Our first show after Tlaib, Omar, and AOC have been sworn in. What portends for politics in DC after the 2018 mid-term election?

Efraim Inbar is the founder of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies.

Efraim Inbar is president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, a professor emeritus of political studies at Bar-Ilan University, and former director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. He earned his undergraduate degree in English literature and political science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and his doctoral degree in political science from the University of Chicago. Inbar has held visiting posts at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown universities, the Woodrow Wilson International Center, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is also a Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

Samantha Mandeles and Oren Litwin of Islamist Watch review the years top stories concerning American Islamists in 2018.

David Reaboi, Vice President of the Security Studies Group discusses Qatari influence over Jamal Khashoggi, and Winfield Myers joins the program for a roundup of the top Middle East stories in 2018.

For over a decade, Shireen Qudosi has furthered the cause of progressive Islam both through her blog, The Qudosi Chronicles and by working with a diverse network of activists within the global Muslim community. She was also named one of the top ten North American Muslim Reformers in 2011.

The Counter-Islamist Grid is a network of local researchers and activists operating around the United States and Canada, documenting and working to counter the activities of local Islamist groups in their own hometowns by: researching and writing articles identifying Islamist bad actors on the local scene, preparing detailed research reports regarding local Islamist networks, briefing local officials and law enforcement about these groups and their ties to larger terrorism and terror finance networks, and organizing local activists to oppose efforts to promote Islamist ideology in all facets of their local communities.

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Host Gregg Roman discusses the 2018 U.S. election results, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and the return of Iran sanctions,.