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Very Important People w/ Ashley Mears

Posted January 13, 2024 • 01:37:18

Featuring Ashley Mears on her book Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit. Mears, a sociologist and former fashion...

Colonialism, Zionism, Sectarianism w/ Ussama Makdisi

Posted January 6, 2024 • 01:39:08

Featuring Ussama Makdisi on how Western colonialism and Zionism exploited, exacerbated, and imposed sectarianism across the Arab Middle East. This is...

Seasons Greetings: Peruse our vast archives!

Posted December 30, 2023 • 00:01:15

We are OFF this week. In the meantime, peruse our vast archives at thedigradio.com. Support The...

Age of Coexistence w/ Ussama Makdisi

Posted December 23, 2023 • 01:57:44

Featuring Ussama Makdisi on the late Ottoman Empire’s Arab culture of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish coexistence—an ecumenical frame that was interrupted...

Zionism vs. Anti-Zionism Ep. 2 w/ Shaul Magid

Posted December 15, 2023 • 01:52:10

Featuring Shaul Magid on post-1948 Jewish Zionism and Jewish anti-Zionism—including today’s new generation of young, militant, left-wing, anti-Zionist...