Middle East – Aufhebunga Bunga

Excerpt: /376/ AufheBonus Bonus – Nov 2023

by Alex__1789November 20, 2023Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-py2tw-1501896 On your criticisms. [Patreon Exclusive - subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] We respond to your points made in the comments on Patreon over the past few months. The first section is of course dedicated to the Gaza war, followed…

/374/ You’re Gonna Need Representation ft. Vincent Bevins

by Alex__1789November 7, 2023Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-b4m2c-14f006a On a decade of protest around the world. Journalist Vincent Bevins is back on the podcast to talk about his new book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. We discuss the 2010s protest…

/370/ Dead Ends in Israel & Palestine ft. Alex Gourevitch

by Alex__1789October 20, 2023Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cudxe-14d794e On violence and the lack of political resolution. Regular guest Alex Gourevitch joins us to discuss why the Israel/Palestine conflict is so intractable – and why it draws so much attention. Alex then explains why, lamentably, there is…

/369/ Information-War and War-Politics ft. Jacob Siegel

by Alex__1789October 17, 2023Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-suitt-14d355c On the war on disinformation and the war in Gaza. Jacob Siegel, senior editor at Tablet, joins us to talk about Hamas's attack on Israel and Israel's assault on Gaza. We also discuss how the US crusade against…

/225/ Wokeistan & Lebanonworld ft. Karl Sharro

by Alex__1789November 16, 2021November 29, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ybm2u-11314f8 On sectarianism & identitarianism. Karl Sharro (@KarlreMarks) is back on Bunga to talk to us about his essay "The Retreat from Universalism in the Middle East and the World". Lebanon has been used as a model for other Middle…

/200/ The World In One Country ft. Many Guests

by Alex__1789June 29, 2021June 29, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9d7f7-10761db On world history, 1900-2020. For our 200th episode special, we pose the question: "If you had to study the history of only one country from 1900-2020, and thereby understand the history of the whole world, which would you pick?"…

/141/ Oh Lebanon, What Now? ft. Rima Majed

by Alex__1789August 13, 2020April 12, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-evwif-e6db1b On Lebanon's crisis. We call up Rima Majed in Beirut to talk us through the aftermath of the enormous explosion and ensuing protests. How has Lebanon's history since the civil war created such a profound, multi-layered crisis? We cover…

/95/ The Fall of Rojava? ft. Dani Ellis / Alexander Norton

by Alex__1789November 7, 2019Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z4hgb-c66aaa Rojava offered the hope that a progressive, multiethnic politics might be salvaged from the ashes of Syria’s civil war. Now the Turkish assault on northern Syria looks set to crush the Kurds and a radical experiment in the region. We talk…

/92/ Three Articles

by Alex__1789October 17, 2019Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tdiys-c36143 A new format in which we each bring to the table a key article to unpick and unpack. This week we take a sharp look at the crumbling US political establishment and its empire: impeachment and regime legitimacy;…

/24/ #IranProtest ft. Arash Azizi

by Alex__1789January 10, 2018Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-czjq7-82cda3 In which we learn the extent to which the protests challenge the Islamic Republic itself. Also, why such little support from the Western Left?