Session Two: Monarchies
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Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Islamic militancy, Shiite politics, Regional politics in the Arab world, U.S. policy in the Middle East
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Mohamad Bazzi speaks with Al Jazeera's Inside Iraq about the recent peace pact between Iraq's most influential Shia clerics - Muqtada al-Sadr and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. The pact is seen by political observers as a significant shift towards stabilising Iraq's warring Shia factions.
Fuad Siniora, former prime minister of Lebanon, discusses the implications of Osama bin Laden's death for the Middle East, the Hamas-Fatah agreement, and the U.S. role in supporting the Arab Spring with Mohamad Bazzi, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.