Incredible to think that 5 million Dear Listeners have tuned in to listen to @AimenDean and me talk all things Middle Eastern these past few years. Thank you all so much for your support. There's a lot more @MHconflicted coming your way!
Thomas Small
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Thomas Small
@ConflictedThom
Author, filmmaker, podcaster. Co-host of @MHConflicted and host of my new Substack podcast Life Sentences.
wisdomreadings.substack.com
- Been waiting months to announce this. Very, very excited about the new season of @MHconflicted. My pal @AimenDean and I will continue to explore Middle Eastern geopolitics, history, and religion—alongside all our Dear Listeners.
00:00 - Just finishing up a routine brainstorming session with @AimenDean for an upcoming episode and am reminded once again what a privilege it is to be working with him on @MHconflicted. Dear Listener, my goodness!, what we have in store for you!
- Ah my dear brother @AimenDean, I have merely listened with great attention to our many many illuminating conversations.My brother from another mother @ConflictedThom with his effortless eloquence explains the history of the Syrian conflict and its recent developments.
- Dear Listeners, as of today, @MHconflicted is back! Tune in for lots of new @AimenDean dad jokes and his whistle-stop tour of the present state of terrorism in the Middle East!
- In this week’s episode of @MHconflicted, out on Wednesday, @AimenDean says the F-word many times, and I say the F-word many, many, many times.
- Lots of new followers thanks to my appearance on @triggerpod. Hello! In addition to Middle Eastern history and geopolitics, which I discuss with @AimenDean on @MHconflicted, I've also got a Substack where I explore the ancient Christian tradition. New episode just dropped!
- If we follow you, you’ll still appear in our feeds, blue tick or no. But you’ll no longer appear in people’s feeds who don’t follow you—so encourage people to follow you!
- We've now got so many dear listeners that @MHconflicted is starting its own Discord community! If you're interested in more Conflicted content from @AimenDean and me, click on this link to register your interest! levellr.com/conflicted
- Replying to @ConflictedThomPerhaps @AimenDean, we should do an episode of @MHconflicted comparing and contrasting the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II to the funeral of the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (and perhaps too of Ottoman sultans)—as a way of exploring the two faiths.
- A whole bevy of electric @MHconflicted episodes coming at you. Ahmad bin Hanbal, Ibn Taymiyyah, Bin Abdul Wahhab, and Sayyid Qutb — the father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather of Salafism. @AimenDean and I may not agree, but we're always conflicted!
- 🚨WE ARE BACK!🚨 In S3, we are bringing you even more: ✔️ critical information ✔️ historical nuance ✔️ & unique perspectives that you won't hear anywhere else 🎧 Join us on Jan 19th for our longest season yet as we journey to the Middle East and beyond!
00:00 - Recorded a new episode of @MHconflicted today with @AimenDean, explaining the historical context of the Ukraine crisis largely from a realist point of view. This piece is worth reading. Can’t wait for you all to hear what Aimen and I have to say!Liberal internationalists increasingly hope that hard power can save Ukraine. Realists favor diplomatic negotiation without threats of force. Biden, caught in the middle, should apply his realist instincts thoroughly. My thoughts in @ForeignPolicy: foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/03/put…
