While they may not be household names, Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington can justifiably count themselves among the most influential academics of the last few decades. As the Cold War was winding down, the two men helped manufacture one of the biggest intellectual frauds in…

Sara Salem is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics. Sara’s research interests include political sociology, postcolonial studies, Marxist theory, feminist theory, and global histories of empire and imperialism. Please send all comments and suggestions to eastisapodcast@gmail.com or reach us…

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 Brown University. His first monograph,Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century(Bucknell, 2017), examined the…

An interview with Gayatri Spivak fom the archives of Alternative Views, the legendary public access TV show based in Austin created and hosted by Douglas Kellner and Frank Morrow. In the episode, the hosts ask Spivak about her experiences teaching in the KSA.Interview begins around…

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 polarizing figure who survived a coup attempt in July 2016–has stirred up consternation among the establishment about his loyalty to the…

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 experiences abroad had taught him about the problems facing African-Americans. Please send all comments and suggestions to Read More

Recorded at the University of Colorado, Boulder on October 12, 1998, Eqbal Ahmad speaks about the dangers and dishonesty of the rhetoric of terrorism. For more on Ahmad’s remarkable life: https://www.hampshire.edu/critical-social-inquiry/biography-of-eqbal-ahmad Please send all comments and suggestions to eastisapodcast@gmail.com or reach us through…

Edward Said on his close and intimate relationship with revolutionary political scientist and activist Eqbal Ahmad. Please send all comments and suggestions to eastisapodcast@gmail.com or reach us through Twitter https://twitter.com/east_podcast Podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist)

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] published by Westend in Oct 2017. His work has appeared with The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Atlantic, The…

Dr. Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. https://twitter.com/EskandarSadeghi/ Please send all comments and suggestions to eastisapodcast@gmail.com or reach us through Twitter https://twitter.com/east_podcast Podcast created by Sina…