New podcasts will be available through my channel at Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and Audible, Spotify, iHeart, etc.
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15 August 2026: Special podcast for fifth anniversary of the Taliban victory. “How the Taliban Defeated the Pentagon’s ‘Best and Brightest’,” is available through the above podcast channels. The Persian version (چگونه طالبان «بهترین و باهوشترین»های پنتاگون را شکست داد) is below.
1 January 2024, Akbar’s Chamber: Experts Talk Islam, discussion with Prof. Nile Green, UCLA, about “Saintly Infrastructures of Medieval Islam: The Shrine at Torbat-e Jam”
5 March 2023, interview by New Books Network, about the History of Herat
8 July 2022, interview by New Books Network about the Sufi Saint of Jam
7 December 2022, Discussion with Prof. Andrew Newman, British Institute of Persian Studies, about “Economic and Cultural Renaissance at Kartid Herat, 1251 to 1381.”