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Can joint Israeli-Palestinian health programs help build trust where politics have failed? According to a new paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the health care field can play a crucial role in building bridges between communities in conflict. Written by two Jewish Israeli and two Palestinian doctors during a period of temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the paper reviews 16 joint initiatives, highlighting in particular two programs: Road to Recovery and Physicians for Human Rights Israel. The authors also present recommendations on how cross-national health care programs can play a role in post-war peacebuilding. One of the paper's authors, Avner Halperin, a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative, spoke to KAN reporter Naomi Segal. (Photo: Billie Weiss)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to this episode of What Matters Today, where we delve into the complexities of the current crisis between Israel and Lebanon. As tensions escalate, Lebanon faces profound challenges to its stability, governance, and ability to provide essential services. In this episode, we explore how the ongoing conflict is reshaping the Lebanese state, examining the government's response, the factors influencing its decisions, and the critical role of public opinion—especially concerning Hezbollah's involvement. We'll also consider how Lebanon's position at the heart of regional tensions might lead to shifts in alliances and potentially transformative changes within its own political landscape. To help unpack these pressing issues, we are joined by Christiana Parreira, Assistant Professor of International Relations and Political Science here at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Christiana joined the Institute in 2022, following her role as a Post-doctoral Associate in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and a Pre-Doctoral Associate with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School.

Julie and Hilary talk about the effect of 911 on Hilary's education; Hilary's scholarship on state education in the early twentieth- century Middle East; nationalism and the classroom; the difference between a victim and a martyr in Israeli and Palestinian literature; what we can learn from the writings of Palestinian novelist Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and Israeli novelist Amos Oz; contested language in the classroom; students' fears and desires to learn; and how to create an inclusive and open college classroom when teaching the histories of Israel /Palestine.Texts and authors discussed:Hilary Falb Kalisman, Teachers as State-Builders: Education in the Modern Middle East. Princeton University Press, 2022.Hilary Falb Kalisman, “`A World of Tomorrow': Diaspora Intellectuals and Liberal Thought in the 1950s”Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, "The Palestinian Exile as Writer,” 1979Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness, 2004.Textbooks mentioned:Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017Anita Shapira, Israel: A HistoryMark Tessler, A History of the Israeli-Palestinian ConflictJames L. Gelvin, The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A HistoryHilary Falb Kalisman is an Assistant Professor of History and the Endowed Professor of Israel/Palestine Studies in the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a B.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley. Her research interests include education, colonialism, standardization, state and nation building in Israel/Palestine as well as in the broader Middle East. Her first book, Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East won the History of Education Society Outstanding Book award in 2023. This book uses a collective biography of thousands of public school teachers across Israel/Palestine, Iraq and Transjordan/Jordan to trace how the arc of teachers' professionalization correlated with their political activity, while rearranging correspondence between nations, nationalism, and governments across the region.Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Academy of Education, the American Academic Institute in Iraq as well as the International Institute of Education, among other organizations. She has begun a new project analyzing the history of standardized testing in Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq. During the 2019-2020 academic year, she was a non-resident fellow at the Middle East Initiative, part of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School.

Aaron Rock-Singer is a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative. He has published two fantastic books, “Practicing Islam: Egypt's Islamic Revival” and “In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East”. Aaron is truly brilliant, connecting both the macro and the micro. By examining structural shifts in education and urbanisation as well as Islamic print media, he shows how modernisation triggered counter-mobilisation. We discuss: How did colonialism change religiosity and religious practices in Egypt? Why were post-independence leaders relatively secular? What was the Islamic revival? What was new? Did the 1970s economic downturn raise support Islamists? Why was there a global religious revival in the 1970s? Why was female behaviour so central to religious revival? Would Egypt's Islamic revival have occurred in the absence of Saudi funding and migration?

Barak Sella is an educator, activist, writer, researcher, and one of the leading Israeli experts on US-Israel relations and World Jewry. Born in Texas, Barak moved to Israel in 1994, exactly one year before the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister who was most dedicated to making peace with the Palestinians. This event deeply affected him and became an inseparable part of his socialization in Israeli society.  Ten years later, as a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces, Barak was part of the disengagement from Gaza and in the unit that evacuated the very last Jewish settlers from the region. We talk about all of this in this episode and how those formative events have impacted the way Barak understands his family's past, the world presently, and his hopes for the future. Throughout his career, Barak has focused on building bridges within communities in Israel and worldwide. He was formerly the Executive Director of the Reut Institute, one of Israel's foremost think tanks on strategy and leadership. During his years at the institute, Barak worked with leading actors in the Israeli government and with NGOs from Israel and the US on various issues: Israel delegitimization, antisemitism, Jewish Peoplehood, and Israel-US relations. Barak recently graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School for Government and is currently a Middle East Initiative fellow at the Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. For more about Barak Sella and to read the episode transcript, visit: https://alongtheseam.com/barak-sellaFor more from Rachael and Along The  Seam, sign up for the Along The Seam newsletter.

Yasmeen Abu Fraiha is a medical doctor currently completing a clinical fellowship in critical care at BIDMC in Boston, combined with a research fellowship at the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. She is also a board member of the New Israel Fund, a progressive organization whose aim is to advance liberal democracy, including freedom of speech and minority rights, and to fight the inequality, injustice and extremism that diminish Israel.I our conversation she shares her experience working in the ER of the largest Israeli hospital near the Gaza border on October 7, and how that shaped her conviction that the real divide is between those who believe in a peaceful solution and those who believe in violence. She also shares where she goes to find hope that a solution will be found.Contact Dino at: dino@al4ep.comWebsites:al4ep.comNew Israel Fund - nif.orgAdditional Guest Links:New Israel Fund:LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/yasmeen-abu-fraiha-a63450125/Guardian of Democracy - Yasmeen speech on YouTube Poem by Mahmoud Darwish "Think of Others" sung by Mira AwadAuthentic Leadership For Everyday People / Dino CattaneoDino on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dinocattaneoPodcast Instagram – @al4edp Podcast Twitter – @al4edp Podcast Facebook: facebook.com/al4edpMusicSusan Cattaneo: susancattaneo.bandcamp.comThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Israel opens more aid routes and delivery access to Gaza, a day after U.S. President Joe Biden's call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatening a shift in U.S. policy towards Israel unless it reduced harm to civilians in Gaza. Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Edward P. Djerejian, Senior Fellow for the Harvard Kennedy Belford Center's Middle East Initiative gives his take on what he believes needs to happen. The deaths of seven World Central Kitchen staffers have shaken the humanitarian community as groups now weigh the safety risks of their own workers. Janti Soeripto, President and CEO of Save the Children who just returned from Gaza talks about the serious impacts even a short pause in aid would mean for millions of starving civilians. Tensions heat up as Iran accuses Israel of carrying out an airstrike in Syria that killed some of its top military commanders and threatens to retaliate.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Ed Djerejian says Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin once told him “There is no military solution to this conflict, only a political one.” Rabin was assassinated a few years later and today bullets are flying, bombs are falling, and 1,200 Israelis are dead after the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7 and nearly 30,000 Gazans have been killed in the Israeli response. Yet Djerejain still believes that a breakthrough is possible even in the current moment, as horrible as it is. Djerejian, a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Relations, says the crisis has shaken the regional status quo to the point where—if the United States pursues diplomacy that includes principled pragmatism, coalition-building, and good old- fashioned backbone—a breakthrough may finally be possible. But in a recent paper he argues that any breakthrough will have to be built around a two-state solution, which he says is the only path to peace and stability not only in Israel and Palestine, but the wider Middle East. Djerejian's career as a diplomat spanned eight U.S. presidential administrations beginning with John F. Kennedy's, and he also served as U.S. Ambassador to Syria and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. Ed Djerejian's Policy Recommendations:The U.S. should stake out a strong, principled position on a two-state solution based on land for peace.The U.S. should build a broad multinational coalition around its diplomacy in the region.U.S. leaders and diplomats should make American national security interests clear, both globally and in the region.Ambassador (Ret.) Edward P. Djerejian is a residential Senior Fellow at the Middle East Initiative in Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Relations. Djerejian joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1962 and his 32-year diplomatic career spanned eight presidential administrations from John F. Kennedy to William J. Clinton. Djerejian is a leading expert on national security, foreign policy, public diplomacy, and the complex political, security, economic, religious, and ethnic issues of the broader Middle East. He is the author of “Danger and Opportunity: An American Ambassador's Journey Through the Middle East.” He recently completed a nearly 30-year tenure as founding director of Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. Ambassador Djerejian graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1960. He received an Honorary Doctorate in the Humanities from his alma mater in 1992 and a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, from Middlebury College. He speaks Arabic, Russian, French, and Armenian. His many awards and honors include the Presidential Distinguished Service Award, the Department of State's Distinguished Honor Award, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the Anti-Defamation League's Moral Statesman Award, the Award for Humanitarian Diplomacy from Netanya Academic College in Israel, the National Order of the Cedar. Ralph Ranalli of the HKS Office of Communications and Public Affairs is the host, producer, and editor of HKS PolicyCast. A former journalist, public television producer, and entrepreneur, he holds an AB in Political Science from UCLA and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.Editorial support is provided by Nora Delaney and Robert O'Neill. Design and graphics support is provided by Laura King, Delane Meadows and the OCPA Design Team. Social media promotion and support is provided by Natalie Montaner and the OCPA Digital Team. 

On this week's episode of the podcast, Sharan Grewal of the College of William and Mary and the Middle East Initiative at Harvard University joins Marc Lynch to discuss his new book Soldiers of Democracy? Military Legacies and the Arab Spring. The book argues that a military's behavior under democracy is shaped by how it had been treated under autocracy. This scholarly volume illustrates this theory through detailed case studies of Egypt and Tunisia and drawing on over 140 interviews with civilian and military leaders, and three surveys of military personnel.  Music for this season's podcast was created by Malika Zarra. You can find more of her work on Instagram and Linktree.

For episode 148, Dana El Kurd and Joey Ayoub are joined by Diana Greenwald and Alexei Abrahams to talk about seen and unseen violence in Israel-Palestine. They explore the many forms of violence of the Israeli occupation that led to the October 7 massacre and the brutal Israeli response in Gaza. What is kinetic violence? What is structural violence? And how do these two differ? Diana is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at The City University of New York. Her research  focuses on the politics of the Middle East, nationalism, conflict, and  state-building. She obtained her Ph.D. in political science from the  University of Michigan in 2017. From 2017-8, she was Postdoctoral  Research Fellow at the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy  School. Her current book manuscript examines Palestinian local politics  under Israeli occupation. This project draws on elite interviews and  local data on policing and taxation collected in the West Bank between  2014 to 2019. Alexei leads the digital trace team at the Canadian Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO), McGill University. He is the author of a forthcoming book, Social Media Observatory (No Starch Press, 2024), on how to code full-stack web applications for public interest research on contemporary political discourse. He's also the author of "Seeing absence and all its instruments: How decontextualization of kinetic violence undermines our understanding of the Israel-Palestine Conflict." The best way to support The Fire These Times is through ⁠⁠Patreon.com/firethesetimes⁠⁠. The other best way is to leave a review about The Fire These Times wherever you listen to podcasts. And the other other best way is to tell your friends and enemies about The Fire These Times. Episode Credits Host: Joey Ayoub Producer: Ayman Makarem Music: ⁠Rap and Revenge⁠ Main theme design: ⁠Wenyi Geng⁠ Sound editor: Ayman Makarem Episode design: Joey Ayoub

EPISODE 1851: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Moshik Temkin, author of WARRIORS, REBELS, & SAINTS, about the art of leadership from FDR, Malcolm X and MLK to Trump and BidenMoshik Temkin is a fellow at the Middle East Initiative and the Johnson and Johnson Chair in Leadership and History at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University. He is a specialist in international history and the author of The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial (Yale University Press, 2011), which was a finalist for the Cundill International Prize. His book, Undesirables: Travel Control and Surveillance in an Age of Global Politics, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. While at MEI, his work will examine the Camp David Peace Summit of 1977. His research primarily addresses the interaction between Americans and non-Americans, such as the effects that American politics have had on the wider world, the roles that international politics have played in American society and policymaking in the United States, and the dynamics created when American and international politics come into contact or conflict. His current research interests include: the history of the death penalty in comparative perspective; the impact of war on public policy intellectuals since World War I; Malcolm X's career and politics in a global context; the relationship between American civil rights and global human rights; and the contest between global political activism and travel control since the Cold War. Temkin, formerly an Associate Professor of History and Public Policy, joined the Harvard Kennedy School faculty from 2008-2019. At Harvard, he was affiliated with the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, the Center for European Studies, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. At the Harvard Kennedy School, he convened the Harvard Seminar on History and Policy and was the co-founder and co-director of the Initiative on History and Public Policy. In 2010-2011, he co-convened the Harvard International and Global History Seminar. As of 2011, he is a Big Think Inaugural Delphi Fellow. Previously, he taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and at Columbia University. He received his B.A. at the Hebrew University and his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in History at Columbia University.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.

Your daily highlights of Toronto Today with Greg Brady, Sheba Siddiqui & Gord Rennie. On today's episode: 1 - The Hamas/Israel war now is a both-sides ISSUE…. but not about the attack on Saturday. STORY. (0:15 - 10:16) 2 - Greg & Sheba talk Greg's 3am MRI and people upset with Toronto restaurant's policy that prohibits kids under 10. (10:22 - 18:47) 3 - Ben Mulroney, Broadcaster. Talking about the continuing fallout from Saturday massacre in Israel. (18:53 - 28:40) 4 - Understanding the Middle East conflict with David Patel, Middle East Initiative, research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. (28:46 - 33:56) 5 - Sabrina Nanji, QP Observer, looks at the NDP MPP's tweets and Greenbelt conflict. (34:02 - 38:27)

Your daily highlights of Toronto Today with Greg Brady, Sheba Siddiqui & Gord Rennie. On today's episode: 1 - The Hamas/Israel war now is a both-sides ISSUE…. but not about the attack on Saturday. STORY. (0:15 - 10:16) 2 - Greg & Sheba talk Greg's 3am MRI and people upset with Toronto restaurant's policy that prohibits kids under 10. (10:22 - 18:47) 3 - Ben Mulroney, Broadcaster. Talking about the continuing fallout from Saturday massacre in Israel. (18:53 - 28:40) 4 - Understanding the Middle East conflict with David Patel, Middle East Initiative, research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. (28:46 - 33:56) 5 - Sabrina Nanji, QP Observer, looks at the NDP MPP's tweets and Greenbelt conflict. (34:02 - 38:27)

The thing that really astonishes me is that there's never any agency given to Iraqis, both during the war and the occupation, but also 20 years later. It always goes back to what the Americans did. There's a defeatism about Iraq's ability to do anything on its own and I think that's at the heart of why people can't see anything democratic in the country.Marsin AlshamaryAccess Bonus Episodes on PatreonMake a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox.A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com.Marsin Alshamary is a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative and nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Middle East Policy. She is the author of the paper "Iraq's Struggle for Democracy" in the Journal of Democracy.Key HighlightsIntroduction - 0:41Is Iraq a Democracy - 3:37Iraqi Social Cleavages - 9:20Iraqi Consociationalism - 26:33Challenges to Democracy in Iraq - 36:55Key Links"Iraq's Struggle for Democracy" in the Journal Democracy by Marsin AlshamaryFollow Marsin Alshamary on Twitter @MarsinRALearn more about Marsin AlshamaryDemocracy Paradox PodcastSteven Simon on American Foreign Policy in the Middle East including Iran and the Wars in IraqLarry Diamond on Supporting Democracy in the World and at HomeMore Episodes from the PodcastMore InformationDemocracy GroupApes of the State created all MusicEmail the show at jkempf@democracyparadox.comFollow on Twitter @DemParadox, Facebook, Instagram @democracyparadoxpodcast100 Books on DemocracyDemocracy Paradox is part of the Amazon Affiliates Program and earns commissions on items purchased from links to the Amazon website. All links are to recommended books discussed in the podcast or referenced in the blog.Support the show

In a special episode of Babel to mark the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war, Jon sits down with two Iraqi guests to talk about the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion. Dr. Marsin Alshamary is a research fellow with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard's Belfer Center, and Hamzeh Hadad is an adjunct fellow with the Center for New American Security. Alshamary and Hadad talk about how the war in Iraq has shaped both Iraqi politics and their own lives, their experiences as members of the diaspora who travel extensively to Iraq, the lingering effects of the Saddam Hussein era, and the future of Iraqi politics. Then, Jon continues the conversation with Will Todman and Lubna Yousef, discussing the different ways in which diaspora communities interact with both their home countries and their host countries.  Marsin Alshamary and Hamzeh Hadad, “The Collective Neglect of Southern Iraq: Missed Opportunities for Development and Good Governance,” International Peacekeeping, February 16, 2023.   Hamzeh Hadad, “Climate of opportunity: Iraq's new government as regional conciliator,” European Council on Foreign Relations, November 4, 2022.   Marsin Alshamary, “Authoritarian Nostalgia Among Iraqi Youth,” War on the Rocks, July 25, 2018.   Transcript, "Iraq 20 Years Later," CSIS, March 21, 2023.

In recent months, the country of Iraq has been living through the latest in a series of political crises as different factions have struggled for control of its governing institutions. Earlier this week, that tension broke out into the open as rioters occupied government office buildings and militias associated with other factions responded with violence.To learn more, Lawfare senior editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Marsin Alshamary, a research fellow with the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School. They discussed the players involved in this latest crisis, what's led to this point, and where their conflict might go next. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Babel, Jon speaks with Marsin Alshamary, a research fellow with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard's Belfer Center. We talk about the ongoing crisis happening outside of Iraq's parliament, why the current intra-Shi'a conflict is unique and how it echoes similar crises before, and where Iran and the United States stand. Then, Jon continues the conversation with Will Todman and Lubna Yousef about what a lighter U.S touch in Iraq might look like moving forward. Marsin Alshamary , "The Sadrist Gamble: A Make-or-Break Moment for Iraq?," Italian Institute for International and Political Studies, August 4, 2022. Marsin Alshamary, “The protester paradox: Why do anti-Islamist activists look toward clerical leadership?” Brookings, April 2022.  Jane Arraf and Jon Alterman, " Not Your Mother's Iraq," CSIS, March 1, 2022. Transcript, "Iraq's Political Crisis," CSIS, August 23, 2022.

Lebanon has been called many different things: a gem of the Middle East, a failed state, a geopolitical Gordian knot (or nightmare). Its financial system has recently collapsed, people cannot find basic services, and residents are still recovering from the massive Beirut explosion of 2020. It may be a complex country to wrap your mind around, but our four scholars tell you everything you need to know about daily life in Lebanon: how are people getting by, who is in control, the geopolitics of the region, and the history behind it.Lana Salman shares a detailed account of daily life in Lebanon, where people must wait hours in line to obtain goods and services. The civil uprising really began back in October 2019, and it was different from others, explains Carmen Geha, because it was so widespread. Citizen protests have continued since then, and have increased in the aftermath of the Beirut explosion in 2020 for which no one has taken responsibility, they note.After decades of witnessing corruption at the highest levels, the Lebanese may be at a tipping point. Geha and Salman share examples of citizens creating their own organizations to address humanitarian needs, as an alternative to relying on the default sectarian sponsored hand-outs.To understand the levers of control, Melani Cammett explains the power-sharing structure of the government, and she and Geha emphasize that the current leaders are the unpunished perpetrators of war crimes (“warlords”) from the chaotic, multiparty Lebanese civil war (1975–1990).Nate George offers important background on the steps leading up to the current financial crisis and describes the geopolitical crossroads Lebanon occupies today in the Middle East. He also explains why Western countries are no longer eager to support Lebanon during the current fiscal crisis.Lebanon indeed has a complex history and remains an important player in the Middle East. With a mix of anecdote and history, our conversation is a sobering primer on the many layers and realities of Lebanon.Host:Erin Goodman, Director, Weatherhead Scholars Program.Guests:Melani Cammett, Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University; Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Carmen Geha, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program (fall 2021). Associate Professor of Public Administration, Department of Political Studies and Public Administration, American University of Beirut. Nate George, Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program. PhD, Department of History, Rice University. Lana Salman, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Related Links:“The United States and the Middle East” by Nate George (America in the World, 1776 to the Present: A Supplement to the Dictionary of American History, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2016)“Commitment to the “National” in Post-Conflict Countries: Public and Private Security in Lebanon” by Melani Cammett, Dominika Kruszewska, Christiana Parreira, and Sami Atallah (Journal of Conflict Resolution, forthcoming 2022)“Coethnicity Beyond Clientelism: Insights from an Experimental Study on Religion and Political Behavior in Lebanon” by Melani Cammett, Dominika Kruszewska, Christiana Parreira, and Sami Atallah (Politics & Religion, forthcoming 2022)“Debtscapes: The Politics of Social Reproduction in the Post-Revolution City” by Lana Salman (Paper, Middle East Initiative, August 2021)Civil Society and Political Reform in Lebanon and Libya: Transition and Constraint by Carmen Geha (Routledge, 2016)Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:WCFIA WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteTwitterFacebookSimplecastSoundcloudVimeo

This talk explores the collaborative research efforts to produce “Building Sharjah,” the first book--not only in the UAE but in the region--to document the history of a Gulf city. The panelists share the driving force behind the book and describe the journey of documenting the rise of the city through stories from its citizens, residents, and immigrants. Speakers Todd Reisz, Author, "Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai" (Stanford University Press, 2020); Co-Editor, "Building Sharjah" (Birkhauser, 2021) Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar, Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School; Co-Editor "Building Sharjah" Farah Fayyad, Graphic Designer, "Building Sharjah" Reem Khorshid, Lead Researcher, "Building Sharjah" Moderated by Shatha Al Mulla, Director of the Visual Arts and Design Department, Ministry of Culture and Youth in the UAE In Collaboration with NYUAD Cultural Engagement - Student Life

This is a conversation with Jeffrey Karam. He's Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Lebanese American University and an associate at Harvard's Middle East Initiative. He's also the editor of the book “The Middle East in 1958: Reimagining a Revolutionary Year“, the topic of our conversation. Get early access + more perks at Patreon.com/firethesetimes Blog: https://thefirethisti.me You can follow on Twitter or Instagram @ firethesetimes too. Topics Discussed: What was so special about 1958? Its legacy in the Middle East and the world The formation of the short-lived United Arab Republic (between Egypt and Syria), the Iraq revolution, the attempted coup in Jordan, the slide towards more authoritarianism in Iran, the clash between the princes in Saudi Arabia, the collapse of the fourth republic in France etc The internationalization of the region and the role of the great powers (US, UK, France, USSR) History as non-linear, connecting different threads Authoritarianism in the region and the role of the big powers Asking ‘what ifs' in thinking about history 1957 in Lebanon (the rigged elections with US support) and the 1958 events A look into the debates on decolonization, revolutionary nationalism, internationalism, post-colonialism, imperialism, anti-imperialism and state formation Lessons from 1958 for the present day, the example of Iraq How hope is linked to the understanding of time Upcoming book: The Lebanon Uprising of 2019: Voices from the Revolution, co-edited with Rima Majed Learning about revolutions in revolutionary times Book recommendations Coups and Revolutions: Mass Mobilization, the Egyptian Military, and the United States from Mubarak to Sisi by Amy Austin Holmes Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy by Robert Vitalis The Politics of Art Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan by Hanan Toukan The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq by Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920–1958 by Dylan Baum Banking on the State The Financial Foundations of Lebanon by Hicham Safieddine Resources mentioned/that are relevant 07. Denying Genocide, from Halabja to Ghouta with Sabrina Azad 14. Revolution, disenchantment and the Lebanese New Left with Fadi Bardawil

PolicyCast is a production of Harvard Kennedy School and is hosted by Associate Dean for Communications and Public Affairs Thoko Moyo.PolicyCast is produced and engineered by Ralph Ranalli and co-produced by Susan Hughes.For more information please visit our web page or contact us at PolicyCast@hks.harvard.edu.

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 microanalysis of civilian self-protection strategies during armed conflict in Syria. (Starts at 32:01). Tarek Masoud of the Harvard Kennedy School and the Director of the Middle East Initiative speaks about his new article entitled, "The Arab Spring at 10: Kings or People?," published in the Journal of Democracy. (Starts at 1:03). Justin Gengler of Qatar University discusses his new article (co-authored with Mark Tessler of University of Michigan, Russell Lucas of Michigan State University and Jonathan Forney of the George Washington University), "Why Do You Ask?’ The Nature and Impacts of Attitudes towards Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab World," published in the British Journal of Political Science. (Starts at 16:20). Music for this season's podcast was created by Feras Arrabi. You can find more of his work on his Facebook and Instagram page.

0:00 Intro 3:32 Foreign Policy 19:33 Neutrality 28:16 Fouad Chehab 39:20 Army & Presidency 44:46 France 54:37 United States 1:05:24 Current Protest Movement 1:21:43 Political Violence We're with Jeffrey Karam for Episode 239 of The Beirut Banyan. Click to watch: https://youtu.be/jRFHlmn8Zmg We discuss 'The Middle East in 1958', that year's impact on Lebanon and relationship to the October Uprising. We also talk about France's relationship to Lebanon, US foreign policy towards the region and US-Lebanese relations today. Jeffrey is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Lebanese American University and Associate at Harvard University's Middle East Initiative. His work has been published in both academic and public outlets, including Intelligence and National Security, the Arab Studies Journal, The Washington Post, H-Diplo and ISSF, the Daily Star Lebanon, Megaphone, Jadaliyya, and other venues. He is the editor of The Middle East in 1958: Reimagining A Revolutionary Year. Purchase the book online via the following link: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-middle-east-in-1958-9781788319423/ Help support The Beirut Banyan by contributing via PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/walkbeirut Or donating through our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/thebeirutbanyan Subscribe to our podcast from your preferred platform. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram & Twitter: @thebeirutbanyan And check out our website: www.beirutbanyan.com Music by Marc Codsi. Logo design by Sara Tarhini.

On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Jeffrey G. Karam, assistant professor of political science at the Lebanese American University. Jeffrey is also an Associate at the Middle East Initiative at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Jeffrey is the author of numerous articles on intelligence, 1958 in the Middle East, and pedagogy in times of crisis. He is also the editor of The Middle East in 1958 (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). On this episode Simon and Jeffrey speak about Jeffrey's wonderful new edited collection 'The Middle East in 1958' along with a discussion about pedagogy at times of crisis, focussing on the Lebanese context. Simon and Jeffrey speak about the 2019 protests, coronavirus, the Beirut blast and teaching Political Science - and grappling with complex and sensitive topics - at an incredibly precarious time.

On today's podcast, you will not only hear Joe Biden speak to his complicity in nation-wide voter fraud, you will also see and hear Sidney Powell, former federal prosecutor, now a Trump campaign lawyer, share out on Maria Bartiromo's Sunday show that there is massive evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election and other irregularities that continue to show-up during the on-going investigations. Indeed, the software on voting machines was manipulated by both domestic and foreign actors in support of former Vice President Biden. “We're getting ready to overturn election results in multiple states,” Powell said. She points outs in the interview that there is enough evidence of election fraud to initiate a widespread criminal investigation by the F.B.I. and C.I.A. Powell further states: “I don't make comments without having the evidence to back it up,” saying that election software switched “millions of votes” from Trump to Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Here is the entire interview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQpqsj3tcMU. Thank you for listening! And please, send that needed, tax-deductible contribution today! Make your donation out to: The Middle East Initiative, my 501 (c) 3, and send to The Denice Gary Show, P. O. Box 82161, Bakersfield, CA 93380.

Episode 21: This month, we talk to Tuğba Bozçağa, Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative and Ph.D. student in Political Science at MIT. In 2018, Tugba received a GLD Short TermGrant to study social proximity among bureaucrats in Turkey. Tugba's research has culminated in this month's working paper: The Social Bureaucrat: How Social Proximity among Bureaucrats Affects Local Governance. In this episode of Governance Uncovered, we hear more about her research and her experiences from the field. Tugba also explains the policy implications of her research – namely how it offers an alternative explanation to why the quality of public services may be lower in minority or predominantly immigrant neighborhoods. Selected work: Tuğba Bozçağa. (2020) The Social Bureaucrat: How Social Proximity among Bureaucrats Affects Local Governance. The Program on Governance and Local Development Working Paper No. 35, University of Gothenburg, Available At: https://gld.gu.se/media/1963/gld-working-paper-35.pdf

How is the former Obama/Biden administration linked to a blast of 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate in Beirut, Lebanon? Not only does Hizballah control Lebanon, but it has a history of storing tons of ammonium nitrate here in this hemisphere, in Europe, as well as in the Middle East. And who supplies the financial resources for acts of terror? Consider the tremendous aid the last Democrat-run administration provided to nations like Iran that sponsor terrorist groups such as Hizballah. Prior to the Trump administration, the Obama/Biden team gave $1.7 billion in cash to Iran and additional aid during the course of the Obama/Biden years in the White House. Likewise, since Hizballah or the Party of God's formation, it has remained supplied and supported by Iran and is well organized in America as it is in other nations... And noteworthy are the number of Hizballah sleeper cells across this country from California to New York. Question: So is Hizballah storing ammonium nitrate here? During this election season, another important question remains: What would a Biden presidency mean to the safety of the American people? In light of the proliferation of terrorism that occurred during the Obama/Biden years, particularly the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt, to the Islamic State, IS/ISIS/ISIL/Daesh, control in Syria and Iraq, to utter chaos in Libya, which still remains under the authority of rival militant/terror organizations, what would another administration of Biden Democrats do to further devastate the security of the U.S., European countries, Israel, and beyond? See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/324529515354444/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax-deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380.

Dear Listeners and Readers: Due to the telephone calls and texts from friends, former colleagues, and associates of my late, beloved Philip, I thought it best to provide an update at this time. As the Sheriff's Department has reported previously, they reached out to their law enforcement partners in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to assist in analyzing documents, phone records, a lap top, and other items that were recovered from the location of what appeared to be the scene of Philip's execution as well as from his temporary residence in Plymouth, California. After talking to my contact at the Amador County Sheriff's office, he believes that this week or the week after, they may possibly be getting the final reports from FBI offices here on the West Coast and back East on numerous pieces of evidence the FBI packed up and took to their labs for forensic DNA examinations. Meanwhile, I had specifically asked the lead investigator on this case from the sheriff's office to read the book that Philip had written called See Something Say Nothing as well as the manuscript of his new book. Noteworthy is the fact that in the 2nd book, Philip identities those involved in sabotaging America's national security within the Obama administration - names were to be named. I believe if the Amador County Sheriff's Department has or will review the first book and then the manuscript of the second book ... they may have a much better idea on who may have murdered Philip! My prayer request is this: PRAY that the TRUTH of what really happened to Philip be revealed in the days ahead.... That the Amador County Sheriff's Department has looked at or will look at everything and everyone they need to in order to make the right determination on how to move forward and conclude the investigation into the death of Philip Bruce Haney! Again, I want to thank you for your continued prayers. This has been a very sad and difficult time for me personally to get through and it feels as though the pressure and tension are mounting.... so, thank you again for your prayers for a thorough, honest determination by the the Sheriff's Department in Amador County, California. See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/300321647712326/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax-deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380. My very best regards, Denice

Hear how open intelligence source information is connected from TikTok, to BLM, to Islamic groups, to Karen Bass... First hear Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Chinese Communist software companies like ByteDance, TikTok, and others. He speaks to the national security risks these software companies from China pose in terms of espionage and the collection of private information on Americans. Then consider who else is in bed with Communists and their sympathizers. As you listen in on a few of the atrocities committed by Fidel Castro, note that Democrat Congresswoman Karen Bass remains on Joe Biden's short list for vice president. Bass traveled to Cuba several times over the years and on her first trip, after the Cuban missile crisis, she worked with a revolutionary group called the Venceremos Brigade, a revolutionary organization that since its inception has stood with the communist revolutionaries of the Castro regime. Learn so much more and share out to others! See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/592762344720525/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax-deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380.

Under international law is terrorism ever legal? Terrorists target non-combatants as well as police, armed and unarmed, as well as a sovereign nation's armed forces. However, it is not legal in the U.S. or Israel! RABBI URI PILICHOWSKI, author and scholar speaks to Muslim Arabs, Palestinians, who are claiming that according to international law .... it is our right to use all the means of struggle. "The political wing of the terror organization the PLO, Fatah, has said: We'll use “armed struggle” to fight Israel. And top Palestinian officials repeat such statements as: We'll use “resistance in all its forms” against Israel, “the enemy.” "Resistance" refers to terrorism. See: https://palwatch.org/page/18010 On another related topic: Rabbi Uri notes that in light of the tremendous spike in violent anti-Semitic attacks here in the United States, there has been a 120% rise in the application of Jewish-Americans looking to leave America for Israel. Following her recent primary victory, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, (AOC), who wholly supports anti-Semitic groups like Black Lives Matter, is leading the charge against Israel's possible application of sovereignty over small communities within Judea and Samaria - the West Bank - where Jewish families have populated the area since Biblical times. AOC wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warning that any move by Israel to extend its sovereignty over areas that under international law are controlled by Israel would jeopardize U.S. military aid to the Jewish state - if Democrat majorities take over both houses of Congress and Joe Biden becomes president. Recently BLM rioters rampaged through Jewish neighborhoods of Los Angeles, CA, reportedly shouting “F___Jews”, and spray painting “F___Israel” and “Free Palestine” on the walls of the Congregation Beth Israel and at least four other synagogues. The original BLM Platform also supports the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions movement. BLM, formed in 2013 by three trained Marxists, had by 2015 sent BLM representatives to the Middle East to make common cause with Palestinians in Gaza, Judea and Samaria. For more information: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/06/american-jews-must-stand-structurally-anti-semitic-caroline-glick/ and https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/07/liberal-jewish-leaders-accuse-jews-racism-cover-daniel-greenfield/ See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/593062318080204/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax-deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380.

Addressing the Islamic Republic's future in terms of its stability, security and what has been their expanding reach and influence in the Western Hemisphere, CLARE LOPEZ, a national security consultant and president of Lopez Liberty LLC, speaks to the latest threats by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who has now come out and stated: “The Islamic Republic of Iran ... will definitely deal the counterblow to the Americans,” Also, for more information see: https://worldisraelnews.com/iran-threatens-harsher-revenge-against-us-for-death-of-soleimani/. See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/343225870019526/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax-deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380.

Leftists consistently put forward, in the print and electronic media, a false narrative suggesting President Trump is a racist. Equip yourself with the knowledge and talking points necessary to prove Democrats wrong! This year's Presidential election is critical ... understand more on President Donald J. Trump's love for America. Hear President Trump at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILZDVgbuXms as he works to put millions more black, brown, yellow, and white Americans back to work . . . because ALL LIVES MATTER! And hear the President's remarks at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, USA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6cLl_hHm7Y! The President celebrates the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln and the men who paid the ultimate price, giving their lives to win the Civil War, singing as they marched and fought to their deaths, the words of the Battle Hymn of the Republic: "As He died to make men Holy, let us die to make men free, while God is marching on." See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/274922003737821/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax-deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380.

Dear Listeners and Readers: Find out how and why the global Islamic movement together with the global Black Lives Matter movement is focused on chaos and revolution. The #DefundPolice cause celebre has broader implications than what is being reported in the news media. Hear intelligence analyst and independent consultant, CLARE LOPEZ, Founder / President Lopez Liberty LLC. Democrats, tied to CAIR, like Ilhan Omar from Somalia, a country known for radical Islamic groups, now a Congresswoman from Minneapolis, recently tweeted that we must "DISBAND" the police. Congresswoman Omar is also a sympathizer of the Islamic State, IS/ISIS/ISIL/Daesh - a brutal terrorist organization which is now urging non-Muslims to take up weapons against their governments on social media platforms.... Another Democrat tied to CAIR, Michigan Democrat Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has also tweeted out her support for disbanding the police. She wrote: "When we say #DefundPolice, what we mean is people are dying ... Detroit spent $294 million on police last year, and $9 million on health. This is systemic oppression in numbers." And yet, Tlaib supports Hizballah, the PLO and other terrorist groups which buther innocents to death.... Should there be consequences for these Leftists comments by Democrats contributing to lawlessness and destruction of the Rule of Law? Moreover, also tied to Democrats is the BLM-Los Angeles head Melina Abdullah and her daughter Amara Abdullah - co-founder of the BLM Youth Vanguard. They have long records of anti-Semitism and continue to support the Nation of Islam and its leader Louis Farrakhan. It seems Abdullah is responsible for the pogrom in the Fairfax area of Los Angeles this year. Councilman Paul Koretz stated: “The attack on our community last night was vicious and criminal. Fairfax is the center of the oldest Jewish community in Los Angeles.” “As we watched the fires and looting, what didn't get covered were the anti-Semitic hate crimes and incidents.” Numerous synagogues came under attack and religious schools! Jihad Watch has reported: "Melina Abdullah, the lead organizer of Black Lives Matter in LA and a professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State, had been very clear about her motive for bringing her hateful campaign to the area." Abdullah has stated: “We've been very deliberate in saying that the violence and pain and hurt that's experienced on a daily basis by black folks at the hands of a repressive system should also be visited upon, to a degree, to those who think that they can just retreat to white affluence....” [See: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/06/a-farrakhan-supporter-led-the-la-black-lives-matter-rally-that-became-a-pogrom ] Learn so much more.... See: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1580021968824166 SHARE this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax-deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380. My very best regards, Denice

Dear Listeners and Readers: U.S. ARMY MAJOR GENERAL PAUL VALLELY, (Ret.) speaks out on caches of weapons found by police at violent riots across the country. Police intelligence units have uncovered encrypted walkie-talkie communications as well as social media postings of BLM and other anarchist groups, including jihadists, on specific locations for delivery of weapons and projectiles. In addition, the Major General brings us up-to-date on China's terror ties and the Belt and Road Initiative into Afghanistan as well as possible military action by the United States together with U.S. allies concerning China's threats to invade the Democratic country of Taiwan. Satellite photographs have revealed that the People's Liberation Army, PLA, has constructed a full-scale replica of Taiwan's presidential palace at a Chinese military base identified in state media as the Zhurihe Combined Tactics Training Base. The model is said to be used by PLA troops preparing to take control of Taipei .... Learn more. See: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=327298018268000 Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax-deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380.

America's Cultural Revolution is working to undermine the Rule of Law in America. Learn how radical Leftists, Democrats, and Islamists have joined forces and why. OUR WAY of LIFE is UNDER ASSAULT! PHILIP HANEY, the late DHS intelligence official and I spoke concerning this very issue last year. In fact, a Fatwa, issued by the ASSEMBLY of MUSLIM JURISTS of AMERICA has authorized, indeed, instructed Islamists to form alliances with Leftist organizations. The goal is a civilizational jihad rooted in "hatred for infidel legal systems." And of course, America's legal system is enforced by law enforcement officials from the United States executive branch of government on down to local police departments. This has led to an assault on our culture and its institutions. Learn how individuals are working to undermine America's Judeo-Christian society and the principles which form the bedrock of the Rule of Law. Hear this very informative conversation with PHILIP HANEY and learn more. https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/2384982581774896/UzpfSTE1OTExMDYzNjQ6MTAyMTc1MDcyNTE0NjUxMDc/ See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/1115524142136365/?epa=SEARCH_BOX Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax-deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Dear Listeners and Readers: Hear RABBI URI PILICHOWSKI, author and educator, speak to threats by Jordan's King Abdullah II regarding "Massive Conflict" against Israel. The issue remains: Should sovereignty be applied over parts of Judea and Samaria, including the Jordan Valley? These are areas that historically the Hebrew or Jewish people have lived since Biblical times. Moreover, under international law, going back to the San Remo Resolution of 1920 and the Balfour Declaration 1917, as well as wars of self-defense, the world's only Jewish nation-state won these wars waged against its small nation and have secured their homeland. Also, learn what is the significance of Secretary of State Pompeo's whirlwind six hour visit to Jerusalem? And hear about Iran's latest aggression and China's fierce investments in Israeli high technology. See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/238928567335564/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Dear Listeners and Readers: Find out who is joining forces against law and order in America. Investigative reporter, LEO HOHMANN, author of "Stealth Invasion," speaks to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Isk Islamic / Jihadist groups in the United States joining forces with Antifa. Hear what you will NOT hear elsewhere concerning evidence regarding their complicity in executing acts of terror on American streets. Hear this important discussion and its implications for America. For more insight by reporter Hohmann, visit his website at LeoHohmann.com. FYI: The FBI is asking for information on individuals in your community who may be inciting or encouraging violence or other unlawful behavior during First Amendment protected PEACEFUL protests. Call 1-800-225-5324 to report any -information you may have. Thank you. See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/709962666436080/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax-deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

The spread of Covid-19 and China's response was in effect an Act of War. Hear Major General Paul Vallely speak to the recommendations both he and Steve Bannon, former White House Chief Strategist made to the President on how best the Chinese Communist Party, CCP, of China should be held accountable in the areas of trade, banking, education, media, as well as American government officials who serve on the local, state and federal levels. Several have visited China to meet with CCP officials and have received "benefits" due to their relationship. These benefits have, in some instances, come in the form of houses, put in trust, in which the mortgages are paid off over time by CCP controlled banks or companies, to ensure continued cooperation. And while the FBI is aware of this, nothing has been done to end CCP influence over these government officials. Learn more. See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/598313930774523/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Despite Covid-19, jihadists continue to look for vulnerabilities in the United States military in order to infiltrate the five branches of military service. Political correctness provides one such instance. Double standards in the United States military concerning Muslim vs. Christian Arabic language interpreters continues. It remains a dangerous vulnerability for American soldiers who sometimes find themselves in the field of combat with a less than sympathetic interpreter to the West's war on Islamic terrorism. Hear one Christian woman's story who wanted to serve as an Arabic language interpreter for American soldiers in Iraq, but was denied by two (2) Muslim recruiters. Today's guest highlights one more example of the vulnerabilities Islamic terrorists look for in the jihad against America. See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/561131427874083/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Due to China and Russia's support of Iran's nuclear ambitions, the Islamic regime is believed to possess the ability to initiate a "solar superstorm" or "electromagnetic pulse attack," EMP, against American cities with the support of the Russians and Chinese. Meanwhile, as Iran remains in the U.S. backyard recruiting jihadist forces in Latin America and North America, today, Iranian gunboats were harassing United States Naval ships in international waters.... NOW, more than ever, it is expedient that Philip Haney's mission to Washington, D.C. to persuade congressional members to end financing of Islamic groups be fulfilled. Islamic groups help finance terrorism by state sponsors of terrorism like Iran. Hear and learn more. Phone your member of Congress and request that legislation to end any and all funding of Islamic groups here in the U.S. be accomplished in 2020. American taxpayer dollars should never support Iranian sponsored terrorist groups as well as Muslim Brotherhood groups, the Islamic Circle of North America, ISNA, the Muslim American Society, MAS, etc. Learn more. See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/228142225180625/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

While Covid-19 remains the nation's focus, MAJOR GENERAL PAUL VALLELY speaks on why the United States must now work to prevent a "solar superstorm" or electromagnetic pulse attack due to the fact that in such an event the U.S. economy would collapse and "critical infrastructures for food and water" would be destroyed. Following President Trump's election, he took an important step towards greater national security and issued an Executive Order on "Coordinating National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses,” in March of 2019. It has yet to be implemented. Why? And learn why the former Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coates, was fired and a new Acting Director of DNI Richard Grenell was appointed.... Hear more. Watch: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/558495978114272/ For more information see: http://www.standupamericaus.org/sua/electrical-grid-in-us Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Part I: What do Americans need to know about the potential impact of Islamists who continue to gain power and influence inside the United States, among U.S. congressional leaders, and the White House? Hear the personal experience and perspective of a young Christian woman, SOPHIA, (a pseudonym), who was raised in a Muslim dominant country and managed to immigrate to the United States and escape the grueling, daily humiliations of living in an Islamic society. She explains what happens when societies fall sway under Islamic thought and culture and an Islamic agenda takes hold. See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/657115081552691 Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Has China been involved in biowarfare and if so, for how many decades?! MAJOR GENERAL PAUL VALLELY answers your questions and mine on China's biowarfare weapons development and its "super laboratory" in Wuhan; Chinese agents have been arrested from Harvard University, including the Chair of the Chemistry Department for receiving $1 million from the Chinese Communist government; and, the dangers surrounding Huawei's 5G Network 'Smart City' also located in Wuhan City, China. Special note: BOYCOTT Chinese products of any kind! China has a COVID-19 vaccine and so far has refused to release this life-saving drug to the United States to save American lives! See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/626335397945122/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Has China been involved in biowarfare and if so, for how many decades?! MAJOR GENERAL PAUL VALLELY answers your questions and mine on China's biowarfare weapons development and its "super laboratory" in Wuhan; Chinese agents have been arrested from Harvard University, including the Chair of the Chemistry Department for receiving $1 million from the Chinese Communist government; and, the dangers surrounding Huawei's 5G Network 'Smart City' also located in Wuhan City, China. Special note: BOYCOTT Chinese products of any kind! China has a COVID-19 vaccine and so far has refused to release this life-saving drug to the United States to save American lives! See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/626335397945122/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Despite COVID-19, impacting Muslims and Jews alike, militant Islamists, HAMAS, the Islamic Resistance Movement, backed financially by the Muslim Brotherhood here in the U.S., Iran and other terror entities, chose to fire down rockets on southern Israel. Hear RABBI URI POLICHOWSKI share Israel's response and focus and the gripping account of terror by Palestinian terrorists infiltrating his own community, in the dead of night, as sirens screamed out early warning signals.... Learn how the focus remains on terrorism for Muslim Arabs under Palestinian control as Israel's Ministry of Health ranks FIRST for COVID-19 safety. Finally, find out how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fairing as he works to bring the Israeli government together to form a ruling coalition and apply sovereignty over parts o See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/782085422200261/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

After Middle East Scholar, RAYMOND IBRAHIM was DISINVITED to speak at the U.S. Army War College, learn what sort of heavy push-back it took to finally overcome Muslim Brotherhood groups like CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, to be re-invited back to address Ibrahim's latest book: Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West. This important read addresses threats to America's national security! And consider, this victory is tremendous in light of Philip B. Haney's experience as a former DHS intelligence official and an expert on Islamic terrorism. He wrote in his own book, See Something, Say Nothing, (page 5), that the Obama administration, i.e., the Democrats took the counter-terrorism fight against Islamists / jihadists from a "law-enforcement-based approach to national security to a "civil rights" - based policy approach" called, Countering Violent Extremism, CVE. The FBI is still implementing this CVE or "civil rights" perspective. Ask President Trump to move aggressively, in a law-enforcement approach against Islamic terrorists and their front groups. See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/513696955931494/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your TAX DEDUCTIBLE contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Consider the number of Islamic terrorist groups operating in the Western Hemisphere from Venezuela, up through Central America and Mexico. Hear Major General Paul Vallely, (Ret.), on President Trump's promise to move forward on ending cooperation between drug cartels and terrorist organizations.... Indeed, the Department of Justice has, as of Thursday, 03.26.2020, handed down an indictment of Venezuela's socialist dictator, Nicolas Maduro, for "narco-terrorism" and "drug trafficking." Also, The Denice Gary Show sends a special thank you to Israel. An Israeli generic drug giant, Teva, has just sent ten million doses of its anti-malarial drug, hydroxychloroquine, to hospitals here in the U.S. Many thanks! See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/860515837748114/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Hear PHILIP HANEY, author of "See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government's Submission to Jihad," speak on Tablighi Jamaat and the Muslim Brotherhood, groups involved in terrorist activity here at home and abroad. Philip makes clear that Intel on individuals within these groups remain deleted from intelligence databases due to Obama era DHS and FBI holdovers / supporters. Know that theses same government employees have betrayed and are betraying the security of the United States and are now working as part of the Trump Administration. Indeed, they continue to undermine the President's security policy agenda and make Americans, such as you and myself, vulnerable to terrorist attack. Learn more. This is a portion of Philip's talk at Eagle Council 2018 entitled: "Sovereignty & the Constitution vs. the Threats We Face." See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/602313267042993/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

See photo image of diseased bats in an open air, wild, animal trade market in Wuhan, China. Bats may carry up to 60 viruses that can infect humans, indeed, bats host more viruses per species than do rodents, based on new research. It has been suggested that COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan originated from those wild bats. But what is the Muslim Brotherhood in America saying about the Coronavirus? What are other Islamic terrorist entities such as the Islamic State, IS/ISIS/ISIL, Al Qaeda, and Hizballah, backed by Iran, suggesting and instructing their jihadist followers to do in infidel countries? Hear an Iranian scholar suggest that COVID-19 will "morph into an opportunity for Iran" to hurt its enemies! See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/204731297465956/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Dear Listeners and Readers: Get striking details from the Department of Justice, DOJ, Office of Inspector General's newly published report. It has CONFIRMED PHILIP HANEY's gravest concerns regarding the Department of Homeland Security under Barack Hussein Obama. Obama's DHS DELETED Philip's files on Islamic terrorists and their networks operating inside the United States - files meticulously placed in the database to facilitate the arrest of individuals who posed or pose a threat to American lives. Examples include intelligence information on Islamists surrounding the Fort Hood attack, the Boston Marathon attack, the Orlando Pulse Nightclub attack, the San Bernardino attack, etc., etc. See: https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2020/a20030.pdf#page=2 Note: Before Philip was found dead, he was poised to name, names in his new book, a sequel to "See Something, Say Nothing." Will FBI's interests be best served by covering-up the details around the death of PHILIP HANEY? One wonders just how corrupt the national security establishment really is.... See:https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/219354989187861/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Hear PHILIP HANEY speak out at this Washington, D.C. press conference. He explains how he was targeted by Democrats within the Obama administration, some of whom remain in their same career positions and continue to work against President Trump and his team. These same Democrats from the State Department and DHS sought to destroy the intelligence information Philip had meticulously collected and had input into the DHS law enforcement database. Who are those people that are responsible for destroying the intelligence information that Philip so carefully input into the intelligence database? That intelligence information would have prevented the deaths of American lives in terrorist attacks in Orlando, Boston, and San Bernardino, California, etc. Philip was tracking over 300 individuals who were tied to Islamic terrorists and committed to jihad. Philip's date could help save lives going forward in 2020 and beyond. See Philip Haney speak out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=204&v=bBxvSB0jdw0&feature=emb_logo He at approximately 05:16. Learn from the late intelligence officer, Philip Haney, who did his job - targeting Islamic individuals and organizations that appear on the surface to be Americans like ourselves, but who operate within the Islamic terrorist networks of America to establish Sharia and Islamic supremacy in the U.S. This information is what EVERY American should know for the safety of us all. Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

LARE LOPEZ, President of Lopez Liberty LLC, former Vice President of the Center for Security Policy, former CIA Operations Officer on this week's latest attempt by Iran to target the United States. While Iran failed to successfully launch a communications satellite into orbit to advance its ballistic missile program, including its intercontinental ballistic missile or ICBM program, learn why President Trump's Iranian policy remains vital to America's national security. As Iran acts as a colonial power, spreading its brand of Islamic imperialism across the Middle East and into the Western Hemisphere, also learn what Turkey's role is as leader of America's Muslim Brotherhood in cooperation with Iran. See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/1509500485877828/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Why has strengthening the United States strategic partnership with India become so necessary? What is it about China, Iran, and Pakistan that has resulted in India's need to reach out and partner with the United States, more so than ever before, in building a deeper, more extensive military and economic alliances between our two countries? Hear PHILIP HANEY, former DHS Security Expert address this issue and as well India's growing ties with Israel. Also see Philip Haney's latest publication on this subject at http://www.dsalert.org/DSA-Editions/2020/DSA_February_2020.pdf . See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/194986891700582/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Hear PHILIP HANEY, Department of Homeland Security founding member, intelligence expert, author and speaker on America's comeback! With the lowest unemployment rate in over half-a -century; energy independence in oil and gas for the first time in decades; African-American poverty now at the lowest-level-ever in recorded history; women experiencing the highest levels of employment ever and from every demographic; veteran unemployment also at record lows; student employment is also up with 10 million people off the welfare rolls and 7 million off of food stamps, a BLUE COLLAR BOOM, and so much more! And learn who represents the latest enemy of the American people and of this Great Country! See:https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/777144282797133/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Hear Raymond Ibrahim Islamic law analyst who addresses the latest statistics showing that on average ... eight (8) Christians are killed every day for their faith. Indeed, “9,488 churches or Christian buildings were attacked,” and “3,711 Christians were detained without trial, arrested, sentenced and imprisoned.” (Note: All quotes are taken from Ibrahim's article and World Watch List 2020 annual report.) See also: https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2020/02/03/a-global-catastrophe-260-million-christians-experience-high-levels-of-persecution/ We also address the question of what drives Muslim hatred for Israel: Is it brotherly love for Muslim Arabs, (Palestinians), or religious hatred for “infidel” Jews? See also: https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2020/01/30/palestinian-liberation-or-islamic-conquest/ See:https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/1556013487856159/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

The President has rightly said it is time for a new approach to achieve peace, security, dignity, and opportunity for Israel and the Palestinian people. The President's plan is indeed historic. It allows Israel to finally apply sovereignty over historically Jewish land in Judea and Samaria, which includes the Jordan Valley. But who are the Palestinian people and will a two-state solution work?! Hear RON WEXLER, Biblical scholar, principal owner of Heritage Study Programs, Inc., leader of "Security and Defense Educational Tours" a member of the IDF who fought in two wars, the Six-Day War of 1967 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973, speak to the "Deal of the Century," the President's Peace to Prosperity Vision, as presented today from the East Room of the White House. As the President stated earlier: "We are not here to lecture—we are not here to tell other people how to live, what to do, who to be, or how to worship. Instead, we are here to offer partnership – based on shared interests and values – to pursue a better future for us all." See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/647081579433033/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

PHILIP HANEY, founding member of the Department of Homeland Security, specializes in tracking Islamic terror networks around the globe. Today he shares breaking intel on Chinese military forces at work with Iranian-backed Hizballah and the Afghan Taliban near the tri-border area connecting Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Haney makes clear that the question administration officials must ask themselves is not when will the next attack occur, but "how soon will it occur." You can read Haney's piece at https://andmagazine.com/talk/2020/01/15/is-the-threat-of-suicide-bombings-against-americans-in-the-middle-east-imminent/ and hear more right here. See:https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/1435247939991374/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

As Islamic terrorists from Iran and/or Iranian proxies seek revenge against the United States, the question arises: Why did former President Obama sign into law the "Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012" and then turn around and sign the Iran nuclear deal in 2013? The United States virtually bought and paid for Iran's signature on the deal by giving away $150 billion, not including the $1.3 billion in cash flown in by plane? What Obama did was treasonous. He in effect funded Iran's global network of Islamic terrorism and helped to facilitate the deaths of hundreds of Americans. Now Democrats want to blame President Trump. But hear the real story on The Denice Gary Show and why removing Iranian General Soleimani, a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist," a man who orchestrated and funded Iran's global terror operations that killed and/or maimed thousands of Americans, is in the best interests of U.S. national security. See:https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/2576304009320610/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Democrats have successfully blocked a resolution that supported oppressed Iranian protesters, over 1500 have now been murdered, and that condemned the Islamic regime for shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane that killed 176 souls. See these video clips from Iranian television. An Ayatollah, an Iranian government official, is suggesting that "Islam is about to take over the world" and "cast a shadow over Planet Earth in its entirety" while in the next breath calling for peaceful student protesters to be executed, and "English and American spies" to be "chopped into pieces." Hear and learn more. See:https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/459756778312649/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

See this disturbing televised clip from the Iranian Fars News Agency showing Islamic terrorists assassinating the President of the United States, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.... Hear PHILIP HANEY, Former Founding Member of the Department of Homeland Security, Intel Specialist on Islamic terrorist networks in the United States, and author of See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government's Submission to Jihad, respond to the implications of this propaganda piece. Then hear what a so-called "conservative" on the Tucker Carlson Show says about Israel while Iran and its terror proxies, groups like Hizballah, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Quds Force, the Islamic Jihad Organization, the Islamic Resistance Movement, HAMAS, etc., continue to target Americans and American interests around the world. See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/460728884619879/ And please share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

See actual film footage of thousands of Iranians who took to the streets throughout Iran over the weekend after learning that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC, had DELIBERATELY SHOT DOWN a CIVILIAN AIRLINER, Ukrainian Flight 752 from Tehran to Kiev, Ukraine's capital city. Hear MAJOR GENERAL PAUL VALLELY, (ret), on what may be the end result of these protests.... And learn what President Trump is doing behind the scenes to encourage protesters who demand freedom from the brutality and barbarity of the Ayatollahs, Iranian protesters who now call for the annihilation of the Islamic Republic of Iran. And get more insight into Attorney General William Barr and the Trump administration's decision to remove nearly two dozen Saudi military students from a training program and send them back to Saudi Arabia following the deadly shooting by a Saudi aviation student at Pensacola Florida navy base last month. See:https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/2649092281874957/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

ROBIN ROBINSON, CityServe Community Development and Church Engagement Director on partnering together to serve people's needs. How can your life become more meaningful and purposeful? Hear Robin describe how through church partnerships, regardless of denomination or group, when people pull together they can meet the needs of individuals and families in their own cities and communities! And would you like to attend the Mayor's Ball? This is a great opportunity to help CityServe fund-raise. The event will be held this February 08 at 6:30 pm at the CityServe Center at 3201 F Street. Advance tickets are required. Tickets are $100 per person. For more information, visit BakersfieldMayorsBall.com. See:https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/1619494051526291/?epa=SEARCH_BOX Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

What you may not know about Iranian-backed sleeper cells in the United States as a range of security precautions are taken from California to Washington, D.C. DHS has now warned the American people on the potential of Iranian attacks on the homeland. Hear PHILIP HANEY, founding member of the Department of Homeland Security, intelligence specialist, author, and speaker address these issues and more as Democrats work against the national security of the U.S. suggesting that the attack on a specially designated GLOBAL TERRORIST, General Soleimani, is somehow not a proportional military target despite the HUNDREDS of Americans killed under his leadership in recent years. Also, hear us address issues surrounding Israel, America's most important strategic ally, as the Jewish State stands with the American people! See:https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/608590599897199/?epa=SEARCH_BOX Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Russians, Chinese and Iranians began joint naval exercises ... this is unprecedented. It marks the first of its kind among and between these rogue regimes. Hear MAJOR GENERAL PAUL VALLELY, U.S. Army (Ret.), on what this may mean going forward in 2020. And learn inel not available in the mainstream media on the U.S. led coalition attack on five (5) Iranian-backed Kata'ib Hizballah bases in Iraq and Syria. See:https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/2693646500716869/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Under President Trump's direction, the United States military successfully executed a flawless, precision strike that killed the number-one terrorist the world over, Qassem Soleimani, General of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force - a man who has planned and guided terrorist attacks inside the United States and across six continents. Hear PHILIP HANEY, speak to the importance of this intel operation in strengthening the deterrent against Iran as well as other Islamic terrorist groups. As Secretary of Defense stated and Haney explains, "the game has changed and we're prepared to do what is necessary to defend our personnel, and our interests and our partners in the region." Hear why this counter-terrorism operation is not an act of war, why, and what may be next! See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/1164426993763584/?epa=SEARCH_BOX Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Russians, Chinese and Iranians began joint naval exercises, Friday, 12.27.2019. This is unprecedented. It marks the first of its kind among and between these rogue regimes. Hear MAJOR GENERAL PAUL VALLELY, U.S. Army (Ret.), on what this may mean going forward in 2020. And learn inel not available in the mainstream media on the U.S. led coalition attack on five (5) Iranian-backed Kata'ib Hizballah bases in Iraq and Syria. See:https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/2693646500716869/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Learn why university and community colleges may now RISK FEDERAL FUNDING. Hear what you didn't know about President Trump, the first President in America's history to have the courage to affirm civil rights protections for all students and what prior administrations could not get across the finish line in Congress and would not do by executive order. Plus, more! See: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/2742113012514696/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

Egyptian-American, RAYMOND IBRAHIM, author, speaker, Islamic Affairs specialist speaks to Turkey's growing persecution of Christians and the destruction of literally thousands of churches or cathedrals which have held ancient Byzantine art, classical art forms of majestic mosaics and paintings, inside this Muslim-dominant country. Indeed, once known as Anatolia, an ancient Christian region, later conquered by Mohammedan armies to become the Ottoman Empire, it became Turkey following the Great War or World War I. See RaymondIbrahim.com and his piece, "Turkey: Reliving the Glory/Gory Days of Jihad." What are the results of political correctness in today's world despite evidence of growing anti-Christian sentiment and anti-Semitism? And see: https://www.facebook.com/TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/2536360629974778/ Share this broadcast with others and help continue the work of The Denice Gary Show by making your tax deductible contribution to The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380 a 501 c 3 educational foundation!

On The Denice Gary Show today: Turkey has angered not only President Trump, but the Washington establishment! Dems and some Republicans are having a meltdown on the President's decision to withdraw 50 - 100 Special Operators from a 20 - 30 mile area in northern Syria. Is President Trump right to remove America forces, standing in the path of an invading Turkish army into Syria, looking to establish a "safe zone" for Muslim refugees along the Turkey-Syria border? Hear this explosive interview with ADMIRAL PETER KIKAREAS, former NATO Commander in the Mediterranean, an international counter-terrorism leader, and listed as Whose Who in America and Whose Who in the World. See: https://www.facebook.com/ TheDeniceGaryShow/videos/ 389757438360618/ HELP keep this broadcast on the air by making a tax-deductible contribution to The Denice Gary Show, by sending your support to my 501 (c) (3) non-profit, The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380.

ADMIRAL PETER KIKAREAS, former NATO Commander, counter-terrorism leader, Whose Who in America and Whose Who in the World, speaks to a possible genocide initiated by Turkey's Islamist President Erdogan and an evolving U.S. strategic partnership with Israel, Greece, and Cypress due to developing threats from Turkey's Islamic government. Plus more! And make a tax-deductible contribution to The Denice Gary Show, by sending your support to my 501 (c) (3) non-profit, The Middle East Initiative, P.O. Box 82162, Bakersfield, CA 93380.

It is now clear that the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi embassy in Turkey was a pre-planned execution, likely ordered by people at the very top of the Saudi government. The incident has sparked an international outcry, and raises questions about the US’s relationship with the Saudis. What is the underlying nature of the US-Saudi alliance? How has Trump's strategy differed from Obama’s, and what impact might all of this have on relations with Iran and elsewhere across the Middle East? Colin Kahl was deputy assistant to President Obama and a national security advisor to Vice President Biden from 2014 to 2017. He’s now the co-director of FSI’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, and the head of its Middle East Initiative. In this discussion with Michael McFaul, Kahl outlines the unease some American diplomats feel towards our relationship with Saudi Arabia. He explains steps that President Obama took to restructure the alliance, and he argues that President Trump’s decision to double-down in Saudi Arabia has narrowed the options for responding to an increasingly fractured relationship.

It is now clear that the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi embassy in Turkey was a pre-planned execution, likely ordered by people at the very top of the Saudi government. The incident has sparked an international outcry, and raises questions about the US’s relationship with the Saudis. What is the underlying nature of the US-Saudi alliance? How has Trump's strategy differed from Obama’s, and what impact might all of this have on relations with Iran and elsewhere across the Middle East? Colin Kahl was deputy assistant to President Obama and a national security advisor to Vice President Biden from 2014 to 2017. He’s now the co-director of FSI’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, and the head of its Middle East Initiative. In this discussion with Michael McFaul, Kahl outlines the unease some American diplomats feel towards our relationship with Saudi Arabia. He explains steps that President Obama took to restructure the alliance, and he argues that President Trump’s decision to double-down in Saudi Arabia has narrowed the options for responding to an increasingly fractured relationship.

Yemen has become, according to the United Nations and World Health Organization, the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. Nearly 12 million people are in need of assistance and in 2017, the worst cholera outbreak in recent history affected an estimated 1 million people. The outbreak, though now controlled, and other infectious diseases combine with famine, malnutrition, and the collapse of the country’s water and sanitation sector to threaten millions, while aid access is blocked and aid workers, hospitals, and civilian areas are attacked. As the armed conflict continues and political fissures in Yemen deepen, humanitarian access and protection issues continue to pose enormous challenges. This panel was recorded during a live event at the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Panelists discussed the complexities of addressing the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Yemen, paying particular focus to the cholera outbreak, as well as the broader issues of sustaining humanitarian access and protection, advocating for respect for human rights, and achieving a political solution to the crisis.

The eighth round of U.N.-sponsored peace talks in Geneva faltered this month, to the disappointment of Syria envoy Steffan de Mistura, who called failed negotiations a “missed opportunity." Russia, on the other-hand, is hoping that upcoming Moscow-backed negotiations in the Kazakh capital of Astana and the Russian city of Sochi will yield a political settlement for the Syrian war. On this episode of Deeply Talks, Hashem Osseiran, deputy managing editor, speaks with Rami Khouri, senior public policy fellow at the American University of Beirut and non-resident senior fellow with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, and Max Suchkov, editor of Al-Monitor’s Russia-Mideast coverage, about the prospects and challenges of a settlement for Syria. For more information on the war in Syria, visit www.newsdeeply.com/syria and subscribe to our weekly emails.

The eighth round of U.N.-sponsored peace talks in Geneva faltered this month, to the disappointment of Syria envoy Steffan de Mistura, who called failed negotiations a “missed opportunity." Russia, on the other-hand, is hoping that upcoming Moscow-backed negotiations in the Kazakh capital of Astana and the Russian city of Sochi will yield a political settlement for the Syrian war. On this episode of Deeply Talks, Hashem Osseiran, deputy managing editor, speaks with Rami Khouri, senior public policy fellow at the American University of Beirut and non-resident senior fellow with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, and Max Suchkov, editor of Al-Monitor’s Russia-Mideast coverage, about the prospects and challenges of a settlement for Syria. For more information on the war in Syria, visit www.newsdeeply.com/syria and subscribe to our weekly emails.

Professor Robert Springborg (Italian Institute of International Affairs, Rome), gives a talk for the Middle East Centre seminar series. Robert Springborg is a non-resident Research Fellow of the Italian Institute of International Affairs, Rome. Until October 2013, he was Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, and Program Manager for the Middle East for the Center for Civil-Military Relations. From 2002 until 2008, he held the MBI Al Jaber Chair in Middle East Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where he also served as Director of the London Middle East Institute. Before taking up that Chair, he was Director of the American Research Center in Egypt, University Professor of Middle East Politics at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia; and assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also taught at King’s College, London; University of California, Berkeley; the College of Europe; the Paris School of International Affairs of Sciences Po; and the University of Sydney. In 2016, he was Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar, Middle East Initiative, Kennedy School, and Harvard University. His publications include Mubarak’s Egypt: Fragmentation of the Political Order; Family Power and Politics in Egypt; Legislative Politics in the Arab World (co-authored with Abdo Baaklini and Guilain Denoeux); Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East first and second editions, (co-authored with Clement M. Henry); Oil and Democracy in Iraq; Development Models in Muslim Contexts: Chinese, ‘Islamic’ and Neo-Liberal Alternatives and several editions of Politics in the Middle East (co-authored with James A. Bill). He co-edited a volume on popular culture and political identity in the Gulf that appeared in 2008. He has published in the leading Middle East journals and was the founder and regular editorialist for The Middle East in London, a monthly journal that commenced publication in 2003. His new book -‘Egypt’ has just been published in October 2017 by Polity Press.

Nadia Marzouki explores how the topic of Islam has become so contentious in America. Marzouki says her research showed her that controversies around Muslims living in America don't just express Islamophobia. "They betray and express a deeper discomfort and unease with an understanding of law, an understanding of rights, and an understanding of equal democracy. This is really what's at stake in the conversations among the disputes around mosques, Sharia law, and also— in a more minor way— the headscarf... or various forms of religious rituals related to the Islamic communities." As an observer from Europe, Marzouki says, "It was really surprising to see how similar all the rhetorical tropes animating anti-Muslim movements were similar in Europe and the United States. This was all the more surprising because all the sociologies of Islam in Europe and United States. You don't have the same Muslim communities. They don't come from the same ethnic backgrounds. They don't have the same socio-economic level. They don't have the same level of education. In general, they're much more educated and have a better social economic level in the U.S. Before 2001, and even more so before 2008, Islam was never such a big problem in domestic politics in the United States." "What's really completely absurd and problematic in the current situation both in Europe and in the U.S. is that we are deciding policies based on stereotypical discourse— and without any account for the empirics and the lived realities of Muslim communities." Marzouki is an Andrew Carnegie Centennial Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and a research fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center’s Middle East Initiative.

Steven Brooke speaks with Marc Lynch about the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt over the past five years and prospects for future study of the group. Brooke is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center’s Middle East Initiative at Harvard University and will be an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville beginning in the fall of 2016.

Steven Brooke speaks with Marc Lynch about the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt over the past five years and prospects for future study of the group. Brooke is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center’s Middle East Initiative at Harvard University and will be an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville beginning in the fall of 2016.

Former Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa and the Middle East Institute’s Dr. Paul Salem discuss Tunisia’s relative success in establishing a stable democracy in the wake of the Arab Spring. Jomaa, who recently delivered an address at the JFK Jr. Forum, and Salem, who lead a seminar at the Belfer Center’s Middle East Initiative, go into detail about how Tunisia’s strong national identity, existing civil service society and commitment to a secular government have set it apart.

Nicholas Burns is Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is Faculty Chair of the school’s Middle East Initiative, India & South Asia Program, and is director of the Future of Diplomacy Project. He writes a bi-weekly foreign affairs column for the Boston Globe and is a senior foreign affairs columnist for GlobalPost. He is also Director of the Aspen Strategy Group and a Senior Counselor at the Cohen Group. He served in the US Foreign Service for twenty-seven years, during which time he was appointed Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Ambassador to NATO, Ambassador to Greece, and State Department Spokesman. He worked on the National Security Council staff as Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia Affairs and Special Assistant to President Clinton and Director for Soviet Affairs for President George H.W. Bush.

Arab Talk Host Jess Ghannam interviews Diana Buttu about the Harvard 1-State Conference. http://onestateconference.org/ Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and former spokesperson with the Negotiations Support Unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization. She has worked as a legal adviser and negotiator on peace negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian organizations and has appeared numerous times on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC. Ms. Buttu received a B.A. in Middle East and Islamic Studies and an LL.M. from the University of Toronto, a J.D. from Queen's University Faculty of Law, a J.S.M. from Stanford Law School, and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She is currently a fellow with the Middle East Initiative at the Belfer Center and an Eleanor Roosevelt visiting fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.