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Arab Digest podcasts — 343 episodes
Saudi Arabia and the Mecca Pact
The Gulf: sitting on a security fault line
Arab Digest top five podcast countdown: #1 A template for troubled times
Arab Digest top five podcast countdown: #2 The Gulf and three mad countries
Arab Digest top five podcast countdown: #3 How hard has the war hit GCC economies?
Arab Digest top five podcast countdown: #4 Football, Sudan and Sheikh Mansour
Arab Digest top five podcast countdown: #5 Hezbollah and the war in Lebanon
No war, no peace
The GCC, Iran and Trump's busted flush
Ever Land: a brilliant debut novel
Iran and a complicated jigsaw puzzle
Uncertain times in Syria
Iraq: a new PM and old dilemmas
Algeria: economic opportunity knocks
The war that Trump has lost
The encirclement of Sisi
How hard has the war hit GCC economies?
Football, Sudan and Sheikh Mansour
A template for troubled times
Hezbollah and the war in Lebanon
How safe is al-Sharaa?
The Gulf and three mad countries
High energy stakes and the Strait of Hormuz
MAGA Inc. versus America First
Notes From a Lost Country
Iran and regime survival
Türkiye and the Iran war
Israel's strategy of chaos
MbS and his Kingdom of Football
Sudan suffers and the world sits by
Deinvesting Israel's genocide
Algeria, Libya and Europe's urgent energy needs
Syria's Kurds face an uncertain future
Trump seeks "the strategic submission of Iran"
A black eye in Yemen for the UAE
The Middle East in Trump's new world order
Editor's Choice - A small town in Lebanon
The Arab Digest 2025 year end review
Migrants, IDPs and the Middle East
Syria one year on
Netanyahu's plan: perpetual war courtesy of the American taxpayer
The Lord: a forgotten Middle East masterpiece
Captagon's new hub in Sudan
We will not be silent
The UAE and genocide in Sudan
The Call: the price of oil at year's end
Yemen, Israel and the UAE
Vultures over Libya
Trump chases a Nobel Peace Prize
Iraq: challenges and opportunities
Netanyahu's Yemen war
Netanyahu unhinged
Sudan and the war the world ignores
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #1 A good year for MbS
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #2 Syria: caught between Türkiye and Israel
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #3 Yemen: the Huthis and Al Qaeda
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #4 Palestine and a new awakening
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #5 The Queer Arab Glossary
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #6 Erdoğan plays a long game
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #7 Syria has a new strongman
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #8 Netanyahu and the war of weaponised narratives
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #9 Lebanon looks forward
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #10 Understanding Iran
The Danger Games in the Middle East
Walking into war eyes wide open
The Kurds see an opening
US and Iran edge closer to a deal
Saudi Arabia and an uncertain oil market
A Gulf bonanza for the 'dealmaker in chief'
GHF: aiding and abetting the IDF
Libya in a dangerous time
Trump's quiet war on Yemen
Lebanon looks forward
Syria in a dangerous time
Assad is gone, Captagon hangs on
A small town in Lebanon
Morocco's economic express
The Gulf's Islam rebrand
Refugee crises in the Levant
Yemen: the Huthis and Al Qaeda
A ceasefire and the gap between hope and reality
Israel, war crimes and a case to answer
Syria: caught between Türkiye and Israel
Editor's choice: Amal Ghandour
The Arab Digest 2024 yearender
Oil, OPEC and the outlook for 2025
Syria has a new strongman
A good year for MbS
The silence of Sisi
Macron in Morocco
Libya: cooperation with devils
What Trump 2.0 means for the Middle East
Iraqi Kurdistan walks a fine line
Sudan: the war the world forgot
Biden, Netanyahu and the war against Iran
Understanding Iran
Netanyahu and the war of weaponised narratives
The US in the Middle East: same old playbook
"My children feel they are lost"
Palestine and a new awakening
The Queer Arab Glossary
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #1
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #2
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #3
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #4
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #5
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #6
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #7
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AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #9
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #10
Of peak oil, grey rhinos and $70 a barrel
Leaving State
The Maghreb at a moment of opportunity
Erdoğan plays a long game
"Israel has already lost the war"
King Captagon
Egypt bows to Israel
Football and fear in Saudi Arabia
An African History of Africa
The Gaza war Joe Biden is losing
The Kurds of Syria, Iraq and Iran
Sudan and a catastrophic war
Iraq: dare to hope
Aid workers in the killing fields of Gaza
The US and a pullout from Iraq and Syria
Saudi Arabia's dark side
Mohammed bin Salman discovers the art of diplomacy
What Iranians Want
You Have Not Yet Been Defeated
The Levant in the Gaza war
North Africa: "broken countries in a broken region"
Yemen and the Gaza War
Getting it wrong in the Middle East
Gulf energy in an uneasy time
The Gulf states and the search for security
Assad and the strategy of negative neutrality
Sleepwalking to WW III?
Temperature Rising in Gaza War
Red Sea reckoning
Sudan's forgotten war
Editor’s choice 2023: Remember Yemen!
Arab Digest's 2023 year end review
Joe Biden's war
The Gaza war and the refugees
Conversation with an Arab-Jew
Libya in the grip of kleptocrats
Egypt under El-Sisi
Is Lebanon next?
Erdoğan, Hamas and the war in Gaza
MENA and the impact of the Gaza war
A Washington take on the Gaza war
As a British-Arab, am I safe in the UK now?
The power of narratives in the Gaza-Israel war
Whispering Walls: "the Kurds are rich in stories"
Oil: the long good-bye
Remember Yemen!
The Haftars and the Derna disaster
Iraq and a way forward
Biden blunders in the Middle East
AD's NEW Top 10 Podcast Countdown #1 - Reinventing the Sheikdom: how MbZ has shaped the UAE
AD's NEW Top 10 Podcast Countdown #2 - The MbZ and Erdoğan embrace
AD's NEW Top 10 Podcast Countdown #3 - Egypt’s Sisi: ringmaster of a near-bankrupt circus
AD's NEW Top 10 Podcast Countdown #4 - The Threat: Al Qaeda in Yemen
AD's NEW Top 10 Podcast Countdown #5 - America and the Kais Saied coup
AD's NEW Top 10 Podcast Countdown #6 - Iraq in a suddenly changed world
AD's NEW Top 10 Podcast Countdown #7 - Macron’s missteps in the Middle East
AD's NEW Top 10 Podcast Countdown #8 - The UK’s declining status in the Middle East
AD's NEW Top 10 Podcast Countdown #9 - The UAE, Saudi Arabia and the JCPOA
AD's NEW Top 10 Podcast Countdown #10 - A Palestinian village you’ve probably never heard of
Security politics in the Gulf Monarchies
"Name the names": apartheid in the West Bank
Qatar, FIFA and the World Cup migrants
The Sisi coup ten years on
Where is Khalaf al-Romaithi?
The UAE and OPEC: go or stay?
Sudan: keeping the revolution alive
Tunisia: the revolution that wasn't a revolution
Captagon, Assad and the new normal
Saudi Arabia and the UAE: the religion stratagem
Türkiye's election: "it's a toss-up"
Mai al-Nakib: an unlasting home
Dictators: a one way ticket to instability
Syria's forgotten refugees
Dalal Iriqat speaks truth to power
#FreeSadhan
Algeria and the Kais Saied coup
Subversion: the strategic weaponisation of narratives
The Iraq war twenty years on
Israel and the weaponisation of water
Ukraine war and the Middle East
Tunisia's Gen Z
The earthquakes: "a gift to Assad"
Elias Jahshan: "my ancestors are within my hands"
Israel's extremists and the threat they pose to Middle East security
Iraqi Kurdistan: a troubled region with an uncertain future
Palestine, Israel and the rule of law
Biden's America in a shifting Middle East landscape
This Arab Life
Editor’s choice 2022: Testament of Courage
The 2022 Middle East and North Africa Review
China and the GCC
Libya: "cautiously pessimistic"
Yemen: Poverty and Conflict
Egypt: the debt ride rolls on
Saudi Arabia and Russia: the dynamic OPEC duo
Qatar and the week that was
Putin, Israel and a tarnished Middle East reputation
Algeria: the giant slumbers on
The Gulf weighs up its options
Back from Baghdad
The UK's declining status in the Middle East
Lebanon: time to end the plunder
US policy in the Middle East: a continuum of failure
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen: a feast of tweets
The Threat: Al Qaeda in Yemen
Palestine: "End the occupation"
The Arab Digest Podcast Top Ten Countdown no 1: Sisi’s Orwellian Egypt
The Arab Digest Podcast Top Ten Countdown no 2: Putin’s war plays well for MENA authoritarians
The Arab Digest Podcast Top Ten Countdown no. 3 - Useful Enemies
The Arab Digest Podcast Top Ten Countdown no. 4 - Algeria and Morocco: neighbours with issues
The Arab Digest Podcast Top Ten Countdown no. 5: Beyond the two-state solution
The Arab Digest Podcast Top Ten Countdown no. 6: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
The Arab Digest Podcast Top Ten Countdown number 7: Cairo and Ankara: a new axis?
The Arab Digest Podcast Top Ten Countdown number 8: Sultans of the Gulf
The Arab Digest Podcast Top Ten Countdown number 9: The Weaponisation of moderate Islam
The Arab Digest Podcast Top Ten Countdown number 10: Jerusalem
Putin and the precipice
Biden and the Jeddah journey
This Arab is queer
Egypt's Sisi: ringmaster of a near-bankrupt circus
Reinventing the Sheikhdom: how MBZ has shaped the UAE
Putin, Assad and the war in Ukraine
A Mediterranean energy treble
Biden in a bind
Bahrain: "A highly functional injustice system"
The EU to the Gulf: Let's do a deal
A battle cry for human rights
Yemen, a ceasefire and reason to hope
Bashar al-Assad: narco state boss
Gulf jitters in the JCPOA jive
Western hypocrites and MENA potentates
Algeria and Europe's scramble for gas
Erdoğan and the mending of MENA fences
Putin's war plays well for MENA authoritarians
So what about the Kurds?
A Palestinian village in Israel you probably never heard of
America and the Kais Saied coup
The trap: male guardianship in Qatar
Iraq in a suddenly changed world
The Erdogan and MBZ embrace
Net zero chasing in the Gulf
Pieces of the JCPOA puzzle
Macron's missteps in North Africa
Testament of courage: Lina al-Hathloul
The UAE, Saudi Arabia and the JCPOA
Of debt and weapons: Sisi's foreign policy
Palestine and the search for justice
MENA 2021
Russia's MENA finesse
Players in a MENA power vacuum
Arab States and the Abraham Accords
Abu Dhabi and the art of diplomacy
Iraq and an assassination attempt
Libya's loaded election
What Next for Britain in the Middle East?
Jonathan Kuttab: Beyond the Two-State Solution
MENA's hard road to democracy
Russia and the slaughter of Syrian civilians
Sisi's Orwellian Egypt
Qatar plays a strong foreign policy hand
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: down but not out
The Great War on Terror: feeding the beast
The Middle East weighs up the Taliban triumph
The weaponisation of moderate Islam
Algeria and Morocco: neighbours with issues
So how is Biden doing in the Middle East?
Big Oil, the Gulf and Climate Change
Iraq and Rumsfeld's poisonous legacy
Yemen and a flicker of hope
Cairo and Ankara: a new axis?
Sultans of the Gulf
Putin powers ahead in the Middle East
Erdoğan and MBZ: "Useful Enemies"
The MBZ Pivot
Jerusalem
Libya: a new prime minister but an old script
The Kurds of Iraq and Syria
Mosul
Qatar and Saudi Arabia: on the road to reconciliation
Syria and a way to end the war
America and the road out of Iraq
Stepping Stones to a Secure Middle East
@SALHACHIMI busts loose!
The Gulf to America: we don't need you like we used to need you
Fight Island
UAE foreign policy: time to hit the reset button
Biden brings US diplomacy back to the Middle East
Hey Europe! The Maghreb Matters
Yemen in crisis
Libya: Time for Europe to step up
"Every Voice Counts"
The feud is over, the scars run deep
Mudhawi List and the fight for women's rights
Egypt's Ongoing War On Human Rights
Airwars: tracking the airstrike toll
Saudi Aramco: a year like no other
Saudi Arabia: diplomatic challenges at a dangerous time
The Disconnect: MENA regimes versus the people they rule over
Yemen: the people, the warriors, and the war
Young Arabs and the spirit of the revolution
A dangerous game: Turkey and the politics of energy
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi's Hard Road
Biden And The Middle East
Qatar, The Feud And The Future Of The GCC
A new great game unfolds in the Middle East
'The Sea is Dead': fishing and migration collide on Tunisia's shores
From Obama to Trump: US policy in the Middle East
The trouble with normal (is it always gets worse)
Macron In MENA
Oil Still In Driver's Seat
The tactics of terror: ISIS and Al Qaeda in Yemen
The Great Retreat: America's diplomatic withdrawal from the Middle East
Libya and a war without end
A tangled skein of relationships: Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE
The Arab Spring is not a failure
Which way is oil headed?
The Influencers
Sportswashing the Middle East
The Gulf States and Iran: a complex relationship that is often tense and never dull
Digital deception in the Middle East
Algeria, President Tebboune and the Hirak movement
Covid - 19, The Oil Price Crash And The MENA Region
MBZ And Erdogan Go Head To Head In The Middle East And North Africa
Oman: A New Sultan And New Challenges
Haftar Suffers Big Defeats But War Grinds On In Libya
Post Covid-19 what is the future for political Islam in MENA?
Not even Covid-19 can end the Gulf Feud
MENA Post Covid - 19
Who blinks first? Saudi Arabia, Russia and the oil price war glutting (and gutting) the marketplace
Yemeni women's rights activist Misk AlJunaid discusses the war
Whither Dubai’s Expo 2020?
Libya: the Arab Digest editor and the ECFR's Tarek Megerisi discuss the war