Everyday Orientalism Podcast

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  Orientalism and the Media 08.06.2026 1Std. 16Min.

  In this episode we are joined by Samira Mohyeddin to discuss the many ways in which contemporary news outlets are complicit in the orientalizing of Palestine and Iran. She shares with us the harms of legacy media, the power of informed, ethical journalism, and some of the work she’s done as the founder of On the Line Media.Samira Mohyeddin is an award winning journalist and documentary filmmaker. She has a Master of Arts in Modern Middle Eastern History from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of Genocide Studies from the Zoryan Institute. For nearly a decade, she was a producer and host at Canada's national public broadcaster, CBC Radio and CBC Podcasts. She resigned from the CBC in November 2023 and is now the founder and managing editor of On The Line Media, focusing on critical and contextual journalism coupled with intimate conversations and informed commentary. She is also a founding member of the Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine.Additional Resources:Fisk, Robert. 2005. The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. London: Fourth Estate.Lukacs, Martin, Dania Majid, and Jason Toney. 2025. When Genocide Wasn’t News: How Canadian Media Covered Up the Destruction of Gaza. Montreal: Breach Books.Said, Edward. 1979. The Question of Palestine. New York: Times Books.  Follow Samira Mohyeddin on Instagram @smohyeddinOn The Line Media PatreonOn The Line Media YoutubeCanadian Journalists for Justice in PalestineStudy by The Breach: Lukacs, Martin, Katia Lo Innes, and Ben Cuthbert. 2023. “Palestinian deaths count for less in Canada’s newspapers. Data proves it.” The Breach.Quote from Robert Fisk: Mirgani, Suzi. 2010. “Robert Fisk on Western Journalism and the Middle East.” Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University Qatar. Unforked Podcast – “Gastronationalism”Canadian Museum of Human Rights – Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present. Exhibition opens on June 27, 2026, in Winnipeg.Samira’s coverage of the People’s Circle for PalestineHelp fund Samira’s Palestine Solidarity Encampment documentaryThe Everyday Orientalism Podcast explores how Orientalism continues to have deep ramifications in our everyday lives, for how we think about settler-colonialism, liberation, and how empire and capitalism continue to exploit and dehumanize the majority of us. Defined by Palestinian American literary scholar Edward Said, Orientalism is “a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.” Our podcast...
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  Migration as Anchorage: A Palestinian Family in London 22.06.2026 1Std. 5Min.

  In this episode we are joined by Michelle Obeid to discuss her book, Migration as Anchorage: Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London, and what it was like to write about a Palestinian family seeking anchorage while abroad in London—both before and after the escalation of the Palestinian genocide in October of 2023. She shares with us more about the Gazzawi family, the role of food in cultural studies, and what the ongoing process of recreating home looks like for Palestinians. In developing an anthropology of anchorage, Michelle focuses on “everyday practices that create a sense of holding fast in otherwise fluid times and place.”Michelle Obeid is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. Her research explores postwar sociality, livelihoods, borders, kinship, migration, and food, with a focus on how people create home, community, and belonging amid uncertainty. She is the author of Border Lives: An Ethnography of a Lebanese Town in Changing Times (Brill 2019) and Migration as Anchorage: Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London (Berghahn 2025).Michelle's book can be downloaded for free from Berghahn Press. Excerpts from Girish's students used with permission. Additional Resources:Hammad, Isabella. 2024. Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative. New York: Penguin Random House.Said, Edward. 1994. Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures. New York: Pantheon Books.  Aly, Ramy. 2015. Becoming Arab in London: Performativity and the Undoing of Identity. London: Pluto Press.Mahmoud Darwish quote from 1996 interview: Darwish, Mahmoud, Liana Badr, Zakariyya Muhammad, Mundher Jaber, Amira El-Zein, Carolyn Forche. 2019. “Our Present Does Not Decide Either to Begin or to End.” The Massachusetts Review 60.3: 425–438.Said, Edward. 1979. The Question of Palestine. New York: Times Books.El-Haddad, Laila, and Maggie Schmitt. 2021. The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey. New York: Just World Books.Laila El-Haddad on Unforked: “Gastronationalism”The Everyday Orientalism Podcast explores how Orientalism continues to have deep ramifications in our everyday lives, for how we think about settler-colonialism, liberation, and how empire and capitalism continue to exploit and dehumanize the majority of us. Defined by Palestinian American literary scholar Edward Said, Orientalism is “a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.” Our podcast celebrates the 10th anniversary of the platform Everyday Orientalism.Host: Girish DaswaniEditor and producer: Taylor StarkResearch assistant: Sophie PlotkinIntro music: Madame Salame – Decaf
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  The Corporate University 07.07.2026 1Std. 6Min.

  In this episode we are joined by Muhannad Ayyash, Heidi Matthews, and Nathan Kalman-Lamb to discuss the corporatization of North American universities and their crisis of legitimacy in the wake of the pro-Palestinian encampments that protested the ongoing genocide of October 7th, 2023. Warning us against false hope, they share with us the challenges and potentialities for academics working from within Canadian universities complicit in genocide and war in Palestine, Iran, and beyond.Muhannad Ayyash was born and raised in Silwan, Al-Quds, before immigrating to Canada where he is Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University. He is also a policy analyst at Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. He is the author of Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel (Columbia University Press, 2025) and A Hermeneutics of Violence (University of Toronto Press, 2019).Heidi Matthews is Assistant Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. She researches and teaches in the areas of international criminal law, the law of war, international legal history and political theory. Her work theorizes contemporary shifts in the practice and discourse of the global legal regulation of political violence, with particular attention to history and gender, as well as political, critical and aesthetic theory.Nathan Kalman-Lamb is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick, where he teaches on social theory and the sociology of sport. His work appears in Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Toronto Star, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and many other venues. He is co-host of The End of Sport podcast and co-author of The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (UNC Press, 2024).Additional Resources:The Everyday Orientalism Podcast explores how Orientalism continues to have deep ramifications in our everyday lives, for how we think about settler-colonialism, liberation, and how empire and capitalism continue to exploit and dehumanize the majority of us. Defined by Palestinian American literary scholar Edward Said, Orientalism is “a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.” Our podcast celebrates the 10th anniversary of the platform Everyday Orientalism.Host: Girish DaswaniEditor and producer: Taylor StarkResearch assistant: Sophie PlotkinIntro music: Madame Salame – Decaf
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  Archaeology, Apartheid, and War 21.07.2026 1Std. 10Min.

  This week we are joined by Nelly Abboud and a member of the collective Archaeologists Against Apartheid, to discuss the ongoing destruction of cultural heritage in Lebanon and Palestine by Israeli forces. We dive into the colonialist and imperialist roots of archaeology as a discipline, the ways in which Zionists have mobilized archaeology to legitimize settler-colonialist agendas, the effectiveness of UNESCO World Heritage designations, and whether archaeology can become a tool of decolonial liberation. Nelly P. Abboud is a Lebanese archaeologist and museum educator. She is founder of Museolab, an organization promoting cultural heritage preservation through experiential learning methods. Her research interests include museum education, collective memory, cultural heritage protection, illicit traffic, community engagement, and post-conflict heritage documentation in Lebanon. Our second guest, “S”, is a member of the collective Archaeologists Against Apartheid, which is a decentralized and international organization of archaeologists and heritage professionals committed to exposing and combating the intersections of archaeology, apartheid, and genocide. Additional Resources: Alfred, Taiaiake. 2023. It’s All About the Land: Collected Talks and Interviews on Indigenous Resurgence. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.El-Haj, Nadia Abu. 2001. Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Albanese, Francesca. 2025. “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide – (A/HRC/59/23) Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.”See Nelly’s Everyday Orientalism post on UNESCO and the Lebanese sites added to the enhanced protections list.For more information on the Save Sebastia movement: https://www.instagram.com/savesebastia/The Everyday Orientalism Podcast explores how Orientalism continues to have deep ramifications in our everyday lives, for how we think about settler-colonialism, liberation, and how empire and capitalism continue to exploit and dehumanize the majority of us. Defined by Palestinian American literary scholar Edward Said, Orientalism is “a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.” Our podcast celebrates the 10th anniversary of the platform Everyday Orientalism.Host: Girish DaswaniEditor and producer: Taylor StarkResearch assistant: Sophie PlotkinIntro music: Madame Salame – Decaf