Part twenty-four of the Us and Them series. Shahid Bolsen examines why alliance with the West is impossible — not because of any particular position it holds, but because of how those positions are arrived at, and how quickly they are abandoned. Why certain…

Part twenty-five of the Us and Them series. Shahid Bolsen compares a banned 1943 cartoon with what the entertainment industry sells today, and asks why one is remembered as an atrocity while the other is defended as culture. Who financed the change, who owns…

Part twenty-six of the Us and Them series, and the final section of this talk. Shahid Bolsen turns from analysis to warning. What happens when the faculty you never used is switched on at the one moment it can no longer help you. Why the people who reach…

This talk includes all three parts of the latest instalment Middle Nation’s Us and Them series

Shahid Bolsen argues that most people never actually hear what they read, watch or listen to. What they hear is the noise already planted in their own heads. In this talk he explains how news coverage, op-eds, comments sections and even ordinary conversations…

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In August 2024, Shahid Bolsen sat down for a comprehensive interview on the situation in Gaza, Palestine, Zionism, and the region, for an independent production. Ultimately, his remarks were not included in the final cut. Middle Nation presents that interview…

A familiar charge against Islam rests on a single hadith about women, almost always quoted halfway. Shahid Bolsen takes the accusation head-on, then turns it on the people making it. Using the recent Cornell University case as a lens, he asks who actually…

Shahid Bolsen responds to a clip of two British Muslims making the case that Islam and Britishness are compatible — invoking the Empire, Dubai, and the headscarves of Edwardian Manchester. He leaves the speakers themselves alone and takes up the terms they…