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

27/03/2026
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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 โ€œcolonizedโ€.

๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ฆ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—™๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฑ'๐˜€ ๐—ช๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ:

๐—ข๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ธ ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด

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๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐—ฏ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ธ๐—น๐˜† ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜„๐˜€๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ โ€“ "๐—ฌ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—•๐—ถ๐˜โ€
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(00:50) On this episode...
(0:02:12) Intro
(0:03:25) The War Hits Home: Prof Farid's Personal Connection To Iran
(0:07:19) Prof Farid's Background In Sociology
(0:09:26) What Is Neo-Colonialism?
(0:11:29) Decolonizing Our Minds
(0:13:05) What Is A Eurocentric Education?
(0:17:17) Is Colonialism Only A European Problem?
(0:19:23) Was Imperial Domination Always Inevitable?
(0:22:00) Trump And The Return Of Colonial Language
(0:25:04) How October 7 Changed American Minds
(0:30:25) Critiquing All Sides: US, Israel, Gulf States, And Iran
(0:35:18) Why Regime Change In Iran Won't Work
(0:38:42) Understanding Iranian Society And Its Contradictions
(0:41:28) Iranians United Against Foreign Aggression
(0:43:50) Why Isn't The Muslim World Rallying Behind Iran?
(0:46:17) The Most Worrying Thing: Regional Disunity
(0:47:52) What Would A Better Middle East Look Like?
(0:49:03) The "Wipe Off The Map" Myth Debunked
(0:53:15) Is Peace Realistic? The Shifting Global Opinion On Israel
(0:56:13) Christian Zionism And The End Times Narrative
(1:00:16) Could This Become World War 3?
(1:02:34) How The Iran War Affects Singapore
(1:08:40) Singapore's Reluctance To Have Hard Conversations
(1:11:10) Southeast Asia Navigating US vs China
(1:13:53) De-dollarization As A Form Of Decolonization
(1:14:53) Can Singapore Afford To Decolonize?
(1:17:55) Ibn Khaldun: Governments Are Always Unjust
(1:22:53) Is Singapore Too Dependent On Government?
(1:25:19) One Shiok Thing
(1:31:03) Post-Interview Reflection

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