The Adnan Husain Show

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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 "refugee crises" as an agent of modern history, Dr. Salzmann examines responses to these dislocations patterned conditions particularly in Eastern Europe/Russia/the Balkans and the Middle East. Ariel charts the waves of refugees that reshaped these regions from the late 19th century, during and in the aftermath of WW1, and then during WW2. The unwillingness "the West" to resettle Jewish refugees fleeing fascism in Europe led to the colonial dispossession of Palestinians in 1948 and 1967 by the newly formed zionist state of Israel. Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

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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 subversion and violent suppression of resistance. The promise of emancipation from slavery, colonization, class oppression, patriarchy, minorities under nationalism, and antisemitism in Europe was systematically derailed. This process historically and its contradictions had important consequences on the shape of resistance globally and on Jewish nationalism. "The Minority Question" in the older empires, especially in the Ottoman Empire, becomes the frame for Dr. Salzmann's analysis of the fateful consequences for the Middle East.

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Adnan 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 liberatory future. His presentation was entitled "The Medieval Muslim: Historiographical Recursivities of White Supremacy."

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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 Adnan discuss a Mediterranean history from the medieval crusades to the "Reconquista" in Iberia into the early modern period and reflect on the transformation in the Latin West from religious difference between Christian and non-Christian as predominant to the elaboration of new ethno-racial forms of exclusion in the shared roots of antisemitism, Islamophobia and other forms of racism.

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Adnan 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 genocide. A powerful conversation based on a brilliant and very significant new conceptual analysis of the transformations of racial capitalism.

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Prof. 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 of Shakespeare's dramatic corpus and its construction as the epitome of "universalist" literary genius in the English language.

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Prof. 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

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*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* Watch the video edition on our YouTube channel

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*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 life and the outer world, what it means to be truly human, and transformation socially and personally, Adnan and Breht explore the intersections of left politics and spirituality from the alienation of consumer corporate capitalism and the degradations of imperialism to the defiant dignity and faithful resilience of Gazan resistance.

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Check out sister podcast w/ Henry Hakamaki (@Huck1995) https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com

Follow Breht's work at www.revolutionaryleftradio.com and check out the two-part series on Mysticism on RLR and Red Menace podcasts: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/on-mysticism-ego-suffering-love https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/on-mysticism-ii-enlightenment-non-duality-perennialism

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" rather than "interests" created by aggressive US policy. A wide-ranging conversation benefiting from Prof. Yaghoubian's thorough historical knowledge and trenchant political analysis.

Dr. David N. Yaghoubian is Professor of Modern west Asian and Islamic History at California State University-San Bernardino. aughot of "Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran" (Syracuse, 2014) and co-editor of "Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East" (3rd edition forthcoming).

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