“This is a region that has the power to bring the world economy to its knees.” On Novara Live, Dalia Gebrial dismantles the racialised framing of the Middle East as inherently violent and undemocratic. Western powers have sown chaos and authoritarianism in the region precisely because they fear how powerful its nations could become if left to their own devices, she says. The global order requires instability in the Middle East “to ensure the geopolitical significance of the region never translates into actual power”.

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