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The Quietism of the Scholars: Iranian Studies in the West w/ Shirin Saeidi

Longtime friend of the show Navid Zarrinal returns to guesthost an interview with Shirin Saeidi, who was fired from her position at the University of Arkansas for her political...

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Fraud: The case of Ward Churchill w/ Nick Estes (Unlocked)

In this special bonus episode co-published with Red Scare, I’m joined by longtime collaborator Nick Estes to discuss the strange career trajectory of Ward Churchill and the violence of...

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Zionist Abuse, Tankie Support #1

Join us for the first round of a new (recurring??) series on the podcast, co-published with Justin Podur’s Anti-Empire Project substack. Nora, Justin, Mikey, Sina and Joe discuss...

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Solidarity verboten: Germany and the attack on the Palestine Congress w/ Helena Zohdi and Dror Dayan

Dror Dayan returns to the show and is joined by Helena Zohdi, a socialist organizer in Berlin, to discuss the repression of  Palestine Congress.  You can access the material...

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Khamenei’s last move w/ Ali Alizadeh

Longtime friend of the show Ali Alizadeh (@jedaal) returns to discuss his latest essay on the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei    Watch the video edition on the...

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Erasing the borders: Understanding the new West Asian resistance w/ Hannah Eid

Hannah Eid returns to the show after his first appearance got nuked by our digital overlords to speak in broad strokes about the resistance in West Asia. Check out...

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Sina Rahmani

The Host

Sina Rahmani completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at UCLA. He is a translator, scholar, and writer. His work has been published in the PMLA, Iranian Studies, boundary 2, Radical History Review, and Public Books.

He does this podcast in his spare time, of which he has plenty. He has never gone fishing.

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