The Evan Bray Show - Sean Foley - Tuesday, August 6th, 2024

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After last week's assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the top leader of Hamas, and escalations between Israel and Hezbollah, Tamara Cherry checks in on the Middle East. Sean Foley, professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University specializes in the Middle East, southeast Asia and political and socio-religious trends in the broader Islamic world, with publications widely on the arts, Islamic history and Middle East and Gulf politics. He joins Tamara.
6 Aug 2024 11AM English Canada News Commentary

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