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The Majlis — 32 episodes

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Ep. 35: Middle East and Islamic World Update & Roundup w/Juan Cole.

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Ep. 34: UN, the Palestine Question, and International Law w/Ardi Imseis

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Ep. 33: The Campus Front: A Field Report from Students and Faculty for Justice in Palestine

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Ep. 32: The Cultural History of the Oud w/ Rachel Beckles Willson

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Iraq War 20 Years Later: Reflections w/ Dr. Ariel Salzmann

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Ep 28: The Kurdish Struggle and the Ongoing Protest in Iran w/ Dr. Djene Bajalan

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Ep 27: Training as a 'Mediterranean-ist' w/ Amel Bensalim

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Ep 24: Peace Movements in Islam w/ Prof. Juan Cole

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Ep 23: "The Honor Crime": Transnational Politics of Gender Violence across Canada, US, Palestine and Jordan w/Dr. Dana Olwan

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Ep 22: Letters for Jan. 29th's Victims: Doing Something About It w/artist @studentAsim

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Ep 21: The War on Terror, Radicalization Theory and the Geopolitics of Islamophobia w/ Arun Kundnani

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Ep. 19: "A Kashmiri Fire-Pot Speaking": Poetry and Politics - In Conversation w/ Binish Ahmed

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Ep. 18: Discovering Sufism in South Asia and North America w/Dr. Shobhana Xavier

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Ep 17: Mysticism and Music: Baul Sufi Spirituality and the Commercial Culture Industry in Bangladesh with Golam Rabbani

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Ep 16: What now for Afghanistan?: The Cost and Crimes of US Imperial War w/Dr. Ariel Salzmann

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Ep 15: Muslim Pioneers in Canada: Murray Hogben and an Islamic Tapestry of Canada

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Ep 14: Violent Islamophobia is systemic in Canadian settler colonial state and society

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Ep 13: “Places of Mind:” The life, times, and literary mind of Edward Said

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Ep 12: Saints and Slaves: The African Community of the Ottoman Empire w/ Dr. Michael Ferguson

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Ep 11: Victim of Canadian Justice: The Tragic Story of Soleiman Faqiri #JusticeForSoli

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Ep 10: Teaching Controversy: Academic Freedom and the Definition of Anti-Semitism

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Ep 9: "Islamo-Leftism": Macron's Bogeyman in French and Global Context

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Ep 8: The Canadian Islamophobia Industry: Dr. Jasmin Zine and the Antecedents and Aftermaths of the 2017 Quebec Mosque Shooting

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Ep 7: America's Long Oil War: Conversation with Filmmaker David Schisgall

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Ep 6: Dr. Sanober Umar on Racializing the Subaltern: Muslim Minorities in India and the Shapes of State Violences

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Ep 5: "How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs" with Dr. Elizabeth F. Thompson

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Ep 4: Safa Moussoud on Muslim Cultural Production, Islamophobia in France, and being Muslim in the Media Age

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Ep 3: IHRA, Bill 168 and Academic Research and Teaching

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Ep 1: Indonesia, Geopolitics, and Making Art, w/ Amel and Shah

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