Omar Al Akkad - Journalism, War, Stories Beyond America (2019), One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This (2025)
Release Date: 04/09/2025
Joseph Massad - Islamaphobia and Anti-Palestinianism (2025)
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Massad spoke at the Islamaphobia Studies Center in Berkeley California. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our Twitter presence is @, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: [email protected]
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Imam Jamil Al-Amin Mixtape
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KTVU News footage from 1967 featuring a press conference with Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (then known as H. Rap Brown), who discusses non-violence, self-defense and freedom. He states that: "We have always had a strong position that individuals are given a God-given right to defend themselves. And what's more they're protected within the framework of the law." He also goes on to declare how: "Freedom cannot be given. It's not, y'know, a welfare commodity. Freedom is something that has to be gotten and taken by the people who are oppressed." When one reporter asks Brown: "Do you have any...
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Khaled Meshaal - Al-Jazeera Interview (2011)
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The Hamas leader speaks to Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh about reconciling differences among various Palestinian factions. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our Twitter presence is @, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: [email protected]
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Omar Al Akkad - Journalism, War, Stories Beyond America (2019), One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This (2025)
The Anti-Imperialist Archive
Join two journalists who have reported from the Middle East for outlets in the US and Canada for a live conversation on what it takes to make Western audiences care about the lives of people in places they can safely ignore. Talk hosted by Oregon Humanities. On March 12, 2025, VPL hosted a conversation with Omar El Akkad about his latest book, moderated by Adel Iskandar. -- description from event listing below -- On October 25 of 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad wrote online: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a...
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Danny Glover, James Early, Bill Fletcher - On Cuba and Venezuela (2014)
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We talk to Danny Glover and James Early about the recent elections in Venezuela and what it means for the country going forward. We also feature a discussion on the latest in Western Sahara, Africa’s last remaining colony. The Global African Host Bill Fletcher looks at these issues with film actor Danny Glover, CEO of Louverture Films, James Early, scholar at the Institute of Policy Studies, and Dr. Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco. After 5 decades of dysfuntional diplomacy, both the United States and Cuba announced steps...
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Steve Cokely - Black and Jewish Relations (1993)
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@ The Good Life in L.A. 7/2/93 As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our Twitter presence is @, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: [email protected]
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Grace Lee Boggs and Danny Glover - Detroit Conversations (2009)
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Conversation in Detroit with Grace Lee Boggs & Danny Glover. Whose in town filming movie Highland Park. Part of {r}evolution series of Detroit Conversations 10-15-2009 Art & Activism As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our Twitter presence is @, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: [email protected]
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Dr. Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins - Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (2021)
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The presentation depicts waste's constant returns. It thus challenges both common formulations of waste as "matter out of place" and as the ontological opposite of the environment, by suggesting instead that waste siege be understood as an ecology of "matter with no place to go." Waste siege thus not only describes a stateless Palestine, but also becomes a metaphor for our besieged planet. Based on the book, Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine, this presentation offers an analysis unusual in the study of Palestine: it begins with the environmental, infrastructural, and...
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PressTV - Cuban Five Documentary (2017)
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As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our Twitter presence is @, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: [email protected]
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Will VanWagenen - Contemporary History of the Genocide in Gaza (2014)
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With the ongoing slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, the history of the conflict gets lost in order to make viewers lose perspective. Come hear Will Vangagenen read the conflict of today's affairs in their historical context. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our Twitter presence is @, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: [email protected]
info_outlineJoin two journalists who have reported from the Middle East for outlets in the US and Canada for a live conversation on what it takes to make Western audiences care about the lives of people in places they can safely ignore.
Talk hosted by Oregon Humanities.
On March 12, 2025, VPL hosted a conversation with Omar El Akkad about his latest book, moderated by Adel Iskandar. -- description from event listing below -- On October 25 of 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad wrote online: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This message was viewed over 10 million times. The award-winning writer has now expanded that idea into a book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, where he calls out the hypocrisy of Western ideals, explores the rupture of the “rules-based-order”, and reckons with the implications of the war for all of us. Omar El Akkad will appear in conversation with SFU Professor Adel Iskandar. -- Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. He is a two-time winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award and the Oregon Book Award. His books have been translated into 13 languages. His debut novel, American War, was named by the BBC as one of 100 novels that shaped our world; his second novel, What Strange Paradise, won the 2021 Giller Prize. Adel Iskandar is a Vancouver-based academic, activist, and public intellectual. He is currently an Associate Professor of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University, where he is also the Chair of Graduate Studies, and the Director of the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies (CCMS). Iskandar is the author, co-author, and editor of several works including Egypt In Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution; Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism; Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation; Mediating the Arab Uprisings; and Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring.
As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: [email protected]