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Foreign Exchanges: the Podcast

Foreign Exchanges is a newsletter that helps you stay on top of important stories happening around the world. Our companion podcast aims to understand the contemporary world by looking to the past. Join host Derek Davison as he interviews writers and scholars whose work sheds light on world history.
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Empires of the Steppes, with Kenneth Harl
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Empires of the Steppes, with Kenneth Harl
Listen now (67 mins) | The history of the many peoples who menaced, and connected, societies across Eurasia.
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"Unfreedom" in Early Islamic Society, with Elizabeth Urban
Listen now (58 min) | What positions did slaves and freedmen occupy during the formative period of Islamic history?
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The Mamluk Sultanate, with Carl F. Petry
How a regime of slave soldiers came to rule much of the Middle East.
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The Lebanese Civil War: Phase III (Part 1)
Listen now | The Israeli military invades again and this time besieges Beirut, and hijinks ensue.
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The Lebanese Civil War: Phase II (1978-1981)
Relations between Syria and the Lebanese Front break down and Israel invades southern Lebanon for the first time in the war.
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Wrapping Up COP26, with Michael Franczak
Listen now (81 min) | Our climate correspondent offers his thoughts on how the Glasgow summit ended and what its final agreement means.
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The Lebanese Civil War: Phase I (1975-1977)
Lebanon finally devolves into civil war, triggering a Syrian intervention and a brief ceasefire.
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The Brief History of the Durrani Empire
The modern Afghan state is born in the wake of Safavid Iran's collapse.
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