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Since Apr 2019
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This is Radio ReOrient: exploring the post-Western, reconnecting the Islamosphere. Every Friday, during our seasons, we feature conversations with thinkers, artists and community activists about things Islamicate and decolonial. Radio ReOrient is a part of the Critical Muslim Studies project, connecting and intersecting acts of epistemic disobedience and political re-imagination. Check out https://www.criticalmuslimstudies.co.uk/

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Muslimness in Bosnia: A Discussion with Ðermana Kuric

Apr 14, 2025 53m

In this episode, Hizer Mir and Chella Ward talked to Ðermana Kuric about Bosnia and Muslimness, focussing on the ways the history of Muslimness in Bosnia interacts with current identities and…

Queer Jews, Queer Muslims: A Discussion with Adi Saleem and Shanon Shah

Apr 07, 2025 1h 2m

In this episode of Radio ReOrient, Claudia Radiven and Chella Ward spoke to Adi Saleem and Shanon Shah. They discussed the recent publication of the book Queer Muslims, Queer Jews: Race, Religion,…

Palestinian Futurism with Leila Abdelrazaq

Apr 01, 2025 50m

In this episode, Chella Ward and Hizer Mir spoke to Leila Abdelrazaq about her artistic practice and its themes of Palestinian futurism. Their discussion centred on Leila’s artistic work, and probed…

Cars, Race and Class with Yunis Alam

Mar 25, 2025 55m

In this episode of Radio ReOrient, Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan spoke to Dr Yunis Alam about cars, class and race. They discussed the role that cars play in signifying meaning in terms of status,…

Sumerian History with Marc Van De Mieroop

Mar 19, 2025 1h 7m

In this episode of Radio ReOrient, Salman Sayyid and Chella Ward spoke to Professor Marc Van De Mieroop about Sumerian history. They discussed the role that the so-called ‘Ancient Near East’ might…

Exploring Muslim Sicily with Nuha Alshaar and Shainool Jiwa

Mar 10, 2025 49m

In this episode Saeed Khan and Hizer Mir take a trip to Muslim Sicily, via a new book edited by Nuha Alshaar. They are also joined for this conversation by Shainool Jiwa, one of the authors whose…

Aliyah Khan on the Muslim Caribbean

Mar 10, 2025 49m

In this episode, Saeed Khan and Chella Ward sat down with Dr Aliyah Khan to discuss Muslimness in the Caribbean, drawing on Aliyah’s book Far From Mecca and ongoing important work in this area. This…

Adnan Husain: A Discussion with Chella Ward and Salman Sayyid

Feb 24, 2025 1h 11m

In this episode, Chella Ward and Salman Sayyid talked to Adnan Husain about some of the challenges involved in reorienting history. We spoke about the opportunities and limitations of the idea of…

Professor Priyamvada Gopal: In Conversation with Chella Ward and Salman Sayyid

Feb 18, 2025 55m

In this episode Chella Ward and Salman Sayyid talked to Professor Priyamvada Gopal, Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge. We talked about her important work on…

Pakistan's Political Crisis

Dec 20, 2024 1h 3m

This podcast features Ammar Rashid, a leading figure in leftwing politics in Pakistan, and currently Director of the action-research organization Alliance for Urban Rights, and Research Lead at the…

Islamophobia, France and Muslim Political Subjectivity

Nov 08, 2024 1h 3m

Islamophobia Awareness Month Special EpisodeIn this interview, recorded for Islamophobia Awareness Month, Hizer Mir and Chella Ward talk to Kawtar Najib and Rayan Freschi about Islamophobia in…

Radio Reorient Season 11: A Wrap Up and Round Up

Aug 29, 2024 37m

In this final episode of Season 11, the Radio ReOrient team - Hizer Mir, Claudia Radiven, Saeed Khan, Chella Ward and Salman Sayyid - look back over our discussions this season. We put these into the…

Literatures Beyond the West: A Conversation with Ian Almond

Aug 22, 2024 1h 15m

In this episode Salman Sayyid talks to Ian Almond about his work in world literature, including his 2021 book World Literature Decentered which looks at literature beyond the idea of the West. Ian is…

Decoloniality Revisited: A Conversation with Salman Sayyid

Aug 15, 2024 35m

This episode is the third one this series where we look back over the first principles of the ReOrient project. In previous episodes we have discussed post-orientalism and post-positivism, here we…

Muslimness in China: A Conversation with Haiyun Ma

Aug 08, 2024 58m

In this episode Salman Sayyid talks to Haiyun Ma about Muslimness in China. This is the second episode in this series which addresses this topic: in a previous episode we spoke to Darren Byler about…

S5 Forgotten Ummah: Muslim Chinese and Imperial Japan

Aug 05, 2024 38m

In the first episode of this new series, Salman Sayyid and Haroon Bashir talk with Kelly Hammond about her new book. Her book explores how the geopolitical rivalries between China and Japan created…

Terror Capitalism, Dispossession and Masculinity in China: A Conversation with Darren Byler

Aug 01, 2024 56m

This episode is the first of two episodes this season on Muslims in China. Here Claudia Radiven and Chella Ward talk to Darren Byler about his book Terror Capitalism:Dispossession and Masculinity in…

S11E7 Migration, Activism and Political Solidarity: A conversation with A.M. Dassau

Jul 26, 2024 54m

Persevering with our literary theme this season, in this episode Claudia Radiven and Chella Ward chat to A. M. Dassu about her books for young readers. Az is a children’s author of fiction and…

S11E6 Orientalism in Representations of Muslims

Jul 18, 2024 1h 9m

In this episode of Radio ReOrient, we return to the literary theme of this season, to explore the work of Laury Silvers. Laury is the author of many successful book series set in the past and present…

S11E5 Muslims in the Manosphere: A Discussion with Shareef Muhammad

Jul 12, 2024 1h 14m

In this episode Hizer Mir and his co-author Sahar Ghumkhor talk to Shareef Muhammad about the phenomenon of Muslims in the Manosphere. Shareef is a scholar of history based in Atlanta, Georgia, who…

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