All Episodes

Who Made Iran’s 1979 Revolution? Rethinking What “Revolution” Means | HbN S2E33

Inside Jordan's Untold Stories: the Royals, the Americans & the Protests (Video on Spotify) | S2E12

(Spotify Video) Who are the Druze in Israel, Lebanon and Syria? A History of the Druze. | S2E11

Who are the Druze in Israel, Lebanon and Syria? A History of the Druze. | S2E11

Dodgers to Damascus, Alamo to Middle East | S2E10

How Pro-Monarchy Mullahs Became Anti-Shah Revolutionaries | S2E9

S2E8 | Kings and Ayatollahs: Iran's National Security

S2E7 | Kashmir's History - A Podcast Not Possible In India!

S2E6 |Allah Before Muhammad: Pre-Islam Arabia's Real Story

S2E5 | Nowruz History: Centennial of Iran's Solar Calendar

S2E4: Where Did Turkic Peoples Come From?

S2E3: Manichaeism - Another 'Iranian' World Religion

S2E2: Nestorian Christians In Persian Empire - Geopolitics & Zoroastrian Priests

S2E1: A Country Caught Between Middle East, Europe & Russia

S1E44: Instead of War, Let's Talk About Love In the Middle East

S1E43: Golden Age of Jewish-Muslim Relations Revealed In 900 Years of Preserved Records Discovered In A Cairo Genizah

S1E42: Why Britain's Prime Minister & Germany's Emperor Were Riled Up About An Ancient Middle East Story

S1E41: The Lebanon War - Israel, Syria And Why The War Lasted So Long

S1E40: Israel and Palestinians - 1967 To Now

History & Effects of U.S. Sanctions On Iran | S1E39

S1E38: Is It Strange That Armenian Feminism Flourished After Armenian Genocide and In Capital of Perpetrator?

S1E37: Why Elimination of Armenians Was Not Like the Holocaust! And Why Wilsonian Armenia Did Not Materialize?

S1E36: Why Is Kurdish Nationalism Unique? Consider This: Realization of A Kurdish Country May Require the Simultaneous Collapse of Three Other Countries!

S1E35: Have Kurds Ever Had Their Own Country? Do They All Speak the Same Language? Practice the Same Religion?

S1E34: Religious tolerance in Middle East? Ancient polytheism is the answer, not monotheism!

S1E33: How Middle East empires ushered in monotheism and ended polytheism.

S1E32: Is Jordan forever on the brink of a revolution? Is Jordan essentially a U.S. protectorate?

S1E31: Are Jordan's royal family foreigners in Jordan? Why make fun of the King's Arabic? Protests in Jordan and Jordan's Identity.

S1E30: Sexual Politics in Iran. An implicit deal about women's rights between Iran's intellectuals and its conservative clergies.

S1E29: Did the Hijab come from Islam? Also, history of Iranian women's rights in marriage & society.

S1E28: Did Middle Easterners think Europe is a troubled & warlike region?

S1E27: Is the Middle East an inherently troubled region?

S1E26: Arab American Population & Political Power. How will they affect the 2024 presidential election? (part 2 of 2)

S1E25: Arab American History, Culture & Identity - Challenging Western Scholars (part 1 of 2)

S1E24: Why did the Crusaders sack Christianity's most magnificent city? While most of us don't know this story, most Greeks do! They have neither forgotten nor forgiven.

S1E23: The Crusades - huge history in Europe but mostly unknown in the Middle East! This is the unlikely story of the First Crusade's success.

S1E22: When and how did Jewish people begin to leave their homeland?

S1E21: When did Jews live in this land? What did they call their land? When did Jewish people form their first kingdom? Where do the terms Jewish and Judaism come from?

S1E20: Wouldn't you like to return to a time when Middle East was free of religious wars?

S1E19: What happened when Mesopotamian gods went on strike? They created humans to do their work!

S1E18: History of Iran's Nuclear Program & Perceived Threats To Its Security - How It All Began.

S1E17: After conquering Afghanistan & Iraq, did America miss opportunities to neutralize the hardline mullahs of Iran's regime?

S1E16: The Crusades is an example of what happens when a group makes exclusionary claims on Palestine.

S1E15: Were Palestinians historically called Palestinians? No! Historian of Palestine explains.

S1E14: Europe's fears & fascinations: American colonies vs. Ottoman trade and Islam's expansion?

S1E13: Why didn’t the Ottomans explore the Americas? Were the Ottomans a Turkish Empire? And how Islam entered Ottoman ethos and geopolitics?

S1E12: How did the mighty Sasanian Empire fall to the Muslim Arabs? Debunking widely accepted history!

S1E11: Achaemenid & Sasanian Empires - Persians or Iranians? Peoples Included & Excluded. Historian Explains

S1E10: Were Ancient Middle Easterners Warlike & Violent? How Do We Know So Much About People Who Lived 4,000 Years Ago!

S1E9:How Successful Diplomacy Worked in Ancient Middle East - It Required 5 Essential Elements

S1E8: Is Yemen the Graveyard of Empires? Yemen Was "the Vietnam" of Which Country? Are the Houthis a Ragtag Army? Do They Need Iran's Help?

S1E7: Who Are the Houthis of Yemen? What Did Their Leader Admire About Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini? What Did They Admire About Egypt's Nasser?

S1E6: MAGA, Reclaiming History and the Need for Intellectual Communities - Lessons From the Middle East

S1E5: What Is Political Islam? And Why Would the Books of A Prominent Shia Muslim Philosopher Be Banned in the Islamic Republic of Iran?

S1E4: America's Middle East Military Strategy After 9/11. Was War Our Only Option?

S1E3: What Happened in 1979? How Did America's Military Get Sucked Into the Middle East After Vietnam?

S1E2: If Japan Could Catch Up With the West, Why Couldn’t Countries of the Middle East?

S1E1: Why Did Small European Kingdoms, and Not the Huge Empires of Asia, Conquer the World?

January 25, 2024: Analysis, History, Myths & Mysteries of the Middle East