Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSaudi Arabia at 90, an evolution from Bedouin culture to leading power
Nadia Abdulwahab, Lecturer in English Literature at Umm Al Qura University, and Marcel Kupershoek, author and senior humanities research fellow at NY…
5 years, 5 months ago
The Abraham Accord between Israel and the UAE
On the 15th of September, the UAE signed the historic Abraham Accord with Israel at a ceremony in Washington DC, in the first such agreement between …
5 years, 5 months ago
Social media and the freedom of speech
Free speech is part of the US bill of rights, which was ratified in 1791. It grants the freedom to express any opinion, without any restrictions or p…
5 years, 6 months ago
How gas exploration in the Mediterranean is pitting Turkey against Europe
News update. Since publishing this podcast Greece and Turkey have agreed to talks to avoid military escalation and accidents in the Eastern Mediterr…
5 years, 6 months ago
How do people become radicalised online and can we stop it?
This week on Beyond the Headlines, we ask Athina Tzemprin from Moonshot CVE, an organisation that works to prevent radicalisation of people online, a…
5 years, 6 months ago
What is long-haul Covid and is it real?
‘Long haulers’ or ‘Long-termers’ are people who have recovered from the coronavirus but weeks or even months later, are still experiencing symptoms.
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5 years, 6 months ago
Lebanon explosion: What will Lebanon do now?
In this episode, we talk to Bassam ZaaZaa, a reporter with The National, and Zina Malas, a student at the American University of Beirut about their e…
5 years, 6 months ago
What happened when Beirut exploded?
James Haines Young pieces together the explosion and the immediate aftermath.
He talks to The National’s Sunniva Rose and Lina Mokadden, a resident…
5 years, 7 months ago
How Hajj will be different during the coronavirus pandemic
In this episode, we talk to Mohammed Mushfiq Uddin, a lead guide and scholar for a UK Hajj and Umrah operator, and Balquees Basalom, a social media j…
5 years, 7 months ago
The global sand trade: Are we running out of sand?
This week, we talk to Vince Beiser, author of the book The World in a Grain of Sand and Arora Torres, fellow at the Université catholique de Louvain …
5 years, 7 months ago