Welcome to the War on the Rocks podcast, covering strategy, defense, and foreign affairs.

I'm Nicholas Danforth, editor and host of today's show.

I'm here at the Doyle Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C.

and delighted to be joined by three of my favorite Middle East analysts.

We like to think that everyone who comes on the War on the Rock

podcast is a friend, but in this case, it's great to be here with three friends that I've

actually had the pleasure to get to know during my own time working on the Middle East.

Going from left to right we have Stephen Cook, the Enrico Mete Senior Fellow for the Middle East

in Africa at the Council on Foreign Relations.

We also have Joyce Karam, the senior news editor at El Monatur, following a long journalistic career

that also included the National and Al Hayat. Finally, we have Faisal Itani, who is the director of the New Lines Institute,

Associate Editor at New Lines magazine, another fantastic publication, and an adjunct

professor at Georgetown University.

Thank you all for coming on to chat here.

Thanks for having me on.

Yeah, great to be here.

Thank you, Nick.

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