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Podcast: The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer
Episode: Reducing Middle East tensions potentially lessens sectarianism and opens doors for women
Description: Two separate developments involving improved relations between Sunni and Shiite Muslims and women’s sporting rights demonstrate major shifts in how rivalry for leadership of the Muslim world and competition to define Islam in the 21st century is playing out in a world in which Middle Eastern states can no longer depend on the United States coming to their defence.