Twenty years ago, the world changed.

The Terror is a 12-episode miniseries about 9/11, what led up to it, and it's aftermath. It's the story about how the Cold War led to 9/11 and the War on Terror.

Aram Shabanian (@ShabanianAram on Twitter) has extensively researched the events of September 11, 2001 for two decades. He is currently a Non-State Actors Researcher at the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy.

Music credits

"Deep Noise" by Kevin MacLeod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgB_L7Os5OA

"Deliverance" by Aliaksei Yukhenevich

https://tunetank.com/tracks/3960-deliverance/

"Emotional Sad Piano Music" by Mattia Cupelli

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JYHk_D5A44

Why did a military coup take place in early 2021? Why do we constantly see headlines about ethnic cleansing and other atrocities in the country? And why on Earth does it have two different names?

Joining us on one of the most important episodes we've ever done is Dr. David Brenner, a Myanmar expert and lecturer at the University of Sussex who wrote the book Rebel Politics: A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar’s Borderlands.

And shoutout to Sam Black for generously giving us permission to use his song, "Good Deeds," in this episode.

A decades-old regional order witnessed the beginning of the end in 2011. Rasha al-Aqeedi and Ahmed Gatnash join us to discuss the protests, uprisings, civil wars, and terrorism that engulfed the Middle East and North Africa during the 2010s.

This Part 1 of a multi-part episode on the subject. We get into A LOT of stuff in this episode and will continue to do so in Part 2.

Rasha al-Aqeedi (@RashaAlAqeedi) is a researcher from Mosul and a fellow at the Center for Global Policy now based in the United States. Ahmed Gatnash (@gatnash) is the co-founder of the Kawaakibi Foundation and co-host of the Arab Tyrant Manual podcast.

You can find us on Twitter at @Hindsight2010s, @OllyMizzi99, and @4_hastings.