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Sep 2024
49m 40s

The Crusades and the origins of the West...

SINA RAHMANI (@URORIENTALIST)
About this episode

*Note: This is the part of my conversation with Adnan. We continued for another hour! To listen to the entire episode, join The East is a Podcast Patreon for $5 a month. Help keep the show going and access hundreds of hours of bonus content.  Alternatively, you can watch the episode for free on our YouTube channel linked below*

Adnan Husain (@adnanahusain) is a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian at Queen's University and co-host of Guerilla History.  He returns to the show to talk in-depth about the meaning of the Crusades to our understanding of contemporary imperialism.

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