
The ecumenical frame w/ Ussama Makdisi
The East is a Podcast
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Is It a Fair Thing to Compare the War on the Syrian State to the American Support of Fise?
The Arab Spring has been forged into the history of the region. The revolution in egypt, for instance, is different than those in libya and Syria. It's not like the ottomans were a third world anticolonial nation. And people often say that lebanon is an artificial state but i don't think that is so. Every country is arti doesn't mean very much to me,. what are the conditions in which certain sort of political communities are forged? Who is excluded from being part of these states? Right? Or who is included among them? What do we make of it all? We're talking about a massive range of countries with hundreds of millions of
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