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Anita Fuentes has a BA in media studies from Hampshire College (MA, USA), and a Master's in research methodologies in social science from Complutense University (Madrid). Her lines of research include media studies, antifeminism, and gender-based violence. She is currently the executive producer and host of the Security in Context podcast and a regular collaborator at the Spanish political podcast La Base.
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The following article is a transcript of the interview with the authors of "Sucked Dry", Annika McGinnis and Fredrick Mugira, conducted by Nayifa Nihad. Please visit our youtube page for the full video interview.
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Arlene B. Tickner is a professor of international relations in the School of International, Political and Urban Studies and co-director of the Colombian Observatory of Organized Crime (OCCO), with a Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Miami and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University. Her main areas of research include security in Latin America, Colombian foreign policy and Colombian-American relations, critical social theory in International Relations and global South approaches to world politics. She has authored over 75 edited volumes, book chapters and journal articles, in addition to several dozen working papers. Her most recent publications include: International Relations from the Global South: Worlds of Difference (Routledge, 2019); "Unsettling Knowledges in Latin America" in Latin America and the Caribbean in Global International Relations (Routledge, 2021); "Making Amends: Towards an Anti-Racist Critical Security Studies and IR" in Security Dialogue; "Weaving Worlds: Cosmopraxis as Relational Sensibility" in International Studies Review; and "COVID-19, Democracies and (De)Colonialities," Democratic Theory. In addition to her academic work, Tickner publishes a weekly opinion column in El Espectador on various international topics.
Anita Fuentes interviews professor Arlene B. Tickner about her perspectives on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, bringing her knowledge of Latin America into the conversation.
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Bassam Haddad is 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 serves on the Board of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences and is Executive Producer of Status audio magazine 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 Tragedy: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).
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Damon Lynch has a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology (2020) from the University of Minnesota. He has worked for civil society organizations in South and SouthEast Asia, the Middle East, and his home country Aotearoa / New Zealand. He is also an accomplished photographer and software developer. He has an MA (2007) in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a BSc (1994) in Computer Science from Victoria University of Wellington.
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Dr. Basileus Zeno is Karl Loewenstein Fellow and Visiting Lecturer in Political Science at Amherst College. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2021. His areas of specialization are comparative politics and contemporary political theory with a regional focus on the Middle East. Basileus is also an archaeologist by training and holds a B.A. (2006) in Archaeology and Museum Studies and an M.A. (2011) in Classical and Islamic Archaeology from Damascus University, Syria. Until summer 2012, Basileus was doing his Ph.D. in classical archaeology at Damascus University, but he could not complete his research because of the outbreak of the Syrian war. After moving to the United States, he restarted in 2013 his graduate studies pursuing his lifelong passion of researching questions of politics, power, violence, and identity by obtaining an M.A. in Political Science from Ohio University (2015).
Dr. Zeno's scholarly interests primarily focus on refugees, asylum and forced migration, violence, colonialism and colonial legacies, interpretive methodology, nationalism and sectarianism, and social movements in the Middle East. He has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork with Syrian asylum seekers and refugees in the United States, and he has published in the Middle East Law and Governance journal and Jadaliyya. Currently, he is working on a book manuscript that analyzes the effects of physical and legal violence on the meaning-making processes among Syrians and how the Trump administration weaponized time and expanded the structure of Kafkaesque bureaucracy to include racialized others through exclusion. Basileus also has multiple research projects, one article process-traces strategies of boundary-making in the context of the Syrian uprising and the sectarianization of the conflict between 2011-2013. Another project examines how the discourses of R2P and humanitarian intervention were perceived on the ground by Syrian activists and how they affected actors' semiotic practices and the ways in which they produced, received, and interacted with meanings in the revolutionary context of 2011- 2012.
In addition to academic interests, Basileus is strongly committed to public engagement and applied research. To this end, he served as a consultant and a researcher at several international organizations such as the Carter Center's Conflict Resolution Program, The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA), and the LSE Policy research project "Legitimacy and Citizenship in the Arab World." He is also a co-editor of the Syria Page at Jadaliyya and a co-founding member of Security in Context.
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Elie is a project manager with vast experience in process efficiency and solutions management. He has expertise in working and coordinating effectively with small and large organizations, international entities, government agencies, and NGOs. His approach emphasizes the building and maintaining of productive relationships and trust among team members and clients. He also has a background in curating events and programs in local, regional, and international venues. Elie recently served as communication manager for the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut, founded the Active Arab Voices website, co-founded Raseef22 a media platform, and co-developed the Arab Studies Institute's Knowledge Production Project.
Anita Fuentes interviews independent political analyst Eric Draitser about the Russia-Ukraine Conflict, discussing the roots and implications of the war.
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- Associate Professor of International Security at the Federal University of Rio De Janeiro
Fernando Brancoli is Associate Professor of International Security at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is a Fellow at the School of Social Science (SPSS) at the University of Princeton and an Associated Researcher at the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. His research interests are centered on how narratives of violence and neoliberalism circulate in the Global South, specially the Middle East and Latin America. In the last years, he conducted field research on Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
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Firat Demir is a Professor of Economics at the University of Oklahoma (OK, USA). He received his B.A. from Bogazici University (Istanbul Turkey), and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Notre Dame (IN, USA). Firat is also an affiliate faculty in the Department of International and Area Studies, the Center for Peace and Development and the Center for Social Justice at the University of Oklahoma. Firat is an associate editor of the Review of Social Economy and the Journal of Economic Surveys. His main fields of research are economic development and open economy macroeconomics focusing on the issues of economic globalization, structural change, South-South trade and finance, long run development and growth, and political economy of development. Firat was a Fulbright Fellow in Montenegro in 2015-2016 and has been selected as a Fulbright Fellow in Lithuania for 2020-2021. Firat has published one co-authored book (South-South Trade and Finance in the 21st Century: Rise of the South or a Second Great Divergence), and numerous articles in journals, including World Development, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Development and Change, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Review of Radical Political Economics, World Economy, Journal of Economic Surveys, and Foreign Policy.
The following interview with Omar Dahi and Firat Demir was conducted by Anita Fuentes as part of the upcoming episode on the "Ukraine Conflict: Perspectives from the Global South." In the interview, Dahi and Demir discuss the implications of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the Global South.
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George N. Fourlas (he/him/his) is a SHIFT associate professor of applied ethics and the common good at Hampshire College. He holds a B.A. in philosophy and legal studies from the University of San Francisco and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oregon. Professor Fourlas's teaching and research are problem-centric, focusing on issues of peace and justice, and drawing on various fields: ethics, social-political philosophy, critical race theory, decolonial theory, global/international studies, and conflict resolution.
Professor Fourlas is a philosopher who focuses on the possibility of a world wherein presently subjugated peoples can exist in self-determined communities without fear of violence or the objectification that affords violence. To that end, his teaching and research take place at the intersection of social-political theory, applied ethics, critical race theory, conflict resolution, decolonial theory, and global studies. Professor Fourlas has numerous publications related to these themes, including his recent book Anti-Colonial Solidarity: Race, Reconciliation, & MENA Liberation (Rowman and Littlefield). You can visit his website to learn more: gnfourlas.
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- Professor in Peace and Devlopment Studies / University of Gothenburg / Read Bio
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Anita Fuentes interviews author and professor Noha Aboueldahab about her perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, particularly drawing from the Middle East perspective.
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Anita Fuentes and Omar Dahi interview professor Samar Al-Bulushi on the possible ramifications of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the Global South, with a particular focus on the perspective from Africa.
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