0:00 Intro

3:32 Foreign Policy

19:33 Neutrality

28:16 Fouad Chehab

39:20 Army & Presidency

44:46 France

54:37 United States

1:05:24 Current Protest Movement

1:21:43 Political Violence

We're with Jeffrey Karam for Episode 239 of The Beirut Banyan.

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We discuss 'The Middle East in 1958', that year's impact on Lebanon and relationship to the October Uprising. We also talk about France's relationship to Lebanon, US foreign policy towards the region and US-Lebanese relations today.

Jeffrey is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Lebanese American University and Associate at Harvard University’s Middle East Initiative. His work has been published in both academic and public outlets, including Intelligence and National Security, the Arab Studies Journal, The Washington Post, H-Diplo and ISSF, the Daily Star Lebanon, Megaphone, Jadaliyya, and other venues.

He is the editor of The Middle East in 1958: Reimagining A Revolutionary Year. Purchase the book online via the following link:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-middle-east-in-1958-9781788319423/

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