All Episodes
Frontlines and Backrooms — 45 episodes
Kristin Diwan | Gulf States After the Iran War — Is Stability Just an Illusion?
Hussein Banai | This Is Not Just a War With Iran — It’s About Power Inside the United States
From the Vatican to Strait of Hormuz | Power, Faith, and War Across the Middle East
Mouin Rabbani | Iran, Israel, the U.S. — and the War Reshaping the Middle East
Randa Slim | Hezbollah, Lebanon, Iran, and the Collapse of the Middle East Order
Iran–US Talks in Islamabad: A Real Deal or Just a Pause Before the War Resumes?
Roger Higginson | On War in Iran and the Middle East — Why the West Doesn’t Understand Its Enemies
OONA HATHAWAY - IS THE IRAN WAR ILLEGAL? | ON TRUMP, INTERNATIONAL LAW & THE UN CHARTER.
Trump's Iran War Speech Explained — What It Said, What It Hid
Joseph Cirincione | Iran War: Nuclear Risk, U.S. Strategy, and What Comes Next
No Negotiations, Only Demands | Iran War, April 6 Deadline & Israel in Lebanon
Richard Falk | Why International Law Doesn’t Restrain Power
The Day America Stopped Leading | NATO, Hormuz, and the Cuba Shock
Is International Law Still Relevant? | Mona Ali Khalil
Hormuz Is Closed: Oil Shock, China’s Dilemma and a War Spreading Across the Gulf
Iran — The Next Iraq or Something Far Worse? | Frontlines & Backrooms Brief
BRIEF #11 | Trump’s State of the Union and Europe’s Strategic Crisis
Nathan Brown | The Palestinian Leadership Crisis Explained
Brief #10 | Jesse Jackson, Munich Security Conference, and Gaza as Real Estate
Rebecca Gould | Erasing Palestine – Free Speech, Censorship, and the Gaza Debate
Awni Etaywe | Incitement to Genocide in Gaza & Forensic Linguistics
John Quigley | Genocide, Intent, and International Law at the ICJ
Brief #9 — Reconstruction Without Legitimacy, Portugal’s Warning, and the Politics of Attention
Gaza Explained — How It Became a Permanent Political Exception
Brief #8 — Iran on the Edge, Trade Without Trust, and a World Re-aligning
Brief #7 — Private Messages, Public Pressure, and the Gaza Board
Brief #6 — Iran on the Edge, Gaza Phase Two, and the Greenland Illusion
The Gaza Exception (Part II): Mouin Rabbani
The Gaza Exception (Part I): Tamer Qarmout
The Age of Precedents Without Consequences
2026: The End of Illusions — Frontlines & Backrooms Brief
Echo Chamber: Media, Language, and the Gaza War (Part II) | Dina Matar
Echo Chamber: Media, Language, and the Gaza War (Part I) | Sharif Abdel Kouddous
EP2 Teaser — Echo Chamber: The Media and the Gaza War
Frontlines & Backrooms Brief — Greenland, Gaza, Ukraine & the New Rules of Power
Frontlines & Backrooms Brief - Framing the Dead
Bonus: Benny Morris on Palestinian Disillusionment with the Two-State Solution
Bonus: Life and Power in the West Bank — Nadina Malicbegovic
Bonus: Media, Law, and the Reluctance to Name Genocide — Zachary Foster
Gaza: Politics of Survival (Part 2)
Gaza: Politics of Survival (Part 1)
Frontlines & Backrooms Brief — Gaza, Ukraine and the Politics of Survival
Teaser 3 — Gaza: The Politics of Survival
Teaser 2 — The Human Reality of Gaza
Frontlines and Backrooms — Official Teaser