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Danny Postel is Assistant Director of the Middle East and North African Studies Program at Northwestern University. He is the author of Reading "Legitimation Crisis" in Tehran (2006) and co-editor of three books, The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future (2010), The Syria Dilemma (2013), and Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East (2017).
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DANIEL POSTEL
The current turmoil in the Middle East is said to be entrenched in ancient sectarian hatreds. Postel challenges this dominant narrative circulating in the media and policy circles as “deeply orientalist,” and offers a set of rigorous alternative explanations linking Western policies to the deepening conflict in the region.
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