Middle East File

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  • The Middle East File is an interview podcast from the Religious Freedom Institute
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  • 032 | Ending Persecution: Charting the Path to Global Religious Freedom | Knox Thames

    032 | Ending Persecution: Charting the Path to Global Religious Freedom | Knox Thames
    Sep 2 2024

    Knox Thames is an international human rights lawyer, advocate, and author who has dedicated his career to promoting human rights, defending religious minorities, and combatting persecution. Over his 20 years of service in the U.S. government, Knox held several key positions advocating for freedom of religion or belief, including at the State Department and two different U.S. government foreign policy commissions. Knox has deep experience regarding South/Central Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and U.S. foreign policy relating to human rights. Serving in the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, he has worked at the intersection of global affairs, religion, and human rights.

    He is the author of Ending Persecution: Charting the Path to Global Religious Freedom (Notre Dame University Press, 2024).

    The Middle East File podcast is a publication of the Religious Freedom Institute.
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    31 mins
  • 031 | Regime change and religious discrimination after the Arab uprisings | Jason Klocek

    031 | Regime change and religious discrimination after the Arab uprisings | Jason Klocek
    Apr 28 2024
    Jason Klocek is an Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He is also a senior researcher at the United States Institute of Peace and a Faculty Affiliate of the University of Notre Dame's Center for the Study of Religion and Society. In this conversation, we discuss Regime change and religious discrimination after the Arab uprisings, published in the Journal of Peace Research. The article looks at how times of political turmoil and regime change impact experiences of religious persecution. The article tests its findings across Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Yemen, four countries that experienced regime change following 2011. The article highlights not only that societal religious discrimination increases, but explores some of the reasons for why this is the case. The Middle East File is a publication of the Religious Freedom Institute.
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    41 mins
  • 030 | Findings from Pew Research Center's 14th Annual Global Restrictions on Religion | Samirah Majumdar

    030 | Findings from Pew Research Center's 14th Annual Global Restrictions on Religion | Samirah Majumdar
    Apr 15 2024

    Samirah Majumdar is a research associate at the Pew Research Center, where she focuses on global restrictions on religion. She is an alumnus of Barnard College and Georgetown University and the author of multiple Pew Research Center reports, including the latest study: Globally, Government Restrictions on Religion Reached Peak Levels in 2021, While Social Hostilities Went Down.


    The Middle East File podcast is a publication of the Religious Freedom Institute.


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    36 mins

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