From Refugee Crisis to Refugee Crisis, 1890-1967
The Adnan Husain Show
**Producer's note: This is the third in a 7-part series. All 7 parts will be available to Patrons of the show in the next few days, and we will release the subsequent parts every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks. Support the show on Patreon if you can't wait!** Part 3 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). Dr. Ariel Salzmann discusses with Adnan the age of mass migration, displacements, dislocations and the "refugee crises" as a result of the failures and oppression described in Part 2. The "national minorities" often became refugees fleeing persecution....
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Emancipation and the Minority Question, 1789-1923
The Adnan Husain Show
**Producer's note: This is the second in a 7-part series. All 7 parts will be available to Patrons of the show in the next few days, and we will release the subsequent parts every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks. Support the show on Patreon if you can't wait!** Part 2 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). In this episode takes a global perspective on the failures of emancipation and liberation in the "long 19th century" from the promise of universal rights in the republican revolution in France and its continual subversion and violent suppression of...
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The Muslim and the Making of Medieval Mediterranean History
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Adnan gives a video version of remarks he made on a panel “Muslims and the Making of History: Religion, Race, and Secularism” at Radboud University in the Netherlands in May 2025. He discussed the way historical narratives, particularly developed during the colonial era, of the European Middle Ages depend on various assumptions about Muslims and their historical character as medieval disrupters of a Mediterranean world rather than as participants in it. He examined the intersections of race and religion in the complex of Eurocentric historiography and its orientalism and its enduring...
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The Longue Durée: Palestine in World History
The Adnan Husain Show
**Producer's note: This is the first in a 7-part series. All 7 parts will be available to Patrons of the show in the next few days, and we will release the subsequent parts every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks. Support the show on Patreon if you can't wait!** Part 1 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial) examines the premodern paradigms of Latin Christendom's relationship to Jews and Muslims, Judaism and Islam, over centuries since the time of the Crusades and the establishment of the Latin Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. and Adnan discuss a Mediterranean history...
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The New Racial Regime w/ Alana Lentin
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Adnan discusses a new book, , (Pluto, 2025) with its author . This important study builds upon Cedric Robinson’s crucial framework to investigate the mechanisms by which neoliberal capitalist societies of Europe and its settler colonies renew racist orderings of society through interlocking discourses and practices that adjust to the collapse of previous structures due to resistance. Alana analyzes responses to critical race theory and its limits, techniques of white forgetting in mobilizing history in “reconciliation” processes, and most profoundly the various adjustments Zionism...
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Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds w/ Ambereen Dadhabhoy
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Prof. Adnan Husain enjoys a wonderful conversation with Prof. Ambereen Dadhabhoy about her fascinating book . The book examines the paradoxical importance of Islam and Muslims to Shakespeare’s plays despite the scant or ambiguous mentions in the text. Through contextual examination of the Early Modern Mediterranean as a space of encounter with Islam and Muslims, themes very important to contemporary English theatre, Dr. Dadhabhoy investigates the significance of Shakespeare’s framing of a White, Christian Mediterranean. The conversation talks about history, geography, religion, race,...
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Brothers All! Remembering the Legacy of Pope Francis
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Prof. Adnan Husain reflects on the papacy of Francis I--and in particular assesses the themes of anti-capitalism, peace and anti-war positions, and social justice and inclusion in his encyclical Fratelli Tutti. Also check out the episode of Revolutionary Left Radio in which Adnan and Breht discussed Francis of Assisi, whom Pope Francis modelled his social theology upon. Like, subscribe, share and support (if you can!): on X
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Team Barbarism is winning!
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*Producer's note: This episode begins with a request to help my friend . Please consider supporting Mohammed's fundraiser to support his family in their efforts to survive the genocide. As I explain in the episode, Mohammed's family has been displaced 5 times, most recently 10 days ago! Any sized donation is welcome!* Prof. Adnan Husain hosts a conversation with Nora Barrrows Friedman ), Alex Aviña ), and Sina Rahmani about the increasingly violent and dangerous turn of events both in the imperial core and West Asia. *Co-published with * Watch the on our...
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Spiritual Materialism? Left Politics and Marxian Mysticism w/Rev Left Radio’s Breht O’Shea
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*Note: This is only part of the conversation between Brett and Adnan; they continued for another 30 mins! To listen to the entire episode, please subscribe to the Patreon or watch the episode on our YouTube channel, both linked below* What does spirituality on the left look like? In a Ramadan special, Adnan discusses Buddhism and Sufi Islam, the distinctions between mysticism and mystification, spiritual practices and ethics as well as the liberation of the soul w/Revolutionary Left Radio and former co-host of Guerrilla History, Breht O’Shea. In a wide ranging and deep conversation about the...
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Iran's History and Geopolitical Relations w/ Prof. David N. Yaghoubian
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Prof. Adnan Husain discusses the modern history of Iran from the late nineteenth century to contemporary relations with the US with friend and colleague Prof. David N. Yaghoubian of California State University-San Bernardino. We discuss Iran's traditions of statecraft and geopolitical relations with imperial powers, Russia and Britain, until the Cold War, when Iran became a pillar of US hegemony in the Middle East after subverting and overthrowing the nationalist government of Mossadegh. Prof. Yaghoubian shares his analysis of the current Iranian state's alliances with Russia and...
info_outline**Producer's note: This is the first in a 7-part series. All 7 parts will be available to Patrons of the show in the next few days, and we will release the subsequent parts every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks. Support the show on Patreon if you can't wait!**
Part 1 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial) examines the premodern paradigms of Latin Christendom's relationship to Jews and Muslims, Judaism and Islam, over centuries since the time of the Crusades and the establishment of the Latin Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Dr. Ariel Salzmann and Adnan discuss a Mediterranean history from the medieval crusades to the "Reconquista" in Iberia into the early modern period and reflect on the transformation in the Latin West from religious difference between Christian and non-Christian as predominant to the elaboration of new ethno-racial forms of exclusion in the shared roots of antisemitism, Islamophobia and other forms of racism.
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