Tag: Kurds

In this episode of "This Week in the Middle East," Boris Gorelik hosts Prof. Ofra Bengio, a senior researcher at the Moshe Dayan Center and an expert on Kurdish affairs. The conversation covers the Kurdish people, their identity, their division among four countries, and focuses on the unique and sensitive situation of the autonomous Kurdish entity in northern Syria, which recently faced an existential crisis.

This episode features Dr. Yaron Friedman to discuss the developments in Syria after the fall of the Assad regime. The conversation focuses on the new government formed by Ahmed al-Sharaa (al-Jolani), the transitional constitution he published, and the question of whether Syria is heading toward democracy or a new Islamic dictatorship.

In this episode, Yaron Friedman joins the show to discuss the rapid collapse of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, after fifty years of his family's rule. Yaron analyzes the reasons for the regime's fall, the identity of the victorious forces, the fate of minorities in the new Syria, and the implications for Israel and the Middle East.