Loay Alshareef is a Saudi content creator, educator, and international peace advocate, with a focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this episode, Loay discusses growing up in Saudi Arabia, his evolving Muslim beliefs, and what led to his early peace advocacy. The two discuss how communities can maintain their traditions whilst reforming, freedom of speech, monarchy vs democracy, the West, and what's next for the Middle East.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(11:11) Changing Muslim views

(21:27) Early peace advocacy work

(28:50) Courage to criticize

(36:49) Maintaining tradition vs reforming

(38:45) Free speech

(42:53) Monarchy

(49:38) Reasonable Western views

(51:55) Middle East next steps

(53:36) Outro

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