162 Episodes

  1. CC: Wassim Nasr – Does Lifting Sanctions Equal Stability in Al-Sharaa’s Syria?

    Published: 6/11/2025

  2. The Syrian Civil War Pt.7: Life Under ISIS in Raqqa

    Published: 6/4/2025

  3. CC: Baraa Shiban – Does Trump Spell the End for the Houthis?

    Published: 5/28/2025

  4. CC: Rob Geist Pinfold – How the Settlers Captured the Israeli State

    Published: 5/21/2025

  5. CC: Giri Rajendran Pt.2 – Trump's Military Moves and What ‘Liberation Day’ Really Means

    Published: 5/14/2025

  6. The Syrian Civil War Pt.6: The Siege Ends, The Regime Falls

    Published: 5/7/2025

  7. CC: Giri Rajendran Pt.1 - Trump’s New World Order

    Published: 4/30/2025

  8. CC: Tom Khaled Würdemann – Israelism, Palestinianism and the Quest for Peaceful Co-existence

    Published: 4/23/2025

  9. The Syrian Civil War Pt.5: The Siege of Southern Damascus

    Published: 4/16/2025

  10. CC: Hamza Howidy – Protest, Exile, and a Post-Hamas Vision of Gaza

    Published: 4/9/2025

  11. CC: Kahlil Sayegh – Palestinian Survival in the Face of Israel and Hamas

    Published: 4/2/2025

  12. The Syrian Civil War Pt.4: Afrin Under Siege & Exile in Turkey

    Published: 3/26/2025

  13. CC: Q&A – The Truth Behind the Violence in Syria

    Published: 3/19/2025

  14. The Syrian Civil War Pt.3: The Arab Spring Hits Aleppo

    Published: 3/12/2025

  15. Conflicted Community: Elisabeth Kendall – Politics, Conflict and Jihadi Poetry in Yemen

    Published: 3/5/2025

  16. The Syrian Civil War Pt.2 – The Kurds Rise Up

    Published: 2/26/2025

  17. Conflicted Community: Dalia Ziada – Liberal Activism in Egypt, from the Arab Spring to October 7th

    Published: 2/19/2025

  18. The Syrian Civil War Pt.1: Wassim Nasr Meets Al-Sharaa

    Published: 2/12/2025

  19. Conflicted Community: Q&A – What now for Israel and Gaza?

    Published: 2/5/2025

  20. Ethiopia Pt.3: The Shadow of the Derg

    Published: 1/29/2025

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An ex-Al Qaeda jihadi turned MI6 spy and a former monk turned filmmaker, have been embedded at the heart of conflicts in the Middle East. Together Aimen Dean and Thomas Small unpack the realities of war, fundamentalism and their global implications through first-hand experience.