THE INTERVIEW - Antoine Sfeir, Middle East scholar

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FRANCE 24 English
  • 11 years ago
Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis, growing tensions between Sunnis and Shiites have been witnessed in the Arab world. Antoine Sfeir explains to Leela Jacinto why he thinks that rivalries within Islam are threatening to hijack the ideas of the Arab Spring.

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