Hussein Ibish is a Senior Resident Scholar at The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington DC, columnist for Bloomberg, as well as the UAE publication The National. He recently joined TheCommonToad podcast to discuss his friendship with legendary writer Christopher Hitchens, the calamities of the Trump administration, and U.S. policies in the Middle East.

This is Part I of II

3:09 – Hussein's beginnings
7:43 – One Last Lunch
10:56 – Hussein's marathon first encounter with Christopher Hitchens
15:28 – Hitchens would have despised Trump, and Hussein leaves no doubt of his own opinion
21:05 – Bill Barr and the F word
34:03 – Why don't more people speak up?
45:33 – A typical night with Christopher Hitchens
52:09 – Hitchens's anti-theism vs. Ibish's agnosticism

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