1547 Prof Thanassis Cambanis + News & Clips
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Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 95 minutes
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My conversation with Thanassis starts at about 45 minutes in to today's show after headlines and clips
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Thanassis Cambanis is an author, journalist, and director of Century International. His work focuses on U.S. foreign policy, Arab politics, and social movements in the Middle East.
He is currently working on a book about the impact of the 2003 Iraq invasion on the international system. He is the author of Once Upon A Revolution: An Egyptian Story (Simon and Schuster: 2015); A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah's Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel (Free Press: 2010); and editor of Hybrid Actors: Armed Groups and State Fragmentation in the Middle East (TCF press: 2019), Citizenship and Its Discontents: The Struggle for Rights, Inclusion and Pluralism in the Middle East (TCF press: 2019), Order from Ashes: New Foundations for Security in the Middle East (TCF press: 2018), and Arab Politics Beyond The Uprisings: Experiments in an Era of Resurgent Authoritarianism (TCF press: 2017). He regularly contributes to Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, World Policy Review, and other publications.
He is an adjunct professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and sorry I am late for work. There was a ton of traffic between my two bedrooms here. It is Wednesday. It's the 4th of March and there is a lot of news to get to. I have a great guest joining me today for the first time. A scholar and author, a journalist who spent much of his life reporting, writing from the Middle East. |
| 0:24.0 | He now works at the Century Foundation, which is a pretty interesting think tank that was founded in 1919. |
| 0:30.6 | Their mission statement is to foster opportunity, reduce inequality, and promote security. |
| 0:35.6 | And today I taught you, senior fellow and director of Century |
| 0:39.0 | International, Fanasi Cabanis, I think I'm saying his name right. It's Greek, but he is American, |
| 0:45.4 | speaks perfect American, and real smart, super helpful, loved his insights, got along great, |
| 0:50.9 | and that conversation begins today at 45 minutes into the show after news and headlines. |
| 0:56.3 | But first, like every day here at Stand Up on the audio version of the podcast exclusively, you've got a great news recap. |
| 1:04.7 | I've got tons of headlines and clips to give you context on everything that happened yesterday, from outcomes and analysis on |
| 1:12.5 | the war in Iran, to a very combative hearing on Capitol Hill, where the Department of |
| 1:18.1 | Homeland Security and woman who killed her own dog, Christy Noam, got confronted about that |
| 1:22.9 | by a Republican senator. Tom Tillis, you got to hear that clip. And of course, yesterday there were primaries in Texas, in North Carolina, and Arkansas. |
| 1:32.0 | We've got big outcomes and controversies already from last night's elections. |
| 1:37.7 | So let's get to. |
| 1:39.4 | Let's start with the war. |
| 1:41.7 | Seems like one of the big headlines has to be that Americans are being told to |
| 1:46.0 | get out of like 15, 20 countries in the Middle East, but there's no way out. And the Department of |
| 1:53.3 | State, that's their job and they have not done it. And so seasoned scholars and diplomats from |
| 2:00.7 | around the world are going, holy shit, what an absolute cluster fuck. |
| 2:05.1 | All of us saw this coming. |
| 2:07.4 | We always have contingency plans in place. |
| 2:10.3 | Others blaming it on the massive cuts that Doge made to the operations that would help there, including by by the way, Voice of America, which normally |
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