Yemen and the Houthis w/ Helen Lackner
Featuring Helen Lackner on the Houthis, the politics of their attacks on Red Sea shipping, and the long history of Yemen from British colonial Aden through the current civil war. …
Very Important People w/ Ashley Mears
Featuring Ashley Mears on her book Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit. Mears, a sociologist and former fashion model, explores the super-elite “models and bottles” …
Colonialism, Zionism, Sectarianism w/ Ussama Makdisi
Featuring Ussama Makdisi on how Western colonialism and Zionism exploited, exacerbated, and imposed sectarianism across the Arab Middle East. This is the SECOND of a two-part interview. Support The Dig …
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Age of Coexistence w/ Ussama Makdisi
Featuring Ussama Makdisi on the late Ottoman Empire’s Arab culture of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish coexistence—an ecumenical frame that was interrupted by European colonialism and Zionism, which exacerbated and exploited …
Zionism vs. Anti-Zionism Ep. 2 w/ Shaul Magid
Featuring Shaul Magid on post-1948 Jewish Zionism and Jewish anti-Zionism—including today’s new generation of young, militant, left-wing, anti-Zionist American Jews and the Jewish establishment’s quixotic efforts to deny and disavow …
Zionism vs. Anti-Zionism Ep. 1 w/ Shaul Magid
Featuring Shaul Magid on the long history of Jewish Zionism and its antagonist, Jewish anti-Zionism. Defenders of Israel defame anti-Zionists as antisemites. In fact, today’s growing ranks of anti-Zionist Jews …
Palestine w/ Mohammed el-Kurd
Featuring Mohammed el-Kurd on Palestine. A short but expansive interview. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out our newsletters and vast archives at thedigradio.com Shop Haymarket’s ALL 40% off Holiday …
Global Palestine Politics Ep. 2 w/ Richard Seymour
Featuring Richard Seymour on the global politics of the Palestinian struggle and Israel’s war on Gaza. The *second* of a two-part interview. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out our …
Global Palestine Politics Ep. 1 w/ Richard Seymour
Featuring Richard Seymour on the global politics of the Palestinian struggle and Israel’s war on Gaza. The first of a two-part interview. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Buy Ireland, Colonialism, …