The Adnan Husain Show

Adnan Husain

Professor Adnan Husain, historian and scholar of religion, hosts a show spanning history, politics, global affairs, intellectual culture, as well as religion and spirituality. The format ranges from scholarly guest interviews, panel discussions, recorded lectures, and his own readings and commentary.

  1. 3d ago

    A Radical Approach to Electoral Politics w/Butch Ware

    Full Audio of YouTube Livestream!!!! Dr. Butch Ware returns to the program to discuss the Black Radical Tradition, anti-imperialists and decolonizing politics, and the approach he is taking to his candidacy in the race for Governor of California for the Green Party. How do these radical and revolutionary traditons of change and social justice inform his approach and plans to engage in electoral politics in the two party duopoly? The campaign has faced many obstacles and challenges thrown up to block his candidacy. We'll hear about those and the plans for the campaign in combatting the anti-democratic machine politics in the state. We will be live so please join and bring your comments and questions. You can follow Butch Ware on X: @ButchWare His website for the campaign is: https://butchware4gov.com You can support the campaign even if you are not in California with donations and volunteer opportunities, so do check it out. Support the show on Patreon or Substack, if you can (and get early access to episodes as well as full audio of all livestreams)! www.patreon.com/adnanhusain https://www.adnanahusain.substack.com Or make a one-time donation to the show and Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain Like, subscribe, share! Rate and Review! Also available in video on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@adnanhusainshow X: @adnanahusain Substack: adnanahusain.substack.com www.adnanhusain.org

    1h 3m

  2. May 27

    Office Hours 31-Pal Action's Legal Trials and UK Political Crises w/Huda Ammori

    Full Audio of YouTube Livestream!!!! The radical academy is in session as Office Hours returns Friday May 15 for an early edition, 11:30amET/4:30amUK. Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, returns to the channel to talk about recent developments legally surrounding the direct actionists' trials, jury manipulation, "terrorism" sentencing, attempts to sanction barrister for the defense, and the political consequences for the Starmer government and the UK state. Remember this political suppression and the threat to legal and political rights results from the enormous success of Palestine Action in disrupting Israeli war manufacturing and UK complicity. Bring your questions for Huda on this edition of Office Hours! Please support Dahnoun Mutual Aid operating in Gaza: https://www.instagram.com/dahnounmutualaid/ Follow Huda on X: https://x.com/HudaAmmori Support the show on Patreon or Substack, if you can (and get early access to episodes as well as full audio of all livestreams)!  www.patreon.com/adnanhusain  https://www.adnanahusain.substack.com Or make a one-time donation to the show and Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain Like, subscribe, share!  Also available in video on YouTube:  https://youtube.com/@adnanhusainshow X: @adnanahusain Substack: adnanahusain.substack.com  www.adnanhusain.org

    1h 8m

  3. May 24

    The Violent Demise of Monetary Supremacy w/Radhika Desai

    Full Audio of YouTube Livestream!!!! Adnan and Benji in this collaboration with Resistance is Fertile podcast continue their conversation with Radhika Desai about the latest developments in geopolitical economy. We discuss the consequences of Iran's restriction of commercial trade through the Strait of Hormuz for dollar hegemony and more broadly on the global economy. We'll learn about swap lines and the UAE and other gulf economic vulnerabilities. Perhaps we will also assess the view that China is the key target of the Iran War and the theory that global energy control has been the main strategic goal of US interests. Ahead of the Trump-Xi summit it will be useful to examine and understand China's position during the imperialist war in West Asia. Post your questions in case we have time to get to them too! Follow Resistance is Fertile podcast: resistancesfertilepodcast.substack.com and like, subscribe to https://youtube.com/@indications Follow Radhika Desai's YouTube channel: https://YouTube.com/@UCrER1BhEDLrH-K1Y8taoFNg  Also the International Manifesto Group and its channel: https://internationalmanifesto.org/ https://YouTube.com/@UCPdrMIB6EeY7DdiK82P1EbA  Please support Dahnoun Mutual Aid, a Palestinian organization on the ground in central and southern Gaza providing drinking water and cash assistance to families: https://www.instagram.com/dahnounmutualaid/ Support the show on Patreon or Substack, if you can (and get early access to episodes as well as full audio of all livestreams)! www.patreon.com/adnanhusain https://www.adnanahusain.substack.com Or make a one-time donation to the show and Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain Like, subscribe, share! Also available in video on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@adnanhusainshow X: @adnanahusain Substack: adnanahusain.substack.com www.adnanhusain.org

    1h 1m

  4. May 10

    Myths about Islamic Resistance History in Palestine w/Mujamma Haraket

    As part of this channel's effort to explore the theme of religion and resistance and to understand the Islamic resistance confronting US-Israeli empire, Adna speaks with scholar, translator, and historian of Islamic political movements, Mujamma Haraket. We explore the emergence of the Islamic Resistance in Palestine and its roots in anticolonial era and Muslim Brotherhood organizing in previous decades. In particular, Mujamma dispells myths and exposes their particular use to discredit Hamas by examining the source of contentions that Israel created or supported its "as a counterweight" to the secular nationalist PLO movement. This revealing and illuminating historical analysis based on careful assessment of the evidence and documentation. We also discuss the use of collaborationist gangs in Gaza and their Salafist or more properly "Madkhalist" Islamist orientations meant to undermine the resistance. A fascinating and learned discussion with an expert scholar. Follow Mujamma Haraket's work on substack: mujammaharaket.substack.com Consult this article at Electronic Intifada: https://electronicintifada.net/content/debunking-lie-israel-created-hamas/51350 As well as these additional resources: https://mujammaharaket.substack.com/p/revisiting-the-islamic-movement-fatah Gunning's dissertation:https://etheses.durham.ac.uk/id/eprint/1586/ Support Dahnoun Mutual Aid, a Palestinian org in Gaza: https://www.instagram.com/direct/t/17849072199238061/ Support the show on Patreon or Substack, if you can (and get early access to episodes as well as full audio of all livestreams)! www.patreon.com/adnanhusain https://www.adnanahusain.substack.com Or make a one-time donation to the show and Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain Like, subscribe, share! Also available in video on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@adnanhusainshow X: @adnanahusain Substack: adnanahusain.substack.com www.adnanhusain.org

    1h 34m

  5. May 6

    Still Minab: Iran's Martyrs and Sovereign Truth w/Helyeh Doutaghi and Bikrum Gill

    Helyeh Doutaghi from Tehran and Bikrum Gill join me to discuss the haunting and powerful series "Still Minab" and its first two episodes. Helyeh's documentary absorbs the first part of our discussion about narrating and expressing the truth outside of the colonial and imperial framework. Then Adnan and Bikrum reflect on the wider significance of Iran's defiant position against the imperialist world system, revolutionary Shi'i theology and Islam as a vanguard of anti-imperialist resistance, and the fundamental question of sovereignty. We look forward to another episode soon with stable internet to further develop the themes of the scholarly article Helyeh and Bikrum are writing for Middle East Critique on these issues of Iran's place in anti-imperialist resistance history, theory and practice. Follow Helyeh Doutaghi's work for Vocal Politics and on X to get links to "Still Minab": https://x.com/Helyeh_Doutaghi Follow Bikrum Gill on X to keep up with his work: https://x.com/bikrumsinghgill Support the show on Patreon or Substack, if you can (and get early access to episodes as well as full audio of all livestreams)! www.patreon.com/adnanhusain https://www.adnanahusain.substack.com Or make a one-time donation to the show and Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain Like, subscribe, share! Also available in video on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@adnanhusainshow X: @adnanahusain Substack: adnanahusain.substack.com www.adnanhusain.org

    1h 30m

  6. Apr 28

    The Qur'an as Geopolitics w/Indi.ca

    In this era, the most active forces combating colonialism and imperialism are the "Axis of Resistance" in West Asia. Since October 7th, many have been either inspired or puzzled by the incomparable endurance of the Palestinian people and their heroic resistance to invasion, occupation, and genocidal violence. In both cases religious faith in Islam has proven of incalculable value to them as well as to resistance in Yemen, Lebanon, and Iran. Adnan speaks with writer, blogger and co-host of Resistance is Fertile Podcast, Indi (at Indi.ca) about his study of the Qur'an, Muslim scripture, as a way of understanding the Islamic resistance and current events. Although not a Muslim, he frequently cites the Qur'an in his own anti-imperialist writings and analysis as a source for understanding. We explore together the Qur'an as geopolitical analysis on the topics of war, peace, negotiations, and steadfastness against oppression. Follow Indi's work at Indi.ca and Resistance is Fertile Podcast on his channel, https://youtube.com/@indications Support the show on Patreon or Substack, if you can (and get early access to episodes as well as full audio of all livestreams)! www.patreon.com/adnanhusain https://www.adnanahusain.substack.com Or make a one-time donation to the show and Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain Like, subscribe, share! Also available in video on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@adnanhusainshow X: @adnanahusain Substack: adnanahusain.substack.com www.adnanhusain.org

    1h 30m

  7. Apr 26

    Struggle Session 9 w/Corinna Mullin, Mtume Gant & Ambereen Dadabhoy

    The Struggle Session returns! This ninth edition of the livestream panel program about the state of the world and how to change it brings together a wonderful group, Corinna Mullin of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective, author and filmmaker Mtume Gant, and English professor Ambereen Dadabhoy. We'll discuss an array of pressing topics encompassing the twin problems of domestic fascism and militarist imperialism, plus your questions and comments. So post them on social media or live in the YT chat. Please support students in Gaza to take my Small Private Online Course (SPOCs for Gaza), "Guerrilla History: Anticolonial Resistance History, Theory, Practice, through MITx. We need to raise funds to provide internet access/data and hire local Gaza graduate students as teaching assistants: https://chuffed.org/project/174168-support-a-third-round-of-spocs-for-gaza Support the show on Patreon or Substack, if you can (and get early access to episodes)!  www.patreon.com/adnanhusain  https://www.adnanahusain.substack.com Or make a one-time donation to the show and Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain Like, subscribe, share!  Also available as audio podcast on all major platforms:  https://adnanhusainshow.libsyn.com X: @adnanahusain Substack: adnanahusain.substack.com  www.adnanhusain.org

    1h 53m

  8. Apr 19

    A Call for Revolutionary Intellectual Alignment w/Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah

    Full Audio of YT Livestream: This livestream collaboration with Lara Sheehi and Psychic Militancy discusses an important document "Toward a Revolutionary Charter for Comprehensive Liberation" released recently that takes an adamant and uncompromising critique of contemporary Arab intelligentsias and calls for a radical realignment against colonial knowledges and with the masses. This is a critical juncture in West Asia; the convulsions of the Gaza genocide, the war on Iran, and the reshaping of its political boundaries, economies and societies in violent colonial war and resistance demand that all social groupings and classes address themselves to revolutionary anticolonial struggle. Lara and I speak with one of the authors of this radical manifesto, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, the famous Palestinian surgeon, academic, activist, and Rector of Glasgow University in Scotland. We'll take up the questions of why "pessimism of the intellect" has not been accompanied by "optimist of the will" among the intellectual classes, the manifestations of "defeatist" and comprador thought, and how to revive the courageous role of intellectuals organically in the people's struggle as a resource for liberation. Centered on the question of Palestine but addressed to the wider Arab peoples confronting Zionism, colonialism, and imperialism, the conversation will explore the document's six key principles and concepts like rooted knowledge, intellectual sovereignty, democratizing knowledge and how ideology can be turned into a material force for liberation. This was a fascinating discussion! Join us. You can read a translation of the document here: https://en.al-akhbar.com/news/toward-a-revolutionary-charter-for-comprehensive-liberation1 Follow Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah on X: https://x.com/GhassanAbuSitt1 Subscribe to Psychic Militancy: https://www.youtube.com/@PsychicMilitancy Please support students in Gaza to take my Small Private Online Course (SPOCs for Gaza), "Guerrilla History: Anticolonial Resistance History, Theory, Practice, through MITx. We need to raise funds to provide internet access/data and hire local Gaza graduate students as teaching assistants: https://chuffed.org/project/174168-support-a-third-round-of-spocs-for-gaza Support the show on Patreon or Substack, if you can (and get early access to episodes as well as full audio of all livestreams)! www.patreon.com/adnanhusain https://www.adnanahusain.substack.com Or make a one-time donation to the show and Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain Like, subscribe, share! Also available in video on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@adnanhusainshow X: @adnanahusain Substack: adnanahusain.substack.com www.adnanhusain.org

    1h 45m
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Professor Adnan Husain, historian and scholar of religion, hosts a show spanning history, politics, global affairs, intellectual culture, as well as religion and spirituality. The format ranges from scholarly guest interviews, panel discussions, recorded lectures, and his own readings and commentary.

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  • Creator
    Adnan Husain
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    77
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025
  • Show Website
    The Adnan Husain Show

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