Arab Digest editor William Law is joined by Ali Bakir, a research assistant professor at Ibn Khaldun Center for Humanities and Social Sciences in Doha, Qatar. His analysis focuses on Turkish relations with countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
This podcast explores the warming relationship between Turkey and Egypt and how it is impacting the regional power balance as Cairo seeks to chart a distinctive foreign policy while lessening its reliance on Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
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