With the assassination of a top Hamas leader in Lebanon, twin blasts in Iran, and Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, 2024 is already off to a turbulent start in the Middle East. So what’s the state of play in the region?

In this episode: 

• Rami Khouri (@RamiKhouri), Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at American University of Beirut

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Sarí el-Khalili, Ashish Malhotra, and our host Malika Bilal. Chloe K. Li and Miranda Lin fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik, and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

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