Shows
The 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 An...
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 conf...
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 th...
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 p...
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 th...
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...
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 huma...
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 pol...
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 precise...
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 libe...
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 the...
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 a...
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 min
The East is a PodcastTeam 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 Adnan Husain Show*
2025-03-271h 27The 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...
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The East is a PodcastIran's History and Geopolitical Relations w/Prof. David N. YaghoubianThis is a preview of a recent episode of The Adnan Husain Show. The conversation continued for another full hour! Subscribe to Adnan's show on your podcatcher to listen to the full episode or watch it on YouTube linked below. 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...
2025-03-0256 minThe 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 in...
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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 Che...
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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...
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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...
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New Books in HistoryAdnan 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...
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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...
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 Che...
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 their chan...
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The East is a PodcastGaza is Unconquered, Palestine is STILL the Issue w/ Sina Rahmani*I have been helping friend of the show Adnan Husain with his new media project. This episode we recorded after our previous episode was lost (albeit temporarily) by our recording software. That episode is now available behind the paywall on my patreon and Adnan's linked below* Professor Adnan Husain 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. ...
2025-02-091h 03The 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
David Feldman ShowNashville Shooting, Trump & A.I. Poetry, AUDIO ONLY #1435Guests: Professor Adnan Husain, Professor Mary Anne Cummings, Dr. Harriet Fraad, Howie Klein. Topics: Scapegoats; France; Iraq; Afghanistan; Israel; Trump; Alvin Bragg; Nashville; Waco Chapters: 00:00 Professor Adnan Husain and Professor Mary Anne Cummings 1:20:05 Dr. Harriet Fraad 1:51:26 Howie Klein 2:26:53 David does The News SUBSCRIBE TO DAVID'S NEWSLETTER: Take David wherever you go by subscribing to this show as a podcast! Here's how: . And Subscribe to this channel. SUPPORT INDEPENDENT MEDIA: . More David @ Get Social With David: Facebook: . Twitter: iTunes: .
2023-03-282h 51
The MajlisIraq War 20 Years Later: Reflections w/ Dr. Ariel SalzmannOn this episode, Dr. Adnan Husain invites back Dr. Arial Salzmann, Associate Professor of Islamic and World History at Queen’s University, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq by the US military and its allies. With almost 500,000 Iraqis dead, the Iraq War continues to shape the modern Middle East. Together with Dr. Husain, Dr. Salzmann offers an in-depth analysis of the devastation of the Iraq war and reflects upon the war’s history, the contemporary social and political ramifications, and the continued lack of accountability for anyone responsible for the mass casualties in Iraq.
2023-03-231h 00The MajlisEp 30: The Kafala System and Migrant Labour under Neoliberalism w/ Shahroz KhanIn this episode, Dr. Adnan Husain speaks with writer, photographer and M.A Student, Shahroz Khan, regarding his upcoming master's thesis on the Kafala system and the migrant labour regimes under neoliberalism. For the last two years, Shahroz has been working behind the scenes as the main producer of the Majlis and now Dr. Husain invites him to shed light on the Kafala system and help our audience historicize its emergence and understand how it became such a prominent part of labour system in the Middle East. During the recent 2022 Fifa World Cup in Qatar, the Kafala system was a...
2023-02-0951 min
Sports As A Weapon Podcast40 | 2022 Qatar World Cup Report BackMiguel welcomed another friend of the podcast, Dr. Adnan Husain, co-host of the Guerilla History Podcast! You can Listen to the Guerilla History Podcast here and follow them on Twitter: @guerrilla_pod. Dr. Adnan Husain is a historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University. Adnan is also the host of his podcast, The Majlis podcasts. In this episode, Adnan was kind enough to come on the podcast to report on his experience attending the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. For example, Miguel asked Adnan about Palestine's support at the World Cup and...
2023-01-251h 17
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
Coup Save AmericaThe United States of SocialismWhen so many of the world’s natural resources are appropriated and privatized, how long will it take corporations to find a way to charge us for the air we breathe? This week on Coup Save America, Sean discusses the various interpretations of socialism with historian Adnan Husain, who is well-versed in the social analyses of Karl Marx and his contemporaries during the time when society was changing from agriculturally based to industrial and urban. Adnan defines socialism as extending democracy beyond politics to include economics, society, and other aspects of our daily lives. He talks about how unfettered capitalism wi...
2023-01-112h 09
Coup Save AmericaThe United States of SocialismWhen so many of the world’s natural resources are appropriated and privatized, how long will it take corporations to find a way to charge us for the air we breathe?
This week on Coup Save America, Sean discusses the various interpretations of socialism with historian Adnan Husain, who is well-versed in the social analyses of Karl Marx and his contemporaries during the time when society was changing from agriculturally based to industrial and urban. Adnan defines socialism as extending democracy beyond politics to include economics, society, and other aspects of our daily lives. He talks about ho...
2023-01-112h 09David Feldman ShowIs Traveling to See Family For Christmas Worth it? Episode 13101Guests: Dr. Philip Herschenfeld, Freudian psychoanalyst and Ethan Herschenfeld, comedian; Professors Mary Anne Cummings, Ann Li, Adnan Husain and Jonathan Bick. Topics: Holiday travel, Trump tax returns, Zelensky's visit and Congressman George Santos. -David's Christmas message and then The News. -The National Weather Service says we’re about to experience a once in a generation blizzard in the northeast. Nearly 9,000 flights have been cancelled or delayed in the Midwest. They’re calling it the 'snowpocalypse.' All of America should expect temperatures to plummet, 50mph winds, and whiteout conditions as travelers attempt to go home for the holidays. But is it w...
2022-12-232h 31
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 08David Feldman ShowWhat's The Royal Family's Net Worth? Episode 1371David crunches the numbers to determine whether it's worth it for the Royal Family or Great Britain to have a Royal Family. Topics: Trump's embrace of QAnon; King Charles' net worth; Rod's Stewart's wife Penny Lancaster is a cop; The Queen is buried; Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kari Lake are almost as stupid as Ohio candidate for Congress J.R. Majewski; Joe talks Hunter, Covid and Taiwan 00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:47 Hurricane hits Puerto Rico, typhoon hits Japan 00:10:02 Pakistan's flooding devastates the nation's economy 00:12:44 E.U. cracks down on Hungarian Prime Minister Vicktor Orban 00:21:39 Bill Clinton responds to death of Ken Starr and w...
2022-09-205h 25David Feldman ShowLatest Polls Show America Is Pro Abortion, Episode 1369Topics: 90 percent of Texans disapprove of the state's new abortion law; King Charles; UK cracks down on protestors; Ukraine winning back Ukraine Guests With Time Stamps 00:00:45 Technical problems right out of the gate 00:02:16 Show hasn't started yet 00:06:32 Is Ukraine winning in Ukraine? 00:11:53 UAW Strikes in Indiana 00:13:04 No more abortions in Indiana as of Thursday 00:22:34 ACLU sues Indianapolis claims its new abortion law violates religious freedom 00:37:22 Charles Booed, Prince Andrew Heckled 00:43:19 Great Britain's Policing Act pretty much outlaws protesting 00:48:39 King Charles speaks before Parliament 00:58:03 Hasidic Jews in New York have stopped educating their kids 01:12:57 Texans don't approve of the abortion ban 01:14:45...
2022-09-136h 05David Feldman ShowArkansas Police Caught On Video Being Police, Episode 1363Topics: Is MMA a sport? Or society in decay?; Arkansas police officers brutalize a suspect; Flash floods, flash droughts, and famine are the result of oil, gas and coal waging war on our planet. 00:00:40 David does The News 01:37:51 Pascal Robert and Jason Myles from the "This Is Revolution" podcast 02:06:11 "Turtle" written and performed by Professor Mike Steinel 02:13:01 Ethan Herschenfeld, author of "Today Is Now" 02:37:40 Grace Jackson, co-host Literary Hangover, gives us the latest on China and Taiwan 03:04:10 Dr. Harriet Fraad on the rise of Leftist governments in South America 03:37:51 "I'm On My Way" written and performed by Professor Mike Steinel 03:40:25 P...
2022-08-236h 17David Feldman ShowTrump and GOP Suddenly Support Defunding The Police, Episode 1359Trump furious he couldn't overcharge FBI agents during their brief stay at Mar a Lago; Republicans starting to think maybe they should have let Merrick Garland sit on the Supreme Court instead. It's the GOP that wants to defund the FBI, the Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service and every other law enforcements agency that tackles white collar criminals like Donald Trump. The only law enforcement agencies Trump and the GOP care about are local police officers who protect property and the rich while keeping the poor in a perpetual state of fear. As luck would have it, two hours a...
2022-08-095h 45
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 28Guerrilla HistoryIbn Khaldun - "The Father of Sociology"In this impromptu episode, Adnan teaches Henry and the audience about the great 14th-15th Century scholar Ibn Khaldun, who is sometimes called the "father of sociology". Ibn Khaldun also revolutionized the methodology of historical analysis in his time, and provides an excellent subject for us to discuss! Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea. Follow us on social media! Our podcast can be found on twitter @guerrilla_pod. Your contributions make the show possible to cont...
2022-04-0848 min
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
The MajlisEp 20: In solidarity & loving memory of Soleiman Faqiri, on the 5th year of his deathOn December 15th 2016, Soleiman Faqiri died at the hands of correctional officers while temporarily housed at a Lindsay, ON correctional facility.
In this episode of the Majlis, Host Adnan Husain interviews Yusuf Faqiri, Soleiman Faqiri's eldest brother and founder of the movement 'Justice for Soli'. Throughout their open and candid conversation, Yusuf and Dr. Husain commemorate Soli as a brother, a son, a person with a story to tell while also demanding answers and holding the system accountable.
Justice for Soli Calls for:
ACCOUNTABILITY: Criminal Charges must be laid against the guards who ar...
2021-12-2551 min
Smartfm MakassarPemprov Sulsel Gandeng UNM Cetak Atlet Elit ll Bupati Adnan Minta Pemprov Sulsel Perbaiki Jalan Tun Abdul Razak dan Pattallassang - JURNAL MAKASSARRangkuman Informasi/berita update seputar Sulawesi Selatan, Liputan Tim Pemberitaan Smartfm Makassar
Edisi: Kamis, 18 November 2021
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Jurnal Makassar - Fakultas Ilmu Keolahragaan Universitas Negeri Makassar (FIK-UNM) melakukan Penandatanganan Perjanjian Kerja Sama dengan Dinas Kepemudaan dan Olahraga Provinsi Sulawesi Selatan.
Kegiatan tersebut dihadiri Rektor UNM Prof Husain Syam, Sekretaris Provinsi Sulsel Abdul Hayat Gani, Kadispora Sulsel Andi Arwin Azis, serta para wakil Rektor dan Dekan dalam lingkup UNM.
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Jurnal Makassar - Bupati Gowa Adnan Purichta Ichsan meminta Pemprov Sulsel memperbaiki jalan di sepanjang Tun Abdul Razak maupun...
2021-11-1804 minGuerrilla HistoryCOP26 Dispatch w/ Vijay Prashad and Chris SaltmarshIn this episode of Guerrilla History, Adnan facilitates a discussion about the recently wrapped up COP26 climate conference, its failures, and what we should look to do going forward! We are calling this a "Dispatch" as it's a shorter, more "in the moment" episode to ground us for current events. Our guests are Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, who was at COP26, and Chris Saltmarsh, co-founder of Labour for a Green New Deal, climate activist, and writer. Vijay Prashad is the author of many books, including The Darker Nations, The Poorer Na...
2021-11-1847 minThe MajlisEp 16: What now for Afghanistan?: The Cost and Crimes of US Imperial War w/Dr. Ariel SalzmannHost Adnan Husain speaks with his colleague Dr. Ariel Salzmann (Department of History, Queen’s University) about the US defeat and withdrawal from Afghanistan in historical context since the 1970’s, the implications for Afghanistan’s future under the Taliban in a regional framework, and the costs, crimes and consequences of the GWOT for the last 20 years since 9/11 and the Bush administration’s invasion of Afghanistan.
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2021-08-3047 min
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 24The MajlisEp 15: Muslim Pioneers in Canada: Murray Hogben and an Islamic Tapestry of CanadaDr. Adnan Husain sits down with author, journalist, and community leader Murray Hogben to discuss his exciting new book Minarets on the Horizon: Muslim Pioneers in Canada. For the first time ever, Hogben has compiled the stories and oral histories of some of the earliest Muslims in Canada. The pioneering work takes a journey across Canada and paints a portrait of stories seldom told and rarely presented in such a holistic perspective. This is especially timely given the growth of Islamophobia in Canada – Hogben’s work demonstrates decisively that there has been a lively Muslim community all over the coun...
2021-07-2351 minThe MajlisEp 14: Violent Islamophobia is systemic in Canadian settler colonial state and societyDr. Adnan Husain -Director of MSGP- is joined by co host Amel Bensalim, a Libyan-Canadian SSHRC-funded Master's student at Queen's University and Member of MSGP. Dr. Husain and Amel welcomed two guests: Azeezah Kanji, a legal academic and writer, whose has appeared in the Al Jazeera English, Haaretz, Toronto Star, TruthOut, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, OpenDemocracy, Roar Magazine, iPolitics, Policy Options, Rabble, and various academic anthologies and journals. And Dr. Yasmine Djerbal, a recent PhD graduate from Queen's University whose work revolves around Islamophobia and the French and Canadian states. Her research investigates how radicalization & terrorist narratives are used...
2021-06-211h 11
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 00The MajlisEp 13: “Places of Mind:” The life, times, and literary mind of Edward SaidWhat do literary studies have to do with politics? How and why was Edward Said able to emphasize this connection, and revolutionize the way the West looked at the Middle East, and the way the Middle East looked back?
Dr. Husain is joined by guest co-host Dr. David Schmid, professor of English at the University at Buffalo, for this discussion on the life and work of famed scholar and activist, Edward Said. The University of Minnesota’s Dr. Timothy Brennan, who was a student, colleague, and friend of Said, speaks about the scholar and his new biography “Plac...
2021-06-071h 07Night 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 01Guerrilla HistoryIntelligence Briefing: The One Kingdom Solution?Guerrilla History- Intelligence Briefings will be roughly a twice monthly series of shorter, more informal discussions between the hosts about topics of their choice. Patrons at the Comrade tier and above will have access to all Intelligence Briefings. This Intelligence Briefing will be an early-release episode for our patreon members, about a fantastic essay by Adnan and Professor Margaret Pappano titled "The One Kingdom Solution?: Diplomacy, Marriage, and Sovereignty In The Third Crusade". Here, we talk about the story of a proposed cross-confessional marriage during the Third Crusade as a diplomatic tool, and weave in the current sit...
2021-05-181h 21The MajlisEp 12: Saints and Slaves: The African Community of the Ottoman Empire w/ Dr. Michael FergusonWhen one thinks of African enslavement in history, the Ottoman Empire is rarely the first thing to come to mind. On this episode, Dr. Michael Ferguson (Concordia University) illuminates and discusses the facets of this little known aspect of global slavery history. Dr. Ferguson and Majlis host Dr. Adnan Husain delve into the relatively unknown social and cultural history of enslaved and emancipated Africans and their descendants in Izmir in the late Ottoman Empire.
Dr. Michael Ferguson is an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Concordia University. Michael’s research focuses on questions of id...
2021-04-1352 minGuerrilla HistoryCold War Latin America w/ Alexander AviñaIn this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Rev Left Radio fan favorite Professor Alexander Aviña to talk about Latin America in the Cold War period. While we in the global north tend to think of the Cold War period as being typified by tensions in Eastern Europe, Latin America was the playground for much of the US's conflicts of the era. Alexander Aviña is historian at Arizona State University, and is author of the book Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrilla in the Cold War Mexican Countryside (Oxford University Press, 2014, https://alexanderavina.com/specters-of-revolution/ ). He has...
2021-03-261h 53Night RuleNight Rule 24 Teaser- (With Adnan Husain) - "The Gangster Rappers of the 5th and 6th Centuries"Adnan and I discuss Bandit Poetry at great length as well as the place poetry has in Muslim cultures at large, before hitting our mutual desire to avoid the black-pill of political defeatism and other topics in a Night Rule to remember!
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2021-02-2705 min
Guerrilla History*UNLOCKED* Intelligence Briefing: Right Wing ConspiraciesGuerrilla History- Intelligence Briefings will be roughly a twice monthly series of shorter, more informal discussions between the hosts about topics of their choice. Patrons at the Comrade tier and above will have access to all Intelligence Briefings. This Intelligence Briefing will be an patreon early access episode, about the psychological, historical, and material underpinnings of right wing conspiracies. While the majority of the references specifically are regarding QAnon, this episode tackles right wing conspiracies more generally. Lewandowski's Conspiracy Theory Handbook https://www.climatechangecommunication.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ConspiracyTheoryHandbook.pdf Altemeyer's The Authoritarians: https://th...
2021-02-261h 11
Guerrilla HistoryBONUS: Malcolm X AssassinationThis bonus episode of Guerrilla History comes out on the 56th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, and also comes out less than 24 hours after the unsealing of a deathbed confession related to the assassination. We plan on doing several Malcolm X specific episodes in the future, but for the commemoration of this anniversary, we focus today primarily on the assassination. Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. If you have any questions or guest/topic su...
2021-02-261h 00
Guerrilla HistoryIntro to African Revolutions and Decolonization w/ Leo ZeiligIn this episode of Guerrilla History, we do a survey on African revolutions and decolonization movements so that we can dive deep into individual African movements/revolutions in the future, and call back to this episode for the broader regional/continental historical context. For this herculean task, we bring on Leo Zeilig, an editor of the Review of African Political Economy, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the School of Advanced Study University of London, and an Honorary Research Associate at the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand, S...
2021-02-051h 51The MajlisEp 8: The Canadian Islamophobia Industry: Dr. Jasmin Zine and the Antecedents and Aftermaths of the 2017 Quebec Mosque ShootingIn this episode, host Dr. Adnan Husain and Dr. Jasmin Zine, of Wilfrid Laurier University, discuss Canadian Islamophobia, in reflection and commemoration of the January 29th, 2017 Quebec Mosque shooting, where a gunman killed 6 Muslim men as they prayed, and injured 19. Dr. Zine unpacks the aftermath and reaction to the tragedy, or lack thereof; Canada simultaneously faces virulent anti-Muslim hate and a brand of exceptionalism that promotes apathy and even denial towards the very existence of islamophobia in the country. With the fourth anniversary of the massacre around the corner, Dr. Zine and Dr. Husain consider how the country has...
2021-01-2753 minThe MajlisEp 7: America's Long Oil War: Conversation with Filmmaker David SchisgallMajlis host Dr. Adnan Husain sits down with director David Schisgall to discuss his new documentary film The Oil War. Premiered in DOC NYC festival November 11th-19th, 2020. The film follows historian Andrew Bacevich and his book, America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, as he delivers an anti-colonial critique of US foreign policy in the Middle East, informed by his long career in the Army. While other historians analyze changing presidential administrations, Bacevich sees one long Oil War. There are scant differences between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to the sacrifice of soldiers’ lives. His...
2021-01-191h 14
Guerrilla HistoryHow the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs w/ Elizabeth ThompsonIn this episode of Guerrilla History, we are joined by Professor Elizabeth F. Thompson to talk about her new book How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs, about the historic Syrian-Arab Congress of 1920. Professor Thompson is the Mohamed S. Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace and Professor of History at American University. Her book was published by Atlantic Monthly Press, and is available here: https://groveatlantic.com/book/how-the-west-stole-democracy-from-the-arabs/ Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the presen...
2021-01-151h 54
Guerrilla History*Unlocked* Intelligence Briefing- MK Ultra ft. Michelle Shephard Guerrilla History- Intelligence Briefings will be roughly a twice monthly series of shorter, more informal discussions between the hosts about topics of their choice. Patrons at the Vanguard tier and above will get instant access to all episodes. Half of the episodes will be made available to the public after a week or two, while the others will remain patreon-exclusives (though they will be opened up to members of the Comrade tier after a couple weeks). This Intelligence Briefing was an early release on patreon, and is a bit different format than usual. Our topic today is MK Ultra, and aft...
2021-01-081h 00Night 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 03
Guerrilla HistoryWomen in Nepal’s Civil War w/ Hisila YamiIn this episode of Guerrilla History, we are joined by Hisila Yami to talk about The People's War in Nepal, and the role of women in it. Hisila Yami was a leader in The People's War, a three times minister of Nepal, a former member of the Constituent Assembly, and the author of People's War and Women's Liberation in Nepal. She can be followed on twitter @HisilaPost. Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. If you h...
2020-12-182h 05Night 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
Guerrilla HistoryJohn Brown: Cross-Over w/ RevLeft RadioThis episode of Guerrilla History is a cross-over episode with Revolutionary Left Radio, hosted by our cohost Breht O'Shea. In this episode, we discuss the life, legacy, tactics, and lessons from the legendary John Brown. For background reading on one of the most famous and controversial abolitionists, we recommend starting with W.E.B. Du bois's "John Brown", published in 1909, and David Reynold's "John Brown, Abolitionist", published in 2005. Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the...
2020-12-071h 22
Guerrilla History*UNLOCKED* Intelligence Briefing: A Brief History of Vaccine FlubsThis Intelligence Briefing has been unlocked from our Patreon. It was originally published on 13 November. Guerrilla History- Intelligence Briefings will be roughly a twice monthly series of shorter, more informal discussions between the hosts about topics of their choice. Patrons at the Vanguard tier and above will get instant access to all episodes. Half of the episodes will be made available to the public after a week or two, while the others will remain patreon-exclusives (though they will be opened up to members of the Comrade tier after a couple weeks). This Intelligence Briefing is a co...
2020-11-2741 min
Guerrilla HistoryWhy Turkey Is Authoritarian w/ Halil KaraveliIn this episode of Guerrilla History, we are joined by Halil Karaveli to talk about Why Turkey Is Authoritarian. Halil M. Karaveli is a Senior Fellow with the Turkey Center of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center and editor of its publication The Turkey Analyst. His book Why Turkey Is Authoritarian: From Atatürk to Erdoğan is available from Pluto Books. Follow The Turkey Analyst's coverage at https://www.turkeyanalyst.org/. Why Turkey Is Authoritarian can be bought from Pluto Books using this link https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745337555/why-turkey-is-authoritarian/. Guerr...
2020-11-201h 52
Guerrilla HistoryWashington Bullets w/ Vijay PrashadIn this episode of Guerrilla History, the guys run through some of the long and sordid history of US interventions abroad, whether by the military, the CIA, the IMF, or other even less thought about methods. The very special guest is Vijay Prashad, Director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research and author of (among many other vital works) the new book Washington Bullets. Vijay can be followed on twitter @vijayprashad and the Tricontinental Institute can be followed @tri_continental. Washington Bullets is available from LeftWord books for a very low price! You can find it here http...
2020-11-071h 42
Guerrilla HistoryGuerrilla History PilotWelcome to the Guerrilla History Podcast's pilot episode! Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea. In this pilot episode, the guys run through what the vision and goals of this podcast will be, as well as some topics that we hope to cover in the near future. W...
2020-11-0732 min