Episodes

  • AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #4 Palestine and a new awakening

    AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #4 Palestine and a new awakening
    Aug 13 2025
    In a landscape of genocide and ethnic cleansing a leading Middle East writer and analyst peels away the empty rhetoric to unflinchingly show the catastrophe that Israel has chosen to inflict upon the Palestinian people over decades while finding hope in the generation of young Arabs who have discovered their identity in the ongoing tragedy of Palestine. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.
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    35 mins
  • The Queer Arab Glossary

    The Queer Arab Glossary
    Aug 6 2025
    A brilliant anthology of images, essays and slang locates and embraces Arab queerness and defines the urgency of resistance to oppression, arbitrary force and to the Gaza genocide. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.
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    37 mins
  • AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #6 Erdoğan plays a long game

    AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #6 Erdoğan plays a long game
    Jul 30 2025
    Just after Joe Biden’s disastrous presidential debate in June of last year and just before the annual NATO Summit Arab Digest invited a leading Washington-based Middle East and Türkiye analyst onto the podcast to discuss amongst other matters what a Trump presidency would mean for Türkiye and the wider Middle East region. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.
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    36 mins
  • AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #7 Syria has a new strongman

    AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #7 Syria has a new strongman
    Jul 23 2025
    Summary: on 8 December last year the regime of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was routed in a lightning offensive that had burst out of the previously besieged rebel enclave of Idlib. The offensive was spearheaded by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and its leader Ahmed al-Sharaa known then by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.
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    32 mins
  • AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #8 Netanyahu and the war of weaponised narratives

    AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #8 Netanyahu and the war of weaponised narratives
    Jul 16 2025
    On 27 September 2024 the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was assassinated in Beirut in an Israeli airstrike. Four days later Arab Digest invited the security and defence specialist Dr Andreas Krieg onto the podcast to discuss the assassination and the broader picture within the context of his study on the weaponisation of narratives. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.
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    33 mins
  • AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #9 Lebanon looks forward

    AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #9 Lebanon looks forward
    Jul 9 2025
    With the appointment of a new president and the arrival of a new prime minister in early 2025 optimism among the Lebanese has grown despite a shaky ceasefire and the ever present threat of Israel Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.
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    30 mins
  • AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #10 Understanding Iran

    AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #10 Understanding Iran
    Jul 3 2025
    Through July and August we are featuring our all new top ten podcasts countdown. We begin with Sanam Vakil’s Understanding Iran first podcast 8 October 2024 a week after Iran had hit Israel with ballistic missiles. The attack was in retaliation for the Israeli assassinations of Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah, the IRGC general Abbas Nilforoushan and the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.
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    29 mins
  • The Danger Games in the Middle East

    The Danger Games in the Middle East
    Jun 26 2025
    Arab Digest editor William Law welcomes the defence and security analyst Andreas Krieg to the podcast to discuss the latest moves in a dangerous game that Israel and Iran are playing out while Donald Trump dances on his social media stage and Western nations join him in throwing out the rules-based order that with all its flaws provided a modicum of certainty and security for the Middle East and the wider world. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.
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    32 mins