Hello, Rev Left listeners. This is Adnan Hussein. You know me as a guest on Revolutionary Left Radio a couple of times, speaking with bread about Sufism, Muslim mysticism, and spirituality, as well as a wonderful episode on St. Francis of Assisi. And also as co-host of Gorilla History, where Henry and I were pleased to work with Brett

for a couple of years.

I really want to thank Brett for letting me say a few words here and share an episode from my new

show.

I've started a show.

What you're about to hear is a discussion

that I had with Peter Beattie and Karim Bettash from Betbeat Media about geopolitics, China,

Islamophobia, a whole bunch of issues. It was a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation.

That is the kind of thing I'm doing

on this new show, on this new channel, the Adnan Hussein show, on YouTube, although you'll also

be able to listen to it on audio feed as a podcast on the usual platforms. But it's an extension

of the work I used to be doing on the Mudgellis podcast about the Middle East Islamic world, Muslim diasporic culture. But I wanted to go independent to avoid entanglements and suppression from being associated with the university environment and atmosphere. and also to expand the range of the show,

to do more about not only politics, but wider discussions of aspects of history and culture,

left thought from the global south, but also religion and spirituality, and to develop something

that I would call Muslim liberation theology, the intersections between spirituality and the left,

particularly through the lens of the Muslim tradition. But as a comparative religion scholar, director of the School of Religion, I also want to talk about

Jewish, Christian, Muslim interactions, which is part of my own teaching and research.

And so I just want to invite you to the channel and thank Brett so much for giving me the opportunity to tell you about the new show. It's, as I said, on YouTube, you can find it at Adnan A. Hussein 786. And you can, of course, look in the description for the episode and find all this information there.

I think you're going to enjoy it. A lot of great guests, a lot of interesting discussions,

and I hope to do on YouTube quite a number of live streams. So we can maximize some aspects of

audience interaction.

That's what I like, the dialogue and the discussion.

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