We're with Adham Sahloul and Shadi Hamid for Episode 140 of The Beirut Banyan.

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https://youtu.be/n_stQt1cAYY

Adham is a foreign policy analyst and former advisor to the Pete Buttigieg campaign. Shadi is a senior fellow at Brookings Institution.

We discuss their recent piece: "How Foreign Policy Factors for American Muslims in 2020":

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/04/03/how-foreign-policy-factors-for-american-muslims-in-2020/

And reflect on the Bernie Sanders campaign's willingness to strongly support Palestinian rights and engage American-Muslims' on wider concerns related to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.

We examine the recent shift in American-Muslim attitudes towards homosexuality and the LGBTQ community, and why the center-left (largely personified by the Bernie Sanders campaign) resonated with many American-Muslim primary voters. Our discussion also reflects on recent protests in Lebanon, Iraq and Iran, and whether protestor demands line up with current American policy vis-a-vis longstanding preference to stability and security.

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