Latest Episodes
Palestine and the Global South w/ Vijay Prasad and Frances Hasso
Vijay Prasad in conversation with friend of the podcast Frances Hasso . Sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute for Arts and Humanities, Departments of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and of...
Walking among giants: An eyewitness report from Rafah/ Dr. Yipeng Ge
Ottawa-based Physician Dr. Yipeng Ge reflects on being attacked by the Zionist lobby for speaking out on the Gaza genocide and his subsequent trip to Rafah as part of a medical delegation. Watch on The East is...
Tankie Group Therapy #11: Hope is a discipline
The crew is back on the couch at the therapist's office with Alex (, Nora (), Sina () and two new guests: Mikey (@) and Arama. Watch the on the East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting...
Sifting through the ashes of Oslo w/ Abdaljawad Omar
Abdaljawad Omar is a PhD student and part-time lecturer in the Philosophy and Cultural Studies Department at Birzeit University. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Check out his articles on Mondoweiss ...
Palestine Seminar #3 : Jumana Manna
Duke Professor France Hasso () interviews visual artist and filmmaker Jumana Manna for the third episode of her Palestine Seminar. Professor Hasso will be convening a conference titled, "Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated...
Sina Rahmani
The Host
Sina Rahmani completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at UCLA. He is a translator, scholar, and writer. His work has been published in the PMLA, Iranian Studies, boundary 2, Radical History Review, and Public Books.
He does this podcast in his spare time, of which he has plenty. He has never gone fishing.
Tankie Group Therapy #10: Fear and Impatience
Tankie therapy session as we watch the newest atrocities unfolding at al-Shifa, make historical parallels with the Argentine Dirty War and the 1857 War in India, the Battle of Algiers and the film Downfall... with Nora (), Matteo , Mikey , Sina , and...