Firas Modad
Firas Modad is a Middle East political and security analyst, serving clients in the security, finance, insurance, media and investment industries. He is the founder of Modad Geopolitics.
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What hope for peace in the Middle East?
(7 minutes) Firas Modad argues that the religious underpinning of Jewish and Muslim positions in the current conflict in Palestine and Lebanon makes peace a very distant prospect. But still there is hope.
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Islam vs Islamism
(6 minutes) How liberalism invented Islamism to avoid addressing the most natural facet of human history: religious conflict. By Firas Modad.
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Us or them: understanding the Israeli-Palestinian war
(5 minute read) Firas Modad attempts to offer an objective, ‘steel-man’ perspective of the position of each side in the Israel-Palestine conflict, without endorsing either.
