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Back to SearchHow new tech is helping the UAE farm the deserts
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit - global trade ground to a halt. Around the world people were scrambling to buy essentials as supermarket shelves empt…
5 years, 3 months ago
Iran's secret affair with Al Qaeda
On August 7, Habib Daoud, a Lebanese professor of history in Iran, was gunned down on a street in northern Tehran. Killed alongside him was his 27-ye…
5 years, 3 months ago
Why are people fleeing Ethiopia's Tigray region?
In 2019, Abiy Ahmed was riding high. For a year he had been Ethiopia’s prime minister, having emerged from byzantine internal jockeying at a time of …
5 years, 3 months ago
The changes in the Middle East after Joe Biden takes office
For nearly four years, US President Donald Trump has torn up America’s foreign policy handbook. The implications, both at home and abroad, have been …
5 years, 3 months ago
Why superstorms are the new normal
The Philippines is no stranger to storms. The country's group of islands weather around 20 storms and typhoons a year. But when news of supertyphoon …
5 years, 4 months ago
US election special: Who will be the next US President?
In this special edition of Beyond the Headlines, Michael Goldfarb, author, journalist and host of the FRDH podcast based in the UK, talks to Joyce Ka…
5 years, 4 months ago
Arab Americans vote in divisive presidential election
Arab-Americans make up a tiny fraction of America’s 300 plus million people. But in three key swing states: Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania…
5 years, 4 months ago
A year of revolution in Lebanon between fires, crisis and blast
The fires didn’t start the revolution, but you could say it was the kindling. The country suffers fires every year, but these were different. In this…
5 years, 4 months ago
The challenges of finding a Covid-19 vaccine
News update: Since publishing this podcast China announced on October 9 that it has joined Covax, the global scheme for the distribution of COVID-19…
5 years, 5 months ago
Iraq's year of protests, assassinations and foreign interference
On October the 1st 2019, protestors took to the streets of Iraq demonstrating against unemployment, government corruption and poor public services, s…
5 years, 5 months ago