Ravi Agrawal
When Israel and Hezbollah signed a cease-fire agreement in late November, it represented a rare bit of hopeful news since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack enflamed the Middle East. But can the pause hold, and can it lead to a similar end to the fighting in Gaza?
On this week’s FP Live, I spoke with Fawaz Gerges, a Lebanese American academic and professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Gerges is the author of several books on the Middle East including, most recently, What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East. Before we delved into the Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire, we addressed a shocking development in Syria, where rebel groups took control of Aleppo, one of the country’s largest cities, in less than four days of fighting—a stunning defeat for President Bashar al-Assad.
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