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Today’s world is in unprecedented flux. Rights and citizenship are under assault. Authoritarianism is on the rise. Century International director Thanassis Cambanis talks with researchers and activists at the cutting edge of the crises of our times. Find our work at https://tcf.org/topics/century-international/.


Episode Date
Hezbollah’s Comeback
May 26, 2026
Iraq’s Weakest Government Yet
May 19, 2026
America Lost. What Are the Rules Now?
May 12, 2026
Erasing Bint Jbail: What War Looks Like Now
May 05, 2026
Gulf Power Without an American Shield
Apr 28, 2026
A US War Economy That Destroys Value
Apr 21, 2026
A Truce That’s Still War in Lebanon and Hormuz
Apr 14, 2026
Trump Opens Pandora’s Box in Iraq
Mar 23, 2026
Forever War for Lebanon and Israel?
Mar 16, 2026
An Expensive Folly: Costs of the Iran War
Mar 09, 2026
Hezbollah Enters the Iran War Catastrophe
Mar 03, 2026
Iran Prepares for War With America
Feb 26, 2026
Who Killed the International Liberal Order This Time?
Feb 16, 2026
Smugglers to Supply Chains to Regional Warriors
Feb 09, 2026
On War Powers, Congress Is MIA
Feb 02, 2026
Who Will Rebuild Syria?
Jan 26, 2026
America's Authoritarian Turn
Jan 19, 2026
Iraq's Lessons for Venezuela
Jan 12, 2026
Sistani’s Historic Legacy
Dec 12, 2023
How Is the Gaza War Affecting the Middle East?
Nov 29, 2023
Aid That Backfires
Nov 07, 2023
Shia Power: Sectarian Prejudice
Oct 23, 2023
Shia Power: Iraq’s Nationalist Revolutionaries
Oct 10, 2023
Shia Power: Do Clerics Still Have Authority?
Oct 02, 2023
Shia Power: What’s an Islamist?
Sep 25, 2023
Facing Iraq’s Climate Catastrophe
Jul 11, 2023
Lebanon’s Botched Economic Rescue
Jun 13, 2023
Power and Power in Lebanon
May 09, 2023
A Tale of Two Border Towns
Apr 04, 2023
Broken Bonds: Quitting the Brotherhood
Mar 07, 2023
Broken Bonds: Leaders without Legitimacy
Mar 02, 2023
Broken Bonds: No Identity
Feb 28, 2023
Broken Bonds: Existential Crises
Feb 23, 2023
Broken Bonds: My Life as a Muslim Brother
Feb 21, 2023
The Earthquake, Cholera, and Borders
Feb 08, 2023
Iraq’s Heist of the Century
Jan 10, 2023
Progressive Policy: Shrinking America’s Military Footprint
Dec 19, 2022
Progressive Policy: Replacing the War on Terror
Dec 13, 2022
Citizenship Finale: Learning, from Protests to Movements
May 26, 2022
Citizenship: Skill-Building, from Protests to Movements
May 23, 2022
Citizenship: Police Reform Is a Global Industry
May 16, 2022
Citizenship: Who’s Afraid of Gender?
May 11, 2022
Citizenship: Beyond Exceptionalism—the “Middle East,” Gender, and Sexuality
May 09, 2022
Citizenship: Are We Really in an Age of Militias?
May 03, 2022
Citizenship: Gender, Religion, and Militias
May 02, 2022
Citizenship Introduction: A Global Crisis in Citizenship
Apr 25, 2022
War in Ukraine, Pain in Syria
Apr 12, 2022
Making Lemonade from the Abraham Accords
Mar 02, 2022
Closing Syria’s Border to Aid
Jul 02, 2021
Syrians Are Going Hungry
Jun 08, 2021
Iran and Saudi Start to Talk
May 18, 2021
Thaw Between Turkey and Egypt
Mar 30, 2021
Yemen’s Wars at a Turning Point
Mar 09, 2021
Rethinking American Assumptions about the Middle East
Mar 02, 2021
Egypt’s Revolution at 10
Feb 09, 2021
War Comes Homes
Jan 26, 2021
America’s Attempted Coup
Jan 19, 2021
Nature and National Security in the Middle East
Dec 17, 2020
Promoting America’s Devalued Democracy
Dec 01, 2020
What’s Next for the Muslim Brotherhood?
Sep 23, 2020
Can the U.S. Help Syria Without Helping Assad?
Aug 03, 2020
Saudi Arabia’s Disruptor King
Jun 23, 2020
COVID-19 Gathers Force in Middle East
Jun 09, 2020
Lebanon, Neoliberalism's Proving Ground
Apr 28, 2020
Lessons from the European Union in Crisis
Apr 06, 2020
A New World Order after the Pandemic?
Mar 23, 2020
Virus and Oil Price Shocks Buffet the Gulf
Mar 18, 2020
What’s the Price of Giving Up on Human Rights and International Law?
Feb 11, 2020
Rupture in the Iraq–America partnership
Jan 28, 2020
Dubai Ports World and a New Form of Imperialism
Dec 09, 2019
A Better Explanation for Powerful Armed Groups: Hybridity
Nov 25, 2019
How Is Iraq Managing Its Oil?
Nov 05, 2019
Popular Protest Redux in Iraq and Egypt
Oct 14, 2019
Reviving the United Nations
Sep 30, 2019
Rethinking Israel–Palestine’s Stifling Status Quo
Sep 03, 2019
Downgrading America’s Commitments in the Middle East
Aug 13, 2019
A Smarter Iran Policy
Jul 18, 2019
Defining a Progressive Middle East Policy
Jun 17, 2019
America’s Blind Spot on Palestine
May 28, 2019
Contesting Sectarian Identity in Iraq
May 08, 2019
[Arabic] LGBTQ Rights in Egypt
May 02, 2019
Kurdish Nationalism at an Impasse
Apr 29, 2019
[Arabic] Universal and Minority Rights in the Middle East
Apr 17, 2019
Universal and Minority Rights in the Middle East
Apr 09, 2019
The Caliphate’s Last Stand
Mar 26, 2019
Israel’s Global Security Industry
Mar 12, 2019
Syrian Voices
Feb 21, 2019
A New Progressive International?
Jan 25, 2019
Iran after the Broken Deal
Jan 08, 2019
The Difficulty of Reporting from Assad’s Syria
Dec 18, 2018
The Challenges of Defending Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy
Dec 04, 2018
The Overlapping Wars in Yemen—and U.S. Complicity in Catastrophe
Nov 15, 2018
Iraq’s New Government, and Rebuilding Syria
Oct 16, 2018
Basra Protests Shake Iraqi Status Quo
Sep 25, 2018
How Germany Is Integrating One Million Syrian Refugees
Sep 11, 2018
New thinking about American liberal foreign policy
Aug 21, 2018
How to Research Lebanon’s Youth Problem (and Other Questions)
Jul 23, 2018
Recruiting militants: Greed or grievance?
Jun 20, 2018
Iran in Iraq
Jun 08, 2018
Do Elections Help or Hurt Middle-East Democracy?
Apr 19, 2018
Bridging the Middle East’s Security Gulf
Apr 06, 2018
Honor Killings and Women’s Rights
Mar 07, 2018
Iraq’s Militia Problem and A Dangerous Point in Syria
Mar 07, 2018
Why We Shouldn’t Expect an Arab NATO
Jan 31, 2018
Dealing with Iran and Rebalancing American Interests
Jan 24, 2018
Security Architecture in the Middle East
Jan 16, 2018
Who Cares About A Faraway Siege?
Dec 21, 2017
A Post-American World
Dec 08, 2017
Talking with Syrian Exiles
Nov 30, 2017
Iraq after the Kurdish referendum
Nov 09, 2017
Syria's Next Phase
Oct 20, 2017
Press Freedom in Egypt
Oct 20, 2017
Hezbollah and Iran's Road
Oct 12, 2017
Demythologize ISIS
Oct 12, 2017