The ecumenical frame w/ Ussama Makdisi

***I did another edition of Inside the Podcaster's Studio with friend of the show Jay Ware. This is the first half of the conversation. We continued for another hour! You can watch the full episode on YouTube (linked below) or sign up for Patreon to listen to the audio edition*** ... Show More

Longtime friend of the show Navid Zarrinal returns to guesthost an interview with Shirin Saeidi, who was fired from her position at the University of Arkansas for her political positions. They discuss the failure of Iranian Studies scholars to produce work related to modern Iran, ... Show More

In this special bonus episode co-published with Red Scare, I'm joined by longtime collaborator Nick Estes to discuss the strange career trajectory of Ward Churchill and the violence of pretendianism. Watch the video edition on the East is a Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.b ... Show More

I am joined by Dr. Usamma Makdisi to discuss his most recent book "The Age of Coexistence". 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 age-old se ... Show More

Building on nearly two decades of scholarship about sectarianism and communal relations in the Modern Middle East, Ussama Makdisi’s latest book, Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World(University of California Press, 2019) dispels the myth ... 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