On the Middle East with Amberin Zaman

207 Episodes

1. Iran’s economy won’t collapse, but future at risk from sanctions, says Bijan Khajehpour

   Published: 1/12/2022
2. Analyst Hiwa Osman: The United States must fix the escalating crisis between Iraq and Syria’s Kurds

   Published: 1/3/2022
3. Maghreb Analyst Jalel Harchaoui: Turkey could find itself fighting Libyans in Tripoli in the wake of cancelled elections

   Published: 12/28/2021
4. Iran nuclear talks should be linked to Yemen peace process, says Sanam Vakil

   Published: 12/20/2021
5. French President Macron pitches stability, business in Gulf, says Gilles Kepel

   Published: 12/13/2021
6. Nicholas Danforth: Erdogan’s hands are not tied by his political allies, still has power to reverse Turkey’s downward spiral

   Published: 12/8/2021
7. Russia expert Michael Kofman explains why Moscow backs the Iran nuclear deal and why Iran-Russia tensions in Syria are overstated

   Published: 11/30/2021
8. Don’t rule out eventual Erdogan-Assad reconciliation over shared fear of Kurds, says Amberin Zaman

   Published: 11/24/2021
9. Trump Administration’s Former Syria Envoy JIM JEFFREY says Turkey unlike to invade northeastern Syria in the immediate future

   Published: 11/18/2021
10. Noor Sweid on innovation in the MENA region: ‘It’s not that we’re trying to think outside the box; there is no box’

    Published: 11/9/2021
11. Israeli leaders worry that Iran does not fear America, says Ben Caspit

    Published: 11/5/2021
12. World not trusting Israel’s ‘flimsy’ terrorist claims against Palestinian NGO’s, says Daoud Kuttab

    Published: 10/26/2021
13. US Turkish relations unlikely to get better under Erdogan says veteran Turkey analyst Alan Makovsky

    Published: 10/21/2021
14. Khamenei may still prefer a nuclear deal over a nuclear weapon, says Ken Pollack

    Published: 10/13/2021
15. Iran unlikely to consider crossing nuclear weapons threshold unless attacked, says Ali Vaez

    Published: 10/7/2021
16. US intervention in Syria is different to Afghanistan says security expert Aaron Stein

    Published: 9/30/2021
17. Vivian Salama previews the Biden Administration’s Middle East priorities at the UN General Assembly

    Published: 9/20/2021
18. Europe, West threatened by Atmospheric Jihadism and the entrepreneurs of wrath, says Gilles Kepel

    Published: 9/15/2021
19. Iraqis fear worse chaos amid waning US presence, says Bilal Wahab

    Published: 9/8/2021
20. Armenia expert Richard Giragosian: Peace between Armenia, Turkey more likely than before

    Published: 8/30/2021