Fri, 14 May 2021
In this interview, Noah Black sat down with Dr. Evren Altinkas to discuss his work, what brought him to it, and how he approaches key questions in the study of the intellectual history of Turkey.
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Category:History -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT |
Fri, 7 May 2021
Huma Gupta speaks with Todd Reisz about the transformation of the marshy estuary known as Dubai Creek (خور دبي) into infrastructure – a process which was central to the city’s architectural and urban development projects in the twentieth century. Reisz discusses the spatial, architectural, ecological and economic relationships between the creek, its inhabitants, and the city. These relationships were forever transformed in the mid-twentieth century through the 1955 Halcrow Plan for Dubai Creek and John Harris' 1959 Master Plan for Dubai, which necessitated the use of concrete and steel to harden the creek's fluid landscape in order to engender an expectation of predictability, economic growth, and real estate speculation.
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Mon, 12 April 2021
Malihe Razazan spoke with Kali Rubaii, an assistant professor of anthropology at Purdue University, about the toxic legacy of the war in Iraq and the underlying reasons for the high rates of birth defects in the city of Fallujah |
Mon, 25 January 2021
In Part 1, medical students Anjali Jaiman and Andrea Martinez discuss the history of oppression through psychiatric institutionalization and criminalization of mental health concerns. They are joined by Carla Rabinowitz, who is the Project Coordinator of Correct Crisis Intervention Today NYC (CCIT-NYC), an organization that advocates for peer-led, compassionate care for people experiencing mental health crisis. Our current police-led response to mental health crisis often leads to violence and further trauma. While the mayor’s new mental health response team is a step in the right direction, Carla illustrates the ideal model for responding to mental health crisis, which includes a peer with lived experience of mental health crisis and connections to community resources. For more information on CCIT-NYC, visit http://www.ccitnyc.org/who-we-are/ Hosted by Downstate Students for HEAL (Health Equity Advocacy and Leadership) You can also listen to this podcast on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1n3rQi4cU2Kduy2eBQMzNn |
Fri, 15 January 2021
عربي تحت Guest: Aaron Jakes بيئات رأس المال في مصر تتناول هذه الحلقة موضوع احتلال مصر وتاريخ الرأسمالية كعملية اجتماعية وبيئية. |
Thu, 9 April 2020
In this interview, Jonathan Adler, managing editor of Tadween Publishing, sits down with Ziad Abu-Rish to discuss The Dawn of the Uprisings, the growth of Jadaliyya as an archive, and the current wave of protests across the Middle East and North Africa. About the Book The authors, many of whom live in the countries affected, provide unique understanding and first-hand accounts of events that have received superficial and partial coverage in Western and Arab media alike. While the book focuses on those states that have been most affected by the uprisings, it also covers the impact on Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq. The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings covers the full range of issues involved in these historic events, from political economy and the role of social media, to international politics, gender and labor, making this the ideal one-stop introduction to the events for the novice and specialist alike. To read more about this book, follow this link:
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Category:History -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT |
Wed, 9 October 2019
In the summer of 1988, thousands of political prisoners were systematically executed in Iran. The killings were horrific, not only in scale, but this was done in total secrecy. To this day, the Iranian regime has never openly acknowledged these executions. In this interview, VOMENA host and producer Malihe Razazan speaks with Iranian historian Nasser Mohajer, who researched and documented the horrific events of the summer of 1988, which are also the subject of his upcoming book, "Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988." Courtesy of VOMENA. |
Mon, 20 May 2019
Marral Shamshiri-Fard discusses her current research on the Dhofar Revolution and the importance of reframing history to look at grassroots movements in Iran, Oman, and neighboring states of the Persian Gulf during the "long 1960s". Interviewed by Noah Black | English |
Mon, 18 March 2019
During the mid-1950s, an almost unknown and erased-from-history armed anti-colonial revolt – the Fellaga/Youssefite rebellion – rippled across the Tunisian countryside, sweeping across the width and depth of the country, even penetrating urban cores. Max Ajl's dissertation, "Farmers, Fellaga, and Frenchmen: National Liberation and Post-Colonial Development in Tunisia", recovers the historical memory of that revolt, writing the armed struggle and its repression into the history of the Tunisian national liberation struggle and its effects on subsequent state-building efforts. [Courtesy of George Mason University] |
Mon, 7 May 2018
Muhammad Isa Waley discusses his experience working for over four decades with manuscripts from the Islamic world and provides a broad, rich overview of the study of Islamic manuscripts from various eras and regions in this lecture at George Mason University. Hosted by the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies |
Sat, 1 July 2017
Munir Fashe Interviewed by Diaa Ali |
Sat, 1 July 2017
Mostafa Alskaf Interviewed by Katty Alhayek |
Wed, 9 December 2015
Hana Slieman Interviewed by Moe Ali Nayel |