29 Dec 2025

In this episode of Long Form, Robert Malley examines US policy towards Israel
and the Palestinians since [September 1993], and offers his views on the Oslo
process and 2000 Camp David summit in which he was personally involved. A
central theme is whether the two-state paradigm was never realized on account of
failures of implementation or rather fundamental conceptual flaws.

Long Form consists of a series of lengthy discussions and conversations with
leading thinkers, scholars, and activists that explores the most pressing issues
of our day, sheds light on their context and dynamics, and in so doing seeks to
explore the broader theme of challenges to the global order and how these might
affect it.

Featuring:
Rob Malley served in senior Middle East positions in the administrations of
Presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. The former CEO of the
International Crisis Group, Rob is the co-author, with Hussein Agha, of Tomorrow
is Yesterday: Life, Death, and Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine, published
this year. He is also a lecturer at Yale University's Jackson School of Global
Affairs.

Bassam Haddad is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies
Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at
George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The
Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience(Stanford University Press, 2011)
and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East(Stanford
University Press, 2021). Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and
Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves as Founding Editor
of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is
co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and
director of the acclaimed series Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam is Executive
Producer of StatusPodcast Channel and Director of the Middle East Studies
Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI). He received MESA's Jere L. Bacharach Service Award
in 2017 for his service to the profession. Currently, Bassam is working on his
second Syria book titled Understanding The Syrian Tragedy: Regime, Opposition,
Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).

Mouin Rabbani is a researcher, analyst, and commentator specialising in
Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the contemporary Middle
East. He has among other positions previously served as Principal Political
Affairs Officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Head of
Middle East with the Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, and Senior Middle East
Analyst and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis
Group. Rabbani is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya, and a Contributing Editor of Middle
East Report.

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