The East is a Podcast Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist)

[The latest episode of The End of Sport podcast co-hosted by my old friend Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Johanna Mellis, and Derek SIlva.]
In this episode, Derek and Nathan are immensely privileged to be joined by UCLA historian Robin D. G. Kelley for a discussion of the remarkable and obscene events that took place at the UCLA anti-genocide encampment and an assessment of the encampment movement in the context of the neoliberal university and racial capitalism more broadly. We also talk about the role of sport in protest politics.
Robin D.G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He honestly does not need any introduction from me, but just to gesture to his impact, he is the author of books including,  Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012); Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (The Free Press, 2009); Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination(Beacon Press, 2002); with Howard Zinn and Dana Frank, Three Strikes: The Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century (Beacon Press, 2001); Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (Boston: Beacon Press, 1997); Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class  (New York: The Free Press, 1994); Into the Fire: African Americans Since 1970  (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) [Vol. 10 of the Young Oxford History of African Americans series]; and Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990). Very recently, he is also the author of an astounding appraisal of the events at the UCLA encampment in Boston Review.
 
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Our regular therapy session debriefing the events of the week. Rob Rousseau (@robrousseau), Alex Avina (@Alexander_Avina), Joe Emersberger (@rosendo_joe), Nora Barrows Friedman (https://x.com/norabf) all join. Hosted by Justin Podur (@justinpodur)
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**The Arabic half of the conversation begins around minute 72**
Essam Elkorgle (@elkorgle) guesthosts a special dual-language episode with Tunis-based sociologist Haithem Gasmi (@HaithemGasmii) on the sociocultural dimensions of the Zionist boycott and the wider question of delinking from the neocolonial world system.
Check out the short video discussed in the episode.

Cover art by Suhaib Tantoush
Haithem's recent articles (Arabic)
"Disengagement After Boycott: Disengagement From What? (Part One)"
"Disengagement After Boycott: Disengagement From What? (Part Two)"
 
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Get out your most painful traumies cause it's that time again.  A smaller helping of Tankie Group Therapy featuring Justin, Joe, and Sina.
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(A preview of the latest episode of Justin Podur's World War Civ series on his very excellent Anti-Empire Project podcast)

General Allenby, Sharif Hussein and his son Feisal, and their handler TE Lawrence array the forces of the British Empire and the Arab Revolt against the Turco-German forces in Palestine. The battle starts in Gaza and ends with Allenby walking into the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem. The story of the fateful campaign that brought British imperialism to Palestine (and Lebanon, and Syria…). We note that the British found Gaza to be a “fortress” from which it was impossible to dislodge the Turkish forces; Justin felt TE Lawrence was overrated, just another imperialist; and we compare admiration of the stoicism with which Allenby took news of his son’s death, with an analogous situation today.
https://podur.org/2024/05/13/world-war-civ-40-how-britain-took-palestine-in-1917/
 

Nora (@norabf), Sina (@UrOrientalist), Rob (@robrousseau), and Alex (@Alexander_Avina) are back on the couch for another session of Tankie Group Therapy.
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