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Aug 31

Insuring Catastrophe w/ David Wallace-Wells, Madison Condon, Moira Birss

Featuring David Wallace-Wells, Madison Condon, and Moira Birss on how insurance companies profit off climate catastrophe—and, in doing so, ensure that people and the planet suffer the consequences. Guest hosted by Astra Taylor. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Read “National ... Show More

2h 8m

Aug 14

Destruction of the Jewish Bund w/ Molly Crabapple

Featuring Molly Crabapple on her book Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. The second in a two-part interview. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Buy Decolonizing Money at Plutobooks.com Buy Femmephilia at Haymarketbooks.org

2h 8m

Aug 5

Making the Jewish Bund w/ Molly Crabapple

Featuring Molly Crabapple on her book Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. The first episode of a two-part interview. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Buy Unions of Our Own and Femmephilia at Haymarketbooks.org

2h 24m

Apr 2024

The Dig: Thawra Ep. 7 - United Arab Republic Against Eisenhower

Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the SEVENTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment lays out the the US’s Eisenhower Doctrine, which in 1957 inaugurated a new era of imperialism in the ... Show More

1h 25m

Aug 2024

Ep. 15 – Black September

Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the FIFTEENTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment addresses the Palestinian Revolution’s project in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan—leading up to the 1970 conflict with the Jorda ... Show More

2h 50m

Apr 2014

Rise and Fall of Arab Nationalism

Tracing the history of the modern Arab world through some of the great political dreams that have shaped it, from the 19th Century to the Arab Spring. In part two of The Making of the Arab World, Egyptian author Tarek Osman explores the rise and fall of Arab nationalism.

27m 1s

Oct 2024

Thawra Epilogue: Genocide and Resistance

Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the third and final part of the epilogue to Thawra (Revolution), our epic series on the history of revolutionary Arab politics. This episode takes us from Hamas’s victory in the 2006 legislative elections, through the siege on Gaza, to Octo ... Show More

2h 32m

Jun 2024

"Partition was about creating a settler colonial state" w/ Abdel Razzaq Takriti (pt.1)

The brothers welcome historian Abdel Razzaq Takriti <a href= "https://x.com/abedtakriti">(@abedtakriti)</a>, the author of Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman 1965-1976 (2016), "<a href= "https://read.dukeupress.edu/radical-history-review/art ... Show More

1h 12m

Nov 2022

S2E4 - The Bloody Birth of the Arabs pt 2

In part two of "The Bloody Birth of the Arabs", we explore how the violence of 1860 gave voice to a new message:"Hob al watan min al iman." Love of your nation is part of your faith. This episode is a deep dive into the local and foreign ... Show More

49m 20s

Jan 2024

The Dig: Colonialism, Zionism, Sectarianism w/ Ussama Makdisi

Featuring Ussama Makdisi on how Western colonialism and Zionism exploited, exacerbated, and imposed sectarianism across the Arab Middle East. This is the SECOND of a two-part interview. Support The Dig at <a href="http://Patreon.com/TheDig" rel="nofollow">Patreon.com ... Show More

1h 39m

Mar 2022

The Periphery and Aimé Césaire's Ghosts in the Syrian Revolution w/ Fadi Bardawil (E103)

This is a conversation with Fadi Bardawil, his 2nd time on the podcast. Bardawil is an anthropologist who researches the Leftist tradition in the Arab world. In this episode, we talked about two essays he's written: "Forsaking the Syrian Revolution: An Anti-Imperialist Handbook" ... Show More

1h 7m

Jul 2024

"Partition was about creating a settler colonial state" w/ Abdel Razzaq Takriti (pt.2)

The second half of the conversation between the brothers and historian Abdel Razzaq Takriti <a href= "https://x.com/abedtakriti">(@abedtakriti)</a>. In this part, they do a deep dive into the Oslo negotiations, the effect of the Camp David Agreement, Yasser Arafat's leadership ... Show More

1h 4m

Apr 2025

Arab Socialism Part II: Nasserism (Teaser)

Arab Socialism is deeply intertwined with Arab Nationalism, to the extent that they are sometimes used interchangeably. On this second episode in our series on Arab Socialism Samuel and Edgar discuss the man who more than any other has come to define the term Arab Socialism, as ... Show More

1m 35s