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Will Todman, "Challenging Authority in Post-Revolution Tunisia," CSIS, January 22, 2020. Will Todman, "A Coup in Tunisia?" CSIS, July 27, 2021. Monica Marks, “An Interview with Hamma Hammami of the Tunisian Worker's Party,” Jadaliyya, August 20, 2021. Then, Jon, Will Todman, and Caleb Harper continue the conversation about the nature of popular authoritarianism and how we should think about popular despots in Tunisia and the rest of the Arab world. They discuss Tunisian President Kais Saied's recent moves to consolidate power, why Tunisians seem to support him, what's at stake for Tunisia's democracy, and what role Western donors and institutions can play in the country. Monica Marks, a professor of Middle East politics at NYU Abu Dhabi who has been thinking about Tunisia for almost 15 years. Transcript, "What We Get Wrong About Iran," CSIS, February 1, 2022. Jon Alterman, "Iran Will Still Be a Slog," DefenseOne, January 23, 2021. Podcast, "Karim Sadjadpour: Iran's Future," CSIS, July 13, 2021. Jason Rezaian, “Four decades of ignorance have led to this U.S.-Iran standoff,” Washington Post, December 28, 2021. No one's buying it.” Washington Post, January 12, 2022. Jason Rezaian, “Iran is spinning a fairytale that there's no place like home. government gets wrong about Iranians, and how Iranian leaders think about hostage-taking and its role in Iranian foreign policy. Then, Jon, Will Todman, and Caleb Harper continue the conversation about what some Iranians get wrong about Americans and how decisionmakers should think about public opinion in Iran and other states in the region. Jon and Rezaian talk about why he went to Iran, what the U.S.
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In 2012, he joined the Washington Post, and in 2014, he was arrested and spent 544 days in Iran's Evin Prison. This week on Babel, Jon speaks with Jason Rezaian, an Iranian-American journalist who grew up in California and moved to Iran to report in 2009. Transcript, "Disinformation in the Arab World," CSIS, June 14, 2022. Here's what those tactics might look like in Ukraine," Washington Post, March 11, 2022. Natasha Hall and Will Todman, "Russia waged a cheap war in Syria. Jon Alterman, "The Middle East's Indifference to Ukraine Is a Warning," Defense One, May 12, 2022. Nadia Oweidat, “Supporting Youth Activists in the MENA Region: A Challenging Reality and Opportunities for a Bright Future,” Wilson Center, August 12, 2021. Nadia Oweidat, “The Russian Propaganda in Arabic Hidden from the West,” Wilson Center, April 18, 2022. Then, Natasha Hall, Will Todman, and Caleb Harper continue the conversation about how populations and states in the region think about the United States as the international system becomes more multipolar. They talk about Russian disinformation efforts in Arabic media outlets, how authoritarian states in the region are amplifying those efforts, and how she thinks Western governments should respond. This week on Babel, Jon speaks with Nadia Oweidat, a Middle East fellow at the Wilson Center and an assistant professor at Kansas State University. Transcript, "Nuclear Negotiations with Iran," CSIS, July 26, 2022. Jon Alterman, "Iran Will Still be a Slog," Defense One, January 25, 2021.
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Henry Rome and Eric Brewer, “Getting to ‘No' With Iran,” War on the Rocks, December 1, 2021. Henry Rome, “The status of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program,” International Institute for Strategic Studies, January 25, 2022. Henry Rome, “The Limits of a New Iran Nuclear Deal,” Foreign Affairs, March 8, 2022. Then, Jon continued the conversation with Natasha Hall and Caleb Harper about what the lack of a deal would mean for the United States and U.S. They talk about negotiations for a new nuclear deal with Iran and why they've stalled, scenarios for where negotiations and Iran's nuclear program might go from here, and how the region might change if Iran successfully develops a nuclear weapon.
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This week on Babel, Jon speaks with Henry Rome, deputy head of research at the Eurasia Group and a longtime watcher of Israel and Iran.