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The Adnan Husain ShowTaking ACTION for PALESTINE w/Huda AmmoriExclusive extended conversation w/Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, about the recent High Court decision in favor of her suit against the Home Secretary and Starmer government banning Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act of 2000. In addition to analyzing the decision and the political ramifications of this momentous victory—the first time a suit has been successful against the application of the act against a group, Huda related the direct action group's successes against Israeli military corporation, Elbit Systems, and the financial and commercial infrastructure that enables it in the UK. We also discuss the legal battles and su...
2026-02-231h 12The Adnan Husain ShowOffice Hours 20-Iran: Strategic Patience vs. Preemptive Strike w/Ali AlizadehFull Audio!!!! Bonus for Podcast listeners. Emergency Office Hours Iran livestream, the first of a major double episode on Iran, Monday, Feb 2nd at 11amET w/Jedaal host and Iran analyst Ali Alizadeh. On the cusp of a possible US attack on Iran in its continuing sanctions, threats, destabilization, and war against the Islamic Republic, we discussed the political and geopolitical dimensions with an expert guest. Follow Ali Alizadeh on X.com/jedaal and /ali7adeh and his YouTube channel, youtube.com/@jedaal Support the show on Patreon if you can (and get...
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Guerrilla HistoryThe Imperial Theory Industry w/Gabriel Rockhill [Adnan Husain Show]In this episode, Adnan discusses Professor Gabriel Rockhill’s new book, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism, v. 1 of The Intellectual World War. This incredibly important book contributes an insurgent foray, a guerrilla attack, against the imperial theory industry and its ideological work in the psychological, intellectual war that is central to the perpetuation...
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Guerrilla HistoryThe Imperial Theory Industry w/Gabriel Rockhill [Adnan Husain Show]In this episode, Adnan discusses Professor Gabriel Rockhill’s new book, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism, v. 1 of The Intellectual World War. This incredibly important book contributes an insurgent foray, a guerrilla attack, against the imperial theory industry and its ideological work in the psychological, intellectual war that is central to the perpetuation […]
2026-01-311h 16The Adnan Husain ShowStruggle Session 7 Live w/Lara Sheehi and Nina FarniaFull Audio of Struggle Session 7! If you missed the livestream, you can listen back. The Struggle Session is back, Sunday Jan 18 at 3:30pmET/12:30pmPT! This livestream panel program will wrestle with the major developments shaping the world so far in 2026. Expect uncompromising anti-imperialist analysis of the continuing resistance to US hegemony and defense of sovereignty in Venezuela and the Caribbean, Iran and West Asia, from Turtle Island to Palestine. Send your questions and comments for the panel--Nina Farnia and Lara Sheehi, two outstanding comrades and colleagues with important insights and analysis. Support the show on Patreon if...
2026-01-221h 44The Adnan Husain ShowOffice Hours 17-Iran: Society under Sanctions w/David YaghoubianBonus Audio of the return of Office Hours, a regular Friday livestream on YouTube and X! Adnan and David Yaghoubian, returning guest and historian of Modern Iran and the Middle East at CSU-San Bernardino, discuss their recent visit to Tehran and their social, political and economic impressions. We will also analyze the economic protests and subsequent violent riots as well as the social and government responses, the histories of sanctions and subversion against the Islamic Republic, and the geopolitical context and consequences regionally and internationally. It is a timely discussion not only of our recent experience in Iran but a...
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The Adnan Husain ShowOffice Hours 17-Iran: Society under Sanctions w/David YaghoubianBonus Audio of the return of Office Hours, a regular Friday livestream on YouTube and X! Adnan and David Yaghoubian, returning guest and historian of Modern Iran and the Middle East at CSU-San Bernardino, discuss their recent visit to Tehran and their social, political and economic impressions. We will also analyze the economic protests and […]
2026-01-191h 39The Adnan Husain ShowReflections on 2025; Visions for 2026I contributed a short piece to Sasha Frere Jones' newsletter, "Writing about 2025". It's full of terrific reflections from friends, comrades, and colleagues like Nora Barrows Friedman, Calla Walsh, Laleh Khalili, Louis Allday, Abdeljawad Omar, and Lara Sheehi, who have been guest on the Adnan Husain Show or Guerrilla History (or both). I have also been enjoying a range of reflective thoughts, observations, insights from many many others through some wonderful writing. It's a tour de force. I suggest you check it out and subscribe: https://n.sashafrerejones.com/archive/writing-about-2025/ I have recorded a version with more...
2026-01-1526 minThe Adnan Husain ShowReflections on 2025; Visions for 2026I contributed a short piece to Sasha Frere Jones’ newsletter, “Writing about 2025”. It’s full of terrific reflections from friends, comrades, and colleagues like Nora Barrows Friedman, Calla Walsh, Laleh Khalili, Louis Allday, Abdeljawad Omar, and Lara Sheehi, who have been guest on the Adnan Husain Show or Guerrilla History (or both). I have also […]
2026-01-1526 minThe Adnan Husain Show2025 A Year in History w/Revolutionary Guerrilla Menace!Full audio of Revolutionary Guerrilla Menace's 2025: A Year in History livestream! A fantastic discussion with blistering analysis from the crew. We discussed US criminal assault on Venezuela and its consequences geopolitically and economically on US empire and its designs in Latin America and implications for West Asia and especially subversion or assault on Iran. We analyzed US/Western imperialism and how it is the primary contradiction in global capitalism. Other topics we touched on were far right politics and "divisions" obfuscating the central class politics, the demonization of refugees, climate/ecology, big tech and AI in the infrastructure of...
2026-01-061h 50Guerrilla HistoryVenezuela and More – Revolutionary Guerrilla MenaceTo ring in 2026, we hosted an annual Revolutionary Guerrilla Menace, this time a livestream also on the Adnan Husain Show. Naturally, we discussed the abduction of Maduro, the Trump administration, and imperialism more generally. Be sure to also listen to Rev Left Radio, Red Menace, and the Adnan Husain Show! Help support the show...
2026-01-051h 50Guerrilla HistoryVenezuela and More – Revolutionary Guerrilla MenaceTo ring in 2026, we hosted an annual Revolutionary Guerrilla Menace, this time a livestream also on the Adnan Husain Show. Naturally, we discussed the abduction of Maduro, the Trump administration, and imperialism more generally. Be sure to also listen to Rev Left Radio, Red Menace, and the Adnan Husain Show! Help support the show […]
2026-01-051h 50The Adnan Husain ShowThe Imperial Theory Industry w/Gabriel RockhillIn this episode, Adnan discusses Professor Gabriel Rockhill’s new book, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism, v. 1 of The Intellectual World War. This incredibly important book contributes an insurgent foray, a guerrilla attack, against the imperial theory industry and its ideological work in the psychological, intellectual war that is central to the perpetuation […]
2025-12-191h 14The Adnan Husain ShowThe Imperial Theory Industry w/Gabriel RockhillIn this episode, Adnan discusses Professor Gabriel Rockhill's new book, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism, v. 1 of The Intellectual World War. This incredibly important book contributes an insurgent foray, a guerrilla attack, against the imperial theory industry and its ideological work in the psychological, intellectual war that is central to the perpetuation of imperialist capitalism of our era. This first volume lays out a crucial method and approach, a way of performing intellectual history through dialectical and historical materialism, while exposing the relationship between the deep state/permanent state forces that have patronized a compatible left culture...
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New Books in World AffairsRadio ReOrient 13.8: Anticolonial Legacies of Bandung, with Adnan Husain, Rabab Abdulhadi, and Salman SayyidAdnan Husain (Queen's, Canada) is joined by Salman Sayyid (Leeds) and Rabab Abdulhadi (San Francisco State) in this episode to discuss the Bandung Conference of 1955 in the year of its seventieth anniversary. This conference brought together leaders of states that had only recently decolonised, and was an important moment of Global South solidarity that would give rise to resistance movements around the world. Their discussion takes a critical look at the history of this conference and its context, and shows how Bandung is still relevant for resistance movements around the world.
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2025-12-051h 39The Adnan Husain ShowOffice Hours 15-Sovereign Development vs. Imperialist War w/Bikrum GillThe radical academy is in session Friday, Nov. 21 at 5pm for Office Hours. In this session Adnan hosts Dr. Bikrum Gill, a professor at Virginia Tech, a scholar of international political economy, and member of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective. We will talk about the key confrontation of our time: the possibility for sovereign development […]
2025-12-032h 03The Adnan Husain ShowOffice Hours 15-Sovereign Development vs. Imperialist War w/Bikrum GillThe radical academy is in session Friday, Nov. 21 at 5pm for Office Hours. In this session Adnan hosts Dr. Bikrum Gill, a professor at Virginia Tech, a scholar of international political economy, and member of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective. We will talk about the key confrontation of our time: the possibility for sovereign development by peoples of the Global South and the imperialist wars waged against these projects by the colonial West. We'll examine these processes and projects of alternative development outside of Western capitalist hegemony, the geopolitical economies and ecologies of imperial capitalism, and the various theatres in...
2025-12-032h 03The Adnan Husain ShowFull Audio! Struggle Session 6 Live w/Nerdeen Kiswani, Sina Rahmani, Henry Hakamaki & Mehmet Ali ArslanThe Struggle Session was back for November on Sunday Nov 23rd at 3pmET! Enjoy full audio of the program. This monthly livestream panel program is not convening to make you feel better--the unvarnished analysis and fierce self-criticism may make you feel a bit worse! But, it will inform and, hopefully, spur you to taking action. As Marx said, the point isn't just to understand the world but to change it. This is an activist panel for a much needed Struggle Session: Nerdeen Kiswani, founder of Within our Lifetime; Sina Rahmani, host of East is a Podcast and impressario/producer...
2025-12-012h 01The Adnan Husain ShowBonus Full Audio! Office Hours 13-Sudan: Resistance, Compradors, an Existential Fight for Liberation w/Hamza Al-MuqawiIn this edition of Office Hours, Friday Nov. 7 at a special time, 6pm ET, Adnan hosts Hamza Al-Muqawi a Sudanese writer and activist to talk about Sudan’s history as a crucial and continuing front in the struggle against colonialism, imperialism, and capitalist exploitation of Eastern Africa and West Asia. We will learn about Sudan’s […]
2025-11-291h 44The Adnan Husain ShowBonus Full Audio! Office Hours 13-Sudan: Resistance, Compradors, an Existential Fight for Liberation w/Hamza Al-MuqawiIn this edition of Office Hours, Friday Nov. 7 at a special time, 6pm ET, Adnan hosts Hamza Al-Muqawi a Sudanese writer and activist to talk about Sudan's history as a crucial and continuing front in the struggle against colonialism, imperialism, and capitalist exploitation of Eastern Africa and West Asia. We will learn about Sudan's strategic place on the Red Sea and the geopolitical factors fueling imperial and subimperial designs and interventions as well as the resistance and struggle for liberation by Sudan's people facing terror, deliberate starvation and genocide. Hamza's analysis will help illuminate a central battleground in resisting...
2025-11-291h 44The Adnan Husain ShowNo god but God–after 20 years w/Reza AslanAdnan has a conversation with noted writer and religion scholar Reza Aslan on the 20th anniversary edition of his classic popular history of Islam, “No god but God: the Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam”. Reza talks about his unique background and interests in religion, the reasons he wrote this work in the cauldron of […]
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The Adnan Husain ShowNo god but God–after 20 years w/Reza AslanAdnan has a conversation with noted writer and religion scholar Reza Aslan on the 20th anniversary edition of his classic popular history of Islam, "No god but God: the Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam". Reza talks about his unique background...
2025-11-261h 06The Adnan Husain ShowNo god but God--after 20 years w/Reza AslanAdnan has a conversation with noted writer and religion scholar Reza Aslan on the 20th anniversary edition of his classic popular history of Islam, "No god but God: the Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam". Reza talks about his unique background and interests in religion, the reasons he wrote this work in the cauldron of Islamophobia during the "Global War on Terrorism" GWOT just a few years after 9/11 and after the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions and occupations. We talked about its reception then and the goals of examining Islam as a religion like any other and how that allowed...
2025-11-261h 06The Adnan Husain ShowThe Names of God (4): al-Rahman, “The Merciful”In this episode, Adnan and Marc explore the most frequently mentioned of the names that serves both as an attribute and a sort of “proper name” in some fashion. We explored the meanings of the Arabic root R-H-M that gives rise to “rahmah” or mercy as a noun and the two adjectival attributes al-Rahman and […]
2025-11-191h 24The Adnan Husain ShowThe Names of God (4): al-Rahman, "The Merciful"In this episode, Adnan and Marc explore the most frequently mentioned of the names that serves both as an attribute and a sort of "proper name" in some fashion. We explored the meanings of the Arabic root R-H-M that gives rise to "rahmah" or mercy as a noun and the two adjectival attributes al-Rahman and al-Raheem, the names that are part of the invocation of chapters of the Qur'an. We considered the particular onological and psychological relationships surrounding al-Rahman as the most merciful or the most benificent. In addition, we wrestled with questions of theodicy. How can we reconcile...
2025-11-191h 24The Adnan Husain ShowThe Names of God (4): al-Rahman, “The Merciful”In this episode, Adnan and Marc explore the most frequently mentioned of the names that serves both as an attribute and a sort of "proper name" in some fashion. We explored the meanings of the Arabic root R-H-M that gives rise to "rahmah" or mercy as...
2025-11-191h 24The Adnan Husain ShowWest African Sufi Resistance and Contemporary Freedom Struggles w/ Butch WareAdnan's wide-ranging conversation with inspiring scholar and charismatic political activist/Green party gubernatorial candidate for California, Dr. Rudolph Butch Ware. We discussed Butch's biography and how it brought him to his groundbreaking...
2025-11-101h 25The Adnan Husain ShowWest African Sufi Resistance and Contemporary Freedom Struggles w/ Butch WareAdnan's wide-ranging conversation with inspiring scholar and charismatic political activist/Green party gubernatorial candidate for California, Dr. Rudolph Butch Ware. We discussed Butch's biography and how it brought him to his groundbreaking historical scholarship on West African Islamic education, Sufi mystical and spiritual movements as anticolonial resistance and slave abolition struggles. We explored the connections between this profound and underappreciated history and the Atlantic and global resonances in the Black radical tradition and how this has informed his own politics and decisions to enter electoral politics. Finally, we learned about the gubernatorial campaign and the prospects for and opportunities...
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FredshetsarnaIslamophobia as a pillar of Western Civilization with Adnan A. Husain
Is Islamophobia made up by communists to destroy The West or was it crafted by the likes of Charlemagne to unify the Latin Christendom into what became The West as we know it today?
Mehmet asks professor of Medieval Mediterranean and Islamic World History and podcaster Adnan A. Husain to trace the origins of Islamophobia and its implications in history and today.
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2025-11-071h 33The Adnan Husain Show*UNLOCKED!* Indigenous Spiritualities and Anticolonial Resistance Movements w/Nick EstesIn this *UNLOCKED* collaborative episode originally exclusively for Red Scare substack subscribers and patrons of the Adnan Husain Show, Nick Estes and Adnan discuss the role spirituality in anti-colonial resistance movements. From the Ghost Dance to Sufi warriorism, spiritual resources are an important and often undertheorized form of struggle against colonial and imperial violence, dispossession, and racism. Enjoy this behind the scenes confabulation! To become a supporter: Patreon.com/adnanhusain or make a one-time contribution via buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain
2025-10-172h 14The Adnan Husain Show*UNLOCKED!* Indigenous Spiritualities and Anticolonial Resistance Movements w/Nick EstesIn this *UNLOCKED* collaborative episode originally exclusively for Red Scare substack subscribers and patrons of the Adnan Husain Show, Nick Estes and Adnan discuss the role spirituality in anti-colonial resistance movements. From the Ghost Dance to...
2025-10-172h 14The Adnan Husain ShowUNLOCKED!! Office Hours #8 w/Nihal El Aasar: Full AudioEven if you missed the livestream and if you prefer listening to watching, I'm posting Monday Sept 29th's Office Hours "Resisting Melancholia: Arab Culture and Politics during the Genocide. It was an illuminating and interesting conversation w/Nihal El Aasar who shared her insightful reflections on culture and politics and the present moment. Enjoy! Normally these live episodes are only available on YouTube or in audio form for Patrons. Please consider supporting the show on patreon.com/adnanhusain! Your regular support helps sustain this show, allows more educational content creation, and keeps this channel free and available...
2025-10-081h 40The Adnan Husain ShowThe Names of God (3): Allah or The Divine BeingAdnan and Marc plunge into the "name" that is unique in being distinguished from all others as having no attribute or characteristic and almost definitionally contrasts with the human. How should the "human" and "divine" dichotomy be understood theologically and phenomenologically in this spiritual tradition of the 99 Names in Sufi Islam? We wrestled with these and other questions related to the spiritual meaning and experience of Allah with the help of Sufi writers al-Ghazali and al-Tilimsani. Marc cooked up a bouillabase through which the "ascending arc" of Akbari meditative practice could express itself, while Adnan puzzled over al-Ghazali's surprising...
2025-10-071h 04The Adnan Husain ShowRemembering Anticolonial Algiers: Panthers & Pan-African Revolutionaries w/Elaine MokhtefiAdnan has a wonderful conversation with a remarkable radical activist, Elaine Mokhtefi, in this special collaborative edition w/Guerrilla History and its ongoing series of interviews with living historical revolutionaries. Elaine Mokhtefi is author of "Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers." This fascinating discussion retraces Elaine's early political engagement with the FLN mission to the UN, her decision to move to Algeria to help build the postcolonial nation after liberation from France, her experiences as a translator and journalist covering the transnational movements for liberation across the Global South, and work with the Black Panthers exiled...
2025-09-261h 15The Adnan Husain ShowSubverting Syria: Dark Histories of US Empire w/Patrick HigginsAdnan discusses a crucial history of US subversion of Syria's sovereignty even before the conclusion of WW2 starting with interference and covert operations by the OSS precursor to the CIA and then through the entire Cold War with Dr. Patrick Higgins, a Middle East historian, co-editor of Liberated Texts and member of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective. His article "Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab Republic" is mandatory reading and the state of the field on this dark history. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19436149.2023.2199487?scroll=top&needAccess=true#abstractart Support the show on...
2025-09-181h 18The Adnan Husain ShowStruggle Session #4 *UNLOCKED*Normally, the audio of livestreams (Struggle Sessions and Office Hours) are exclusive to supporters on patreon.com/adnanhusain but this Struggle Session was so important and sizzling with insight, I'm making it available on the podcast feed. You can always watch these back on YouTube and X as videos, but if you like your audio, be sure to consider supporting and joining. Adnan was joined by Benji Schoendorff of Resistance is Fertile, Jared Ball of IMIXWHATILIKE and Black Liberation Media, and Nora Barrows-Friedmann of the Electronic Intifada. Nihal El Aasar couldn't make it but will join for a...
2025-09-161h 37The Adnan Husain ShowThe Airing of Grievances with Sina Rahmani & FriendsThe East is a Podcast hosted a collaborative conversation with multiple friends, airing grievances, covering multiple topics, discussing news and raising funds for Mohammed and his siblings amid evacuation orders. This stream featured Nick Estes from The Red Nation, Adnan Husain from The Adnan Husain Show and Guerrilla History podcast, Jared Ware from Millennials Are Killing Capitalism, and Mtume Gant of Within our Gates podcast. We are affectionately calling this a episode of "Red Millenials are Killing Adnan Within our Gates in the East!" But the main purpose was to: Support Mohammed from Gaza as...
2025-09-102h 38The Adnan Husain ShowThe Names of God (2): Beginnings and OpeningsAdnan and Marc continue their conversation about the Names of God in the Sufi Muslim mystical tradition and its wider resonances for spiritual experience and self-examination. In particular we observe some of the challenges of beginning such an ambitious project and the preparation required by discussing the openings to two major medieval Arabic commentaries on the divine names introduced in episode 1, al-Ghazali's treatise on the "beautiful names" and al-Tilimsani's commentary on the names and attributes as they appear in the Qur'an, the scriptural text of Islam. We also give a brief overview of the names to comment on the...
2025-09-031h 09The Adnan Husain ShowOffice Hours #5: Taking Action against Genocide and Empire w/Calla WalshAn excerpt from a very exciting and inspiring Office Hours livestream Friday Aug 29, 5pmET. For the full conversation and full audio of all livestreams (Office Hours and Struggle Sessions), join patreon.com/adnanhusain. In this edition of Office Hourse, I talked with Calla Walsh about taking action against genocide and empire. Calla is a brilliant analyst and courageous anti-imperialist activist. She discussed her experience in Cuba solidarity, direct action against the Israeli genocide in Gaza with comrades following the example of Palestine Action (UK), about her recent trip to Iran, and her analysis of and thoughts about...
2025-09-0214 minThe Adnan Husain ShowResistance Media Report w/Laith MaroufAdnan discusses recent developments in Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria with journalist, media activist and geopolitical commentator Laith Marouf of Free Palestine TV. Referring to recent reports on the platform as a basis for further analysis of ZioAmerican imperialism, its regional agents, and popular resistance to it. Support this media platform on the front lines by donating at freepalestine.video Support the show on Patreon if you can (and get early access to episodes)! www.patreon.com/adnanhusain Or make a one-time donation to the show and Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain Li...
2025-08-271h 09The Adnan Husain ShowThe Spirit of Bandung at 70: Anticolonialism and its Legacies w/Rabab Abdulhadi & Salman SayyidDrs. Rabab Abdulhadi (San Francisco State) and Salman Sayyid (Leeds), join Adnan to discuss the geopolitically important Afro-Asian Conference of 1955, seventy years ago, that brought leaders of states newly freed from colonial rule together to advocate an agenda of peace and development that would give rise to the Non-Aligned Movement, the Tri-Continental and UNCTAD. Our panel engages in a critical discussion of that history and its relevance today for people's movements not only across the Global South but globally. Support the show on Patreon if you can (and get early access to episodes)! www.patreon.com/a...
2025-08-241h 28The Adnan Husain ShowYemen: Solidarity and Resistance w/Isa Blumi, Part 2The second half of Dr. Isa Blumi's brilliant exposition of the history of Yemen. Our conversation reviews how the earlier history continued to inform the fierce resistance to imperialism and its agents through the 2010's with the Saudi/Gulf/ZioAmerican attack and siege upon Yemen. Isa analyzes how Ansarullah's diverse coalition has combated the destruction of the country while forging new paths in the annals of the history of solidarity and resistance against genocide. Do not miss this episode! For further readings and links to Dr. Isa Blumi's recent scholarship, see the description to part 1. Support the...
2025-08-201h 10The Adnan Husain ShowSettler Colonialism: History and Concept w/Laleh KhaliliAdnan discusses with Dr. Laleh Khalili her article in Jewish Currents "History Lesson" (https://jewishcurrents.org/history-lesson) on settler colonialism in response to an awful (and politically pernicious) book by Adam Kirsch "On Settler Colonialism". This excellent conversation is also great preparation for Office Hours when we will discuss the topic of settler colonialism further with Dr. Max Ajl. See the post and resources there to prepare further for an important discussion with you all. Dr. Laleh Khalili, Professor at University of Exeter, is the author or editor of seven books including Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics...
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Guerrilla HistoryYemen's History of Resisting Empire w/Isa Blumi, P. 1 [Adnan Husain Show]This week, we bring you an episode from our sister program The Adnan Husain Show. Enjoy! In this first part of a two part series, Adnan has an epic conversation with Dr. Isa Blumi, historian and Professor of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University, about Yemen's modern history of resisting colonialism geopolitically and global capitalism. Author of Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World, Dr. Blumi masterfully analyzes and integrates the geographic, social, economic, cultural, political and religious dimensions of Yemen's distinctive historical experience. If you want to understand why Ansarullah as...
2025-08-151h 15The Adnan Husain ShowYemen's History of Resisting Empire w/Isa Blumi, P. 1In this first part of a two part series, Adnan has an epic conversation with Dr. Isa Blumi, historian and Professor of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University, about Yemen's modern history of resisting colonialism geopolitically and global capitalism. Author of Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World, Dr. Blumi masterfully analyzes and integrates the geographic, social, economic, cultural, political and religious dimensions of Yemen's distinctive historical experience. If you want to understand why Ansarullah as a popular movement has taken leadership of active solidarity with the people of Gaza in confronting ZioAmerican...
2025-08-121h 21The Adnan Husain ShowThere is no post-GazaPart 8 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). In this update episode covering the developments in the continuing Israeli genocide in Gaza from December 2024 (when Part 7 was recorded), Dr. Ariel Salzmann and Adnan discuss the Trump administration's policies, the displacement of UNRWA with the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" mercenary force, starvation as a weapon of genocide, the attack on Iran, the suppression of Palestine solidarity and the advance in the weaponization of antisemitism, and prospects for a countervailing the politics of solidarity. The recording platform cut off a few mins at the end, but...
2025-08-071h 06The Adnan Husain ShowThe Names of God (1): IntroductionAdnan introduces a new series on the spiritual and devotional tradition of the Divine Names. A collaboration with phenomenological psychologist and student of Sufism, the mystical dimension of Islam, Dr. Marc Applebaum, the series explores each of the 99 "Beautiful Names" through Sufi mystical theosophy, Qur'anic commentaries, and spiritual experience and meaning. Drawing inspiration from medieval as well as modern spiritual texts within Islamic theology and Sufi writings as well as in other Abrahamic traditions and psychological and pheomenological scholarship, Adnan and Marc embark on an examination of the Names of God in the context of spiritual fulfillment and development...
2025-08-041h 04The Adnan Husain ShowPsychlib #11: Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition w/ Adnan Husain**Adnan recently did an episode of Psychlib over at Resistance is Fertile.** The Intersection of Islam, Marxism, and the roots of racism and Resistance: A Conversation with Adnan Husain. Welcome to a thought-provoking episode of PsychLib featuring Adnan Husain, an associate history professor from Queens University, Ontario. In this deep conversation, we explore topics such as the historical roots of Islamophobia, the integration of Islam and Marxism in resistance movements, and the psychological impact of living in settler colonies. Adnan offers a unique take on how religious and cultural resources can support long-term resistance and liberation efforts from a Marxist...
2025-08-011h 20The Adnan Husain ShowMalcolm X-Radical Legacies vs Liberal Lies w/Jared BallAdnan discusses the life, legacy and politics of Malcolm X with Dr. Jared Ball (@imixwhatilike) of Morgan State University and host of the iMiXWHATiLiKE!. 100 years since the revolutionary was born & 60 since his brutal assassination, Malcolm X's biography radicalizes people globally against racism, colonialism and capitalism despite the distortions and lies used to moderate his political legacy. Dr. Ball discusses his efforts to correct the record, particularly the flawed biography of Malcolm X by Manning Marable that the academy and liberal establishments acclaimed. Check out "The Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X." Watch the...
2025-07-2559 minThe Adnan Husain ShowStruggle Session #2: Action for PalestineYou loved Tankie Group Therapy? You will be inspired by the Struggle Session! This edition features Adnan hosting Breht O'Shea of RevLeft Radio. Dr. Chella Ward, Dr. Ambereen Dadabhoy, and Jared Ware from Millennials are Killing Capitalism The Struggle Session is not here to make you feel better, but rather to make you more ready for action. This livestream panel series with Adnan and guests will be analytical about the world, self-critical of our movements, denunciatory of the imperial agents and forces against us, and motivational for action in the struggle for liberation and justice. Join us...
2025-07-242h 12The Adnan Husain ShowRecovering "Muslim Rage": Affect and Resistance to Islamophobia in Europe w/ Rayan FreschiRayan Freschi, a researcher with CAGE International, tells us about an anti-war/anti-genocide conference that was targeted by French police special forces recently. He also discusses his thesis that the stereotype of "Muslim Rage", an orientalist and Islamophobic construct, should be recuperated and turned to a productive political purpose in struggling for liberation and social justice against racism. Adnan and Rayan explore the difference between sadness/despair and anger/action through Fanon and Malcolm X's ideas. Watch the episode on our YouTube channel Like, subscribe, share! X: @adnanahusain Substack: adnanahusain.substack.com...
2025-07-191h 07The Adnan Husain ShowResisting ICE and Fascism on the Borderlands w/Alex AviñaAdnan is joined by Prof. Alexander Aviña, a historian and anti-imperialist scholar at Arizona State University, to explore the history and politics of race, immigration, and the border in US fascism and empire. As ever, Alex's in-depth knowledge and incisive analysis connects local and global conditions in an illuminating historical frame. Watch the video edition on our YouTube channel Dr. Aviña on X: @Alexander_Avina Check out his website https://alexanderavina.com/ Like, subscribe, share! X: @adnanahusain Substack: adnanahusain.substack.com YouTube @adnanhusainshow www...
2025-07-1358 minThe Adnan Husain ShowGaza is the World's FuturePart 7 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). In this concluding episode, Ariel and Adnan reflect on the historical themes traced in the series to connect the fate of Gaza to a wider universal frame. In many ways, Gaza is not only a political litmus test or a moral challenge to our collective humanity but also a crucible in which the fate of our world future being forged. History will judge whether the "Palestine laboratory" will be one of dystopic technological capitalist hegemony for the few or the liberation and recognition of the indivisible...
2025-07-0953 minThe Adnan Husain ShowStruggle Session #1 w/ Nora Barrows Friedman, Alex Avina, Nina FarniaYou loved Tankie Group Therapy? You will be inspired by the Struggle Session! This edition features Adnan hosting Nora Barrows Friedman, Alex Aviña, and Nina Farnia The Struggle Session is not here to make you feel better, but rather to make you more ready for action. This livestream panel series with Adnan and guests will be analytical about the world, self-critical of our movements, denunciatory of the imperial agents and forces against us, and motivational for action in the struggle for liberation and justice. Join us and let's create a dynamic community for change through political e...
2025-07-081h 34The Adnan Husain ShowUneven Argument! Piketty & Political Economy w/ Ingrid KvangravenAdnan discusses Thomas Piketty's recent paper, "discovering" that colonialism caused uneven development, with critical political economy and development scholar Dr. Ingrid Kvangraven (@ingridharvold). What is data without a conceptual or theoretical framework in which to explain that uneven development and colonialism were integral to capitalist development? Dr. Kvangraven illuminates the necessary contributions of world systems, dependency theory, and Marxist critique to understanding capitalism and the real remedies required. Watch the video edition on our YouTube channel Like, subscribe, share and support (if you can!): www.patreon.com/adnanhusain X: @adnanahusain
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2025-07-021h 14The Adnan Husain ShowArmed Struggle?: Histories of Resistance in LA from 60's to Today w/ Gerald HorneDr. Gerald Horne joins Adnan and Henry in this cross-over episode of Guerrilla History and the Adnan Husain Show to discuss his recent book, Armed Struggle?: Panthers and Communists, black Nationalists and Liberals in Southern California, Through the Sixties and Seventies. As ever, Professor Horne connects the histories of organizing and resistance against racial capitalism to the contemporary situation, including the LA uprisings against ICE raids and developments against neocolonialism and imperialism in West Asia. A wide-ranging conversation with the inimitable Dr. Horne ranged across the histories of class politics, struggles against racism, and geopolitics to consider the prospects...
2025-07-011h 02The Adnan Husain ShowAnnouncement: Struggle Session #1 w/ Nora Barrows Friedman, Alex Avina, Nina Farnia (TOMORROW 3PM EST!)You loved Tankie Group Therapy? You will be inspired by the Struggle Session! This edition features Adnan hosting Nora Barrows Friedman, Alex Avina, and Nina Farnia on Sunday June 29th 3pm ET/12pmPT/8pm UK/9pm Europe/10pm West Asia. The Struggle Session is not here to make you feel better, but rather to make you more ready for action. This livestream panel series with Adnan and guests will be analytical about the world, self-critical of our movements, denunciatory of the imperial agents and forces against us, and motivational for action in the struggle for liberation and...
2025-06-2802 minThe Adnan Husain ShowThe US-Greater Israel Nexus: Christian Zionists vs. Diasporic Jews**Producer's note: This is the sixth in a 7-part series. All 7 parts are now available to Patrons of the show, and we will release the subsequent parts every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks on the podcast. Support the show on Patreon if you can't wait!** Part 6 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). Adnan and Ariel shift focus from the region to a global perspectives of US geopolitics and empire to understand Israel as a project of the West and to explore the particular dimensions of US political support driving a genocidal p...
2025-06-251h 02The Adnan Husain ShowGangs and the New Aid Regime in Gaza w/ Abdaljawad OmarAdnan welcomes Palestinian writer, scholar and analyst Abdaljawad Omar to discuss two related recent articles on the meaning of the new "Humanitarian Aid" structure imposed on Gaza and his analysis of the phenomenon of the "gangs" now armed by Israel. Check out his recent writings "Israel's gangsters in Gaza" "The 'chaos' of aid distribution in Gaza is not a system failure. The system is designed to fail." Watch the episode on our YouTube channel Like, subscribe, share! X: @adnanahusain Substack: adnanahusain.substack.com YouTube @adnanhusainshow
2025-06-221h 11The Adnan Husain ShowOslo and its Discontents: Peace Process as Colonial War**Producer's note: This is the fifth in a 7-part series. All 7 parts will be available to Patrons of the show in the next few days, and we will release the subsequent parts every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks. Support the show on Patreon if you can't wait!** Part 5 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). Dr. Ariel Salzmann and Adnan discuss how the popular uprising of the "first intifada" could only be quelled by the "Oslo Peace Process" and the recruitment of a comprador class formed into the Palestinian Authority to maintain...
2025-06-1946 minThe Adnan Husain ShowLooking into the Abyss: ZioAmerica, Iran, and the Struggle for a Human Future w/ David Yaghoubian and Sina RahmaniAdnan convenes an emergency panel to discuss and analyze the recent Israeli-US attack on Iran, its implications for Iran, the region, and the world. Prof. David Yaghoubian (CSU-San Bernardino) and Sina Rahmani (East is a Podcast) share their insights and reflections along with passionate and deeply committed analysis about the place of Iran as the frontline state fighting for a sovereign future against Western imperial hegemony. Watch the episode on our YouTube channel Like, subscribe, share! X: @adnanahusain Substack: adnanahusain.substack.com YouTube @adnanhusainshow www.adnanhusain.org S...
2025-06-171h 51The Adnan Husain ShowCold War De/Recolonialism**Producer's note: This is the fourth in a 7-part series. All 7 parts will be available to Patrons of the show in the next few days, and we will release the subsequent parts every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks. Support the show on Patreon if you can't wait!** Part 4 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). This episode examines the colonial and settler colonial character of the project of zionism and the foundations of the state of Israel. This leads Dr. Ariel Salzmann to reframe the transformation of diasporic Judaism into zionism under...
2025-06-111h 14The Adnan Husain ShowWho's afraid of "Intifada"? Philology and Liberation w/ Chella WardDr. Marchella "Chella" Ward, a scholar of Critical Ancient World Studies joins Adnan to discuss the meaning of "Intifada" in response to the French prosecution of Elias D'Imzalène for his use of the word in a Palestine solidarity protest. Dr. Ward's expertise in philology—the historical study of the meaning of words— allows her to explore the historical range of the meaning and usage of "intifada" in anti-occupation and anticolonial contexts to dispute claims that it inherently carries a violent or antisemitic meaning. She discusses the politics of language under fascism and the importance of using the tools of pr...
2025-06-091h 12Guerrilla HistoryThe Adnan Husain Show: The Longue Durée: Palestine in World HistoryFor the next two weeks, we will be introducing (or reintroducing) our new sister shows. This week, we will be presenting Part 1 of a 7 part series on The Adnan Husain Show titled Palestine and the World. Next week, we will present the introduction of a new 25 part series that Henry is cohosting with a Russian historian on Russian history titled Tsars and Commissars: From Rus to Modern Russia. Be sure to subscribe to Adnan's show and to stay tuned for Tsars and Commissars updates from Henry on twitter (@Huck1995). Also, please note that Guerrilla History now is upl...
2025-06-061h 26The Adnan Husain ShowFrom Refugee Crisis to Refugee Crisis, 1890-1967 **Producer's note: This is the third in a 7-part series. All 7 parts will be available to Patrons of the show in the next few days, and we will release the subsequent parts every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks. Support the show on Patreon if you can't wait!** Part 3 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). Dr. Ariel Salzmann discusses with Adnan the age of mass migration, displacements, dislocations and the "refugee crises" as a result of the failures and oppression described in Part 2. The "national minorities" often became refugees fleeing persecution. Framing "...
2025-06-041h 16The Adnan Husain ShowEmancipation and the Minority Question, 1789-1923**Producer's note: This is the second in a 7-part series. All 7 parts will be available to Patrons of the show in the next few days, and we will release the subsequent parts every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks. Support the show on Patreon if you can't wait!** Part 2 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). In this episode Dr. Ariel Salzmann takes a global perspective on the failures of emancipation and liberation in the "long 19th century" from the promise of universal rights in the republican revolution in France and its continual s...
2025-05-291h 22The Adnan Husain ShowThe Muslim and the Making of Medieval Mediterranean HistoryAdnan gives a video version of remarks he made on a panel "Muslims and the Making of History: Religion, Race, and Secularism" at Radboud University in the Netherlands in May 2025. He discussed the way historical narratives, particularly developed during the colonial era, of the European Middle Ages depend on various assumptions about Muslims and their historical character as medieval disrupters of a Mediterranean world rather than as participants in it. He examined the intersections of race and religion in the complex of Eurocentric historiography and its orientalism and its enduring legacies on the Crusading Society, his counter-narrative for a...
2025-05-2550 minThe Adnan Husain ShowThe Longue Durée: Palestine in World History**Producer's note: This is the first in a 7-part series. All 7 parts will be available to Patrons of the show in the next few days, and we will release the subsequent parts every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks. Support the show on Patreon if you can't wait!** Part 1 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial) examines the premodern paradigms of Latin Christendom's relationship to Jews and Muslims, Judaism and Islam, over centuries since the time of the Crusades and the establishment of the Latin Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Dr. Ariel Salzmann and...
2025-05-211h 22The Adnan Husain ShowThe New Racial Regime w/ Alana LentinAdnan discusses a new book, The New Racial Regime, Recalibrations of White Supremacy, (Pluto, 2025) with its author Alana Lentin. This important study builds upon Cedric Robinson's crucial framework to investigate the mechanisms by which neoliberal capitalist societies of Europe and its settler colonies renew racist orderings of society through interlocking discourses and practices that adjust to the collapse of previous structures due to resistance. Alana analyzes responses to critical race theory and its limits, techniques of white forgetting in mobilizing history in "reconciliation" processes, and most profoundly the various adjustments Zionism recalibrates itself as Indigenous and sponsors "anti-antisemitism" during...
2025-05-181h 29The Adnan Husain ShowShakespeare Through Islamic Worlds w/ Ambereen DadhabhoyProf. Adnan Husain enjoys a wonderful conversation with Prof. Ambereen Dadhabhoy (@DrDadabhoy) about her fascinating book Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds (2024). The book examines the paradoxical importance of Islam and Muslims to Shakespeare's plays despite the scant or ambiguous mentions in the text. Through contextual examination of the Early Modern Mediterranean as a space of encounter with Islam and Muslims, themes very important to contemporary English theatre, Dr. Dadhabhoy investigates the significance of Shakespeare's framing of a White, Christian Mediterranean. The conversation talks about history, geography, religion, race, Orientalism and the mobilizing of difference to set the boundaries and anxieties o...
2025-05-081h 26The Adnan Husain ShowBrothers All! Remembering the Legacy of Pope FrancisProf. Adnan Husain reflects on the papacy of Francis I--and in particular assesses the themes of anti-capitalism, peace and anti-war positions, and social justice and inclusion in his encyclical Fratelli Tutti. Also check out the episode of Revolutionary Left Radio in which Adnan and Breht discussed Francis of Assisi, whom Pope Francis modelled his social theology upon. https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/st-francis Like, subscribe, share and support (if you can!): www.patreon.com/adnanhusain @adnanahusain on X adnanahusain.substack.com www.youtube.com/adnanahusain786 www.adnanhusain.org
2025-05-0231 minThe Adnan Husain ShowTeam Barbarism is winning!*Producer's note: This episode begins with a request to help my friend Mohammed in Gaza. Please consider supporting Mohammed's fundraiser to support his family in their efforts to survive the genocide. As I explain in the episode, Mohammed's family has been displaced 5 times, most recently 10 days ago! Any sized donation is welcome!* Prof. Adnan Husain hosts a conversation with Nora Barrrows Friedman (@norabf), Alex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina), and Sina Rahmani (@UrOrientalist) about the increasingly violent and dangerous turn of events both in the imperial core and West Asia. *Co-published with The East is a Podcast...
2025-03-271h 27The Adnan Husain ShowSpiritual Materialism? Left Politics and Marxian Mysticism w/Rev Left Radio's Breht O'Shea*Note: This is only part of the conversation between Brett and Adnan; they continued for another 30 mins! To listen to the entire episode, please subscribe to the Patreon or watch the episode on our YouTube channel, both linked below* What does spirituality on the left look like? In a Ramadan special, Adnan discusses Buddhism and Sufi Islam, the distinctions between mysticism and mystification, spiritual practices and ethics as well as the liberation of the soul w/Revolutionary Left Radio and former co-host of Guerrilla History, Breht O'Shea. In a wide ranging and deep conversation about the inner...
2025-03-011h 25
Rev Left RadioA World Order without Conscience: Imperialism, Islamophobia, and the Geopolitical Order (Introducing The Adnan Husain Show)In this episode of the brand new Adnan Husain Show, Professor Adnan Husain is joined by two outstanding scholars and thinkers, Drs. Peter Beattie and Karim Bettache of BettBeatMedia (@BettBeat_Media) .They discuss a number of interrelated topics including: the current geopolitical order, China's role in it, BRICS and political economy, anti-imperialist politics in the Trump era, the media, as well as the politics of race and Islamophobia beyond "left and right" in "the West". Please subscribe, share, and support this channel @adnanahusain786 Adnan's Substack: https://adnanahusain.substack.com/ Support Adnan: Patreon.com/adnanhusain Learn More: https://www.adnanhusain.org Chec...
2025-02-241h 19
Radio ReOrientAdnan Husain: A Discussion with Chella Ward and Salman SayyidIn this episode, Chella Ward and Salman Sayyid talked to Adnan Husain about some of the challenges involved in reorienting history. We spoke about the opportunities and limitations of the idea of ‘the global’ as a way of organising history, and explored the relationship between the global and the decolonial. Adnan Husain is a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian at Queen’s University, Canada. He has a particular interest in the relationship between Muslims, Jews and Christians in the medieval Mediterranean and we particularly enjoyed talking to him about the question of methodology: how do we write a new hi...
2025-02-241h 11
New Books in Islamic StudiesAdnan Husain on Reorienting HistoryIn this episode, Chella Ward and Salman Sayyid talked to Adnan Husain about some of the challenges involved in reorienting history. We spoke about the opportunities and limitations of the idea of ‘the global’ as a way of organising history, and explored the relationship between the global and the decolonial. Adnan Husain is a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian at Queen’s University, Canada. He has a particular interest in the relationship between Muslims, Jews and Christians in the medieval Mediterranean and we particularly enjoyed talking to him about the question of methodology: how do we write a new hi...
2025-02-211h 16
New Books in Critical TheoryAdnan Husain on Reorienting HistoryIn this episode, Chella Ward and Salman Sayyid talked to Adnan Husain about some of the challenges involved in reorienting history. We spoke about the opportunities and limitations of the idea of ‘the global’ as a way of organising history, and explored the relationship between the global and the decolonial. Adnan Husain is a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian at Queen’s University, Canada. He has a particular interest in the relationship between Muslims, Jews and Christians in the medieval Mediterranean and we particularly enjoyed talking to him about the question of methodology: how do we write a new hi...
2025-02-211h 19The Adnan Husain ShowIran's History and Geopolitical Relations w/ Prof. David N. Yaghoubian Prof. Adnan Husain discusses the modern history of Iran from the late nineteenth century to contemporary relations with the US with friend and colleague Prof. David N. Yaghoubian of California State University-San Bernardino. We discuss Iran's traditions of statecraft and geopolitical relations with imperial powers, Russia and Britain, until the Cold War, when Iran became a pillar of US hegemony in the Middle East after subverting and overthrowing the nationalist government of Mossadegh. Prof. Yaghoubian shares his analysis of the current Iranian state's alliances with Russia and China to evade unremitting US sanctions as one of "grievances" ra...
2025-02-201h 53Guerrilla HistoryIntroducing Our New Sister Show - The Adnan Husain Show!The following episode is from Adnan's new show, aptly titled The Adnan Husain Show. Don't worry, Adnan is still continuing with Guerrilla History, and we will be back with our next regular episode next week! We just wanted to let you know about this exciting new project so that you can subscribe to it. In this episode, Professor Adnan Husain is joined by two outstanding scholars and thinkers, Drs. Peter Beattie and Karim Bettache of BettBeatMedia ( @BettBeat_Media) .They discuss a number of interrelated topics based on BettBeatMedia newsletters on substack: the current geopolitical order, China's role in...
2025-02-141h 22The Adnan Husain ShowDivide and Conquer: Abusing History to Inflame Sunni-Shi'i Sectarianism w/ Mehmet Ali ArslanProfessor Adnan Husain is joined by activist Mehmet Ali Arslan to examine how sectarian division is being sown by the use and abuse of Islamic and Middle Eastern History. In particular they discuss how Sunni-Shi'i tension and polarization is fanned by references to events of early Islam as well as Ottoman vs. Safavid dynastic competition. They look at an interesting letter from Ottoman Sultan Selim the Grim to Shah Isma'il of Persia that is being used currently to manufacture consent for imperialist designs in the Levant. Watch the video edition on our YouTube channel Check o...
2025-02-121h 46The Adnan Husain ShowA World Order w/o Conscience Structured by Racism and Islamophobia w/ BettBeatMediaIn this episode, Professor Adnan Husain (@adnanahusain) is joined by two outstanding scholars and thinkers, Drs. Peter Beattie and Karim Bettache of BettBeatMedia ( @BettBeat_Media ). They discuss a number of interrelated topics based on BettBeatMedia newsletters on substack: the current geopolitical order, China's role in it, BRICS and political economy, anti-imperialist politics in the Trump era, the media, as well as the politics of race and Islamophobia beyond "left" and right in "the West". Watch the video edition on our YouTube channel Check out BettBeat's Substack https://substack.com/@bettbeat Subscribe to the...
2025-02-091h 17The Adnan Husain ShowGaza is Unconquered, Palestine is STILL the Issue w/ Sina RahmaniProfessor Adnan Husain (@adnanahusain) and Sina Rahmani (The East is a Podcast) discuss the political lessons and implications of the Gaza ceasefire agreement for the cause of Palestine, regional and geopolitics of resistance against US/Western empire, and on the direction of the anti-imperial solidarity movements across Europe and North America. Watch the video edition on our YouTube channel Please subscribe, share, and support this channel: https://adnanahusain.substack.com/ https://www.patreon.com/adnanhusain https://www.adnanhusain.org/
2025-02-0958 minThe Adnan Husain ShowAdnan Husain Show Launches!Professor Adnan Husain (@adnanahusain), co-host of Guerrilla History and former host of The Majlis podcast, introduces his new show and YouTube channel. In this episode, he explains his plans and what kinds of content the show will involve. He also discusses why he wants an independent and unaffiliated platform for discussing history, politics, and religion in this age of censorship and suppression of academic freedom on university campuses. Since this is a new start-up channel, please support it! Watch the video edition on our YouTube channel Please subscribe, share, and support this channel:...
2025-02-0806 min
American ExceptionEmpire and the Missing Western Left – Adnan Husain (DCC66 - Audio)
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We are joined by Adnan Husain, a historian of both Medieval Europe and of the Middle East. Adnan is Associate Professor, Queen's National Scholar Graduate Chair, and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. He is also the co-host of the Guerilla History podcast. We discuss a number of topics including the state of the Empire, the absence of an effectual Western Left, the state of the Middle East, and the determinants o...
2025-01-0336 min
The East is a PodcastChaos in the Levant: Fake ceasefire in Lebanon; hot war in Syria w/ Adnan HusainAdnan Husain (@adnanahusain), Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian at Queen's University and co-host of Guerilla History, returns to discuss recent developments in the region. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast Youtube channel or Adnan's (still under construction) personal channel (Coming soon!) Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast
2024-12-031h 35
The East is a PodcastThe Crusades and the origins of the West w/ Adnan Husain*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. Watc...
2024-09-1849 min
The East is a Podcast"The decolonization of Palestine is the liberation of the region" w/ Adnan Husain*Note: This is the first hour of my conversation with Adnan. We continued for another 45 mins! 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. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show...
2024-08-211h 00
1Dime RadioIbn Khaldun's Theory of Civilization (Ft. Adnan Husain)Get access to Part 2 and more exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime
This episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast is all about the ideas of Ibn Khaldun and his classic text The Muqaddimah. Simultaneously a philosopher and a historian, and often considered to be "the first sociologist," Ibn Khaldun was among the first proper "social scientists" to develop a "science of society" - something quite close to what we today call "historical materialism."
What insights can the work of a 14th century Medieval Arab thinker give us often today? Quite a lot...
2024-02-151h 51
Varn VlogAdnan Husain on the life and times of Ibn Khaldun, Part 2Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This is part 2 of 2.Adnan Husain is both a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian. His early work focused on religious phenomena and social imagination in Medieval Catholicism and Islam, particularly on Franciscan spiritual and Sufi mystical traditions. He now principally studies and teaches on the cross-cultural and inter-religious encounters among the Muslims, Christians and Jews of Latin Christendom and the Islamic world in the Mediterranean zone from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries. He is also a host Guerrilla H...
2023-04-131h 32
Varn VlogAdnan Husain on the life and times of Ibn Khaldun, Part 1Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This is part 1 of 2. Adnan Husain is both a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian. His early work focused on religious phenomena and social imagination in Medieval Catholicism and Islam, particularly on Franciscan spiritual and Sufi mystical traditions. He now principally studies and teaches on the cross-cultural and inter-religious encounters among the Muslims, Christians and Jews of Latin Christendom and the Islamic world in the Mediterranean zone from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries. He is also a host Guerrilla H...
2023-04-101h 31
Give Them An ArgumentSeason 5 Episode 2: Glenn Greenwald Debate/Marx's Theory of History (ft. Harvey Kaye & Adnan Husain)This ones packed full of podcasty goodness. Professors Adnan Husain & Harvey J. Kaye, both returning GTAA champions, return for a discussion of Marx's theory of history. Before that, Ben Burgis and the GTAA crew talk about Tim Pool's latest attacks on socialism. At the end of the show, they go over some clips from the debate Ben hosted on his Callin show between Glenn Greenwald and Branko Marcetic on "the Bernie/AOC left" and address recent attacks on Ben from Jimmy Dore and Briahna Joy Gray. Finally, Matt McManus hangs out in the postgame for GTAA patrons, talking some C...
2023-01-152h 19
Give Them An ArgumentSeason 4 Episode 18: G.A. Cohen, Ben Shapiro, and the Men from Mars (ft. Adnan Husain & RM Brown)Ben Burgis and Professor Adnan Husain break down G.A. Cohen's essay "Historical Inevitability and Revolutionary Agency." Before that, Ben and RM Brown take a look at the right-wing freakout over the Respect for Marriage Act, which has included Ben Shapiro telling Matt Walsh that even "visitors from Mars" would oppose gay marriage. Last but most definitely not least, Matt McManus hangs out on the postgame for GTAA patrons.Follow Adnan on Twitter: @adnanahusainFollow RM on Twitter: @xrmbrownx2Follow Matt on Twitter: @MattPolProfFollow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis...
2022-12-102h 08
Give Them An ArgumentSeason 4 Episode 3: James O'Keefe Smears Ben + Marx's Theory of History (ft. Adnan Husain)Last weekend, James O'Keefe did an ambush interview of Ben Burgis where he tried to claim that the segment Ben, Matt Lech & Producer Jake did last week ("James O'Keefe Hates Free Speech": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKX6tcOZxuQ) was somehow inaccurate. (It wasn't.) He then tried to twist Ben saying that workers who do bad or racist things shouldn't be punished without due process & shouldn't be doxxed to make some stupid anti-union point years later into Ben saying that racism is good. It's asinine, but we have some fun watching it + the part of the debate Ben d...
2022-07-032h 28
The Red Nation PodcastThe War on Terror & the "crusading society" w/ Adnan Husain (Pt.2)Historian and co-host of Guerrilla History Podcast (@guerrilla_pod) Adnan Husain (@adnanahusain) sees the war on terror as part of a long history going back to the medieval crusades. This deep-dive historical discussion traces the early forms of racial capitalism and settler colonialism as they arose in Europe and the Americas. Make sure to check out the first half of the conversation! Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr
2022-01-2443 min
The Red Nation PodcastThe War on Terror & the "crusading society" w/ Adnan Husain (Pt.1)Historian and co-host of Guerrilla History Podcast (@guerrilla_pod) Adnan Husain (@adnanahusain) sees the war on terror as part of a long history going back to the medieval crusades. This deep-dive historical discussion traces the early forms of racial capitalism and settler colonialism as they arose in Europe and the Americas. What this episode on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/ZyERl80Joik Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr
2022-01-101h 05
Night Rule45 - Artisans of Conversation (feat. Mark Thompson, Adnan Husain)We discuss media and more with the great Mark Thompson of The Edge, TYT and the new CNBC documentary series "Super Heists."
We then check in with long-time friend of the show and honored guest Adnan Husain of Queens university to discuss some of the less-discussed history of Afghanistan as well as thoughts about the prospects there as the situation on the ground evolves.
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2021-08-211h 24
Left Turn, CanadaIslamophobia and Hate is on the Rise in Canada w/ Adnan HusainThis week on Left Turn, Canada! Christo and Andy talk about the attack on a Muslim Family in London Ontario with Professor Adnan Husain.We follow up on the horrific story of 215 Indigenous children in a mass grave and we talk about Jenica Atwin leaving the Green Party for the Liberal PartyJoin us at Patreon.com/LeftTurnCanada
2021-06-141h 00Night RuleNight Rule 37 - (Adnan Husain) - "Algorithmic Narratives"Was a pleasure to be joined again by friend-of-the-show Adnan Husain of Queen's University.
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2021-05-251h 01Night RuleNight Rule 12 - (With Adnan Husain) - "Heaven and Earth"We discuss the events in the US Capital and hit on other topics with the always brilliant Adnan Husain
2021-01-081h 03Night RuleNight Rule 5 - (With Adnan Husain) - Sufism, Religious Pilgrimages, and Other CrossroadsToday we were thrilled to have Adnan Husain attend the Night Rule to discuss the mystical tradition of Sufism, the intersections between politics and religion, and other topics.
2020-12-1249 min