The ecumenical frame w/ Ussama Makdisi

***Adnan Husain invited me to join him and Rabab Abdulhadi for livestream conversation on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 WTC attacks. This is first hour! We continued for another hour plus! To listen to the entire episode subscribe on Patreon or watch the episode on the EIAP YouTub ... Show More

Friend of the show Kit Klarenberg returns to the podcast to discuss the 25th anniversary of the WTC attacks. Watch the livestream edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel https://youtube.com/live/1sgbc8twLgk Check out his article https://thegrayzone.com/2023/04/18/9-11-hi ... Show More

[Note: This conversation continued for another 30 mins or so. You can listen to the entire episode by becoming a Patron or watch the episode on our YouTube channel linked below] Ammar Ali Jan is a Pakistani political activist, academic, and author. He is founder and general secre ... Show More

<p>I am joined by Dr. Usamma Makdisi to discuss his most recent book &#34;The Age of Coexistence&#34;. In this book Dr. Usamma Makdisi explores the politics of pluralism during the Ottoman Empire and in the post-Ottoman Arab world. Rather than judging the Arab world as a place of ... Show More

Featuring Ussama Makdisi on the late Ottoman Empire’s Arab culture of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish coexistence—an ecumenical frame that was interrupted by European colonialism and Zionism, which exacerbated and exploited sectarianism. This is the first of a two-part interview. S ... Show More

In this episode, Rafeef, Tayla, and Tom are joined Dr. Ussama Makdisi, Palestinian-American scholar and academic, currently a Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. Dr Makdisi is the author of several books and publications on sectar ... Show More