Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThawra Ep. 1 – Europe’s Imperial Juggernaut
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the first episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Tod…
2 years, 4 months ago
Your Money Or Your Life w/ Luke Messac
Featuring Luke Messac on Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine. An estimated 100 million people in the US are in debt because…
2 years, 5 months ago
The German Question w/ Emily Dische-Becker
Featuring Emily Dische-Becker on how Germany became attached to a wildly narcissistic anti-antisemitism and Israeli proxy nationalism that have made …
2 years, 5 months ago
Yemen and the Houthis w/ Helen Lackner
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 t…
2 years, 5 months ago
Very Important People w/ Ashley Mears
Featuring Ashley Mears on her book Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit. Mears, a sociologist and former fashion mode…
2 years, 6 months ago
Colonialism, Zionism, Sectarianism w/ Ussama Makdisi
Featuring Ussama Makdisi on how Western colonialism and Zionism exploited, exacerbated, and imposed sectarianism across the Arab Middle East. This is…
2 years, 6 months ago
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2 years, 6 months ago
Age of Coexistence w/ Ussama Makdisi
Featuring Ussama Makdisi on the late Ottoman Empire’s Arab culture of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish coexistence—an ecumenical frame that was interrup…
2 years, 6 months ago
Zionism vs. Anti-Zionism Ep. 2 w/ Shaul Magid
Featuring Shaul Magid on post-1948 Jewish Zionism and Jewish anti-Zionism—including today’s new generation of young, militant, left-wing, anti-Zionis…
2 years, 6 months ago
Zionism vs. Anti-Zionism Ep. 1 w/ Shaul Magid
Featuring Shaul Magid on the long history of Jewish Zionism and its antagonist, Jewish anti-Zionism. Defenders of Israel defame anti-Zionists as anti…
2 years, 7 months ago