#796: What The World Gets Wrong About Iran & the Middle East | Prof. Syed Farid Alatas

Yah Lah But · Mar 27, 2026 · 1h 35m

Prof. Syed Farid Alatas, an NUS sociologist, decolonisation scholar, and a man with family currently living under the Iran-Israel war, explains why the Middle East conflict is really about colonial power, US hegemony, and what Singapore's silence reveals about our own captive minds that have been “colonized”.

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