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In our Six Years That Made the Modern Middle East podcast series, we come to our finale episode 2011. This is the year of the Arab Spring. It’s the year that the Syrian Civil War began. It was the year the US withdrew from Iraq. It was also the year that ISIS began is spread from Iraq into Syria. As we will see in this final episode, this is the year that set the Middle East on the trajectory to the status we find ourselves in today.
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- Fears of Wider Middle East Conflict Deepen, With US Seen As ‘Not In Control.’
- Palestinian Intifada
- Hamas Celebrates Election Victory
- President Bush Cites ‘Axis of Evil’
- They Died for Lack of a Head Scarf
- Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart
- Saudi Arabia and Iran May Be Headed for War
- Saudi Arabia Has Devastated Yemen
- In the Middle East, the Dream of Democracy Is Dead
- Reassessing Obama’s Biggest Mistake
- How the Iranian-Saudi Proxy Struggle Tore the Middle East Apart
