# #179. U.S. Efforts to Influence Values and Allegiances in the Middle East

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Podcast: [Delving In with Stuart Kelter](https://stenobird.com/podcast/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973)
Published: 2026-02-02T03:30:00+00:00
Episode link: https://delving-in.captivate.fm
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Nathaniel Greenberg is an Associate Professor of Arabic in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at George Mason University, focusing on the intersection of technology, politics, and culture in the modern Middle East and North Africa. A Comparative Literature scholar by training, he also worked as a freelance journalist and was one of the few Americans to report on the first days of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising in Egypt. He is the author of four books, including How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring: The Politics of Narrative in Tunisia and Egypt, published in 2019, and The Long War of Ideas: American Diplomacy in Arabic After 911, to published this March. Recorded 1/27/26.

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