Episode 06: Guest Podcast H-Hour

I was honored to join Hugh Keir at H-Hour Podcasts. I met Hugh through a mutual friend and it only took us a day to realize we wanted to do a podcast together. We wound up talking a lot more about Islam than I anticipated, but it was fun to talk about something I care about so deeply. At the end, we talked about the importance of sharing our stories of trauma and triumph. In some ways it helps us and in other ways it helps those who aren’t yet ready to talk about their experiences. Hugh is an incredible advocate for Veterans and I hope you’ll head over to his website, support him, and engage with his podcasts.

Om Podcasten

Alexs Thompson is an internationally recognized scholar of Islam who spent over a decade living and working in the Middle East with self-described fundamentalists in Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, and numerous countries in Central and East Africa. Much of that time was spent in support of U.S. forces and international policy. Alexs received a Ph.D. from the Divinity School at the University of Chicago where he wrote his dissertation on medieval Islamic history. He also received a Master's degree in geochemistry from the University of Illinois (Chicago) where he wrote about the age and sustainability of groundwater in Egypt. Dr. Thompson has been published in Joint Force Quarterly--the leading military journal directed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Small Wars Journal, and been a guest speaker at the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy as well as the Association of the United States Army. In his travels, he worked with Generals David Petraeus and Stanley McChrystal and participated in numerous pivotal combat zones in the War on Terror. https://www.thisherolife.com