Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRaqqa after ten years of war and revolution in Syria
March 2013, Raqqa. The Syrian revolution is in full swing. A crowd gathers around a statue of Hafez Al Assad in the centre of the city. The statue is…
5 years, 6 months ago
The legacy of the Pope's Iraq visit
It's hard to overstate just how significant Pope Francis's visit to Iraq really was. Nor how remarkable it is that it actually went ahead. Iraq, desp…
5 years, 7 months ago
Tunisians numb to the horror of public self-immolation
It was beyond our capacity of understanding ten years ago when a young man in Tunisia decided to take his own life by setting himself on fire. This a…
5 years, 7 months ago
Why have Indian farmers been protesting for months?
On February 21 about 120,000 Indian farmers gathered at a grain market in Punjab to protest against the government. The crowds of men and women arriv…
5 years, 7 months ago
How the UAE moved an entire coral reef
At the beginning of 2020 the UAE faced a conundrum. Abu Dhabi Ports was seeking to boost its cargo-handling capacity, which meant more construction a…
5 years, 7 months ago
How UAE’s Hope probe made history
On February 9, 2021, after seven months in space and six years since the mission's inception, a room full of Emirati engineers watched anxiously as t…
5 years, 8 months ago
How the repeal of the “Muslim Ban” will affect Muslim refugees
During his 2015 presidential primary race, a day after the San Bernadino shootings in which a married Islamist couple shot and killed 14 people, Dona…
5 years, 8 months ago
Can Lebanon survive the coronavirus pandemic?
In December 2019, two months after the start of the popular protests across Lebanon, Human Rights Watch warned of an impending health crisis in the c…
5 years, 8 months ago
Biden inauguration - The unprecedented presidential handover
On 20 January, 2021, Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. President Biden has come into power breaking records and m…
5 years, 8 months ago
Egypt’s #MeToo movement and how it is changing the country
In December 2011 in Cairo, during a protest in Tahrir Square, a woman was captured on video being dragged along the ground. During the attack, her ab…
5 years, 8 months ago