Arab Spring 2.0?

Worldly

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Zack, Jenn, and Alex talk about the massive protests in Iraq and what connection, if any, they might have with similar uprisings in Lebanon and Egypt. While there are major differences, they all share one thing in common: people just want their own functioning government. Hosts: Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp), senior correspondent, Vox Jennifer Williams (@jenn_ruth), senior foreign editor, Vox Alex Ward (@AlexWardVox), national security reporter, Vox More to explore: Subscribe for free to Today, Explained, Vox’s daily news podcast to help you understand the news, hosted by Sean Rameswaram. About Vox: Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Newsletter: Vox Sentences Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:51.5	Results may vary. For the past month Iraq has been racked by protests and they aren't protests
1:08.6	against the United States or its involvement in their country or some kind of
1:11.6	oil meddling they their protests against
1:13.5	their own government and against Iranian involvement in Iraq. Today I'm
1:18.9	worldly part of the Vox Media Podcast Network we are going to get into these protests. We're going to
1:24.2	understand why they're happening, what they mean, and connect them to some other
1:28.5	protest movements that are going on across the Middle East. I'm Zach Beecham, here
1:32.4	as always with Jen Williams and
1:33.9	Alex Ward. Hey good morning. Good morning to you too as well. I guess we should
1:39.7	probably start out by talking about when these protests erupted because it was in early October right Jen?
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