Thawra Ep. 1 – Europe’s Imperial Juggernaut

Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the Luddites’ machine-breaking revolt against the enclosure of handicraft production, the central role played by capital punishment in the consolidation of the capitalist state, and remaking the struggle against enclosure for the 21st century. Support ...  Show more

Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Buy Engineered Conflict: Structural Violence and the Future of Bl ...  Show more

Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the SEVENTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment lays out the the US’s Eisenhower Doctrine, which in 1957 inaugurated a new era of imperialism in the ...

2023 is drawing to a close and we’re spending our last two episodes of the year to look back over the past twelve months and the stories that have shaped the Middle East. For our first episode of our review, we look at the months from January to June, with help from some of The N ...  Show more

0:00 Intro 4:15 Gemmayze 11:23 Roman Beirut 24:39 Late Ottoman Era 54:30 1950-1970 1:16:58 Pop Quiz 1:27:21 Q&A We're with Charles al-Hayek for Episode 349 of The Beirut Banyan, and the first of a live series at Aaliya's Books. Click to watch: https://youtu.be/gxNpGaQCKUk Our con ...  Show more

0:00 Intro 3:27 Meaning 9:22 Divide 28:36 Something wrong 46:56 Aspiration 1:00:33 Now We're with Asma Andraos for Episode 291 of The Beirut Banyan. Click to watch: https://youtu.be/aRTcMDErOPw We discuss all that was March 14, 2005. From its buildup in the weeks leading up to th ...  Show more