On the Middle East with Amberin Zaman

207 Episodes

1. What are the risks and opportunities for Russia as it grows closer to Iran at Israel's expense?

   Published: 8/7/2024
2. How will Iran respond to Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran?

   Published: 7/31/2024
3. New Islamists value power over ideology and Turkey's Erdogan is their master

   Published: 7/25/2024
4. How Iran may look under new Reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian

   Published: 7/15/2024
5. Benyamin Poghosyan on why Armenia's peace bid with Azerbaijan, Turkey is proving so hard

   Published: 7/3/2024
6. Vali Nasr explains why Iran's presidential elections matter and how a Western-friendly heart surgeon might win

   Published: 6/20/2024
7. Why Iran is stronger, Israel more vulnerable, and the US needs to engage more in the Mideast

   Published: 6/13/2024
8. Syrian-Kurdish leader Saleh Muslim says it's the people, not US or Turkey, who decide local elections in northeast Syria

   Published: 6/4/2024
9. Why did Kuwait, one of the most democratic countries in the Mideast, take a sharp autocratic turn & what comes next?

   Published: 5/15/2024
10. As Greek PM heads to Ankara to meet Erdogan, is this truly 'a new era' between Turkey & Greece?

    Published: 5/9/2024
11. Turkey’s former PM Davutoglu, who met Hamas leaders this week, outlines their demands for peace

    Published: 5/2/2024
12. Sister of Israeli-Russian scholar Elizabeth Tsurkov, who is being held by Iran-backed Shiite militia, calls for US military sanctions on Iraq

    Published: 4/25/2024
13. Iran established deterrence against Israel proving through its actions it could do more harm, says academic Hassan Ahmadian

    Published: 4/17/2024
14. What path lies ahead for Turkey after Erdogan's stunning local election defeat? Commentator Kadri Gursel explains

    Published: 4/3/2024
15. How the West began losing the Mideast to Iran, Russia & China since start of Syria conflict, French academic Fabrice Balanche explains

    Published: 3/21/2024
16. Will Turkey's Erdogan seize back Istanbul and fully secure his regime in March 31 elections?

    Published: 3/14/2024
17. Why are Britain’s Jews facing the largest wave of anti-semitic violence in modern times?

    Published: 3/7/2024
18. American doctor Seema Jilani faces backlash for her eyewitness accounts of horrors unfolding in Gaza

    Published: 2/20/2024
19. Sweden did not take Turkey's terrorism concerns seriously enough says former Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde

    Published: 2/15/2024
20. Does Turkey really support ISIS and, if so, why did ISIS just attack it again? Expert Aaron Zelin explains

    Published: 2/5/2024