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A weekly podcast focused on long-form interviews on history, pop culture and society affecting the MENA region and diaspora communities. It aims to inform and illuminate the region through a non-newsy lens, exploring the MENA region's past, present and future and its people. Each episode begins with a question and an introduction to an expert who will attempt to answer it.
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Don't have time for a full news hour? Listen to the PBS News Hour, segment by segment. Our full coverage of politics, science, arts, health, national and international news is included in this feed in easy-to-digest 5 to 10 minute segments. Segments are published each night by 9 p.m. Is this not what you're looking for? Don't miss our other podcasts for our full show, Brooks and Capehart, Politics Monday, Brief but Spectacular, and more. Find them in iTunes or in your favorite podcasting app ...
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Listen to the complete PBS News Hour, specially formatted as a podcast. Published each night by 9 p.m., our full show includes every news segment, every interview, and every bit of analysis as our television broadcast. Is this not what you're looking for? Don't miss our other podcasts for our individual segments, Brooks and Capehart, Politics Monday, Brief but Spectacular, and more. Find them in iTunes or in your favorite podcasting app. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshou ...
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Middle East Monitor Conversations brings you lively discussions with prominent voices from the region and beyond as we delve deeper into issues shaping the Middle East and North Africa - from politics, to culture and the arts. For more: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/
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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.
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This Is Palestine

The Institute for Middle East Understanding

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'This Is Palestine' is a podcast that highlights people, issues, and events around Palestine. We bring you stories from the ground in Palestine, and we speak with experts and activists to bring you unique perspectives and analysis about Palestine from across the world. This podcast is a project of the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU).
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Exploring threats to global stability from Ukraine to China to the Middle East with host Gavin Esler – former BBC News presenter, Washington correspondent and host of Newsnight – plus Ukraine-based war reporter Oz Katerji and independent conflict analyst Emma Beals. This Is Not A Drill dives deep into the dangers, corruption, conflicts, disinformation, rivalries and ruthless realpolitik that are making our world ever more dangerous. Support This Is Not A Drill on Patreon from just £3 per mon ...
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Welcome to Middle East Centre Booktalk – the Oxford podcast on new books about the Middle East. These are some of the books written by members of our community, or the books our community are talking about. Tune in to follow author interviews and book chat. Every episode features a different, recently published book and is hosted by a different Oxford academic.
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The Global Story

BBC World Service

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The one big story. Making sense of the news with our experts around the world. Insights you can trust, Monday to Friday, from the BBC. Episodes will be ready by 10:30 GMT. Host Katya Adler and our BBC teams guide you through one major global news story each episode. From Beijing to Boston, Baghdad to Bangalore, our unrivalled reach will take you beyond the headlines to help understand and explore what’s happening. The Global News Podcast brings you the latest updates and, on The Global Story ...
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Across the world, from Europe to Asia, the Americas to the Middle East, tensions are rising between nation states. Traditional alliances and alignments are constantly evolving in the 21st century. An understanding of defence and security policy and the tides of political, social and economic changes is crucial for any informed understanding of our world. 2024 sees war in Europe and Israel, and elections in major economies, including the US, the UK, Taiwan, South Africa, and many others. Insu ...
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Welcome to the LSE Middle East Centre's podcast feed. The MEC builds on LSE's long engagement with the Middle East and North Africa and provides a central hub for the wide range of research on the region carried out at LSE. Follow us and keep up to date with our latest event podcasts and interviews!
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The John Batchelor Show is a hard news-analysis radio program on current events, world history, global politics and natural sciences. Based in New York City for two decades, the show has travelled widely to report, from the Middle East to the South Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula and East Asia.
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Babel: Translating the Middle East

Center for Strategic and International Studies

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Babel will take you beyond the headlines to discuss what’s really happening in the Middle East and North Africa. It features regional experts who explain what’s going on, provide context on pivotal developments, and highlight trends you may have missed. Jon Alterman, senior vice president, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies hosts the podcast along with his colleagues from ...
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KPFK - Middle East In Focus

Nagwa Ibrahim and Estee Chandler

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Middle East in Focus has been airing regularly on KPFK since 1980. It was launched by the News Department shortly after Iranian students began holding 63 Americans hostage in the US Embassy in Tehran. After the hostages were released a year later, MEIF continued broadcasting news and opinion about the so-called "Middle East." The area is actually southwestern Asia.
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Palestine Debrief

Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East

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"Palestine Debrief" is a podcast that discusses all things related to Palestine: the stories, people, issues and events. A discussion with experts, politicians, artists and activists to provide a distinctive approach about Palestine as it intersects with the political landscape here in Canada and beyond. This podcast is a production of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME, www.cjpme.org).
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Kalam

Edgar Mannheimer

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Kalam is a podcast about the culture, history and politics of the Middle East. Hosted by seasoned radio journalist Edgar Mannheimer, Kalam aims to be a source of knowledge and understanding about a region of the world that is so often misunderstood.
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Rethinking Palestine

Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network

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Rethinking Palestine is a podcast from Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, a transnational think tank that brings together Palestinians from across the globe to produce critical policy analysis and craft visions for a liberated, self-determined future. Host Yara Hawari engages with a range of Palestinian analysts to discuss recent developments and long-standing questions facing Palestinians worldwide.
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Join WSP experts and industry thought leaders as we uncover unique perspectives on future trends, explore industry hot topics, challenge the status quo and Anticipate future solutions to complex problems.
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Showcasing the latest developments in the realm of academic and professional research and literature, about the Middle East and global affairs. We discuss Israeli, Arab and Palestinian society, the Jewish world, the Middle East and its conflicts, and issues of global and public affairs with scholars, writers and deep-thinkers.
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The Middle with Jeremy Hobson is a national call-in talk show focused on bringing the voices of Americans in the geographic and political middle into the national conversation. The people who are crucial in our politics but are often ignored by the media. Along with DJ Tolliver and two panel guests, Jeremy takes calls each week from across the country and aims to keep things civil while talking through some of the most contentious issues we face. You can join the conversation by calling 1-84 ...
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The Middle East is one of the world's most discussed and revered construction and real estate marketplaces. This podcast features some of the industry's foremost individuals and will cover a range of topics, projects, initiatives, and trends affecting the industry. Hosted by Jonathan Eveleigh With 23 years experience working in the Middle East for leading contractors Laing O'Rourke and Khansaheb, as host of the MECRE podcast I will be joined by experts from leading organisations in the prope ...
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The CUFI Minute is another way to enjoy CUFI's online news and analysis segment, the CUFI Weekly. Featuring host Kasim Hafeez, this microcast is a quick yet in-depth topical segment you can listen to while commuting to work or making your afternoon cup of coffee. In under 10 minutes a week, learn about the history behind many threats facing Israel, the significance of important holidays and anniversaries throughout the year, and what’s happening in Israel and the broader Middle East.
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#ABtalks

Anas Bukhash

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Welcome to #ABtalks, a YouTube show discovering the human behind the title by shining the spotlight on the 'raw' side of celebrities, achievers and influencers from across the world. Hosted by Anas Bukhash, one of the most successful entrepreneurs and interviewers in the Middle East region, the show is the fastest growing show of its kind and is now also available on Netflix.
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Voices of the Middle East and North Africa is a weekly program hosted by Malihe Razazan and Mira Nabulsi. It explores the richly diverse and fascinating world of culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa through a complex web of class, gender, ethnic, religious and regional differences. Voices of the Middle East and North Africa airs on KPFA radio, 94.1 FM, in Berkeley, CA. Online on kpfa.org or on Apple Podcasts.
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On today's episode, Global Health Editor Paul Nuki joins me from Tel Aviv to report on the mammoth diplomatic effort to avert a full scale war between Israel and Iran. Then we talk to Associate Editor Dominic Nicholls about Ukraine's operation in Kursk, the first foreign incursion into Russia since the Second World War and how it could tip the bala…
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PREVIEW: USNAVY: IRAN: HEZBOLLAH: Conversation with Mark Montgomery, FDD, on the scale of the US Navy deployment in the Middle East -- to do what in the event of Iran attacking Israel? More tonight. 1943 USS Brooklyn, light cruiser.By John Batchelor
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Join Philip and longtime friend David Weinberg for a brand new episode of From the Midwest to the Middle East. David is a government relations and foreign affairs specialist based in Israel. He is a diplomatic, defense, political, and Jewish world columnist for The Jerusalem Post and Israel Hayom newspapers and a senior managing fellow at the Jerus…
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Leaders Create Learners “Why should I encourage you to learn? You’re here to do a job.” We could call that ‘manager-talk’. We know that the best leaders are the best learners. They may even say: “I learn from my people every day.” They also know that if they provide learning opportunities for those they are leading, all of those respond positively …
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Deadly Israeli strikes across Gaza on the eve of new ceasefire negotiations in the diplomatic scramble to avert a wider conflict in the Middle East. A second Russian border region declares an emergency as Ukrainian forces press forward with their incursion. Myanmar's military denies rumors that a top general had detained the embattled junta chief a…
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Since the war between Hamas and Israel erupted in October 2023, the fear has been that the conflict in Gaza could lead to a wider regional war across the Middle East. Questions are growing as to whether Iran will retaliate against Israel, which is widely believed to be responsible for a strike that killed former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehra…
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What do Turkiye's Justice and Development Party (AKP), Tunisia's Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood have in common and are their ties shaping policy in the Middle East and Turkiye? Turkiye's youngest editor joins us to discuss what drives their relationship. In 2013, at the height of the Gezi Park protests, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ma…
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On July 31, Ismail Haniyeh, a senior leader of Hamas, was killed in Tehran. Just a day earlier, an Israeli airstrike killed a Hezbollah commander in the suburbs of Beirut. Leah Hickert speaks with Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, about how these events may continue to escalate, and their potential impact on the Israel-Hamas w…
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The White House said Monday that the U.S. and Israel believe Iran and its proxies across the region could launch a significant attack in the coming days. The U.S. accelerated the deployment of forces to the region to try and deter Iran and defend Israel despite simultaneous diplomatic attempts to prevent an attack. Nick Schifrin reports. A warning,…
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Over the course of the Almoravid (1040–1147) and Almohad (1121–1269) dynasties, mediaeval Marrakesh evolved from an informal military encampment into a thriving metropolis that attempted to translate a local and distinctly rural past into a broad, imperial architectural vernacular. In Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Iden…
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International mediators have held a new round of talks aimed at halting the Israel-Hamas war and securing the release of scores of hostages, with a potential deal seen as the best hope of heading off an even larger regional conflict. We talk with Boaz Atzili, a professor at the Department of Foreign Policy and Global Security, School of Internation…
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GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Russia as the Ukrainian incursion pushes on toward Kursk Oblast. More later. 1941 Moscow defense CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9-915 1/2: UKRAINE: The incursion. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute. 915-930 2/2: UKRAINE: The incursion. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute. 930-945 #SCALAREPORT: Chip war…
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#MrMarket: US Industrial Policy of tariffs and subsidies means the voters pay more for lesser quality. Veronique DeRugy, Mercatus Center https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/08/24/the-tariff-paradox-americans-love-free-trade-more-than-they-realize 1952 RNC ConventionBy John Batchelor
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1/2: #HOTEL MARS: The postponed Mars Sample Return Mission & What is too be done? David Southwood, Imperial College. David Livingston, Space.Show. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr7337 1952By John Batchelor
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#ISRAEL: The scale and pattern of the anti Israel media: Ben-Dror Yemini is a senior journalist with the Hebrew daily Yediot Ahronot. He has conducted a lot of research on anti-Israeli propaganda. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 1860-1900 JerusalemBy John Batchelor
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#ISRAEL: Will the US counter attack Iran or its proxies Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery is the Senior Director at the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, leading efforts to enhance U.S. security and counter cyber threats. He also directs CSC 2.0, an initiative focused on implementing recommendations from the Cyberspace Solarium Commissio…
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IRAN: Unknown weaponizing schedule. David Albright is an American physicist and a weapons expert who is the founder of the non-governmental Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), its current president, and author of several books on the proliferation of atomic weapons. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 1925 Persia…
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Northern Israel: Under constant attack. Lieutenant Colonel (Res.) Sarit Zehav iFounder and president of Alma – a nonprofit and an independent research and education center specializing in Israel’s security challenges on its northern border. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 1903 GalileeBy John Batchelor
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PREVIEW: HOTEL MARS: MARS: JWST: Conversation with David Southwood of Imperial College, London, regarding the Lessons Learned from the over-budget and overdue JWST that can be applied to the challenge of Mars Sample Return, now postponed. More tonight. 1682 Paris ObservatoryBy John Batchelor
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PREVIEW: AUSTRALIA: SECOND ISLAND CHAIN: Conversation with colleague Ronan Wordsworth of #GPFutures regarding the fortifying of the Second Island Chain with the Northern Territory of Australia as the anchor -- preparing for the PLA attack on the First Island Chain. More tonight. 1942 Northern Territory at Stokes Hill…
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Thursday on the News Hour, mediators work to rekindle cease-fire talks while the death toll in Gaza crosses 40,000. Fact-checking the Trump and Harris campaigns' latest claims as the candidates rally voters. Plus, a new form of the mpox virus spreads, prompting health officials to declare another global health emergency. PBS News is supported by - …
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The Gaza war reached a staggering milestone with the Hamas-run health ministry reporting 40,000 Gazans have been killed since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7. It comes as negotiators met again in Qatar to try and find a path toward a cease-fire, which the U.S. believes is the best way to prevent the war in Gaza from expanding to an even larger regi…
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Israel blames Hamas for hiding within civilian areas and said it has killed about 17,000 Hamas fighters in Gaza. If that's true, that still means more than 20,000 civilians have died. Nick Schifrin discussed the staggering death toll in Gaza with Dr. Ahmad Yousaf, an American pediatrician who recently returned from volunteering with the humanitaria…
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In our news wrap Thursday, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said his country's troops seized the Russian town of Sudzha, a court in Russia sentenced Russian American citizen Ksenia Khavana to 12 years in prison, federal law enforcement officials charged five people in connection with the death of actor Matthew Perry and Bermuda is bracing for Hurrican…
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The presidential candidates closed out another busy day on the campaign trail with less than three months to go in the race for the White House. As events and advertising ramp up, so does the volume of misleading claims and outright lies. Former President Trump repeated familiar grievances and several lies during a Thursday news conference. Amna Na…
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Medicare reached agreements with major pharmaceutical companies to cut the cost the government pays for ten prescription drugs used by millions of Americans. It marks the first time the government has been able to negotiate directly with drugmakers, a result of provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act. Amna Nawaz discussed the impact with Neera Ta…
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Summer vacation time is fast vanishing, but this season was expected to break records worldwide, with billions of people breaking out their suitcases, sandals and swimsuits. But while tourism is a huge money maker, more destinations are annoyed by visitors and asking many to stay away. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports on European hotsp…
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The World Health Organization has declared a global emergency due to the rapid spread of mpox in several African nations. Experts warn that if it is not contained, the virus could spread even further internationally. Sweden reported the first case outside Africa after an individual was staying there. Ali Rogin discussed more with Anne Rimoin. PBS N…
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The legendary writer and activist James Baldwin would have turned 100 this month. He is best known for his novels and essays and as a moral voice addressing race, sexuality and the very fabric of American democracy. Jeffrey Brown looks at Baldwin's enduring legacy for our series, Art in Action, exploring the intersection of art and democracy and fo…
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PREVIEW: PLA NAVY: CCP: Conversation with colleague Charles Burton regarding the news that Minister of Defense Admiral Dong has not been promoted to the Central Military Commission and what this may mean about disorder in the PRC CCP leadership. 1949 ChinaBy John Batchelor
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