Rania Khalek on Syria and being a "generic Druze"

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🗓️ 26 April 2017

⏱️ 76 minutes

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I talk to Rania Khalek the day before she heads back to the Middle East to report from Lebanon, Iraq and Syria. Rania talks about what nobody wants to say about Syria, the efforts to ban her from speaking, and the claim that she has a "generic Druze position," which she uses trickery to conceal. We also talk to Ben Norton about the 5 best (or worst) hype men for the Syrian War (a bunch are at The New York Times), and we talk to Nando Vila about Brian Williams & how little we've learned from Iraq.

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1:09.3	So we're really excited to talk to her right before she goes on another big trip to the Middle East.
1:13.1	She'll be going to Iraq and Syria and Lebanon.
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1:18.4	Ben Norton shares with us five of the worst responses to Syria.
1:21.5	And a bunch of them come from the New York Times. You'd be
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