Struggle Session 9 w/Corinna Mullin, Mtume Gant & Ambereen Dadabhoy
The Adnan Husain Show
The Struggle Session returns! This ninth edition of the livestream panel program about the state of the world and how to change it brings together a wonderful group, Corinna Mullin of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective, author and filmmaker Mtume Gant, and English professor Ambereen Dadabhoy. We'll discuss an array of pressing topics encompassing the twin problems of domestic fascism and militarist imperialism, plus your questions and comments. So post them on social media or live in the YT chat. Please support students in Gaza to take my Small Private Online Course (SPOCs for Gaza),...
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A Call for Revolutionary Intellectual Alignment w/Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah
The Adnan Husain Show
Full Audio of YT Livestream: This livestream collaboration with Lara Sheehi and Psychic Militancy discusses an important document "Toward a Revolutionary Charter for Comprehensive Liberation" released recently that takes an adamant and uncompromising critique of contemporary Arab intelligentsias and calls for a radical realignment against colonial knowledges and with the masses. This is a critical juncture in West Asia; the convulsions of the Gaza genocide, the war on Iran, and the reshaping of its political boundaries, economies and societies in violent colonial war and resistance demand that...
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The Violent Demise of Imperialism w/Radhika Desai
The Adnan Husain Show
In this collaborative livestream with Resistance is Fertile's Benji Schoendorff, we continue a discussion with Dr. Radhika Desai who brings "geopolitical economic" analysis to the contemporary world system and in particular how global events, especially the Ramadan War, herald an end to Western imperialism as a form of world order. We'll discuss how Iran and its allies, the Axis of Resistance, and partners from BRICS and the SCO, China and Russia, are reorienting the "multipolar" world and in what ways. We'll explore the financial, economic, geopolitical, social, and historical conditions....
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Resistance Media Report 2 w/Laith Marouf of Free Palestine TV
The Adnan Husain Show
Full Audio of YouTube Livestream aired Monday April 6th. Journalist, media legal activist, and geopolitical analyst Laith Marouf, founder of the indispensible Free Palestine TV, comes back to the program for a live Resistance Media Report, 10amET Monday April 6th, to discuss ALL the resistance fronts actively confronting the US-Israeli-Western empire now during the Ramadan War with a special focus on the fierce front in Lebanon, analysis of new developments in Syria, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli torture dungeons, accomplishments of the Iraqi resistance in forcing the withdrawal of NATO...
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Iran War Diary (Day 35)
The Adnan Husain Show
This is a collaborative episode with podcast hosted by Kumars Salehi. He has graciously let us post the episode with guest previously on the program for the episode "Iran under Siege". Here is the Delete Your Account write up: This week’s episode is a collaboration with The Colony Archive and The Adnan Husain Show. As Roqayah continues to report from the front lines of Israel’s assault on south Lebanon, Kumars is joined by returning guest Navid Zarrinnal and debutante Adnan Husain. The gang discusses President Masoud Pezeskhian’s letter to Americans, Javad Zarif’s ceasefire...
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Iran vs. Empire: Burning Questions for the Resistance--Philadelphia Panel
The Adnan Husain Show
UNLOCKED!! BONUS! Full Audio of Panel in Philadelphia Adnan participated in and helped organize a panel in Philadelphia, chaired by Gabrel Rockhill w/Adeem Suhail and Nazia Kazi, at the Philadelphia Liberation Center on Weds March 25th. A great discussion on the panel and brilliant questions and vibrant atmosphere with about a hundred people from the community attending. We talked about the situation, how to analyze it through an anti-imperialist framework, and what we need to do to end this war, lift sanctions and create a safer, more equal, and better world together. Thanks to Timour &...
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Iran at War: Sovereignty against Empire Helyeh Doutaghi
The Adnan Husain Show
Adnan speaks with anti-imperialist legal scholar and journalist Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tehran and contributer to Vocal Politics, about life in Iran during the Ramadan War, revolutionary Shi'i populism that has been galvanized nightly in the streets, forms of social solidarity and social order in response to US-Israeli civilian attacks, and the centrality of Palestine and the decolonization of the region. A fascinating discussion with Helyeh's first hand observations and thoroughly insightful analysis. This is illuminating and inspiring! A must for...
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Political Persecution in Kenya w/Booker Omole-Guerrilla History and Adnan Husain Show Collaboration
The Adnan Husain Show
In this critically important episode in collaboration with my other podcast, Guerrilla History, co-host Henry Hakamaki and I, bring back our friend Comrade Booker from the Communist Party Marxist - Kenya to discuss his recent abduction, his imprisonment, the fraudulent case against him, and the work ongoing from the CPMK! An urgently important episode, be sure to share this episode widely to get the word out! This episode will also be available shortly on YouTube in video form on the channel. *Please note that as of the time of release, donation links to the legal fund are not available...
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From Persia to Iran: Islam, Empire, and the Politics of West Asia-Adnan on RevLeftRadio!
The Adnan Husain Show
Adnan joined Breht O'Shea on Revolutionary Left Radio for a deep dive into history. We are sharing it here for our subscribers to the Adnan Husain Show as a bonus and relevant extra! Thanks to Breht for the invitation and graciously allowing us to repost here. Check out his amazing, long-running podcast: and on all the usual platforms. And you can support his efforts, just like ours, on patreon. Detalis at Here is his episode description: In this episode, Breht interviews -- Historian of the Medieval Mediterranean and Islamicate Worlds and Director at the School of Religion at...
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The Names of God (5)-al-Raheem, "the Compassionate"
The Adnan Husain Show
After too long a hiatus, Dr. Marc Applebaum and I have returned with the fifth episode in our series on the Names of God, centered around the Sufi mystical tradition of the 99 Names. This episode comes at the end of Ramadan and arrives into a world desperately in need of mercy, compassion, empathy. Following closely from its relation to al-Rahman, "the Merciful", in our last episode, this name opens further spiritual vistas. We examine some of these resonances and motifs and engage the discussions of al-Ghazali and al-Tilimsani in connecting our own experience and reflections on al-Raheem. You...
info_outlineI contributed a short piece to Sasha Frere Jones' newsletter, "Writing about 2025". It's full of terrific reflections from friends, comrades, and colleagues like Nora Barrows Friedman, Calla Walsh, Laleh Khalili, Louis Allday, Abdeljawad Omar, and Lara Sheehi, who have been guest on the Adnan Husain Show or Guerrilla History (or both). I have also been enjoying a range of reflective thoughts, observations, insights from many many others through some wonderful writing. It's a tour de force. I suggest you check it out and subscribe: https://n.sashafrerejones.com/archive/writing-about-2025/
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