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Yemen and the transregional Saudi-UAE conflict

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Last year, I published a Cambridge Element titled What is the Middle East? The Theory and Practice of Regions. It surveyed the origins and the implications of the adoption of the concept of the Middle East as a region, and argued that regional scholars should think in more transregional terms,

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This Must Be the Podcast: Samuel Helfont I'm supposed to be writing a piece about the US-Iran deal, and finding it a bit challenging. Nobody seems to have seen the actual text of the agreement. American and Iranian descriptions of the agreement are diametrically opposed on all

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