Kicking the Hornet's Nest: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East

Recorded live at Litquake Festival 2025 KALW's Sunni Khalid, NPR's former Cairo bureau chief, sat down with Daniel Zoughbie, UC Berkeley complex systems scientist and historian to explore how US presidents have shaped the Middle East, often unleashing instability and conflict along the way—and the one US president who successfully charted a better course.

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