Dan Birmawi is the author of a recently released book, Islam, Israel, and the West. He grew up in Jordan and converted to Christianity at a very young age, and spent most of his adult life in the Jordanian intelligence service. But then he was forced to flee to the West, where he became a spy for the Jordanian government.
00:00:00.000Hi everybody, this is Gatsat for The Sad Truth. I'm always excited when I have a fellow Arabic-speaking gentleman from the Middle East.1.00
00:00:09.640Today I have Dan Birmawi. How are you doing, sir?
00:00:13.600I'm doing great. Thank you so much. I'm thrilled to be with you. It's so generous for you to have me.
00:00:18.480Shogun al-Habibi. Dan is the author of a recently released book, Islam, Israel, and the West.
00:00:26.220We will get into all of that. Before we do that, we're going to talk about, well, I guess it's part of that, his story.
00:00:33.280You know, what's his trajectory. It's an interesting one, an important one.
00:00:37.540But we will begin with a bit of Arabic for you.