Canada vs. Mexico: Two models of anti-sovereignty
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*Producer's note: I put the audio of the final 15 mins of this conversation behind the paywall. You can listen to that portion of the conversation by signing up for $5 a month at or you can watch the entire episode for free on the EIAP YouTube channel linked below* A roundtable discussion featuring Tankie Group Therapy stalwarts Alex and Joe as well as Adnan Husain, who recently launched , to discuss the recent trade war threats from the Trump regime to his two largest trading partners. Watch the on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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Gaza is Unconquered, Palestine is STILL the Issue w/ Sina Rahmani
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*I have been helping friend of the show Adnan Husain with his new media project. This episode we recorded after our previous episode was lost (albeit temporarily) by our recording software. That episode is now available and Adnan's linked below* Professor Adnan Husain and Sina Rahmani discuss the political lessons and implications of the Gaza ceasefire agreement for the cause of Palestine, regional and geopolitics of resistance against US/Western empire, and on the direction of the anti-imperial solidarity movements across Europe and North America. Watch the on our YouTube...
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Refaat Alareer's voice from the archives
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*Friend of the show Nora Barrows-Friedman collected some of Refaat's audio archive.* In a special audio podcast episode dedicated to the voice and the words of Dr. Refaat Alareer, we weave together five separate interviews we conducted between 2014 and 2018. Alareer was a beloved professor, poet and mentor who helped sharpen countless young minds and who still inspires people all over the world. He was murdered by Israel on 6 December, 2023, along with six other members of his family in Gaza. Read more:
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Never again? Germany and the Gaza Holocaust w/ Dror Dayan (pt.2)
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**A preview of the latest bonus episode: the with Dror Dayan about Germany's role in the Axis of Genocide. Subscribe on Patreon to access hundreds of bonus episodes and help support the show. Alternatively, you can watch the episode for free on YouTube** is a filmmaker, political activist and film scholar based in Berlin and Liverpool. Make sure to check out the first half of this conversation, posted on the main feed Check out "Not Just Your Picture: The Story of the Kilani Family" Watch the on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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Tankie Group Therapy #30: They will never break them (or us)
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Lara Sheehi joins as our therapist with Jon Elmer(successfully pressured by your comments on the Day 467 Sit Rep), Nora, Mikey, Alex, and Joe. Hours before the ceasefire is set to go into effect, we debrief our worry, our awe and pride in the Palestinians, our rage at genocide, why we did this series of so-called "tankie therapy" and why some of us had to avoid it sometimes over the past 15 months. Will this be the last one? Watch the on The Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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Tankie Group Therapy #29: No disclaimers necessary
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Two beloved members of the Tankie Group Therapy crew (Joe and Matteo) return after long absences to join Alex, Nora, and Sina to discuss some of the recent (not so very good) news. Watch the on our YouTube channel Check out Joe's essay, Consider supporting the show
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Never again? Germany and the Gaza Holocaust w/ Dror Dayan (pt.1)
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is a filmmaker, political activist and film scholar based in Berlin and Liverpool. Check out "Not Just Your Picture: The Story of the Kilani Family" Watch the on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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Imperial Debris: From 1492 to the Gaza pier w/ Taylor Miller
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Alex Axina () returns as guest host to interview Taylor Miller about the meaning of Gaza "humanitarian pier" against the wider historical backdrop of genocidal settler colonialism. Check out Taylor's article, Consider supporting the podcast
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Tankie Group Therapy #28: Imperialism is the primary contradiction
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A reduced crew for Tankie Group Therapy featuring Nora, Alex, and Sina discussing the end of the Syrian Arab Republic and its wide-ranging consequences. Video edition coming soon! Consider supporting the show
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Chaos in the Levant: Fake ceasefire in Lebanon; hot war in Syria w/ Adnan Husain
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Adnan Husain Medieval European and Middle Eastern at Queen's University and co-host of , returns to discuss recent developments in the region. Watch the on The East is a Podcast Youtube channel or Adnan's (still under construction) personal channel (Coming soon!) Consider supporting the show
info_outlineDuke professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) guest hosts a conversation with Louis Allday, founding editor of LiberatedTexts.com, as part of her Spring 2024 course. The pair discuss the significance, relevance, and insight of three books highlighted by Liberated Texts previously; “Zionist Colonialism in Palestine” by Fayez Sayegh, “On Zionist Literature” by Ghassan Kanafani and “Zionist Relations with Nazi Germany” by Faris Glubb.
They also discuss these articles by Louis:
“What existence is worth”: The Martyrdom of Refaat Alareer
https://electronicintifada.net/content/what-existence-worth-martyrdom-refaat-alareer/42491
“A Race Against Time”: The life and death of Ghassan Kanafani
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/09/a-race-against-time-the-life-and-death-of-ghassan-kanafani/
From the syllabus:
"My initial goal was to give a platform to Palestinian artists and intellectuals working in Palestine but with limited opportunities to work or share their work outside of a permanent crisis mode produced by the myriad forms of violence attached to Israeli colonization. This violence regularly reaches university campuses and touches every dimension of life. The syllabus is idiosyncratic in the sense that it represents my intellectual and pedagogical interests for this seminar. I encourage people to use it as an educational resource and to take parts for their own teaching."
Download syllabus
https://franceshasso.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/the-palestine-seminar-sp-2024-syllabus.pdf
Course listing
https://gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/palestine-seminar-gsf-648
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