Harvard Professor Answers Middle East Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
24,791Professor Tarek Masoud joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the Middle East. What's the origin of the conflict between Israel and Palestine? What are the most significant moments leading to the current geopolitical climate of the Middle East? What makes the Houthis of Yemen such a difficult adversary? Why is Islam unfairly associated with terrorism? Answers to these questions and more await on Middle East support.\n\n0:00 Middle East Support\n0:15 What was the reaction to bombing Iranian nuclear sites?\n1:00 The timeline\n3:41 Syria, currently.\n5:00 Turkey\n6:56 Houthis\n7:43 Democracy in the Middle East\n9:16 Gaza and Genocide\n11:57 Oil\n12:49 UAE\n14:11 What's the origin of the conflict between Israel and Palestine?\n16:54 Dubai Dudes\n18:16 Two state solution\n20:08 War\n21:08 Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims\n22:43 Terrorism\n24:40 2003 Iraq Invasion\n26:11 Iran of the 1960s\n28:04 Why there are American bases in Qatar?\n28:35 The U.S. and Israel in the 1960s\n30:12 What is Israel's main goal with invading other countries?\n33:17 Futuristic Saudi Cities of the Desert\n34:32 The Taliban and women\n35:41 The difference between Kosher and Halal\n\nEXPERT'S NOTE: My edited response to the question about the roots of the Sunni-Shia divide seems to suggest that a civil war broke out immediately upon the death of Muhammad. In fact, the prophet Muhammad’s cousin, Ali Ibn Abi Talib, was passed over for leadership three times, before finally becoming Caliph about 25 years after Muhammad’s death. His rule, however, was highly contested. A civil war broke out, and Ali was ultimately assassinated, setting in motion the split between Shias (the partisans of Ali) and Sunnis that persists to this day.\n\nDirector: Lisandro Perez-Rey\nDirector of Photography: Charlie Jordan\nEditor: Matthew Colby\nExpert: Tarek Masoud\nLine Producer: Jamie Rasmussen\nAssociate Producer: Brandon White\nProduction Manager: Peter Brunette\nProduction Coordinator: Rhyan Lark\nCasting Producer: Thomas Giglio\nCamera Operator: Lauren Pruitt\nSound Mixer: Rebecca O'Neill\nProduction Assistant: Caleb Clark; Ryan Coppola \nPost Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin\nSupervising Editor: Eduardo Araujo; Erica DeLeo\nAdditional Editor: Samantha DiVito\nAssistant Editor: Justin Symonds
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