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/

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