Saturday, March 14, 2026
Special Edition: Iran War: Expert Analysis & One American’s Escape
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We’re now two weeks into the war with Iran, and there's growing uncertainty about what comes next.
In this episode, we bring you two perspectives:
1- Expert analysis from Kamran Bokhari on the strategic calculations behind the conflict and why the next few weeks could be critical.
2- Plus, you'll hear a firsthand account from Oliver Sims IV, an American who was stranded in Qatar as airspace shut down and war unfolded overhead.
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Guest: Kamran Bokhari
Kamran Bokhari, PhD, is a Senior Director & a key founder of the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy. Dr. Bokhari is also a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Policy Council.
Dr. Bokhari also teaches a graduate course on Central Asia & Eurasian Geopolitics at Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program & an upper-division course on the Geopolitics of the Middle East at the University of Delaware. He publishes a weekly essay for Geopolitical Futures & a regular column for Forbes.
Bokhari served as Coordinator for Central Asia Studies at the U.S. S
He is the author of Political Islam in the Age of Democratization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and has contributed chapters to edited volumes: Wars of Ideas: Theology, Interpretation & Power in the Muslim World (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021); Strategic Analysis in Support of International Policy Making (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017); Reassessing Order & Disorder in the Middle East: Regional Imbalance or Disintegration? (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017; Oxford Handbook on Islam & Politics (Oxford University Press, 2013); & Debating Moderate Islam: The Geopolitics of Islam & the West (University of Utah, 2007).
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Guest: Oliver Sims IV
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