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UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq Carim
UNAPOLOGETIC is a show that unapologetically looks at the life, times and views of some unapologetic and not so unapologetic humans. Hosted by Ashfaaq Carim
Episodes
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 94 - Israeli elections: Netanyahu set to win. Will he now bomb Iran? | David Hearst
On this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we sat down with Middle East Eye editor-in-chief David Hearst the day after Israel’s elections, with Netanyahu’s bloc on…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 93 - How corporates and politicians profit from war | Andrew Feinstein
We sat down with Andrew Feinstein, former ANC MP, arms trade investigator and author of The Shadow World, on @MEEunapologetic to talk about his new book…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 92 - Francesca Albanese on Macklemore, Miliband and the road to beating Apartheid in Israel |UNAPOLOGETIC
Francesca Albanese spoke to UNAPOLOGETIC on the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, UK sanctions on West Bank settlements, the changing discourse on Israel, and…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 91 - How the West has used history to wage 'civilising missions' | Josephine Quinn | UNAPOLOGETIC
Josephine Quinn is Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge, the first woman ever to hold the position, and the author of How the World Made the West: A…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 90 - How colonialism redefined "Islam" and how Muslims are moving beyond it | Faisal Devji | UNAPOLOGETIC
In the latest episode of UNAPOLOGETIC we sat down with Faisal Devji in Oxford. Devji is a widely acclaimed scholar of both South Asian history and the history…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 89 - The story of how a Greater India was shattered into 12 modern states | Sam Dalrymple | UNAPOLOGETIC
"The story that I tell in the book is how this one Indian Empire passport became, by the 1970s, twelve independent passports." - Sam Dalrymple "The story that…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 88 - Do Greeks have more in common with Arabs and Turks than Europeans | Sean Mathews | UNAPOLOGETIC
We sat down with Middle East Eye journalist and author Sean Mathews on UNAPOLOGETIC to ask a question that unsettles a lot of assumptions: do Greeks actually…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 87 - How the US backed Khomeini, then armed Saddam | Scott Horton | UNAPOLOGETIC
The US backed Khomeini's return to power, then a year later greenlit Saddam Hussein's invasion of Iran, the same country it had just warned Saddam might…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 86 - How the US blunder in Iran accelerates its decline and dooms Israel | Andreas Krieg | UNAPOLOGETIC
We sat down with Andreas Krieg for the fourth time on UNAPOLOGETIC, this time in the aftermath of the war on Iran, to ask what it has done to the balance of…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 85 - Israel's dream of ruling the region is over, its decline has begun | Mustafa Barghouti |UNAPOLOGETIC
"Now Netanyahu has failed. Iran was not broken. Arab countries now realise that relying on Israel is a death sentence." In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we sat…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 84 - Why reaching a ceasefire was essential - Iran, Hormuz and US decline | Laleh Khalili | UNAPOLOGETIC
Laleh Khalili is a professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter and the author of Sinews of War and Trade and Extractive Capitalism. She is also…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 83 - Cenk Uygur on being banned by the UK and how it shows that the West has fallen | UNAPOLOGETIC
Cenk Uygur, founder of The Young Turks, was banned from entering the UK hours before this conversation - blocked by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood for…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 82 - How the establishment made the far right respectable | Daniel Trilling | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we sit down with Daniel Trilling - journalist and author of If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 81 - Is Elon Musk a white nationalist? We asked his father | Errol Musk | UNAPOLOGETIC
UNAPOLOGETIC spoke to Errol Musk, father of Elon Musk, and the result is a conversation is an interesting foray into where ideology is formed and where it is…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 80 - How Israel's Genocide Is Turning Jews Against Zionism | Simone Zimmerman | UNAPOLOGETIC
"Palestinians are just the canvas upon which the Jewish psychodrama takes place." Simone Zimmerman, co-founder of IfNotNow and subject of the documentary…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 79 - How US-Israeli aggression may unite Iran, Turkey & the Arab World | Hassan Ahmadian | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of Unapologetic, Hassan Ahmadian, political scientist at the University of Tehran, argues that US-Israeli aggression may inadvertently bring…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 78 - When China rules the world | Martin Jacques | UNAPOLOGETIC
"If you go to China, you'll never ever see the world in the same way again. Never." In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, Martin Jacques, author of the million-copy…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 77 - The ‘Ayatollah’ opposing US imperialism and Iran’s Islamic ‘regime’ | Mohsen Kadivar | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak to Mohsen Kadivar - Iranian scholar, Shia mujtahid, dissident cleric, and former political prisoner - about the…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 76 - Norman Finkelstein thinks Trump is too humiliated to attack Iran again | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, Norman Finkelstein unpacks the aftermath of the US–Iran war, beginning with the ceasefire and what it actually reveals about…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 75 - Al-Aqsa Mosque, Israel's ultra-right, the Temple Mount and Global War | Abdallah Marouf
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, historian Abdallah Marouf connects the dots between the closure of Al-Aqsa, Israel’s ultra-right, Pete Hegseth, the…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 74 - Israel, USA, Iran, Arab States & China - How will war reshape power? | Mamoun Fandy | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, Mamoun Fandy, former professor of politics at Georgetown University and current head of the Global Strategy Institute in…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 73 - Not just Iran, ' Israel would kill millions of people' | Rabbi Elhanan Beck | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, Rabbi Elhanan Beck delivers one of the most striking critiques of Zionism and the current Israeli-US wars in Gaza, Lebanon…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 72 - The Modern History of Iran | Roy Casagranda | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, Dr. Roy Casagranda unpacks 125 years of Iranian history - from the 1901 oil concession and the fall of the Qajar dynasty, to…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 71 - Israel’s drawing us into an all-out war, and nobody is stopping them | Neil Quilliam | UNAPOLOGETIC
Neil Quilliam, who is a political analyst at Chatham House, joined the UNAPOLOGETIC podcast to discuss how Israel is plunging the USA, the GCC and Iran into an…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 70 - Iran is playing chess, Trump doesn't know where the board is | David Hearst | UNAPOLOGETIC
David Hearst, editor in chief of Middle East Eye, appeared on the UNAPOLOGETIC podcast to discuss how Donald Trump may be losing control of the war he started…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 69 - Iran will ‘fight to the death’ and the USA does not get that | Foad Izadi | UNAPOLOGETIC
Foad Izadi is a professor of communication at Tehran University. He has been making the rounds across broadcasters recently where he generally conveys the…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 68 - How long will the war on Iran last and who will win it | Trita Parsi | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak to foreign policy analyst Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute about how long the US-Israel war on Iran will likely…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 67 - Israel, The US, the Ayatallohs and the Pahlavis are all bad for Iran | Hoda Katebi | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak to writer and activist Hoda Katebi about the war involving Iran, the United States and Israel, and the complex…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 66: Will Iran’s ‘reckless’ response bring about its own downfall? | ANDREAS KRIEG | UNAPOLOGETIC
Gulf security expert Andreas Krieg, a senior lecturer at King’s College London, joined the UNAPOLOGETIC podcast to discuss Iran’s response to the US-Israel war…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 65: Trump’s Iran games. The state of US empire. China's rise | Tariq Ali | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak to writer, historian, and lifelong anti-imperialist Tariq Ali about the state of the US empire in an increasingly…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 64 - Retired UK major general on Israel, duplicity and past wars | Charlie Herbert | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, retired UK major general Charlie Herbert reflects on 34 years of military service, including Iraq and Afghanistan, and…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 63 - What does the Saudi-Emirati cold war mean for Israel, Trump and Iran? | Andreas Krieg |
Andreas Krieg - a leading Gulf security expert - joined the UNAPOLOGETIC episode once again. This time, Andreas tried to unpack for us just how impactful the…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 62 - Inside Israel’s detention of the Gaza flotilla activists | Thiago Avila | UNAPOLOGETIC
Brazilian activist and one of the organisers of the Global Sumud Flotilla Thiago Avila joins UNAPOLOGETIC. He recounts his detention by Israeli forces after…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 61 - The story of Omar Suleiman and why his faith compels him to speak out | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this conversation with UNAPOLOGETIC, Imam Omar Suleiman reflects on two decades of global politics, the Palestinian struggle, Islamophobia in America, and…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 60 - Ottoman exiles, a billionaire and the plot for an Indian caliphate | Imran Mulla | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak with journalist and historian Imran Mulla about his gripping new book The Indian Caliphate: Exiled Ottomans and the…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 59 - Israel commits genocide while demanding its neighbours demilitarise | Jeremy Scahill | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this UNAPOLOGETIC episode from the Doha Forum, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill examines how Israel has carried out a campaign that many experts…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 58 - For how long will Syria be able to allow Israel to continue bombing it? | Omar Ashour | UNAPOLOGETIC
Recorded at the Doha Forum, this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC is in conversation with political scientist Dr. Omar Ashour examines the shifting landscape of the…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 57 - The story of the Muslim Brotherhood and why they can’t be banned | Anas Altikriti | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, political strategist and CEO and founder of the Cordoba Foundation, Anas Altikriti speaks to us about the history of the…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 56 - Why South Africa is taking on Trump and Israel | Ebrahim Rasool | UNAPOLOGETIC
Former South African ambassador to the United States Ebrahim Rasool sits down with Ashfaaq Carim for an unflinching conversation on power, punishment, and…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 55 - Not just Sudan - How the UAE have wrecked Libya, Yemen and Egypt | Andreas Krieg | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak to Dr Andreas Krieg — a leading Gulf security expert — about how the UAE has pursued an aggressive statecraft…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 54 - I got detained by ICE and learnt that America is turning against Israel | Sami Hamdi | UNAPOLOGETIC
British journalist and commentator Sami Hamdi was detained by ICE for 18 days. He recounts here on UNAPOLOGETIC how he was arrested after being informed that…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 53 - Being Jewish in a time of Israel - resist or be usurped | David Adler | UNAPOLOGETIC
David Adler - a Jewish American writer, activist, and organiser - joins UNAPOLOGETIC where he reflects on what it means to be Jewish in the age of Israel’s…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 52 - What does Zohran Mamdani's victory mean for the USA | Dr. Roy Casagranda | UNAPOLOGETIC
Unapologetic’s host Ashfaaq Carim speaks to Dr Roy Casagranda about what Zohran Mamdani's election victory means for the USA and it's political future
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 51 - Will Trump's ceasefire deal survive Netanyahu's scheming? |Gershon Baskin | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, peace negotiator Gershon Baskin takes us inside the Trump-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas — from backchannel talks…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 50 - How to stop a right-wing takeover of the UK | Zack Polanski | UNAPOLOGETIC
Green Party leader Zack Polanski joins UNAPOLOGETIC to talk about his plans to stop the right wing’s rise in the UK. Just weeks after being elected leader —…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 49 - October 7th, Two years on : “Genocide is the means, not the ends” | Norman Finkelstein | UNAPOLOGETIC
Political scientist and historian Norman Finkelstein joins this special edition of UNAPOLOGETIC that marks two years since the October 7 Hamas-led attack and…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 48 - Three decades on the frontlines of battling abusive governments | Kenneth Roth | UNAPOLOGETIC
Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch, joins UNAPOLOGETIC to discuss his new book Righting Wrongs. Part memoir, part strategy guide…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 47 - Netanyahu’s gamble: Build greater Israel or make it a doomed pariah | David Hearst | UNAPOLOGETIC
“An Israel for all its citizens has disappeared, it has literally been extinguished, and it's a myth that Israel is a nice friendly state” David Hearst…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 46 - Israel’s bombing of Qatar explained | Muhammad Shehada | UNAPOLOGETIC
Palestinian writer and analyst, Muhammad Shehada joins UNAPOLOGETIC in this special episode to explain how Israel's bombing of senior Hamas leaders in Qatar…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 45 - How Al Jazeera covers Gaza even when Israel kills their reporters | Salah Negm | UNAPOLOGETIC
"You have to think about people who are sitting in war rooms and plan the next bombing on civilians populations who are actually in tents in one place that…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 44 - Siege to Genocide: Gaza’s history from 2005–2025 | Muhammad Shahada | UNAPOLOGETIC
Muhammad Shahada grew up in Gaza during two decades of blockade and repeated wars. His father died after being denied medical treatment outside the Strip — one…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 43 - The lies and culture that made Israeli society support genocide | Orly Noy (B'Tselem) | UNAPOLOGETIC
Orly Noy is the chairperson of B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organisation that has been documenting Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians since 1989. I…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 42 - Political Islam’s 120-year story - from anti-colonial struggle to now | John Esposito | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC Professor John Esposito — one of the world’s foremost scholars on political Islam — unpacks 120 years of modern Islamic…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 41 - The Shah, the Ayatollahs and 74 years of American bullshit in Iran | Hamid Dabashi | UNAPOLOGETIC
“Every inch of that precious city is Rome and Paris and New York put together, and these barbaric savages go, ‘Oh Isfahan, we just bombed Isfahan’; they don’t…
UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq CarimEpisode 40 - Iran, Israel, USA and World War 3 | Chris Hedges | UNAPOLOGETIC |
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins us on UNAPOLOGETIC for a conversation on what the consequences could be if Israel draws the USA into a…
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Episode 39 - “This nightmare” was created due to Europe’s antisemitism | Ghada Karmi | UNAPOLOGETIC
“It’s left me with a deep and simmering anger against the western powers who imposed this nightmare on us.” Palestinian physician, author and Nakba survivor…
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Episode 38 - What I’ve learnt by organising 20 months of anti-genocide protests| Ben Jamal | UNAPOLOGETIC
Ben Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, joins UNAPOLOGETIC for a wide-ranging conversation about who has been complicit for the genocide in…
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Episode 37 - Why the Crusades occurred and what is their legacy | Roy Casagranda | UNAPOLOGETIC
What were the Crusades really about - and why do they still matter today? In this deep-dive episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, historian and political scientist…
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Episode 36 - Is China ready to lead the world? | Victor Goa | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, Chinese political analyst Victor Gao joins UNAPOLOGETIC for a wide-ranging and often conflictual discussion about China's…
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Episode 35 - The West Is collapsing under its own lies | Yanis Varoufakis | UNAPOLOGETIC
“A mixture of stupidity and nastiness… The liberal establishment is primarily responsible for the genocide of the Palestinians.” In this episode of…