Episode Archives
The Afterglow of Empire (pt.1) w/ Saree Makdisi
Saree Makdisi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. Please support the...
(PREVIEW) Bonus Episode 2 – The History of Ba’athism (pt.2) w/Patrick Higgins
*Preview: unlock full episode by subscribing* Patrick Higgins is a Ph.D candidate in the...
Brownface and the Convenience Store Clerk
An archival tour through some of Hollywood’s worst representations of South Asians in the...
The Edward Said Mixtape (Vol. 3) – The Gulf Crisis: a Palestinian Perspective
Another unabridged interview from the archives of Alternative Views, the legendary cable access show...
Scholarship in the service of Empire w/ Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
Dr. Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Oriental...
The Tasks of Indigenous Translators w/ Nikki Hessel
Nikkie Hessel is Associate Professor School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at...
Undoing the King of Kings
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s reign was profoundly connected to the Western news media. The mainstream...
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...
Postcoloniality, Marxism, Nasserism w/ Sara Salem
Sara Salem is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics. Sara’s...
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...
Gayatri Spivak “Inside Saudi Arabia” (1980)
An interview with Gayatri Spivak fom the archives of Alternative Views, the legendary public...
Imagined Partitions: Cricket, Empire, and Civil War w/ Nasser Mufti
Nasser Mufti is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University...