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Race and Rights Podcast

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"Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine" examines the profound concept of sumud—psychological resilience and defiance—within the context of Palestinian life under occupation and settler colonialism. This episode explores psychoanalytic frameworks that illuminate the complex psychological expressions of both individual and collective endurance in circumstances of ongoing trauma and oppression. Clinical case studies reveal the sophisticated ways Palestinian mental h...

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"Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine" examines the profound concept of sumud—psychological resilience and defiance—within the context of Palestinian life under occupation and settler colonialism. This episode explores psychoanalytic frameworks that illuminate the complex psychological expressions of both individual and collective endurance in circumstances of ongoing trauma and oppression. Clinical case studies reveal the sophisticated ways Palestinian mental h...

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Religion & Spirituality,

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Race and Rights Podcast

Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Episode 44)

"Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine" examines the profound concept of sumud—psychological resilience and defiance—within the context of Palestinian life under occupation and settler colonialism. This episode explores psychoanalytic frameworks that illuminate the complex psychological expressions of both individual and collective endurance in circumstances of ongoing trauma and oppression. Clinical case studies reveal the sophisticated ways Palestinian mental h...

1 week ago

37 minutes

Race and Rights Podcast

The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims with Khaled Beydoun (Episode 43)

Islamophobia functions as a transnational political strategy weaponized by both democratic and authoritarian regimes worldwide. The American War on Terror has served as a crucial catalyst, amplifying and connecting anti-Muslim campaigns across continents—from Europe and Asia to the Middle East and beyond. There are striking parallels between seemingly disparate anti-Muslim policies in different countries, exposing how these measures share common ideological foundations despite emerging from v...

3 weeks ago

34 minutes

Race and Rights Podcast

Muhammad Ali with Jonathan Hafetz ( Episode 42)

Muhammad Ali is widely recognized as one of the greatest athletes of all-time and one of the most important figures of the 20th century. In addition to his long and celebrated career as a boxer and three-time heavyweight champion of the world, Ali changed the conversation about race, religion, and politics in America. Ali’s refusal to be inducted into the U.S. military during the Vietnam War on religious grounds—a profound act of resistance that resulted not only in Ali’s three-plus-year exil...

1 month ago

52 minutes

Race and Rights Podcast

Hostile Homelands—The New Alliance Between India and Israel (Episode 41)

In this episode, we speak with award-winning investigative journalist Azad Essa about his research on the evolving relationship between India and Israel. Our conversation explores the historical development and contemporary significance of this alliance, particularly in light of recent events in Gaza. Essa discusses how, despite growing grassroots pressure for India to implement an arms embargo against Israel, the Indian government has instead strengthened its military and financial ties with...

2 months ago

52 minutes

Race and Rights Podcast

Hindutva in America: A Threat to Equality and Religious Pluralism, (Episode 40)

In this episode, Sahar Aziz is in dicussion with Dr. Audrey Truschke and Dr. Dheepa Sundaram about the new groundbreaking report published by CSRR entitled Hindutva in America: A Threat to Equality and Religious Pluralism, which is available for download at csrr.rutgers.edu Audrey Truschke is a Professor of History and Director of Asian Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. She is the author of numerous books about India published by Columbia University Press, Stanford University Press ...

2 months ago

53 minutes

Race and Rights Podcast

One State Reality: What is Palestine Israel (Episode 39)

In this episode, Professors Nathan J. Brown and Shibley Telhami, leading experts on the region and U.S. foreign policy toward Israel, offer a thoughtful examination of the current situation in Israel-Palestine. Our guests provide nuanced analysis of how decades of unsuccessful peace negotiations have transformed the political landscape. The conversation explores the increasingly apparent "one state reality" that exists across territories under Israeli control, challenging traditional diplomat...

3 months ago

43 minutes

Race and Rights Podcast

The War Economy of the Fragmented Healthcare System in Syria (Episode 38)

In this episode, regional experts of the Middle East share their knowledge about Syria's healthcare system and how it has been affected by years of conflict. Based on research from the book "Everybody's War: Politics of Aid in the Syria Crisis," (published by Oxford University Press), our guests provide thoughtful analysis of several important issues: The connection between healthcare provision and questions of state legitimacyHow Syria's once-unified healthcare system became fragmented...

3 months ago

42 minutes

Race and Rights Podcast

Innocent Until Proven Muslim with Maha Hilal (Episode 37)

Host Sahar Aziz is in conversation with scholar and organizer Dr. Maha Hilal as she unpacks two decades of the War on Terror and its devastating impact on Muslim communities. This eye-opening episode, based on Dr. Hilal's book Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11, explores how government narratives have been weaponized to build an extensive apparatus of state violence rooted in Islamophobia. Dr. Hilal offers unique insights into: ...

4 months ago

24 minutes

Race and Rights Podcast

U.S. Military Aid to Israel During a Genocide in Gaza with Josh Paul ( Episode 36)

Sahar Aziz speaks with Josh Paul about the law, politics, and policies surrounding the United States decades long military aid to Israel and specifically how such aid makes the U.S. complicit in Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza since October 2023. Josh Paul resigned from the State Department due to his disagreement with the Biden Administration’s decision to rush lethal military assistance to Israel in the context of its war on Gaza. He had previously spent over 11 years working as a...

4 months ago

51 minutes

Race and Rights Podcast

Global Islamophobia and the Rise of Populism with Audrey Truschke and Ivan Kalmar (Episode 35)

Dr. Audrey Truschke and Professor Ivan Kalmar analyze the alarming global surge in Islamophobic violence and discriminatory policies, particularly in Eastern Europe and South Asia. Our guests explore how economic and political insecurities have fueled dangerous scapegoating of Muslim citizens and refugees, transforming vulnerable religious minorities into targets of state-sanctioned persecution. This thought-provoking episode examines the human cost of populist rhetoric and offers crit...

5 months ago

48 minutes

Race and Rights Podcast

Carceral Apartheid with Brittany Friedman (Episode 34)

Prisons are a microcosm of how carceral apartheid operates as a larger governing strategy to decimate political targets and foster deceit, disinformation, and division in society. White supremacy within the institutional conditions in US prisons produces a power dynamic of racist intent in the prison system that culminates in what Professor Brittany Friedman terms carceral apartheid. Host Sahar Aziz discusses the many shocking discoveries that Friedman finds from the research for her bo...

5 months ago

42 minutes

Race and Rights Podcast

ICC Investigation of Biden Administration Officials for Aiding Israeli War Crimes with Sarah Leah Whitson (Episode 33)

In January of 2025, the human rights organization, Democracy in the Arab World Now (DAWN), made a formal request with the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate former U.S. officials President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for their accessorial roles in aiding and abetting, as well as intentionally contributing to, Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. With the support of ICC-registered lawyers and other war cr...

6 months ago

43 minutes

Race and Rights Podcast

Race and Empire: Legal Theory Within, Through and Across National Borders with Asli Bali (Episode 32)

In the Global South, the possibility of a post-imperial reality self-determined by former subjects of the empire has been undermined by the dominant Western narrative that centers “humanitarian initiatives, politics of counterterrorism, and migration control”. Host Sahar Aziz will speak with expert, advocate and Law Professor Dr. Asli U. Bali to deconstruct the mainstream narrative that portrays the international system and its dominant actors as benevolent agents of humanitarianism in region...

6 months ago

32 minutes

Race and Rights Podcast

Post-Colonial Legality and Human Rights with Abdullahi An-Naim (Episode 31)

Autonomy and self-determination for all individuals cannot be realized and sustained unless true within every person. Enslavement and dehumanization remain true of citizens of imperial nations so long as they remain true for colonized peoples. This week’s episode explores the contradictions between stated commitments to human rights and actions in Western and post-colonial societies. Host Sahar Aziz addresses these issues with Emory University School of Law Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im....

6 months ago

33 minutes

Race and Rights Podcast

Race, Women and the Global War on Terror with Sherene Razack (Episode 30)

This episode of the Race and Rights podcast features Professor Sherene Razack discuss how racialized Muslim bodies and gender are constructed by global white supremacy that produces and sustains networks, affinities and ideas in the so-called Global War on Terror. Sherene Razack is a Distinguished Professor and the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and author of the Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy throug...

7 months ago

41 minutes

Race and Rights Podcast

Syria and Seismic Shifts in Middle East Politics with Bassam Haddad (Episode 29)

Syria's complex history and politics led to the overthrow of Bashar Al Assad on December 8, 2024 – as unexpected as the Arab Spring revolutions that gripped the Middle East thirteen years earlier. Located at the center of regional competition, the nation of Syria will continue to experience foreign intervention from its neighbors, as well as the United States. Meanwhile, the millions of Syrian refugees outside the country are gradually returning to rebuild their homeland. ...

7 months ago

1 hour 7 minutes

Race and Rights Podcast

The Two Faces of American Freedom with Aziz Rana (Episode 28)

Let’s take stock of the American experience within the global history of colonialism – specifically by examining the intertwined relationship in U.S. constitutional practice between internal accounts of freedom and external projects of power and expansion. This episode reinterprets American political traditions from the colonial period to modern times by placing race, immigration, and national security in the context of shifting notions of empire and citizenship. Host Sahar Aziz addresses the...

8 months ago

32 minutes

Race and Rights Podcast

Islamophobia, Race and Global Politics with Nazia Kazi (Episode 27)

This week’s episode offers a powerful introduction to the scope of Islamophobia in the United States. The legacy of Barack Obama and the mainstream media’s typically negative portrayals of Muslims offer incisive examples into the vast impact of Islamophobia – connected to the long history of racism – both within the borders of the United States, and as a matter of foreign policy and global politics. Host Sahar Aziz addresses these issues with “Islamophobia, Race and Global Politics” author an...

8 months ago

26 minutes

Race and Rights Podcast

Hate Crimes, Terrorism and the Framing of White Supremacist Violence with Shirin Sinnar (Episode 26)

In the face of pervasive racial violence in American society, the effort to address and subdue white supremacist extremism has been underserved by the framing of “hate crimes,” and the movement to re-frame these events as domestic terrorism, as these terms do not meet the heavy task of eliminating the perpetuation of institutional oppression. Host Sahar Aziz will discuss with Law Professor Shirin Sinnar what she has coined the “frame analysis,” where she argues against these labels as i...

9 months ago

28 minutes

Race and Rights Podcast

What Lies Ahead for Syria: A Conversation with Dr. Omar Dahi (Episode 25)

A complex array of domestic, regional, and international factors contributed to the rise of Hafez Al Assad as president of Syria in 1970 and the ultimate demise of his son, Bashar Al Assad on December 8, 2024 – thirteen years after the Syrian people unsuccessfully rose up peacefully as part of the regional phenomena commonly referred to as the Arab Spring. Located at the center of geopolitical competition between Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, the nation of Syria will continue ...

9 months ago

53 minutes