Chinwags with Hagar Chemali and Misha Zelinsky
11/30/21 • 43 min
Brilliant news Diplomates fans, we've got more great foreign policy content for you as promised!
Welcome to the Chinwag Episodes!
We are pleased to announce Hagar Chemali as our second Chinwagger!
Hagar will join Misha for a monthly chinwag. The Chinwag episodes will be shorter and more focused on what's happening around the world of foreign policy. Be sure to send your questions in if you've got something on your mind.
Misha will continue to do deep-dive episodes with leading experts from around the world as per your regular programming.
Who is Hagar? Firstly, she's awesome (but here's her bio anyway).
Hagar Hajjar Chemali is a political satirist, foreign policy expert, and host and creator of the weekly world news show Oh My World! on YouTube. She is also a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics center, and is featured regularly as a national security analyst on MSNBC, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, and Cheddar.
Hagar’s professional background and foreign policy expertise have been shaped by senior public affairs and policy-making positions she held over the course of 12 years in the U.S. Government. From 2015-2016, she was Director of Communications and Spokesperson for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations under President Obama, and from 2014-2015, she was Spokesperson for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. From 2010-2012, Hagar was Director for Syria and Lebanon at the White House, National Security Council, where she advised on and coordinated the implementation of U.S. policy toward Syria and Lebanon. Hagar also worked at the Treasury Department as a Senior Policy Advisor on Asia and Middle East Policy Advisor in the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes.
Hagar has a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs where she concentrated on International Security Policy and the Middle East. She also graduated from Columbia University’s Barnard College where she majored in Political Science. She speaks English, French, Arabic, and Italian.
If you want to follow Hagar (you should!) check out her content here:
Oh My World! on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ohmyworldwithhagarchemali
Instagram: @hagarchemali & @omwshow
Twitter: @hagarchemali & @ohmyworldshow
More about Hagar: https://hagarchemali.com/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Brilliant news Diplomates fans, we've got more great foreign policy content for you as promised!
Welcome to the Chinwag Episodes!
We are pleased to announce Hagar Chemali as our second Chinwagger!
Hagar will join Misha for a monthly chinwag. The Chinwag episodes will be shorter and more focused on what's happening around the world of foreign policy. Be sure to send your questions in if you've got something on your mind.
Misha will continue to do deep-dive episodes with leading experts from around the world as per your regular programming.
Who is Hagar? Firstly, she's awesome (but here's her bio anyway).
Hagar Hajjar Chemali is a political satirist, foreign policy expert, and host and creator of the weekly world news show Oh My World! on YouTube. She is also a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics center, and is featured regularly as a national security analyst on MSNBC, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, and Cheddar.
Hagar’s professional background and foreign policy expertise have been shaped by senior public affairs and policy-making positions she held over the course of 12 years in the U.S. Government. From 2015-2016, she was Director of Communications and Spokesperson for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations under President Obama, and from 2014-2015, she was Spokesperson for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. From 2010-2012, Hagar was Director for Syria and Lebanon at the White House, National Security Council, where she advised on and coordinated the implementation of U.S. policy toward Syria and Lebanon. Hagar also worked at the Treasury Department as a Senior Policy Advisor on Asia and Middle East Policy Advisor in the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes.
Hagar has a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs where she concentrated on International Security Policy and the Middle East. She also graduated from Columbia University’s Barnard College where she majored in Political Science. She speaks English, French, Arabic, and Italian.
If you want to follow Hagar (you should!) check out her content here:
Oh My World! on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ohmyworldwithhagarchemali
Instagram: @hagarchemali & @omwshow
Twitter: @hagarchemali & @ohmyworldshow
More about Hagar: https://hagarchemali.com/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Previous Episode
Dr. Clare Wardle: The Info Wars - Lies, Damned Lies and Social Media
Dr. Claire Wardle is a leading expert on social media, user generated content, and verification. Her research sits at the intersection of technology, communications theory, and mass and social media. Dr. Wardle is the co-founder and leader of First Draft the world’s foremost nonprofit focused on research and practice to address misinformation and disinformation. First Draft is housed at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Misha Zelinsky caught up with Claire for a chinwag about the scourge of misinformation, why truth and fact matter in democracies, how we can inoculate people against falsehoods, how journalism can be reinvigorated at the local and national levels, regulating big tech and dealing with autocrats.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Keep an eye out for a regular new format of Diplomate episodes. These episodes will be co-hosted where we will discuss events of the day/week/month and how they’re playing out around the world. Don't worry, we will still have our usual Diplomates interview episodes, but these are additional for our fans!
Show Notes:
Follow Claire: @cward1e
Follow First Draft: @firstdraftnews
Follow Misha: @mishazelinsky @diplomates.show
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Next Episode
Christmas Chinwag Special with Hagar Chemali and Misha Zelinsky
Merry Christmas Diplomates fans! It’s the Christmas Chinwag special with Hagar Chemali.
Thanks for all your feedback so far on this new format. We love that you love it! Or that you at least love Hagar. Please rate and review the show.
We’ve got a HUGE interview set for January, so keep your eyes peeled for it!
In this episode we talk:
- Democracy summit - big deal or big bust?
- Russia troops along Ukraine border, Putin demands of NATO
- U.S and other nations boycott of the Beijing Olympics and U.S. house voting to ban imports from Xinjiang
- Russia and China video tele-conference – what’s going on here?
- Facebook sued over the Rohingya Genocide
- UK politics. Boris on the nose, holiday parties, and special elections.
- Covid vaccine diplomacy and Squid Game politics
Be sure to follow Hagar and the Oh My World! show on social media and YouTube @ohmyworldshow and @hagarchemali
You can follow Diplomates and Misha at @mishazelinsky @diplomates.show
Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
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