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Hi, this is William Ramsey.

Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show.

I have a very special guest.

He comes to us from Egypt.

His name is Dr. Robert Mason, and he's just published a book.

The title of the book is New Perspectives on Middle East Politics, Economy, Society, and International Relations.

And he was the editor, but also a contributor to a number of sections within the book.

Dr. Mason is a fellow of the sectarianism proxies and de-sectarianization project at Lancaster University,

a non-resident fellow with the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington,

and currently sits on the International Studies Association Foreign Policy Analysis Section Executive Board.

He was associate professor of Middle East Studies at the American University in Cairo from 2016 to 2019.

Also a visiting scholar at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University in 2019 and a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford in 2016.

His research focuses mainly on the international relations of the Middle East, including Gulf politics, EuroMed, and Middle East Asia Relations.

Dr. Mason is the author or editor of numerous books, including reassessing order and disorder in the Middle East,

regional imbalance or disintegration in 2017.

Also, Egypt and the Gulf, a renewed regional policy alliance, 2016.

Muslim minority, state relations, violence, integration, and policy 2016.

International politics of the Arab Spring,

popular unrest in foreign policy 2014, and then foreign policy in Iran and Saudi Arabia,

economics and diplomacy in the Middle East 2014. So there's a lot to talk about, a lot of history,

a lot of geopolitics, but Dr. Mason can talk more about that. So Dr. Mason, are you there?

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