A very special episode produced by three students at Whitman College as part of Arash Davari’sMiddle East Politics course. This episode explores both the overwhelmingly negative portrayal of Iranians in American pop culture/news media and how to undo it by engaging Iranians both as individuals…

Dr. Isa Blumi is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian, Middle Eastern, and Turkish Studies at Stockholm University. This talk was given at apublic event at the University of Copenhagen organized by The Turban Times in May 2018

A sneak preview of Reza Zia-Ebrahimi’s bonus episode. Sign up for the Patreon to gain access to this and other great bonus content. https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

Reza Zia-Ebrahimi isSenior Lecturer in History at King’s College, London. Please consider supporting the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

This episode ofThe East Is A Podcastis brought to you by students from Levi Thompson’s University of Colorado Boulder courseRepresenting Islam. In it, they cover the operations of the Franklin Book Program, an American book-publishing and translation initiative that operated in the Middle East from…

Ilan Pappé is one of the world’s leading historians of Israel and the Zionist colonization of Palestine. With an introduction by Dima Khalidi. Lecture organized by the Lannan Foundation from January 2019

A sneak preview of Paul Bové’s bonus episode. Sign up for the Patreon to gain access to this and other great bonus content. https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

Ronald Stokes was an activist and community leader connected to the Nation of Islam. He was murdered by the Los Angeles Police Department on April 27, 1962. Malcolm X gave a powerful eulogy, a long sample of which is included in this episode. Please Read More

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As’ad AbuKhalil teaches at California State University, Stanislaus. Please support the show https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com