The Adnan Husain Show
Professor Adnan Husain, a historian and scholar of religion, hosts a show covering history, politics, global affairs, intellectual culture, and religion and spirituality. The format includes scholarly guest interviews, panel discussions, recorded lectures, and his own readings and commentary.
Episodes
MOUharram in Iran-Critical Dissent, Spiritual Solidarity w/Ehsan Safarnejad
In this fourth episode in the series Muharram for Anti-Imperialists: The Karbala Paradigm, Adnan speaks with geopolitical analyst Ehsan Safarnejad about his critical analysis of the "Islamabad" Memorandum of Understanding, the politics of Iran's engagement in the diplomatic negotiations vs. its military responses, and the special political/spiritual solidarity of Iran's street demonstrations and t
Why History Matters w/Yakoob Ahmed
his episode could equally be titled "ReOrienting History Islamically". Adnan is joined by historian of late Ottoman history and author of Why History Matters: Reviving Faith Through the Lens of History to talk about Eurocentric historiography and historical consciousness and whether Islamicate history provides alternatives and how global or world history might benefit from a reorientation. This is
Memo to US Empire—Iran Wins w/Navid Zarrinnal
Adnan and Sina (who departed early because he double booked!), Westoid Tankies sitting in comfort, try to convince Navid Zarrinnal in Tehran that Iran has won and he can make street cat videos forever more! The memorandum of understanding and Iranian public response is the subject of this episode and Navid provides insight and skepticism based on experience in Iran as well as the mood at atmospher
World Cup 2026: Geopolitics and the Beautiful Game
This Guerrilla History series previewing and analyzing the major international football (soccer) tournaments on and off the pitch continues with the disastrous US/Canada/Mexico hosted World Cup 2026. Amid war on Iran, anti-immigrant ICE terror gangs, dismal initial attendance numbers and astronomical costs, this world cup looks to be one of the worst in history. No wonder there have been calls to
The Names of God (6): al-Rabb, "the Lord and Nourisher"
Adnan and Marc explore the name al-Rabb, which is usually translated at "The Lord" but with elements of educative and nourishing dimensions. Some even translate the name as "Nourisher". Although this is not one of the 99 names listed in typical devotional traditions, this self-description or name appears early in the Qur'an in its opening chapter, Surah Fatiha, in the verse "Praise be to Allah, Lo
A Radical Approach to Electoral Politics w/Butch Ware
Full Audio of YouTube Livestream!!!! Dr. Butch Ware returns to the program to discuss the Black Radical Tradition, anti-imperialists and decolonizing politics, and the approach he is taking to his candidacy in the race for Governor of California for the Green Party. How do these radical and revolutionary traditons of change and social justice inform his approach and plans to engage in electoral po
Office Hours 31-Pal Action's Legal Trials and UK Political Crises w/Huda Ammori
Full Audio of YouTube Livestream!!!! The radical academy is in session as Office Hours returns Friday May 15 for an early edition, 11:30amET/4:30amUK. Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, returns to the channel to talk about recent developments legally surrounding the direct actionists' trials, jury manipulation, "terrorism" sentencing, attempts to sanction barrister for the defense, and t
Iran War Diary (Day 80) : Get Used to the Regime
Navid, Sina Rahmani, Adnan Husain, and Kumars discuss the prospect of renewed bombing by the US and Israel, how Iranians view the global impact of Iran's military and economic resilience, how support for the Axis of Resistance registers on the Iranian domestic political spectrum, whether good anti-imperialists should all convert to Islam, and much more. Follow @adnanhusainshow on here Check ou
The Violent Demise of Monetary Supremacy w/Radhika Desai
Full Audio of YouTube Livestream!!!! Adnan and Benji in this collaboration with Resistance is Fertile podcast continue their conversation with Radhika Desai about the latest developments in geopolitical economy. We discuss the consequences of Iran's restriction of commercial trade through the Strait of Hormuz for dollar hegemony and more broadly on the global economy. We'll learn about swap lines
Myths about Islamic Resistance History in Palestine w/Mujamma Haraket
As part of this channel's effort to explore the theme of religion and resistance and to understand the Islamic resistance confronting US-Israeli empire, Adna speaks with scholar, translator, and historian of Islamic political movements, Mujamma Haraket. We explore the emergence of the Islamic Resistance in Palestine and its roots in anticolonial era and Muslim Brotherhood organizing in previous de
Still Minab: Iran's Martyrs and Sovereign Truth w/Helyeh Doutaghi and Bikrum Gill
Helyeh Doutaghi from Tehran and Bikrum Gill join me to discuss the haunting and powerful series "Still Minab" and its first two episodes. Helyeh's documentary absorbs the first part of our discussion about narrating and expressing the truth outside of the colonial and imperial framework. Then Adnan and Bikrum reflect on the wider significance of Iran's defiant position against the imperialist worl
The Qur'an as Geopolitics w/Indi.ca
In this era, the most active forces combating colonialism and imperialism are the "Axis of Resistance" in West Asia. Since October 7th, many have been either inspired or puzzled by the incomparable endurance of the Palestinian people and their heroic resistance to invasion, occupation, and genocidal violence. In both cases religious faith in Islam has proven of incalculable value to them as well a
Struggle Session 9 w/Corinna Mullin, Mtume Gant & Ambereen Dadabhoy
The Struggle Session returns! This ninth edition of the livestream panel program about the state of the world and how to change it brings together a wonderful group, Corinna Mullin of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective, author and filmmaker Mtume Gant, and English professor Ambereen Dadabhoy. We'll discuss an array of pressing topics encompassing the twin problems of domestic fascism and mil
A Call for Revolutionary Intellectual Alignment w/Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah
Full Audio of YT Livestream: This livestream collaboration with Lara Sheehi and Psychic Militancy discusses an important document "Toward a Revolutionary Charter for Comprehensive Liberation" released recently that takes an adamant and uncompromising critique of contemporary Arab intelligentsias and calls for a radical realignment against colonial knowledges and with the masses. This is a critical
The Violent Demise of Imperialism w/Radhika Desai
In this collaborative livestream with Resistance is Fertile's Benji Schoendorff, we continue a discussion with Dr. Radhika Desai who brings "geopolitical economic" analysis to the contemporary world system and in particular how global events, especially the Ramadan War, herald an end to Western imperialism as a form of world order. We'll discuss how Iran and its allies, the Axis of Resistance, and
Resistance Media Report 2 w/Laith Marouf of Free Palestine TV
Full Audio of YouTube Livestream aired Monday April 6th. Journalist, media legal activist, and geopolitical analyst Laith Marouf, founder of the indispensible Free Palestine TV, comes back to the program for a live Resistance Media Report, 10amET Monday April 6th, to discuss ALL the resistance fronts actively confronting the US-Israeli-Western empire now during the Ramadan War with a special focus
Iran War Diary (Day 35)
This is a collaborative episode with Delete Ur Account podcast hosted by Kumars Salehi. He has graciously let us post the episode with guest Navid Zarinnal, previously on the program for the episode "Iran under Siege". Here is the Delete Your Account write up: This week's episode is a collaboration with The Colony Archive and The Adnan Husain Show. As Roqayah continues to report from the front li
Iran vs. Empire: Burning Questions for the Resistance--Philadelphia Panel
UNLOCKED!! BONUS! Full Audio of Panel in Philadelphia Adnan participated in and helped organize a panel in Philadelphia, chaired by Gabrel Rockhill w/Adeem Suhail and Nazia Kazi, at the Philadelphia Liberation Center on Weds March 25th. A great discussion on the panel and brilliant questions and vibrant atmosphere with about a hundred people from the community attending. We talked about the situat
Iran at War: Sovereignty against Empire Helyeh Doutaghi
Adnan speaks with anti-imperialist legal scholar and journalist Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tehran and contributer to Vocal Politics, about life in Iran during the Ramadan War, revolutionary Shi'i populism that has been galvanized nightly in the streets, forms of social solidarity and social order in response to US-Israeli civilian attacks, and the centrality o
Political Persecution in Kenya w/Booker Omole-Guerrilla History and Adnan Husain Show Collaboration
In this critically important episode in collaboration with my other podcast, Guerrilla History, co-host Henry Hakamaki and I, bring back our friend Comrade Booker from the Communist Party Marxist - Kenya to discuss his recent abduction, his imprisonment, the fraudulent case against him, and the work ongoing from the CPMK! An urgently important episode, be sure to share this episode widely to get
From Persia to Iran: Islam, Empire, and the Politics of West Asia-Adnan on RevLeftRadio!
Adnan joined Breht O'Shea on Revolutionary Left Radio for a deep dive into history. We are sharing it here for our subscribers to the Adnan Husain Show as a bonus and relevant extra! Thanks to Breht for the invitation and graciously allowing us to repost here. Check out his amazing, long-running podcast: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/ and on all the usual platforms. And you can support
The Names of God (5)-al-Raheem, "the Compassionate"
After too long a hiatus, Dr. Marc Applebaum and I have returned with the fifth episode in our series on the Names of God, centered around the Sufi mystical tradition of the 99 Names. This episode comes at the end of Ramadan and arrives into a world desperately in need of mercy, compassion, empathy. Following closely from its relation to al-Rahman, "the Merciful", in our last episode, this name ope
Iran vs. Epstein Empire w/David Yaghoubian & Resistance is Fertile
Adnan convenes another extra emergency livestream Sunday March 1st 8pmET--this time in collaboration with Resistance is Fertile Podcast-- on the regional war in West Asia that "Epstein Empire" has launched against Iran and the people of the region. We take a broad approach in situating this in the Gaza genocide sponsored by the West through the Zionist state of Israel confronted by the Axis of Res
Emergency Struggle Session-War on Iran w/Nina and Navid Farnia
Adnan is joined by Nina and Navid Farnia, members of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective, to talk about the illegal imperialist US-Israeli-Western war launched against Iran. Please avail yourselves of the playlist Iran: History and Politics on this channel. We will be focusing on current developments but that background is always relevant and important in analyzing contemporary conditions. Re
Iran under Siege w/Navid Zarrinnal (The Colony Archive)
Adnan has a fascinating conversation with Dr. Navid Zarrinnal, a historian of modern Iran, who also speaks from first hand experience from inside Iran about current conditions economically and socially, as well as providing keen political and historical analysis of the internal support for Iran's foreign policy and the divisions between elite and Western-oriented "neo-liberal" classes and factions
Taking ACTION for PALESTINE w/Huda Ammori
Exclusive extended conversation w/Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, about the recent High Court decision in favor of her suit against the Home Secretary and Starmer government banning Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act of 2000. In addition to analyzing the decision and the political ramifications of this momentous victory—the first time a suit has been successful against the appli
Office Hours 20-Iran: Strategic Patience vs. Preemptive Strike w/Ali Alizadeh
Full Audio!!!! Bonus for Podcast listeners. Emergency Office Hours Iran livestream, the first of a major double episode on Iran, Monday, Feb 2nd at 11amET w/Jedaal host and Iran analyst Ali Alizadeh. On the cusp of a possible US attack on Iran in its continuing sanctions, threats, destabilization, and war against the Islamic Republic, we discussed the political and geopolitical dimensions with an
Struggle Session 7 Live w/Lara Sheehi and Nina Farnia
Full Audio of Struggle Session 7! If you missed the livestream, you can listen back. The Struggle Session is back, Sunday Jan 18 at 3:30pmET/12:30pmPT! This livestream panel program will wrestle with the major developments shaping the world so far in 2026. Expect uncompromising anti-imperialist analysis of the continuing resistance to US hegemony and defense of sovereignty in Venezuela and the Car
Office Hours 17-Iran: Society under Sanctions w/David Yaghoubian
Bonus Audio of the return of Office Hours, a regular Friday livestream on YouTube and X! Adnan and David Yaghoubian, returning guest and historian of Modern Iran and the Middle East at CSU-San Bernardino, discuss their recent visit to Tehran and their social, political and economic impressions. We will also analyze the economic protests and subsequent violent riots as well as the social and gover
Reflections on 2025; Visions for 2026
I contributed a short piece to Sasha Frere Jones' newsletter, "Writing about 2025". It's full of terrific reflections from friends, comrades, and colleagues like Nora Barrows Friedman, Calla Walsh, Laleh Khalili, Louis Allday, Abdeljawad Omar, and Lara Sheehi, who have been guest on the Adnan Husain Show or Guerrilla History (or both). I have also been enjoying a range of reflective thoughts, obse
2025 A Year in History w/Revolutionary Guerrilla Menace!
Full audio of Revolutionary Guerrilla Menace's 2025: A Year in History livestream! A fantastic discussion with blistering analysis from the crew. We discussed US criminal assault on Venezuela and its consequences geopolitically and economically on US empire and its designs in Latin America and implications for West Asia and especially subversion or assault on Iran. We analyzed US/Western imperiali
The Imperial Theory Industry w/Gabriel Rockhill
In this episode, Adnan discusses Professor Gabriel Rockhill's new book, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism, v. 1 of The Intellectual World War. This incredibly important book contributes an insurgent foray, a guerrilla attack, against the imperial theory industry and its ideological work in the psychological, intellectual war that is central to the perpetuation of imperialist capitalism of our
Office Hours 15-Sovereign Development vs. Imperialist War w/Bikrum Gill
The radical academy is in session Friday, Nov. 21 at 5pm for Office Hours. In this session Adnan hosts Dr. Bikrum Gill, a professor at Virginia Tech, a scholar of international political economy, and member of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective. We will talk about the key confrontation of our time: the possibility for sovereign development by peoples of the Global South and the imperialist w
Full Audio! Struggle Session 6 Live w/Nerdeen Kiswani, Sina Rahmani, Henry Hakamaki & Mehmet Ali Arslan
The Struggle Session was back for November on Sunday Nov 23rd at 3pmET! Enjoy full audio of the program. This monthly livestream panel program is not convening to make you feel better--the unvarnished analysis and fierce self-criticism may make you feel a bit worse! But, it will inform and, hopefully, spur you to taking action. As Marx said, the point isn't just to understand the world but to chan
Bonus Full Audio! Office Hours 13-Sudan: Resistance, Compradors, an Existential Fight for Liberation w/Hamza Al-Muqawi
In this edition of Office Hours, Friday Nov. 7 at a special time, 6pm ET, Adnan hosts Hamza Al-Muqawi a Sudanese writer and activist to talk about Sudan's history as a crucial and continuing front in the struggle against colonialism, imperialism, and capitalist exploitation of Eastern Africa and West Asia. We will learn about Sudan's strategic place on the Red Sea and the geopolitical factors fuel
No god but God--after 20 years w/Reza Aslan
Adnan has a conversation with noted writer and religion scholar Reza Aslan on the 20th anniversary edition of his classic popular history of Islam, "No god but God: the Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam". Reza talks about his unique background and interests in religion, the reasons he wrote this work in the cauldron of Islamophobia during the "Global War on Terrorism" GWOT just a few years af
The Names of God (4): al-Rahman, "The Merciful"
In this episode, Adnan and Marc explore the most frequently mentioned of the names that serves both as an attribute and a sort of "proper name" in some fashion. We explored the meanings of the Arabic root R-H-M that gives rise to "rahmah" or mercy as a noun and the two adjectival attributes al-Rahman and al-Raheem, the names that are part of the invocation of chapters of the Qur'an. We considered
West African Sufi Resistance and Contemporary Freedom Struggles w/ Butch Ware
Adnan's wide-ranging conversation with inspiring scholar and charismatic political activist/Green party gubernatorial candidate for California, Dr. Rudolph Butch Ware. We discussed Butch's biography and how it brought him to his groundbreaking historical scholarship on West African Islamic education, Sufi mystical and spiritual movements as anticolonial resistance and slave abolition struggles. We
*UNLOCKED!* Indigenous Spiritualities and Anticolonial Resistance Movements w/Nick Estes
In this *UNLOCKED* collaborative episode originally exclusively for Red Scare substack subscribers and patrons of the Adnan Husain Show, Nick Estes and Adnan discuss the role spirituality in anti-colonial resistance movements. From the Ghost Dance to Sufi warriorism, spiritual resources are an important and often undertheorized form of struggle against colonial and imperial violence, dispossession
UNLOCKED!! Office Hours #8 w/Nihal El Aasar: Full Audio
Even if you missed the livestream and if you prefer listening to watching, I'm posting Monday Sept 29th's Office Hours "Resisting Melancholia: Arab Culture and Politics during the Genocide. It was an illuminating and interesting conversation w/Nihal El Aasar who shared her insightful reflections on culture and politics and the present moment. Enjoy! Normally these live episodes are only available
The Names of God (3): Allah or The Divine Being
Adnan and Marc plunge into the "name" that is unique in being distinguished from all others as having no attribute or characteristic and almost definitionally contrasts with the human. How should the "human" and "divine" dichotomy be understood theologically and phenomenologically in this spiritual tradition of the 99 Names in Sufi Islam? We wrestled with these and other questions related to the s
Remembering Anticolonial Algiers: Panthers & Pan-African Revolutionaries w/Elaine Mokhtefi
Adnan has a wonderful conversation with a remarkable radical activist, Elaine Mokhtefi, in this special collaborative edition w/Guerrilla History and its ongoing series of interviews with living historical revolutionaries. Elaine Mokhtefi is author of "Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers." This fascinating discussion retraces Elaine's early political eng
Subverting Syria: Dark Histories of US Empire w/Patrick Higgins
Adnan discusses a crucial history of US subversion of Syria's sovereignty even before the conclusion of WW2 starting with interference and covert operations by the OSS precursor to the CIA and then through the entire Cold War with Dr. Patrick Higgins, a Middle East historian, co-editor of Liberated Texts and member of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective. His article "Gunning for Damascus: The
Struggle Session #4 *UNLOCKED*
Normally, the audio of livestreams (Struggle Sessions and Office Hours) are exclusive to supporters on patreon.com/adnanhusain but this Struggle Session was so important and sizzling with insight, I'm making it available on the podcast feed. You can always watch these back on YouTube and X as videos, but if you like your audio, be sure to consider supporting and joining. Adnan was joined by Benji
The Airing of Grievances with Sina Rahmani & Friends
The East is a Podcast hosted a collaborative conversation with multiple friends, airing grievances, covering multiple topics, discussing news and raising funds for Mohammed and his siblings amid evacuation orders. This stream featured Nick Estes from The Red Nation, Adnan Husain from The Adnan Husain Show and Guerrilla History podcast, Jared Ware from Millennials Are Killing Capitalism, and Mtume
The Names of God (2): Beginnings and Openings
Adnan and Marc continue their conversation about the Names of God in the Sufi Muslim mystical tradition and its wider resonances for spiritual experience and self-examination. In particular we observe some of the challenges of beginning such an ambitious project and the preparation required by discussing the openings to two major medieval Arabic commentaries on the divine names introduced in episo
Office Hours #5: Taking Action against Genocide and Empire w/Calla Walsh
An excerpt from a very exciting and inspiring Office Hours livestream Friday Aug 29, 5pmET. For the full conversation and full audio of all livestreams (Office Hours and Struggle Sessions), join patreon.com/adnanhusain. In this edition of Office Hourse, I talked with Calla Walsh about taking action against genocide and empire. Calla is a brilliant analyst and courageous anti-imperialist activist.
Resistance Media Report w/Laith Marouf
Adnan discusses recent developments in Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria with journalist, media activist and geopolitical commentator Laith Marouf of Free Palestine TV. Referring to recent reports on the platform as a basis for further analysis of ZioAmerican imperialism, its regional agents, and popular resistance to it. Support this media platform on the front lines by donating at freepalestine.vide
The Spirit of Bandung at 70: Anticolonialism and its Legacies w/Rabab Abdulhadi & Salman Sayyid
Drs. 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 critic
Yemen: Solidarity and Resistance w/Isa Blumi, Part 2
The 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
Settler Colonialism: History and Concept w/Laleh Khalili
Adnan 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 A
Yemen's History of Resisting Empire w/Isa Blumi, P. 1
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 geog
There is no post-Gaza
Part 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 wea
The Names of God (1): Introduction
Adnan 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
Psychlib #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 r
Malcolm X-Radical Legacies vs Liberal Lies w/Jared Ball
Adnan 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.
Struggle Session #2: Action for Palestine
You 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
Recovering "Muslim Rage": Affect and Resistance to Islamophobia in Europe w/ Rayan Freschi
Rayan 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 ra
Resisting ICE and Fascism on the Borderlands w/Alex Aviña
Adnan 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 o
Gaza is the World's Future
Part 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 forg
Struggle Session #1 w/ Nora Barrows Friedman, Alex Avina, Nina Farnia
You 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
Uneven Argument! Piketty & Political Economy w/ Ingrid Kvangraven
Adnan 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 necessar
Armed Struggle?: Histories of Resistance in LA from 60's to Today w/ Gerald Horne
Dr. 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 sit
The 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
Gangs and the New Aid Regime in Gaza w/ Abdaljawad Omar
Adnan 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 designe
Oslo 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
Looking into the Abyss: ZioAmerica, Iran, and the Struggle for a Human Future w/ David Yaghoubian and Sina Rahmani
Adnan 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 a
Cold 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 characte
Who's afraid of "Intifada"? Philology and Liberation w/ Chella Ward
Dr. 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"
From 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 ma
Emancipation 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 Muslim and the Making of Medieval Mediterranean History
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
The 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 relationsh
The New Racial Regime w/ Alana Lentin
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
Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds w/ Ambereen Dadhabhoy
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 wit
Brothers All! Remembering the Legacy of Pope Francis
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://revolutionaryleft
Team 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 Fried
Spiritual 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, sp
Iran'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
Divide and Conquer: Abusing History to Inflame Sunni-Shi'i Sectarianism w/ Mehmet Ali Arslan
Professor 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 Seli
