Ilan Berman and Nadine Epstein discuss the fall of Syria's Bashar Al-Assad

A Deep Dive into the Fall of al-Assad and the Implications for the Middle East with Ilan Berman and Nadine Epstein

After 50 years of family rule, including 13 years of civil war, the people of Syria are celebrating, for now. What happened and how did it happen so quickly? What is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)—the rebel group that may emerge as the ruling party, who is its leader, Abu Mohammed al-Julani and will they be good for the Syrian people? What role did Israel play and what are the implications for the geopolitics of the region?

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Sabbath Queen with Amichai Lau Lavie, Sandi DuBowski and Aimee Ginsburg Bikel

Amichai Lau-Lavie and Sandi DuBowski are in conversation with Lau-Lavie’s longtime friend, journalist and writer Aimee Ginsburg Bikel, author of Theodore Bikel’s The City of Light, about the Sabbath Queen and what it means to be in the “messy middle.”

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