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Fawaz A. Gerges

October 18th, 2024

The West and the failure of democracy in the Middle East with Professor Fawaz Gerges | The Ballpark podcast

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Fawaz A. Gerges

October 18th, 2024

The West and the failure of democracy in the Middle East with Professor Fawaz Gerges | The Ballpark podcast

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Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

In October 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Fawaz Gerges, Professor of International Relations in the Department of International Relations at LSE, holder of the Emirates Professorship in Contemporary Middle East Studies, and Affiliate of the LSE Phelan US Centre.

They discussed his new book, “What Really Went Wrong: The West and the failure of democracy in the Middle East”. We also discussed the history of US involvement in the region, and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas.

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About the author

Fawaz A. Gerges

Fawaz A. Gerges is a Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and holder of the Chair of the Contemporary Middle East. He was the LSE’s inaugural Director of the Middle East Centre from 2010 until 2013. Gerges’s latest book is What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East (Yale University Press 2024). His books have been translated into many languages.

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