Tim Anderson: Inside the Fall of Damascus and What It Means for the Axis of Resistance
Barely a week after Bashar al-Assad’s government collapsed, Kianistan Podcast turned to one of its most trusted voices on Syria, Tim Anderson, for an urgent, on-the-ground assessment of what had
Professor Mark Juergensmeyer on Syria’s Collapse and the Global Rise of Authoritarian Nationalism
Professor Mark Juergensmeyer has spent a career studying religion, nationalism and political violence across South Asia and beyond, from years of fieldwork in India to decades on the faculty at
Professor John Esposito on a Lifetime Studying Islam and the Roots of Western Islamophobia
Few scholars have shaped Western understanding of Islam over the past four decades as profoundly as Professor John Esposito. The founding director of Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and
Eric Margolis: Inside the Fall of Assad and the New Battle for Syria
When veteran geopolitical columnist Eric Margolis returned to the Kianistan Podcast, the timing could not have been more dramatic. Within a matter of weeks, the Assad government in Syria had
Nuclear Brinkmanship and a Dying Empire: Colonel Larry Wilkerson’s Unfiltered Warning
Few voices carry the institutional credibility of Colonel Larry Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, when it comes to dissecting the machinery of American power.
The Slave of the Moment: Sheikh Ibrahim on Living Sufism Beyond the Textbook
Sheikh Ibrahim returns to the Kianistan Podcast, this time to explore the inner dimension of Islam that first shaped his own spiritual formation decades before his better-known work in business
Is Living to 1,000 Realistic? Dr Aubrey de Grey on the Science of Ending Aging
Aging is so universally accepted as inevitable that most people never stop to ask whether it needs to be. In this episode of the Kianistan Podcast, biomedical gerontologist Dr Aubrey
Are Sufis Grave Worshippers? Shaykh Ninowy Answers Islam’s Toughest Questions
Few debates within contemporary Sunni Islam generate as much heat as the disagreement between Salafi and Sufi orientations. In this episode of the Kianistan Podcast, Shaykh Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Ninowy,
The Hidden History of Islam in America: Dr Patrick Bowen on Conversion and Community
Most people assume Islam arrived in the United States relatively recently, carried by post-1965 immigration waves. In this episode of the Kianistan Podcast, independent scholar Dr Patrick Bowen overturns that
Zionism, Nationalism, and the State Eating the Religion: Professor Khalid Blankinship Explains
Few academics can speak with as much authority on both classical Islamic history and the modern politics of religion and nationalism as Professor Khalid Blankinship. A convert to Islam since