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The Arab uprisings of 2011 created unexpected opportunities for religious radicals. Although many inside and outside the region initially saw the uprisings as liberal triumphs, illiberal forces have benefited disproportionately. In Tunisia, formally marginalized jihadi-salafi groups appealed for mainstream support, and in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood triumphed in elections. Even in Saudi Arabia, not known for either lively politics or for political entrepreneurship, a surprising array of fo ...
Today’s world order is in unprecedented flux. The United States is navigating a new international system in which cannot dictate global rules. Conflict continues to destabilize the Middle East and attract an outsized share of policy attention around the world and in Washington. Host Thanassis Cambanis interviews activists and analysts about the most pressing issues in international policy. This podcast is produced by The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank that for more than one hun ...
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Middle East Law and Governance (MELG) is a peer-reviewed journal for scholarly analysis on issues pertaining to governance and social, economic, and ideological transformation in the MENA region. On the podcast, we talk to contributors to the journal about their work and current events in the region.
Enemies Within USA explores one of the best-kept secrets of modern politics. Almost no one is aware of the fact that fewer than 20,000 U.S. communists, socialists, Reporters, Social Media, News Papers, Universities, Communication Companies, and extreme progressives are able to influence the politicians and even write the laws that control the lives of over 300 million Americans. Now, these groups are working hand in hand with Islam to destroy our Constitutional Republic throughout our societ ...
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Policing Iraq, Hard Traveling, and Consequences of Internal Displacement (S. 10, Ep. 16)
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Jesse Wozniak of West Virginia University talks about his latest book, Policing Iraq: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Empire in a Developing State, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. The book demonstrates how police are integral to the modern state’s ability to effectively rule and how the failure to recognize this directly contributed to the desta…
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Missions Impossible, Go Local Go Global, and Trying Just Enough (S. 10 Ep. 15)
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John Waterbury of Princeton University talks about his latest book, Missions Impossible: Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. The book seeks to explain the process of policymaking in higher education in the Arab world, a process that is shaped by the region’s politics of autocratic rule. (Star…
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Ahmet Erdi Öztürk on Turkey's cultural, political and religious footprint in the Balkans
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Ahmet Erdi Öztürk on “Religion, Identity and Power: Turkey and the Balkans in the 21st Century" (Edinburgh University Press). Based on extensive fieldwork, the book examines how Turkey's religious nationalist transformation under Erdoğan is reflected in its expanding footprint in the Balkans. Support Turkey Book Talk by becoming a member. Members g…
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Protest Behavior During the Arab Spring, Protest in Jordan, & Arab Uprisings (S. 10, Ep. 14)
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Stephanie Dornschneider of University College Dublin talks about her latest book, Hot Contention, Cool Abstention: Positive Emotions and Protest Behavior During the Arab Spring, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. The book traces how decisions about participating in the Arab Spring were made, using psychology literature on reasoning and politic…
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Violence Pendulum, Tunisia's Ennahda Movement, Strong Quotas/Weak Parties in Tunisia (S. 10, Ep. 13)
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Emy Matesan of Wesleyan University talks about her latest book, The Violence Pendulum: Tactical Change in Islamist Groups in Egypt and Indonesia, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. In the book, she argues that Islamist groups alter their tactics in response to the perceived need for activism, shifts in the cost of violent versus nonviolent res…
Tensions between Egypt and Turkey have run high for nearly a decade. Turkey has hosted Egyptian dissidents and opposition parties since the Egyptian coup in 2013; and the two countries support opposite sides in the Libyan War and have very nearly come into direct military conflict. Both are major U.S. partners, at least on paper: Turkey is a formal…
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Jenny White on the deep scars of political violence in Turkey's 1970s
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Jenny White, professor at Stockholm University's Institute for Turkish Studies, on "Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence" (Princeton University Press). The graphic novel, illustrated by Ergün Gündüz, tells the story of young protagonists caught up in the social turbulence leading to Turkey's 1980 coup. Support Turkey Book Tal…
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Decolonizing Palestine, Empire's Opposition, & Beginnings, Continuities, Revivals (S. 10, Ep. 12)
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Somdeep Sen of Roskilde University talks about his latest book, Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. The book considers the case of the Palestinian struggle for liberation from its settler colonial condition as a complex psychological and empirical mix of the colonial a…
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Surviving War in Syria, Arab Spring at 10, Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab World (S. 10, Ep. 11)
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Justin Schon of the University of Virginia talks about his latest book, Surviving the War in Syria: Survival Strategies in a Time of Conflict, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. In the book, he emphasizes that civilian behavior in conflict zones includes repertoires of survival strategies, instead of migration alone; he utilizes a microanalysi…
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Jeremy Seal on Adnan Menderes and the long shadow of Turkey's 1960 coup
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Jeremy Seal on “A Coup in Turkey: A Tale of Democracy, Despotism and Vengeance in a Divided Land” (Penguin). The book explores the legacy of Adnan Menderes, who became the Republic of Turkey's first democratically elected prime minister in 1950 before being overthrown in a military coup in May 1960. Support Turkey Book Talk by becoming a member. Me…
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Political Repression in Bahrain, Sharing Saddles, and Old Wine in a New Bottle (S. 10, Ep. 10)
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Marc Owen Jones of Hamad bin Khalifa University talks about his latest book, Political Repression in Bahrain, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. The book explores Bahrain's modern history through the lens of repression, and spans the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, looking at all forms of political repression from legal, statecraft, poli…
Soon after taking office, President Biden announced that the United States would stop contributing offensive weapons to the war in Yemen. “This war has to end,” the president said. But the complex conflict in Yemen appears, to the contrary, to be heading for a new round of intense fighting, this time around the city of Marib. On this episode of Ord…
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Violence & Restraint, Humanitarian Challenges, & Negotiating Identity (S. 10, Ep. 9)
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Devorah Manekin of Hebrew University of Jerusalem talks about her latest book, Regular Soldiers, Irregular War: Violence and Restraint in the Second Intifada, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. The book presents a theoretical framework for understanding the various forms of behavior in which soldiers engage during counterinsurgency campaigns—c…
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Rethinking American Assumptions about the Middle East
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On this episode of Order from Ashes, we talk with Dahlia Dassa Kaye, the lead author of a new RAND Corporation study that advocates a major overhaul of U.S. strategy in the Middle East. Washington can and should jettison legacy arrangements that no longer make sense. Multi-billion dollar military assistance deals with Israel, Egypt, and Jordan were…
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Taner Doğan on ideology and charisma in Erdoğan's communication strategy
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Taner Doğan on “Communication Strategies in Turkey: Erdogan, the AKP and Political Messaging” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). Support Turkey Book Talk by becoming a member. Members get a 30% discount on all Turkey/Ottoman History books published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, English and Turkish transcripts of every interview, transcripts of the whole archive, a…
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Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, Women in Legislative Committees, and On Their Own (S. 10, Ep. 8)
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Dara Conduit of Deakin University talks about her book, The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. The book explores the Muslim Brotherhood's history to understand why it failed to capitalize on its advantage as the most prominent opposition group in Syria as the conflict unfolded, addressing significant gaps in accoun…
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Political Economies of MENA & Politics of Teaching IR in the Arab World (S. 10, Ep. 7)
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Robert Springborg of the Naval Postgraduate School talks about his latest book, Political Economies of the Middle East and North Africa, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. In the book, he discusses the economic future of the [MENA] region by examining the national and regional political causes of its contemporary underperformance. (Starts at 3…
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Murat Erdoğan on Syrian migrants' future in Turkey
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Murat Erdoğan, director of the Turkish German University's Migration and Integration Research Centre, on the future of Syrians in Turkey. Erdoğan oversees “Syrians Barometer”, an annual UNHCR-supported research project tracking the views of Syrians in Turkey and Turkish citizens' views of Syrians. Become a Turkey Book Talk member to support the pod…
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Trust & the Islamic Advantage, Attitudes Towards Migrants, & On-Side Fighting (S. 10, Ep. 6)
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Avital Livny of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne talks about her latest book, Trust and the Islamic Advantage: Religious-Based Movements in Turkey and the Muslim World, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. The book shows that the Islamic advantage is rooted in feelings of trust among individuals with a shared, religious group-ident…
Ten years ago, the uprising in Tahrir Square toppled Egypt’s dictator and raised hopes for political reform across the Middle East. Great setbacks followed in Egypt, which now suffers under an even more repressive autocracy than the one it overthrew in 2011. On this episode of Order from Ashes, close observers of Egyptian political life explore the…
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Global Jihad, Precarious Collective Action, and Practical Ideology (S. 10, Ep. 5)
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Glenn Robinson of the Naval Postgraduate School talks about his latest book, Global Jihad: A Brief History, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. The book tells the story of four distinct jihadi waves, each with its own program for achieving a global end: whether a Jihadi International to liberate Muslim lands from foreign occupation; al-Qa'ida's…
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Episode 13 - Liminality in Lebanon: A Year of Protest and Pandemic With Dr. Rima Majed
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In this episode, we speak with Rima Majed about the "double liminality" that Lebanon has experience as a result of a year of protest and pandemic. The podcast draws from Rima's recent article in MELG: Living Revolution, Financial Collapse and Pandemic in Beirut: Notes on Temporality, Spatiality, and “Double Liminality”. It is available here: https:…
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Chiara Maritato on women in Turkey's state religious agency
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Chiara Maritato on "Women, Religion and the State in Contemporary Turkey" (Cambridge University Press), examining the causes and effects of women's expanded role in Turkey's state religious agency over the past 20 years. Become a Turkey Book Talk member to support the podcast and get English/Turkish transcripts of every interview, transcripts of th…
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Morocco Special Focus: Islamism, Language Politics, Policing the Organizational Threat(S. 10, Ep. 4)
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Ahmed Khanani of Earlham College talks about his latest book, All Politics are God’s Politics: Moroccan Islamism and the Sacralization of Democracy, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. The book enables readers to understand and appreciate the significance of dimuqrāṭiyya [democracy] as a concept alongside new prospects for Islam and democracy i…
Critics of hyper-militarized foreign policy argue that the abuses of America’s war on terror led in a direct line to the January 6 attempt to overturn the presidential election. On this episode of Order from Ashes, two advocates from the grassroots organization Win Without War dissect the connections between unaccountable foreign policy and surging…
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Practicing Islam in Egypt, Consociational Power‐Sharing, Women's Segmented Empowerment(S. 10, Ep. 3)
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Aaron Rock-Singer of University of Wisconsin-Madison talks about his latest book, Practicing Islam in Egypt: Print Media and Islamic Revival, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. The book shows how Islamic activists and institutions across the political spectrum reshaped daily practices [in Egypt] in an effort to persuade followers to adopt nove…
The challenge to American democracy has called into question some of the country’s deepest assumptions about exceptionalism. Fellows at The Century Foundation have been studying fragile democracy, authoritarianism, and militia rule in the Middle East for decades. We apply some of the lessons learned from studying authoritarian relapse around the wo…
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Mostafa Minawi on the Ottoman Empire's scramble for Africa
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Mostafa Minawi on "The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz" (Stanford University Press), examining the Ottoman Empire's bid to expand its footprint in Africa and Arabia in the late-19th century age of imperialism. Become a Turkey Book Talk member to support the podcast and get English/Turkish transcripts of…
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Jihadists of North Africa, the Arab Barometer, & Power Politics in Baghdad (S. 10, Ep. 2)
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Alex Thurston of the University of Cincinnati talks about his latest book, Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. The book studies cases of jihadist movements in North Africa and the Sahel, examining them from the inside, uncovering their activities and internal struggles ove…
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Reluctant Reception, COVID-19 Challenges in MENA Research, & Ending Insecurities (S. 10, Ep. 1)
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Kelsey Norman of Rice University talks about her latest book, Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. The book proposes the concept of 'strategic indifference', where states [such as Egypt, Morocco, and Turkey] proclaim to be indifferent toward migrants and …
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Ömer Taşpınar on what the West gets wrong about the Middle East and Turkey
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Omer Taşpınar, professor at the US National War College and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, on “What the West is Getting Wrong about the Middle East: Why Islam is Not the Problem” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). Become a Turkey Book Talk member to support the podcast and get English/Turkish transcripts of every interview, transcripts of the who…
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Gülay Türkmen on Turks, Kurds and the limits of religious unity
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Gülay Türkmen on "Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds and the Limits of Religious Unity" (Oxford University Press). The book addresses how Islam has been used as a tool of both unity and resistance by various sides in Turkey's Kurdish question. Become a Turkey Book Talk member to support the podcast and get English/Turkish transcripts of every …
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Episode 12 - The October 17 Protests in Lebanon with Dr. Ibrahim Halawi and Dr. Bassel Salloukh
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In this podcast, we speak with Ibrahim Halawi and Bassel Salloukh about their upcoming field note, which reflects on the Gramscian dilemma that anti-sectarian, post-war protests in Lebanon have faced. The field note being discussed is not yet published, but Ibrahim’s earlier article mentioned in the podcast can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.…
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Nature and National Security in the Middle East
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A fearsome array of climate and environmental woes is straining the Middle East, worsening the existing crisis of poor governance and weak states in the region. On this episode of “Order From Ashes,” we speak to climate researcher Peter Schwartzstein about some of the specific environmental emergencies in the Middle East, and some of the possible s…
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Can Bitcoin save women in The Middle East?
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Mustafa Menshawy on the Muslim Brotherhood in exile in Turkey
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Mustafa Menshawy, author of “Leaving the Muslim Brotherhood: Self, Society and the State” (Palgrave), on how the migration of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood leaders and members from Egypt to Turkey in recent years has changed the group. Become a Turkey Book Talk member to support the podcast and get English/Turkish transcripts of every interview, …
The United States always had difficulty squaring its record on the ground in the Middle East with its efforts to promote rights and democracy. It’s even harder after the Trump presidency and a contested election, which featured the sitting president and many Republicans questioning the integrity of the electoral process without any basis in fact. T…
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Elizabeth Rodini on the lives of Bellini's portrait of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II
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Elizabeth Rodini on "Gentile Bellini's Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II: Lives and Afterlives of an Iconic Image" (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). The book explores how the Venetian painter came to the Ottoman court in 1479, as well as his portrait's many intriguing afterlives. Become a Turkey Book Talk member to support the podcast and get English/Turkish tran…
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Episode 11 - Libya: The Last Resort for the Muslim Brotherhood? With Dr. Haala Hweio
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In this episode, we speak with Haala Hweio about the history of Libyan branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and its important for the future of the global movement.The discussion focuses on Hala's recent article in MELG, which can be found in advanced copy here: https://brill.com/view/journals/melg/aop/article-10.1163-18763375-01202001/article-10.1163-…
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Egypt's Occupation: A Conversation with Aaron Jakes (S. 9, Ep. 12)
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Aaron Jakes talks about his latest book, Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism, with Marc Lynch on this week’s podcast. The book offers a sweeping reinterpretation of both the historical geography of capitalism in Egypt and the role of political-economic thought in the struggles that raged over the occupation.Jakes exp…
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The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan: A Conversation with Joas Wagemakers (S. 9, Ep. 11)
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Joas Wagemakers talks about his new book, The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, with Marc Lynch on this week’s podcast. The book explores the Muslim Brotherhood’s long history and complex relationship with Jordan, its parliament and society. “In Jordan [the Muslim Brotherhood] basically had Royal support from the very start, and the reason for that was…
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Jan-Markus Vomel on the past and future of political Islam in Turkey
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Jan-Markus Vömel, doctoral candidate at the University of Konstanz, on the origins and development of political Islam in Turkey from the 1950s to 2000, as well as its role today. Become a Turkey Book Talk member to support the podcast and get English/Turkish transcripts of every interview, transcripts of the whole archive, a 35% discount on over 10…
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Women of the Midan: A Conversation with Sherine Hafez (S. 9, Ep. 10)
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Sherine Hafez talks about her latest book, Women of the Midan: Untold Stories of Egypt’s Revolutionaries, with Marc Lynch on this week’s podcast. In her book, she demonstrates how women were a central part of the revolutionary process of the Arab Spring; not only protesting in the streets of Cairo, but also demanding democracy, social justice, and …
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How The Muslim Brotherhood Destroyed Egypt
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After Repression: A Conversation with Elizabeth Nugent (S. 9, Ep. 9)
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Elizabeth Nugent talks about her new book, After Repression: How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition with Marc Lynch on this week’s podcast. The book explores how polarization and repression led to different political outcomes in Tunisia and Egypt. Nugent explains, “When I started my fieldwork in Tunisia, it was clear to me again coming from…