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"Here, we drown Algerians!" - On Yasmina Adi's "Ici on noie les Algériens" (2011)
This is the story of the now largely forgotten "dark night" of October 17, 1961, "the bloodiest act of state repression of street protest in Western …
7 years, 4 months ago
The Edward Said Mixtape (Vol. 2) - Said clashes with Lewis & Huntington
While they may not be household names, Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington can justifiably count themselves among the most influential academics of t…
7 years, 4 months ago
Postcoloniality, Marxism, Nasserism w/ Sara Salem
Sara Salem is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics. Sara's research interests include political sociology, postcolonial…
7 years, 4 months ago
On the concept of Brownness (approximately) w/ Manu Samriti Chander
Manu Samriti Chander is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. He holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and a PhD from B…
7 years, 4 months ago
Gayatri Spivak "Inside Saudi Arabia" (1980)
An interview with Gayatri Spivak fom the archives of Alternative Views, the legendary public access TV show based in Austin created and hosted by Dou…
7 years, 4 months ago
"The Incredible Turk" (1958)
Turkey has for decades been one of the most important allies of the Western powers. The rise of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan--a charismatic nationalist and p…
7 years, 4 months ago
Haji Malcolm
In April 1964, Malcolm X traveled to Saudi Arabia to complete the Hajj. Upon his return, he gave a press conference and explained what lessons his ex…
7 years, 4 months ago
Eqbal Ahmad - "Terrorism, Ours and Theirs"
Recorded at the University of Colorado, Boulder on October 12, 1998, Eqbal Ahmad speaks about the dangers and dishonesty of the rhetoric of terroris…
7 years, 4 months ago
The Edward Said Mixtape (Vol. 1) - Said on Eqbal Ahmad
Edward Said on his close and intimate relationship with revolutionary political scientist and activist Eqbal Ahmad.
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7 years, 5 months ago
The drone who would be king w/ Emran Feroz
Emran Feroz is an Austro-Afghan journalist and author based in Stuttgart. He is the author "Tod per Knopfdruck" [Death at the Push of a Button] publ…
7 years, 5 months ago