are authentic, and that wrestlers are actually the

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01:03:00

The Ramadan War: Iran strikes back w/ Helyeh Doutaghi

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2026/03/15

Friend of the show Bikrum Gill is joined by Helyeh Doutaghi to discuss the resistance of the Islamic Republic of Iran against the US-Zionist war of aggression. The discussion focuses on the strategic objectives pursued by Iran in its resistance, and what the larger stakes are for the region and the world-system as a whole. It considers how Iran's resistance represents a historic advance for forces of anti-imperialism. Finally, the episode explores the basis of the specific social, historical, and

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02:21:32

Operation Epstein Fury vs. Iran - Day 5 with Adnan...

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2026/03/08

***I recorded an episode with some friends earlier this week but forgot to upload it until today! Apologies for the lateness** As the imperialist war rages on a group of us will gather to talks through the developments of the last few days to analyze and discuss. Adnan Husain from the Adnan Husain Show: / @adnanhusainshow Lara Sheehi from Psychic Militancy: / @psychicmilitancy Sina Rahmani from East is a Podcast: / @theeastisapodcast Watch the livestream edition on MAKC YouTube

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01:03:08

Iran and Resistance to US Imperialism - Out of Left...

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2026/03/02

***I did an episode with the lovely folks at Out of Left Field from the End of Sport podcast. Nathan is one of my older friends and comrades, and their show has been going strong for several years In this emergency episode of the End of Sport's Out of Left Field, Nathan, Derek, and Priyansh talk to ⁠The East is a Podcast'⁠s Sina Rahmani about the current situation in Iran, exploring the historical context, the role of imperialism, and the resilience of the Iranian state against foreign

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02:03:09

Tankie Group Therapy #37: Tie me to another missle!

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2026/03/01

***Help support Mohammed and his siblings. They are having a difficult time with their living expences and donations have completely dropped off*** Tankie Group Therapy is back! Lara, Jay, Mikey, Adnan, Nora and Sina got together to discuss the ZioAmerican imperialist aggression on the Islamic Republic of Iran. Note: This episode was recorded a few hours before the announcement of the martyrdom of Imam Ali Khamenei Watch the livestream edition on the East is a Podcast YouTube edition

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01:40:44

Hasbara at home: A deep dive into Zionist Hebrew...

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2026/02/22

**Note: This episode contains a lot of discussion of screenshares. Unfortunately, we didn't do the best job describing every graph for audio listeners, so watch the video edition if you are interested in seeing the graphs cited and the slides prepared by the guest.*** Filmmaker Dror Dayan returns to the show to provide us with an overview of the Zionist media machine in Occupied Palestine. You can follow him on Twitter https://x.com/DrorDayan Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast

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01:12:37

The prehistory of Al Aqsa Flood w/ Mujamma Harakat...

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2026/02/22

***This conversation with Mujamma stretched slightly over two hours and covered a lot of terrain. Part 2 will be available to patrons in the coming days, as will the video edition of the entire episode. If a few of you sign up for the Patreon, I will unlock it in a couple of weeks on the free feed.*** The first half of a two-part episode with academic and translator Mujamma Harakat about the historical trajectory of actors, social forces, and ideologies that propelled the Islamic Resistance

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02:06:40

Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?

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2026/02/10

**Producer's note: The folks at Popular Front asked me to moderate this discusssion of Gabriel Rockhill's latest book on the history of the Frankfurt School. Make sure to check out Popular Front!** --- We're thrilled to host author and philosopher Gabriel Rockhill on his book tour in Toronto. One of the key intellectuals of our movement today, his latest work explores ideas that are essential to understanding the challenges and necessities in building a socialist movement—especially for those

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45:42

"We are simply people who love life": Voices from the...

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2026/02/01

**Note: As I explain in the introduction to this video, this is a very special episode that consists of two halves featuring three Palestinians in Gaza sharing their stories. It has become more than evident that our racist ruling class and their media warriors are simply refusing to allow anything that humanizes Palestinians in the slightest into the mainstream. It falls to us to help break the narrative blockade on Palestinians and their liberation struggle. I hope to do more of this content in the

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01:03:28

"They won't leave us alone": Organized chaos and...

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2026/01/26

***Note: Navid's internet has been very unreliable for weeks now, so when I managed to get hold of him with a stable VPN, we decided to hurriedly record. In haste, both of us managed to mangle our respective recordings. I have been forced to resort to--please forgive me, cruel podcast gods---AI audio enhancer tools to see if it could be improved, which it mostly did but there are some funny spots on my side.*** Navid Zarrinal, host of the Colony Archive, and one of the oldest friends of The East is

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01:50:39

Tankie Group Therapy #36: Empire of Lulz

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2026/01/26

Tankie Group Therapy is back after a long, long hiatus! Lara Sheehi from Psychic Militancy hosts this special, extra-super-duper-sized edition featuring all your TGT faves: Justin Podur, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Alex Avina, Joe Emersberger, Sina Rahmani, Arama Rata, Jared Ware, Adnan Husain, Asa Winstanley, and more! Watch the livestream edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

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01:27:21

Michael Parenti: "US interventionism, the 3rd world,...

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2026/01/25

***RIP Michael Parenti*** Michael Parenti speaks at the University of Colorado, Boulder: "US interventionism, the 3rd world, and the USSR" April 15, 1986 Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP8CzlFhc14 Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive for more great archival mixes Join us for a live edition of Tankie Group Therapy Sunday @ 3:30 https://www.youtube.com/live/rX2hbS3eKqg

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01:05:50

"Listen to the Iranians": Sina Rahmani (The East is a...

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2026/01/19

**Note: When stuff in Iran goes down, my natural inclination is to avoid doing content and stay above the fray, at least until the media hysteria dies down. Not the best way to run a media project, I know, but I just have a hard time with all the breathless coverage--BREAKING!!!--and don't really want to feed it. Even then, I am still Iranian, and if people ask me to record during these times, my cultural programming compels me to accept the invitation. This episode of Peacemongers with Mehmet

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13:06

Sina Rahmani: "This is hybrid warfare" (The Freedom...

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2026/01/15

I have been on the road and unable to do a proper episode on what's happening on Iran, so I decided to post this quick spot I did with The Freedom Side from BT News. You can watch the full episode on their YouTube channel If you can't wait until I am able to record a full episode on Iran (I will try to do one tomorrow night or Saturday morning), my comrade Nick and I recently did an episode of our paywalled show, Pod Kapital, and we discussed a little bit about what has been happening but that is

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38:40

Psychic Militancy - Ghassan Abu Sittah: Clinic as...

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2026/01/06

***I have been working with Lara Sheehi on her new show. Make sure you subscribe to her video and audio feeds to listen to the rest of this episode**** Ghassan Abu Sittah: Clinic as site of resistance In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah to discuss the centrality of the clinic in the genocidal violence perpetrated by the Zionist settler state in Gaza, his concept of the biosphere of genocide, and importantly, the site of the clinic as central to resistance, refusal, and

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33:08

AISC #8: The Bolivarian and Iranian Revolutions vs....

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2026/01/05

[NOTE: This is the first portion of the latest episode of The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective podcast. 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!] Hosted by AISC co-founder Nina Farnia, this episode features two distinguished guests and friends of AISC, Venezuela's former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Ron and University of Tehran professor Mohammad Marandi. We initially filmed a 2025

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01:25:13

Global Dumpster Fire: 2025 in Review w/ Max Ajl

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2026/01/04

Producer's note: Apologies for the long absence from the show. As I explain in the first few minutes of this episode, I have been busy launching some new shows in addition to this special episode, currently only available on the YouTube channel. More great content for the main feed and bonus feed coming soon! Max Ajl returns to the show to reflect on some of the wider historical contexts that laid the groundwork for the calamity that was 2025. This was recorded 2 days before the flagrant

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02:01:52

Struggle Session 6 Live w/Nerdeen Kiswani, Sina...

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2025/11/25

The Struggle Session is back for November on Sunday Nov 23rd at 3pmET! This monthly livestream panel program is not convening to make you feel better--the unvarnished analysis and fierce self-criticism may make you feel a bit worse! But, it will inform and, hopefully, spur you to taking action. As Marx said, the point isn't just to understand the world but to change it. This is an activist panel for a much needed Struggle Session: Nerdeen Kiswani, founder of Within our Lifetime; Sina Rahmani, host

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