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In this video, Dr. Negar Razavi discusses the geopolitical issues in association with Israel and the United States' conflict with Iran and Lebanon.This video is the fifth in a series that aims to educate the public about the history, past and present, of the US relationship with the Middle East from different perspectives. This lecture series is part of a broader research initiative "Rethinking US Middle East Policy: Past, Present, and Prospects", a collaboration between Security in Context and the Arab Studies Institute.

Dr. Negar Razavi is a Senior Researcher at Security in Context and a political anthropologist at the MRC, where she is working on her first book on the role of think tank experts in shaping U.S. security policies toward the Middle East generally and Iran specifically. Broadly, Razavi’s work sits at the intersections of critical security studies, anthropology, gender studies, human rights, and global Middle East studies. Razavi has published her research in Social Text, Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR), Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and Critical Studies on Security. As a publicly-engaged scholar, she has also shared her findings in Security in Context, Jadaliyya, the Iran Podcast, the Message, GenderAvenger, and the Middle East Report.

Edited by Nick Bythrow

Graphics by Owen Neuburger

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