The Anti-Imperialist Archive

An archive of speeches, lectures, and interviews compiled by Ian Anderson and published by Sina Rahmani. For educational purposes only. This feed will not be monetized and all materials used in the episodes can be found free online.

Joseph Massad - Islamaphobia and Anti-Palestinianism (2025) 04/21/2025

Imam Jamil Al-Amin Mixtape 04/17/2025

Khaled Meshaal - Al-Jazeera Interview (2011) 04/13/2025

Omar Al Akkad - Journalism, War, Stories Beyond America (2019), One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This (2025) 04/09/2025

Omar Al Akkad - Journalism, War, Stories Beyond America (2019), One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This (2025) 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 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 (@), 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] /episode/index/show/4084a94f-b1ea-4146-9e99-6bd47e9ddcef/id/35931290

Danny Glover, James Early, Bill Fletcher - On Cuba and Venezuela (2014) 04/05/2025

Steve Cokely - Black and Jewish Relations (1993) 04/01/2025

Grace Lee Boggs and Danny Glover - Detroit Conversations (2009) 03/29/2025

Dr. Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins - Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (2021) 03/25/2025

Dr. Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins - Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (2021) 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 aesthetic context in which Palestinians forge their lives, naming that context a “waste siege.” The speaker argues that to speak of waste siege is to describe a series of conditions, from smelling wastes to negotiating military infrastructures, from biopolitical forms of colonial rule to experiences of governmental abandonment, from obvious targets of resistance to confusion over responsibility for the burdensome objects of daily life. She will focus on waste as an experience of everyday life that is continuous with, but not a result only of, occupation. Tracing Palestinians' experiences of wastes over the past decade, and their improvisations for mitigating the effects of this siege, and consider how multiple authorities governing the West Bank—including municipalities, the Palestinian Authority, international aid organizations, and Israel—rule by waste siege, whether intentionally or not. Dr. Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bard College. Her research centers around infrastructure, discard studies, environment, colonialism, austerity, platform capitalism, the Middle East, and Europe. Her first book, Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), won the Middle East Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Book Award. It explores what happens when, as Palestinians are increasingly forced into proximity with their own wastes and with those of their occupiers, waste is transformed from “matter out of place,” per prevailing anthropological wisdom, into matter with no place to go—or its own ecology. Her new book project, Homing Austerity: Airbnb in Athens, investigates how Airbnb is transforming the relationship between subjectivity, real estate, and work in Greece as a way of understanding the joint world-making of austerity and platform capitalism. Other publications include pieces in International Journal of Middle East Studies; Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East; Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space; Jerusalem Quarterly; Anthropology News; New Centennial Review; and the Refugee Studies Centre Working Paper Series at the University of Oxford. Her film, Waste Underground (with videographer Ali al-Deek), premiered at the Sharjah Biennial in Ramallah in 2017. Her research has been awarded funding by the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Columbia University, and Palestinian American Research Council. Sponsored by: Israel Institute Teaching Fellow, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and International Relations & Global Studies 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] /episode/index/show/4084a94f-b1ea-4146-9e99-6bd47e9ddcef/id/34674600

PressTV - Cuban Five Documentary (2017) 03/21/2025

Will VanWagenen - Contemporary History of the Genocide in Gaza (2014) 03/17/2025

James Boggs - Black Heritage, Beyond the White Horizon (1968) 03/13/2025

Maryla Husyt Finkelstein, Amy Goodman - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (199X) 03/09/2025

Leon Bass - A Black Soldier in Buchenwald (199X) 03/05/2025

Tim Anderson - The Dirty War on Syria (2015, 2016) 03/01/2025

Short Break! 01/15/2025

Gaza Freedom Flotilla - Reportback (2024) 01/09/2025

Stephen Zunes - the Syrian Tragedy: Causes, Consequences, Options (2015) 01/05/2025

James Petras Primer - Zionism (with Norm Finkelstein) (2007), Latin America (2009) 01/01/2025

Charlotte Kates - Voice of Palestine Interview (2015) 12/29/2024

Archbishop Atallah Hanna - Syria and Palestine (2014) 12/25/2024

Marwa Osman, Dr. Amal Wahdan, Dr. Adnan Azzouz, UNAC - Resistance in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine (2024) 12/21/2024

Jared Ball (Moderating) - Summit for Accountability In Social Movements (2021) 12/17/2024

Anaheed Al-Harden - Palestinians in Syria (2016) 12/13/2024

This Week in Palestine, Virginia Tilley - Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid (2009) 12/13/2024

Al Jazeera - War Crimes in Gaza (2024) 12/09/2024

Patrick Cockburn - Ten Days in Syria (2013) 12/05/2024

Ismail Haniyeh - Televised Address (Oct 14, 2023) 12/01/2024

Osama Hamdan - Hamas Press Conference (June 29, 2024) 12/01/2024

Thomas Becker - The 2019 Senkata and Sacaba Massacres of Bolivia (2023) 11/29/2024

Thomas Becker - The 2019 Senkata and Sacaba Massacres of Bolivia (2023) Within the framework of the International Human Rights Day, the Embassy of the Plurinational State of Bolivia hosted a conversation meant to remember the massacres carried out by the military forces against the civilian populations of Sacaba and Senkata. In 2019, the constitutional order was broken in Bolivia after a police mutiny and the Armed Forces pressure to the elected president to resign, a situation that led to the illegitimate possession of Jeannine Añez as de facto president. Faced with growing popular protests against the regime, Añez promulgated a decree that exempted the military from criminal responsibility, giving them carte blanche to repress the popular protest. On November 15 and 18, in the face of growing mobilizations against the unconstitutional government of Añez, the military massacred the population of Sacaba and Senkata that was exercising its right to protest in defense of democracy, staining the country with blood and mourning. The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH), which carried out an investigation into what happened in the country, concluded that massacres by military and police forces against civilians were recorded in Bolivia, including summary executions, where at least 37 people lost their lives and hundreds received serious injuries, both physical and psychological. At the Embassy we believe that these types of activities are fundamental for the construction of a process of memory, truth and justice, so that we never again allow the violation of human rights by the armed and security forces that are owed to the people and are there to defend it and not repress it. Thomas Becker is a Senior Clinical Supervisor at the University Network for Human Rights. He has spent most of the past two decades working on human rights issues in Bolivia. He has conducted human rights work around the world, investigating torture and extrajudicial killings of Adivasis in India and Sahrawis in Western Sahara; documenting war crimes in Lebanon and Nagorno-Karabakh; examining land rights in South Africa and Palestine; exposing death squads in Honduras and Colombia. Before joining University Network, Becker taught as a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Nation, The Atlantic, Le Monde, El País, Vice Magazine, Al Jazeera, BBC, NPR, and Univision, among others. His book, Coup: A Story of Violence and Resistance in Bolivia, co-authored with Linda Farthing, was a finalist for the Duke University Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights. 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] /episode/index/show/4084a94f-b1ea-4146-9e99-6bd47e9ddcef/id/33700362

Roberto Hernandez - Indigenous Solidarity with Palestine (2020) 11/25/2024

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