The Kurdistan in America podcast is honored to have Dr. Marianna Charountaki as its guest in the tenth episode of Season Three.   Dr. Charountaki is an expert on U.S. Foreign Policy toward Kurds. She is currently a Research Fellow at Soran University in the Kurdistan Region and a Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Lincoln. She is also a trustee and convenor of the BISA Foreign Policy Working Group. She was the Director of the Kurdistan International Studies Unit from 2016 to 2019 at the University of Leicester.  Dr. Charountaki's research lies at the intersection of International Relations theories, foreign policy analysis, and area studies, emphasizing the Middle Eastern region. The discussion is about the U.S. Foreign Policy towards the Kurds, both past and present, as well as her experience and views of Kurdistan.