Lebanon: Politics & the Syrian Conflict

Elias Muhanna @QifaNabki joins me to discuss the current political situation in Lebanon and Hezbollah’s increasing involvement in the Syrian conflict. Elias is a professor of comparative literature and Middle East studies at Brown University and is the author of the Qifa Nabki blog on Lebanese politics, history, and culture.

Links:

• The Daily Star
• Al Akhbar
• Al Nahar
• Al Safir
• Jadaliyya
• Foreign Policy Middle East Channel
• Syria Comment by Joshua Landis

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Protests in Turkey

Aaron Stein joins me to discuss recent protests in Turkey. Stein is a researcher at the Istanbul based Center for Economics & Foreign Policy Studies and runs the blog Turkey Wonk.

Links:

• Aaron Stein @aaronstein1
• Protests Show Turks Can’t Tolerate Erdogan Anymore by Stein in The Atlantic
• Sinan Ulgen @sinanulgen1 of Carnegie Europe
• Yavuz Baydar @yavuzbaydar of Al-Monitor
• Joost Lagendijk @joostlagendijk of Today’s Zaman
• Hugh Pope @Hugh_Pope of the International Crisis Group
• Karl Morand @KarlMorand

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Sunni Foreign Fighters in Syria

Aaron Zelin joins me to discuss Sunni foreign fighters in the Syrian conflict. Zelin is a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and runs the blog Jihadology.net. He also recently co-authored a study with Flashpoint Partners “Convoy of Martyrs in the Levant: A Joint Study Charting the Evolving Role of Sunni Foreign Fighters in the Armed Uprising Against the Assad Regime in Syria”.

Links:

• Aaron Zelin @azelin
• Will McCants of Jihadica
• Andrew Lebovich @tweetsintheME
• Daveed Gartenstein-Ross @DaveedGR
• Phillip Smyth @PhillipSmyth
• Karl Morand @KarlMorand

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