On the Middle East with Amberin Zaman

202 Episodes

1. How the GCC states balance the US and China, and why the Gulf may prefer Trump over Biden

   Published: 10/14/2020
2. Closing US embassy in Baghdad would be ‘incredibly irresponsible,’ says former US Ambassador to Iraq

   Published: 10/7/2020
3. GCC rift ‘pained the late Emir the most,’ says Kuwaiti scholar Alanoud Alsharekh

   Published: 10/1/2020
4. Van Hollen says Iran is metaphor for failed Trump foreign policies

   Published: 9/23/2020
5. For Israeli Arabs, Peace agreements with UAE and Bahrain bring opportunities and mixed feelings

   Published: 9/17/2020
6. Putin’s Syria Strategy and the US presidential election

   Published: 9/10/2020
7. Update from Iraq with Al-Monitor’s Ali Mamouri

   Published: 9/2/2020
8. “The sky’s the limit” for Israel-UAE deal, says Israel’s ambassador to the United States

   Published: 8/26/2020
9. CNBC’s Hadley Gamble talks about Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and women journalists covering the Middle East

   Published: 8/12/2020
10. Mina Al-Oraibi discusses how the UAE got ahead of COVID-19 pandemic and pulled off the Mars Mission, why she has faith in Iraq’s potential, and more

    Published: 8/5/2020
11. Sultan Al-Qassemi discusses social, political and cultural trends in modern and contemporary Arab Art

    Published: 7/29/2020
12. US Rep. Elissa Slotkin: US should be ‘clear eyed’ about Russian attempts to ‘thwart, target and engage’ US forces

    Published: 7/22/2020
13. Cengiz Candar discusses his new book, Turkey’s Mission Impossible: War and Peace with the Kurds

    Published: 7/15/2020
14. US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook discusses Trump Administration’s policy toward Iran

    Published: 7/8/2020
15. Israeli and Palestinian UN ambassadors discuss annexation, the Trump Peace Plan and the prospects for direct talks

    Published: 7/1/2020
16. Qatar Amb. Meshal Al-Thani talks about COVID-19, Iran, plans for the World Cup, divisions within the GCC, and more

    Published: 6/24/2020
17. Amberin Zaman breaks down US-Turkey relations and the Kurdish question in Syria

    Published: 6/17/2020
18. Gilles Kepel discusses his new book “Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the West”

    Published: 6/10/2020
19. UAE Ambassador Yousef Al-Otaiba talks about COVID-19, the region, and prospects for governance in the post-pandemic future

    Published: 6/2/2020
20. Hagel talks about the Middle East, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, and Joe Biden

    Published: 5/27/2020