Riad Alarian
@alarian.muftah.org
editor @muftah.org, host @proteanview.muftah.org
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William Barylo recently sat down with us to talk about neoliberalism, its effects on Muslims in the West, his experience being homeless as a graduate student, the folly of the "hijra industry," and more.
This is our 12th and final episode of 2025. See you for more in 2026 ✌️
This is our 12th and final episode of 2025. See you for more in 2026 ✌️
The Burdens of Neoliberalism with William Barylo
Episode 12 of the Protean View podcast
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November 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
William Barylo recently sat down with us to talk about neoliberalism, its effects on Muslims in the West, his experience being homeless as a graduate student, the folly of the "hijra industry," and more.
This is our 12th and final episode of 2025. See you for more in 2026 ✌️
This is our 12th and final episode of 2025. See you for more in 2026 ✌️
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Pleased to share Episode 12 of the Protean View podcast: The Burdens of Neoliberalism, in which @alarian.muftah.org and I speak with sociologist William Barylo. Other URLs in the replies.
www.muftah.org/the-burdens-...
www.muftah.org/the-burdens-...
The Burdens of Neoliberalism with William Barylo
Episode 12 of the Protean View podcast
www.muftah.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Pleased to share Episode 12 of the Protean View podcast: The Burdens of Neoliberalism, in which @alarian.muftah.org and I speak with sociologist William Barylo. Other URLs in the replies.
www.muftah.org/the-burdens-...
www.muftah.org/the-burdens-...
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Two podcast episodes in a single month!
Pleased to share Episode 11 of @proteanview.muftah.org: Dilemmas of Authenticity, in which @alarian.muftah.org and I speak with Zaid Adhami.
URLs in replies.
Pleased to share Episode 11 of @proteanview.muftah.org: Dilemmas of Authenticity, in which @alarian.muftah.org and I speak with Zaid Adhami.
URLs in replies.
October 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Two podcast episodes in a single month!
Pleased to share Episode 11 of @proteanview.muftah.org: Dilemmas of Authenticity, in which @alarian.muftah.org and I speak with Zaid Adhami.
URLs in replies.
Pleased to share Episode 11 of @proteanview.muftah.org: Dilemmas of Authenticity, in which @alarian.muftah.org and I speak with Zaid Adhami.
URLs in replies.
This incredibly moving and haunting account of the Gaza genocide by a 19-year-old survivor in @thenation.com is a must-read. He was just 17 when the genocide started.
"We will remember the martyrs—those who died teaching, reporting, healing, mothering, surviving. We will carry their memory like fire in our hearts. And we will begin again." Read Ali Skaik, a 19-year-old from Gaza, on the ceasefire that will hopefully bring an end to genocide.
We Are Genocide Survivors. But Our War Is Far From Over.
We in Gaza will remember the martyrs--those who died teaching, reporting, healing, mothering, surviving. We will carry their memory like fire in our hearts. And we will begin again.
www.thenation.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM
This incredibly moving and haunting account of the Gaza genocide by a 19-year-old survivor in @thenation.com is a must-read. He was just 17 when the genocide started.
It’s been less than a year since Bashar al-Assad was deposed, and much is still in flux, but I think the arguments @mesbushra.muftah.org and I made in June about Syria’s present condition and possible future continue to hold 👇
Is the New Syrian State Revolutionary?
Post-Assad Syria was, in theory, a blank canvas for revolutionary transformation—in reality, its leaders inherited conditions that narrowed the horizon of possibility before the first stroke was made.
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October 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It’s been less than a year since Bashar al-Assad was deposed, and much is still in flux, but I think the arguments @mesbushra.muftah.org and I made in June about Syria’s present condition and possible future continue to hold 👇
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Very pleased to announce the latest from @proteanview.muftah.org
Episode 10: On the Politics of Analytic Philosophy, in which @alarian.muftah.org and I speak with @schuringa.bsky.social.
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube URLs in replies.
www.muftah.org/the-politics...
Episode 10: On the Politics of Analytic Philosophy, in which @alarian.muftah.org and I speak with @schuringa.bsky.social.
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube URLs in replies.
www.muftah.org/the-politics...
The Politics of Analytic Philosophy with Christoph Schuringa
Episode 10 of the Protean View podcast
www.muftah.org
October 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Very pleased to announce the latest from @proteanview.muftah.org
Episode 10: On the Politics of Analytic Philosophy, in which @alarian.muftah.org and I speak with @schuringa.bsky.social.
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube URLs in replies.
www.muftah.org/the-politics...
Episode 10: On the Politics of Analytic Philosophy, in which @alarian.muftah.org and I speak with @schuringa.bsky.social.
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube URLs in replies.
www.muftah.org/the-politics...
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The release of our latest episode today marks a modest milestone for Protean View––our tenth episode! Keeping the show running at a consistent pace is a challenge, but we're excited for what's ahead. We hope you're enjoying our content. Thank you for your support ✌️
October 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The release of our latest episode today marks a modest milestone for Protean View––our tenth episode! Keeping the show running at a consistent pace is a challenge, but we're excited for what's ahead. We hope you're enjoying our content. Thank you for your support ✌️
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Don’t miss this—the recent response of philosophy departments to the Gaza genocide is also discussed.
Other topics include Rawls’ early religious & political influences, the meaning of the analytic-continental divide, & how philosophy has historically reinforced the status quo.
Other topics include Rawls’ early religious & political influences, the meaning of the analytic-continental divide, & how philosophy has historically reinforced the status quo.
We have a new episode out with @schuringa.bsky.social on the politics of analytic philosophy. Want to know how and why analytic philosophy framed itself as apolitical even as it was bankrolled by the CIA and the RAND corporation? Listen to our conversation, out now wherever you podcast.
The Politics of Analytic Philosophy with Christoph Schuringa
Episode 10 of the Protean View podcast
www.muftah.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Don’t miss this—the recent response of philosophy departments to the Gaza genocide is also discussed.
Other topics include Rawls’ early religious & political influences, the meaning of the analytic-continental divide, & how philosophy has historically reinforced the status quo.
Other topics include Rawls’ early religious & political influences, the meaning of the analytic-continental divide, & how philosophy has historically reinforced the status quo.
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We have a new episode out with @schuringa.bsky.social on the politics of analytic philosophy. Want to know how and why analytic philosophy framed itself as apolitical even as it was bankrolled by the CIA and the RAND corporation? Listen to our conversation, out now wherever you podcast.
The Politics of Analytic Philosophy with Christoph Schuringa
Episode 10 of the Protean View podcast
www.muftah.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We have a new episode out with @schuringa.bsky.social on the politics of analytic philosophy. Want to know how and why analytic philosophy framed itself as apolitical even as it was bankrolled by the CIA and the RAND corporation? Listen to our conversation, out now wherever you podcast.
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Muftah Magazine’s new issue is out.
We explore the theme of ‘authenticity,’ with essays on revolution and the state, capitalism and self, activism, democracy, and more.
Articles are being released weekly, and the first two are available now.
We explore the theme of ‘authenticity,’ with essays on revolution and the state, capitalism and self, activism, democracy, and more.
Articles are being released weekly, and the first two are available now.
Issue 3: Authenticity
What does it mean to be authentic in our politics, within systems of power, and in acts of resistance? How is “authenticity” claimed, challenged, or co-opted?
www.muftah.org
July 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Muftah Magazine’s new issue is out.
We explore the theme of ‘authenticity,’ with essays on revolution and the state, capitalism and self, activism, democracy, and more.
Articles are being released weekly, and the first two are available now.
We explore the theme of ‘authenticity,’ with essays on revolution and the state, capitalism and self, activism, democracy, and more.
Articles are being released weekly, and the first two are available now.
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Is the new Syrian state revolutionary?
In Muftah Magazine's new issue, @alarian.muftah.org &
@mesbushra.muftah.org argue that while post-Assad Syria seemed, in theory, a blank canvas for revolutionary change, its inherited conditions narrowed the horizon of possibility.
In Muftah Magazine's new issue, @alarian.muftah.org &
@mesbushra.muftah.org argue that while post-Assad Syria seemed, in theory, a blank canvas for revolutionary change, its inherited conditions narrowed the horizon of possibility.
Is the New Syrian State Revolutionary?
Post-Assad Syria was, in theory, a blank canvas for revolutionary transformation—in reality, its leaders inherited conditions that narrowed the horizon of possibility before the first stroke was made.
www.muftah.org
July 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Is the new Syrian state revolutionary?
In Muftah Magazine's new issue, @alarian.muftah.org &
@mesbushra.muftah.org argue that while post-Assad Syria seemed, in theory, a blank canvas for revolutionary change, its inherited conditions narrowed the horizon of possibility.
In Muftah Magazine's new issue, @alarian.muftah.org &
@mesbushra.muftah.org argue that while post-Assad Syria seemed, in theory, a blank canvas for revolutionary change, its inherited conditions narrowed the horizon of possibility.
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For Muftah Magazine's latest issue, Zaid Adhami asks: What does it mean to hold commitments 'in the gray'?
Though our culture often extols the critical virtues of 'being skeptical,' with Gaza, it can often be an excuse to waver and mask moral evasion.
Though our culture often extols the critical virtues of 'being skeptical,' with Gaza, it can often be an excuse to waver and mask moral evasion.
Commitment in the Gray
Many praise doubt as a critical virtue—but what happens when skepticism becomes an excuse to waver in the face of injustice? As Gaza burns, intellectual ambivalence becomes a mask for moral evasion.
www.muftah.org
July 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM
For Muftah Magazine's latest issue, Zaid Adhami asks: What does it mean to hold commitments 'in the gray'?
Though our culture often extols the critical virtues of 'being skeptical,' with Gaza, it can often be an excuse to waver and mask moral evasion.
Though our culture often extols the critical virtues of 'being skeptical,' with Gaza, it can often be an excuse to waver and mask moral evasion.
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Religion and the American Border with @bethhurd.bsky.social F'19 on @proteanview.muftah.org podcast: www.muftah.org/p/religion-a...
Religion and the American Border with Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Episode 9 of the Protean View podcast
www.muftah.org
June 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Religion and the American Border with @bethhurd.bsky.social F'19 on @proteanview.muftah.org podcast: www.muftah.org/p/religion-a...
Really enjoyed this conversation, don't miss it
Our conversation with @bethhurd.bsky.social is out now wherever you podcast. We discuss the American border, its religious meanings, and 'AmericaIsrael' as a single entity.
Check out her new book: Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States.
muftah.org/p/religion-a...
Check out her new book: Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States.
muftah.org/p/religion-a...
Religion and the American Border with Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Episode 9 of the Protean View podcast
muftah.org
June 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Really enjoyed this conversation, don't miss it
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Some of you might get a kick out of this short research note I wrote for Harvard’s CSWR: “The Body is Never Just Flesh.” about rival medical epistemologies, spectral anatomies, & the contested meaning of dissection in Edo-Meiji Japan. Enjoy! cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/05...
The Body is Never Just Flesh | Center for the Study of World Religions
What actually severed modern clinical practice from older ways of knowing was state power. In 1873, German-trained Nagayo Sensai established the Bureau of Medical Affairs, launching a biopolitical, hy...
cswr.hds.harvard.edu
May 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Some of you might get a kick out of this short research note I wrote for Harvard’s CSWR: “The Body is Never Just Flesh.” about rival medical epistemologies, spectral anatomies, & the contested meaning of dissection in Edo-Meiji Japan. Enjoy! cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/05...
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Had a great time talking with Muftah for their new podcast series. Discussing the role of policing "superstition" and the secular, the history of magic-religion-science, my more recent work on critical history. If that sounds like your kind of thing, give it a listen: www.muftah.org/p/superstiti...
Superstition and the Secular with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm
Episode 8 of the Protean View podcast
www.muftah.org
May 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Had a great time talking with Muftah for their new podcast series. Discussing the role of policing "superstition" and the secular, the history of magic-religion-science, my more recent work on critical history. If that sounds like your kind of thing, give it a listen: www.muftah.org/p/superstiti...
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Don't miss this, with @profstorm.bsky.social!
Very excited to share our latest episode of @proteanview.muftah.org, in which we interview Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm on Superstition and the Secular.
On @muftah.org: www.muftah.org/p/superstiti...
On @muftah.org: www.muftah.org/p/superstiti...
Superstition and the Secular with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm
Episode 8 of the Protean View podcast
www.muftah.org
May 16, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Don't miss this, with @profstorm.bsky.social!
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Pleased to share the latest episode of @proteanview.muftah.org, in which @alarian.muftah.org and I interview Professors Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza on their new book, Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur'an: A Patronage of Piety (OUP, 2024).
On @muftah.org: www.muftah.org/p/women-in-t...
On @muftah.org: www.muftah.org/p/women-in-t...
Women in the Quran with Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza
Episode 7 of the Protean View podcast
www.muftah.org
April 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Pleased to share the latest episode of @proteanview.muftah.org, in which @alarian.muftah.org and I interview Professors Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza on their new book, Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur'an: A Patronage of Piety (OUP, 2024).
On @muftah.org: www.muftah.org/p/women-in-t...
On @muftah.org: www.muftah.org/p/women-in-t...
In our country today, we have to endure the circulation of genocidal statements like this as we simultaneously watch college students get caged—indefinitely and without charge—for opposing genocide.
April 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM
In our country today, we have to endure the circulation of genocidal statements like this as we simultaneously watch college students get caged—indefinitely and without charge—for opposing genocide.
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If you haven't explored @proteanview.muftah.org yet, what are you waiting for?
We have six great episodes out (on our website and wherever you podcast) featuring Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Salman Sayyid, Sherman Jackson, Daniel Tutt, Nader Hashemi, and Norman Finkelstein.
Much more soon––follow us!
We have six great episodes out (on our website and wherever you podcast) featuring Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Salman Sayyid, Sherman Jackson, Daniel Tutt, Nader Hashemi, and Norman Finkelstein.
Much more soon––follow us!
April 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
If you haven't explored @proteanview.muftah.org yet, what are you waiting for?
We have six great episodes out (on our website and wherever you podcast) featuring Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Salman Sayyid, Sherman Jackson, Daniel Tutt, Nader Hashemi, and Norman Finkelstein.
Much more soon––follow us!
We have six great episodes out (on our website and wherever you podcast) featuring Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Salman Sayyid, Sherman Jackson, Daniel Tutt, Nader Hashemi, and Norman Finkelstein.
Much more soon––follow us!
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“Nah dude due process is only for Americans/citizens”
April 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“Nah dude due process is only for Americans/citizens”
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Death is the point.
Mahmoud Khalil and the Necropolitics of Trump’s Deportation Regime
The necropolitics of Trump's attack on immigrants like Mahmoud Khalil: Death is the point.
interc.pt
April 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Death is the point.
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In this excellent essay, @profstorm.bsky.social asks: What happens when the grand narratives of modernity and critical insights of postmodern thought discordantly converge?
On the cusp of new unknowns, unfamiliar questions emerge that a familiar world can't answer.
On the cusp of new unknowns, unfamiliar questions emerge that a familiar world can't answer.
Prospects of the Metamodern
What elements of postmodernism should we preserve, and what must we discard? What defines the metamodern—what it is and what it is not—and why does it matter?
www.muftah.org
April 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
In this excellent essay, @profstorm.bsky.social asks: What happens when the grand narratives of modernity and critical insights of postmodern thought discordantly converge?
On the cusp of new unknowns, unfamiliar questions emerge that a familiar world can't answer.
On the cusp of new unknowns, unfamiliar questions emerge that a familiar world can't answer.
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The ruling elite love to proclaim concern for the weak, powerless, and forgotten in our society.
But as Daniel Tutt powerfully and correctly argues here, they perpetuate a cynical winner-loser logic that reverberates in the most destructive ways.
But as Daniel Tutt powerfully and correctly argues here, they perpetuate a cynical winner-loser logic that reverberates in the most destructive ways.
Loser Politics
The market is based on a zero-sum game logic, according to which the world is split between winners and losers. This logic shapes our political culture and points a contradiction of liberalism.
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April 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The ruling elite love to proclaim concern for the weak, powerless, and forgotten in our society.
But as Daniel Tutt powerfully and correctly argues here, they perpetuate a cynical winner-loser logic that reverberates in the most destructive ways.
But as Daniel Tutt powerfully and correctly argues here, they perpetuate a cynical winner-loser logic that reverberates in the most destructive ways.