Perspectives on COVID-19

  Friend of the podcast Justin Podur (https://www.podur.org/) returns to talk about his new book, America's Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the DR Congo. Please consider supporting the show and help me hit my goal of $1500 a month. I have a Patreon and Gofundme. You can also dona ... Show More

Paul Robeson was a singer, activist, and open Communist during the heyday of McCarthyist America. Great thanks to Hami Bahadori for putting this amazing mix together. 

A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by signing up at the $5 level.   You can donate directly through Gofundme, and PayPal/Venmo as well. Links to the latter on my website, eastpodcast.com One of my earliest patrons, Amanda ... Show More

*This episode is divided into two parts; the full conversation clocks in at almost two hours! You can listen to the second half by becoming a patron of the podcast $5 level on Patreon.com or you can watch for free on the East is a Podcast YouTube channel* Friend of the podcast Fr ... Show More

While The New Arab Voice is on holiday, we bring you another episode of The New Arab Weekly podcast.You can find all the links you'll need to subscribe to The New Arab Weekly here. This week on The New Arab Weekly podcast, we look at the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi a ... Show More

2023 is drawing to a close and we’re spending our last two episodes of the year to look back over the past twelve months and the stories that have shaped the Middle East. For our first episode of our review, we look at the months from January to June, with help from some of The N ... Show More

In this episode Abdaljawad (Abboud) Omar returns to the show.  This is the lightly edited audio from a livestream we recorded on March 24th  Abdaljawad Omar is a writer, analyst, and lecturer based in Ramallah, Palestine. He currently lectures in the Department of Philosophy and ... Show More

Today, we are confronting nothing short of a campaign of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians of Gaza, not seen since the Nakba or Catastrophe of 1948. Yet many in the Western world are silent to the suffering. Much of what justifies Israel and its actions in the West is premised ... Show More

In this weeks episode of The New Arab Voice, we start with a discussion about the recent revelations of Iranian plots to kidnap an American journalist and the ongoing protests happening in Khuzestan province. Then, we explore Lebanon's economic nightmare and ask how the country e ... Show More

This conversation is a rerun of a 2021 episode with Professor Rashid Khalidi author of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017". We are rerunning this episode since our team is on a break until after the second week of Janu ... Show More

Last week we looked back at the first six months of 2023, and this week, we're completing the year with refresher on the last six months of the year. We remember the arguments at the UN Security Council over Syrian aid delivery, the release of Patrick Zaki, the deadly wedding fir ... Show More

A conversation about the recent developments in Palestine with MAKC's Jared Ware (@jaybeware) and Josh Briond (@queersocialism), and friend of the podcast Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) Co-published with Milenials are Killing Capitalism, which you can support on Patreon. Consider sup ... Show More

The New Arab Voice is on a break at the moment.While you wait, why not check out the latest episode of The New Arab Weekly. You can subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, and wherever else you get your podcasts.This week on The New Arab Weekly podcast, we look at the fightin ... Show More