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Egyptian, Muslim, American

My friend Angie Gad joins me for episode 68 of Covert Contact to discuss growing up as a first generation Egyptian-American Muslim. We cover a lot of ground in this episode including her family's struggle to maintain and establish roots in two very different worlds

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Islamism and Democracy: Finding Models for the Middle East and Preserving Our Own

In episode 29 of Covert Contact Brookings Institution senior fellow and author of Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East Shadi Hamid joins me to discuss the difficult relationship Islamist movements have with democracy and power at the state level in general. Years of research,