Capitalism, Christian Right, and Genocide: USA Today - Chris Hedges in Conversation w/ Bassam Haddad

Capitalism, Christian Right, and Genocide: USA Today
THURSDAY, 6 FEBRUARY 2025 | 2:00PM EST, 9:00PM GAZA
Join us this Thursday, February 6th for this extended conversation with Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, Chris Hedges, where he will address changes and continuities in the political landscape of the United States, its policies in the Middle East, and its role in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Hedges pays close attention to the current moment in the United States, with the advent of Trump’s presidency.
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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and was once the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for The New York Times. He spent two decades covering wars, revolutions, social upheavals, dictatorships and failed states in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans. Hedges, an Arabic speaker, reported for seven years from Gaza and the occupied West Bank. He covered resistance movements around the globe and the tactics used by regimes, including the apartheid government of Israel, to attempt to destroy them. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University, where is also studied the classics, has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto. He has taught for over a decade in the college degree program in the New Jersey prison system offered by Rutgers University. He is the author of 14 books, including several New York Times best sellers, on war, politics and the decline of the American empire.
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Bassam Haddad is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the acclaimed series Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam is Executive Producer of Status Podcast Channel and Director of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI). He received MESA's Jere L. Bacharach Service Award in 2017 for his service to the profession. Currently, Bassam is working on his second Syria book titled Understanding The Syrian Calamity: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).
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