About this episode

The episode discusses the documentary 'Still Minab' and its implications for Iran's position in anti-imperialist resistance.

The following is an episode from our sister podcast, The Adnan Husain Show: Helyeh Doutaghi from Tehran and Bikrum Gill join me to discuss the haunting and powerful series "Still Minab" and its first two episodes. Helyeh's documentary absorbs the first part of our discussion about narrating and expressing the truth outside of the colonial and imperial framework. Then Adnan and Bikrum reflect on the wider significance of Iran's defiant position against the imperialist world system, revolutionary Shi'i theology and Islam as a vanguard of anti-imperialist resistance, and the fundamental question of sovereignty. We look forward to another episode soon with stable internet to further develop the themes of the scholarly article Helyeh and Bikrum are writing for Middle East Critique on these issues of Iran's place in anti-imperialist resistance history, theory and practice. Follow Helyeh Doutaghi's work for Vocal Politics and on X to get links to "Still Minab": https://x.com/Helyeh_Doutaghi Follow Bikrum Gill on X to keep up with his work: https://x.com/bikrumsinghgill Support the show on Patreon or Substack, if you can (and get early access to episodes as well as full audio of all…

People in this episode

Host: Adnan Husain

Guests: Helyeh Doutaghi, Bikrum Gill

Topics covered

• Iran's sovereignty
• anti-imperialist resistance
• revolutionary Shi'i theology
• colonial frameworks
• documentary analysis

Keywords

• Iran
• anti-imperialism
• documentary
• sovereignty
• Shi'i theology
• Helyeh Doutaghi
• Bikrum Gill

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Vocal Politics, Middle East Critique

Books & works: Still Minab

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