GETTING CURIOUS | What's the Difference Between Sunni And Shia And Why Don't They Love Each Other? with Dr. James L. Gelvin

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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🗓️ 25 December 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In December of 2015, Dr. James L. Gelvin joined Jonathan in the studio to discuss the relationship between Shia and Sunni Islam and to record the very first episode of Getting Curious...the rest is history! Dr. James L. Gelvin is a Professor of Islamic Studies at UCLA. He holds his B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from Harvard. He’s also taught at Harvard, Boston College and MIT. His most recent book is titled “The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know” where he covers the social, political and economic landscape of the contemporary Middle East. To find out more about Dr. Gelvin’s work visit www.newsroom.ucla.edu. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy Holidays and Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:12.0	On today's special episode where we are
0:14.9	going a down memory lane because it's Christmas and everyone deserves a week off but
0:19.6	maybe you're new to getting curious and maybe you don't want to have to download Stitcher yet, but it's so worth it because really there's a whole bank of gorgeous episodes that are like they go back to December 15, 2015, which is when we started getting curious, and this episode is from our very first episode, which like I said, aired on December 15th, where we were joined by Dr. James Gelvin, professor of Islamic Studies at UCLA, where I asked
0:46.1	him, what's the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims and why don't they love each other?
0:51.2	So, without any further ado, and if you ever want to catch up on very much
0:55.2	in the bank in the vault getting curious episodes make sure to download that
0:59.6	stitcher honey. But without further ado here's Dr. James Galvin and I from like four years ago.
1:05.2	Almost, oh wait, no. It'll be five in December of 2020.
1:10.3	Love everyone, Listen more now.
1:16.0	Hi everyone, so this week on Hey Felicia, we have James Galvin, a professor of Modern Middle East History at UCLA.
1:22.0	Welcome, James. Thank you for having. So do you prefer
1:25.8	Jim or James? Okay great so we're gonna do Jim guys. So Jim I am from the middle of
1:31.7	America I am very much into current events and I when I read about
1:36.8	everything that's going on in the Middle East that I don't understand what is the difference
1:41.0	between a Sunni and a Shiite Muslim and why don't they love each other?
1:44.8	What's the deal?
1:45.8	First of all, am I even saying that right?
1:47.8	Well, it's probably better to say she.
1:50.8	She.
1:51.8	Actually, when you say she, there's the sound in there that you probably can't do and I wouldn't
1:56.7	be able to teach you within the next 20 minutes or so, but it's called an Iine sound and you get it by sticking your fingers down your throat and seeing
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