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This week, in a special episode of Babel,\xa0Jon Alterman speaks with Middle East Program senior fellow Natasha Hall about the aftermath of the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. They talk about the aid response, how governments are instrumentalizing\xa0the aid response to advance their own goals, and the challenges in delivering aid to areas of northwest Syria controlled by rebel groups. Natasha draws on her earlier study,\xa0\u201cRescuing Aid in Syria,\u201d\xa0to argue that the United States and other donor governments need to rethink their aid response in Syria, better monitor where aid is going, and prepare for additional acute crises.\xa0\nTranscript, "The Aftermath of Earthquakes in Syria," CSIS, February 21, 2023.