Tankie Group Therapy #26: Liberals are the problem
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An extra large helping of Tankie Group Therapy featuring Sina, Mikey, Joe, Nick Estes and, in his debut, Adnan Husain, and also two surprise guests! Watch the on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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James Connolly: Requiem for a working class hero w/Conor McCabe
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Conor McCabe is a research fellow with Queen’s Business School, Queens University Belfast and editor of The Lost & Early Writings James Connolly (2024), published by Iskra Books. Download the book for free or purchase a copy here Watch the fantastic conversation between Conor and Jay from Millenials are Killing Capitalism Video edition available on the East is a Podcast Youtube channel Consider supporting the show
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Tankie Group Therapy #25: Conspiracy of silence
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Small therapy group convenes with Sina, Joe, and Alex. We talk about denial, shame, fear, historical lies and current ones. Watch the on The Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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Literary Gaza
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*Audio recording of a panel orgnized by friend of the show . Video edition coming soon!* Convened by Dr. Frances S. Hasso, Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, History, and Sociology, as part of The Palestine Seminar at Duke University Speakers “My Age is Thirty-five Years Old and Five Wars" Basman Aldirawi Basman Aldirawi (also Basman Derawi) is a Palestinian and Gazan, a refugee from Bi’r al-Saba`, and currently in Egypt due to the aggression on Gaza. He works as a physiotherapist at the Gaza Ministry of Health and since 2018 has been a member of the Gaza Poets...
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Open season on journalists w/ Asa Winstanley
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Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist with the Electronic Intifada and author of Check out his latest bombshell on the by the Zionist colonial military forces and police on October 7th, 2023. Watch the on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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Unholy alliance: Zionism, Philosemitism, and Imperialism w/ Nora Barrows-Friedman and Adam Horowitz
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Adam Horowitz () is Executive Editor of (@) Nora Barrows-Friedman ( is Associate Editor of (), radio broadcaster, author, co-host of the EI Podcast and Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive
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Tankie Group Therapy #24: I ain't reading all that, Free Palestine!
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Tankie Therapy crew (Nora, Mikey, Alex, Joe, Sina, and Louis) gets together to reflect on one year after Al Aqsa Flood and the Gaza genocide. Watch the on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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"Bury us under every stone and house, we will not leave Palestine": The martyrdom of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah w/ Roqayah Chamseddine
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Roqayah Chamseddine is a journalist and writer based in Lebanon and co-host of Consider supporting the show Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive
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(Unlocked) "Weaker than a spider's web": The ghosts of the 2006 Lebanon war w/ Karim Makdisi
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**Note 2: Given everything that's happened, I've unlocked this episode for the main feed** *Note: This is the part of my conversation with Karim. We continued for another 45 mins! To listen to the entire episode, join Help keep the show going and access hundreds of hours of bonus content!* AUB professor and co-host of Karim Makdisi returns to the show after a five-year hiatus(!) to discuss the history of Israeli state terrorism against Lebanon and the decades-long histories of resistance that have confronted it. Consider supporting the show Check out the...
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Tankie Group Therapy #23: What happened to us?
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Louis, Mikey, Nora, Sina, Alex, and Joe join for our usual therapy session. We talk about the developing Israel-Lebanon war, the difficulty performing everyday life, Macklemore's new song, Hinds Hall 2, and the historical changes we're living through. on the Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Consider supporting the show Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive
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Convened by Dr. Frances S. Hasso, Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, History, and Sociology, as part of The Palestine Seminar at Duke University
https://gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/literary-gaza-hybrid
Speakers
“My Age is Thirty-five Years Old and Five Wars"
Basman Aldirawi
Basman Aldirawi (also Basman Derawi) is a Palestinian and Gazan, a refugee from Bi’r al-Saba`, and currently in Egypt due to the aggression on Gaza. He works as a physiotherapist at the Gaza Ministry of Health and since 2018 has been a member of the Gaza Poets Society, the first spoken word community in Gaza. He has contributed dozens of stories and poems to many online platforms and publications, including We Are Not Numbers (2019), Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire (2022), and the We Are Not Numbers online platform that gives a voice to the victims of Israeli aggression in Gaza/Palestine.
"The Demon of Gaza"
Esmat Elhalaby
Esmat Elhalaby is an Assistant Professor of transnational history at the University of Toronto. He works principally on the intellectual history of West and South Asia, particularly colonial and anti-colonial thought.
“The 5 Stages of Grief, According to a Palestinian”
Samah Serour Fadil
Samah Serour Fadil is an Afro-Palestinian writer, editor and translator. Her work has been featured at the Yale University Art Gallery, Fresno State University and The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, among others.
“Tent in the Sky”
Alaa Na`eem `Ali Al-Qatrawi:
Alaa Na`eem `Ali al-Qatrawi completed her PhD in 2022 in Arabic Literature and Criticism at the Islamic University in Gaza, focused on the poetry of Adonis. Her MA thesis at the Islamic University, which examined Ahmed Bakhit’s poetry, won the Award for Best MA thesis in the Humanities in 2015. Dr. Al-Qatrawi is an accomplished poet and short story and operetta writer, winning among others the Abdulaziz Al-Babtain Award for the best poetry collection in the category of young poets in 2022, first in the Union of Palestinian Writers Competition in 2015, first in the Ministry of Culture’s poetry competition among all Palestinian universities in 2013, first in short stories in the Arab world in the international competition organized by Chinese Books and Dar Fadaat Publishing House in Amman (2019), and first in the Letter to Jerusalem competition (2010). She works as an Arabic Language teacher in UNRWA schools at the elementary and secondary levels. She has previously worked as a linguist and screenwriter for UNRWA children’s programming. Dr. Alaa’s Instagram and Facebook pages.
Sponsor
Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University
Co-Sponsor(s)
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Program (AMES); History Department; Middle East Studies Center (DUMESC); Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program