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Media Highlights TV • February 8, 2025 

# Cato Institute book event, *Islam and Statecraft: Religious Soft Power in the Arab Gulf States*, airs on C‑SPAN 2 

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##### [Mustafa Akyol](/people/mustafa-akyol)

Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

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##### [Jon Hoffman](/people/jon-hoffman)

Research Fellow, Cato Institute

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