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“I think the Bashar Assad regime is on a roll. I think it's got the backing of Russia and Iran and Hezbollah. And it's hard to see who is going to stand in their way in this steady fight against the insurgents.”

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Joshua Landis

Joshua Landis is a renowned expert on Middle Eastern issues, currently serving as a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on modern Middle Eastern politics, international relations, and Arab political culture. more

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“I'm a version of the same person.”

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“The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.”

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“I've worked with non-professional actors, I've worked with movie stars, I've worked with kids, I've worked with older people, and I've found my job as a director is to cast them well and to understand what they need on set to bring the material to life.”

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“For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.”