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Nov 2023
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Anticipatory self-defence: Hizbullah and...

SINA RAHMANI (@URORIENTALIST)
About this episode

Amal Saad (@amalsaad_lb) is Lecturer in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University and one of the world's leading experts on Lebanon's Hizbullah movement.

Guest hosted by long time friend of the show Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday), Founding Editor of Liberated Texts

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