SEPADPod With Jon Hoffman

Richardson Institute

On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Jon Hoffman. Jon is a PhD student at George Mason University and Foreign Policies Media Editor at Jadaliyya. He can be found on twitter @Hoffman8Jon. On this episode, Simon and Jon talk about the study of the Middle East, the importance of Islam in Jon's life, and his new article published in Digest of Middle East Studies titled 'Moscow, Beijing and the Crescent: Russian and Chinese religious soft power in the Middle East' found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/dome.12232. An additional piece was also published on the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/04/why-do-some-muslim-majority-countries-support-chinas-crackdown-muslims/ Please do like, share and subscribe in all the usual ways. We even have a jingle now (thanks Eddie) so we’re contractually obliged to ask you to do this. Until next time!