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Jan 2024
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Colonialism, Zionism, Sectarianism w/ Us...

Daniel Denvir
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Featuring Ussama Makdisi on how Western colonialism and Zionism exploited, exacerbated, and imposed sectarianism across the Arab Middle East. This is the SECOND of a two-part interview.

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