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Order From Ashes

Order From Ashes

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Today’s world is in unprecedented flux. Rights and citizenship are under assault. Authoritarianism is on the rise. No single country can dictate the rules. The Middle East lies at the cutting edge of the crises of our age, with every world power, including the United States, deeply involved. Host Thanassis Cambanis interviews activists, researchers, and decision-makers about the problems of our time, and possible solutions. This podcast is produced by Century International. Our research focuses on the human impact of global policy. We are independent, critical, and progressive. Find our work at https://tcf.org/topics/century-international/.

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Sistanis Historic Legacy

Published: Dec. 12, 2023, 4:47 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 36 seconds

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How Is the Gaza War Affecting the Middle East?

Published: Nov. 29, 2023, 9:26 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 47 seconds

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Aid That Backfires

Published: Nov. 7, 2023, 9:29 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 32 seconds

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Shia Power: Sectarian Prejudice

Published: Oct. 23, 2023, 7:14 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 52 seconds

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Shia Power: Iraqs Nationalist Revolutionaries

Published: Oct. 10, 2023, 6:53 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 2 seconds

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Shia Power: Do Clerics Still Have Authority?

Published: Oct. 2, 2023, 3:03 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 46 seconds

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Shia Power: Whats an Islamist?

Published: Sept. 25, 2023, 4:21 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 16 seconds

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Facing Iraqs Climate Catastrophe

Published: July 11, 2023, 5:37 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 20 seconds

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Lebanons Botched Economic Rescue

Published: June 13, 2023, 2:48 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 38 seconds

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Power and Power in Lebanon

Published: May 9, 2023, 3:22 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 5 seconds

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A Tale of Two Border Towns

Published: April 4, 2023, 2:20 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 41 seconds

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Broken Bonds: Quitting the Brotherhood

Published: March 7, 2023, 7:14 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 48 seconds

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Broken Bonds: Leaders without Legitimacy

Published: March 2, 2023, 9:04 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 35 seconds

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Broken Bonds: No Identity

Published: Feb. 28, 2023, 9:11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 14 seconds

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Broken Bonds: Existential Crises

Published: Feb. 23, 2023, 5:21 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 40 seconds

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Broken Bonds: My Life as a Muslim Brother

Published: Feb. 21, 2023, 3:14 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 56 seconds

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The Earthquake, Cholera, and Borders

Published: Feb. 8, 2023, 8:48 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 14 seconds

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Iraqs Heist of the Century

Published: Jan. 10, 2023, 4:31 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 50 seconds

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Progressive Policy: Shrinking Americas Military Footprint

Published: Dec. 19, 2022, 9:54 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 5 seconds

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Progressive Policy: Replacing the War on Terror

Published: Dec. 13, 2022, 10:35 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 24 seconds

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Citizenship Finale: Learning, from Protests to Movements

Published: May 26, 2022, 3:37 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 42 seconds

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Citizenship: Skill-Building, from Protests to Movements

Published: May 23, 2022, 8:18 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes

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Citizenship: Police Reform Is a Global Industry

Published: May 16, 2022, 8:55 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 48 seconds

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Citizenship: Whos Afraid of Gender?

Published: May 11, 2022, 4:57 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 14 seconds

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Citizenship: Beyond Exceptionalismthe Middle East, Gender, and Sexuality

Published: May 9, 2022, 11:14 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 56 seconds

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Citizenship: Are We Really in an Age of Militias?

Published: May 3, 2022, 8:53 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 24 seconds

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Citizenship: Gender, Religion, and Militias

Published: May 2, 2022, 11:31 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 34 seconds

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Citizenship Introduction: A Global Crisis in Citizenship

Published: April 25, 2022, 5:18 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 43 seconds

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War in Ukraine, Pain in Syria

Published: April 12, 2022, 1:08 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 14 seconds

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Making Lemonade from the Abraham Accords

Published: March 2, 2022, 1:25 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 15 seconds

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Closing Syrias Border to Aid

Published: July 2, 2021, 5:01 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 56 seconds

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Syrians Are Going Hungry

Published: June 8, 2021, 3:06 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes

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Iran and Saudi Start to Talk

Published: May 18, 2021, 2:36 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 50 seconds

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Thaw Between Turkey and Egypt

Published: March 30, 2021, 3:39 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 33 seconds

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Yemens Wars at a Turning Point

Published: March 9, 2021, 4:55 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 1 second

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Rethinking American Assumptions about the Middle East

Published: March 2, 2021, 12:51 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 49 seconds

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Egypts Revolution at 10

Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 1:44 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes

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War Comes Homes

Published: Jan. 26, 2021, 3:11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 48 seconds

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Americas Attempted Coup

Published: Jan. 19, 2021, 5:14 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 20 seconds

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Nature and National Security in the Middle East

Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 1:53 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 39 seconds

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Promoting Americas Devalued Democracy

Published: Dec. 1, 2020, 6:49 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 33 seconds

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Whats Next for the Muslim Brotherhood?

Published: Sept. 23, 2020, 1:16 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 32 seconds

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Can the U.S. Help Syria Without Helping Assad?

Published: Aug. 3, 2020, 11:43 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 54 seconds

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Saudi Arabias Disruptor King

Published: June 23, 2020, 1:38 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 38 seconds

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COVID-19 Gathers Force in Middle East

Published: June 9, 2020, 11:24 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 59 seconds

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Lebanon, Neoliberalism's Proving Ground

Published: April 28, 2020, 1:41 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 33 seconds

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Lessons from the European Union in Crisis

Published: April 6, 2020, 6:03 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 53 seconds

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A New World Order after the Pandemic?

Published: March 23, 2020, 8:37 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 47 seconds

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Virus and Oil Price Shocks Buffet the Gulf

Published: March 18, 2020, 2:45 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 10 seconds

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Whats the Price of Giving Up on Human Rights and International Law?

Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 3:04 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 26 seconds

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Rupture in the IraqAmerica partnership

Published: Jan. 28, 2020, 4:04 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 18 seconds

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Dubai Ports World and a New Form of Imperialism

Published: Dec. 9, 2019, 10:20 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 39 seconds

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A Better Explanation for Powerful Armed Groups: Hybridity

Published: Nov. 25, 2019, 8:33 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 27 seconds

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How Is Iraq Managing Its Oil?

Published: Nov. 5, 2019, 3:59 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 32 seconds

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Popular Protest Redux in Iraq and Egypt

Published: Oct. 14, 2019, 3:44 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 24 seconds

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Reviving the United Nations

Published: Sept. 30, 2019, 2:07 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 35 seconds

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Rethinking IsraelPalestines Stifling Status Quo

Published: Sept. 3, 2019, 3:12 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 44 seconds

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Downgrading Americas Commitments in the Middle East

Published: Aug. 13, 2019, 2:06 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 14 seconds

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A Smarter Iran Policy

Published: July 18, 2019, 6:39 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 47 seconds

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Defining a Progressive Middle East Policy

Published: June 17, 2019, 7:43 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 32 seconds

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Americas Blind Spot on Palestine

Published: May 28, 2019, 2:40 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 28 seconds

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Contesting Sectarian Identity in Iraq

Published: May 8, 2019, 8:37 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 52 seconds

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[Arabic] LGBTQ Rights in Egypt

Published: May 2, 2019, 2:13 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 2 seconds

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Kurdish Nationalism at an Impasse

Published: April 29, 2019, 4:12 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 30 seconds

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[Arabic] Universal and Minority Rights in the Middle East

Published: April 17, 2019, 6:34 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 53 seconds

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Universal and Minority Rights in the Middle East

Published: April 9, 2019, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 13 seconds

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The Caliphates Last Stand

Published: March 26, 2019, 8:54 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 44 seconds

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Israels Global Security Industry

Published: March 12, 2019, 6:22 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 57 seconds

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Syrian Voices

Published: Feb. 21, 2019, 7:04 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 22 seconds

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A New Progressive International?

Published: Jan. 25, 2019, 6:04 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 4 seconds

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Iran after the Broken Deal

Published: Jan. 8, 2019, 6:09 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 18 seconds

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The Difficulty of Reporting from Assads Syria

Published: Dec. 18, 2018, 10:51 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 9 seconds

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The Challenges of Defending Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy

Published: Dec. 4, 2018, 10:14 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 58 seconds

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The Overlapping Wars in Yemenand U.S. Complicity in Catastrophe

Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 34 seconds

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Iraqs New Government, and Rebuilding Syria

Published: Oct. 16, 2018, 5:58 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 20 seconds

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Basra Protests Shake Iraqi Status Quo

Published: Sept. 25, 2018, 5:28 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 26 seconds

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How Germany Is Integrating One Million Syrian Refugees

Published: Sept. 11, 2018, 8:56 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 55 seconds

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New thinking about American liberal foreign policy

Published: Aug. 21, 2018, 8:47 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 24 seconds

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How to Research Lebanons Youth Problem (and Other Questions)

Published: July 23, 2018, 9:31 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes

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Recruiting militants: Greed or grievance?

Published: June 20, 2018, 2:16 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Iran in Iraq

Published: June 8, 2018, 6:56 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 19 seconds

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Do Elections Help or Hurt Middle-East Democracy?

Published: April 19, 2018, 8:28 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 21 seconds

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Bridging the Middle Easts Security Gulf

Published: April 6, 2018, 3 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 42 seconds

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Honor Killings and Womens Rights

Published: March 7, 2018, 5:22 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 33 seconds

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Iraqs Militia Problem and A Dangerous Point in Syria

Published: March 7, 2018, 4:46 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 16 seconds

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Why We Shouldnt Expect an Arab NATO

Published: Jan. 31, 2018, 4:08 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 12 seconds

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Dealing with Iran and Rebalancing American Interests

Published: Jan. 24, 2018, 3:09 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 2 seconds

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Security Architecture in the Middle East

Published: Jan. 16, 2018, 6:42 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 52 seconds

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Who Cares About A Faraway Siege?

Published: Dec. 21, 2017, 3:38 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 58 seconds

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A Post-American World

Published: Dec. 8, 2017, 5:16 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 34 seconds

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Talking with Syrian Exiles

Published: Nov. 30, 2017, 5:15 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 15 seconds

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Iraq after the Kurdish referendum

Published: Nov. 9, 2017, 3:57 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 46 seconds

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Syria's Next Phase

Published: Oct. 20, 2017, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 11 seconds

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Press Freedom in Egypt

Published: Oct. 20, 2017, 4:04 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 6 seconds

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Hezbollah and Iran's Road

Published: Oct. 12, 2017, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 49 seconds

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Demythologize ISIS

Published: Oct. 12, 2017, 2:42 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 34 seconds

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