Conflicted Community: Q&A – What Will 2025 Hold for Syria & Israel?
Happy New Year to all of our dearest listeners! In our second episode of 2025, Thomas and Aimen are doing a Q&A session with all of your questions posted on Discord, and we’ve got some excellent ones...
8 Jan 202517min
Conflicted Community: Tom Tugendhat – The Dangers of Islamism and the Future of the Middle East
To bring in the new year, we have a special Conflicted Community episode this week– an interview with none other than Tom Tugendhat, a Conservative British MP and ex Minister of State for Security. ...
1 Jan 20251h 9min
Ethiopia Pt.2: Haile Selassie, King of Kings
After a short emergency interlude into Syria, Conflicted Season 5 returns to our exploration of the fascinating land of Ethiopia. Moving now to the 20th century, where one man dominated the country: E...
18 Des 20241h 20min
Conflicted Community: Aaron Zelin – Assad’s Fall and the Future of Syria
ANOTHER EMERGENCY EPISODE Things are, as ever, moving at lightning speed in the Middle East, as last weekend on December 8th, Bashar al-Assad and his Syrian regime fell. After 13 years of civil war, ...
11 Des 202441min
The Syrian Civil War Reignites
EMERGENCY EPISODE In another hugely dramatic turn in the Middle East, the Syrian civil war has reignited. On November 27th 2024, Abu Mohammad al-Julani’s HTS reconquered huge swathes of the North Wes...
4 Des 20241h 31min
Conflicted Community: Q&A – What Does Trump Mean for the Middle East?
This week for the Conflicted Community, Thomas and Aimen are giving their take on, you guessed it, the US election and the return of Donald Trump to the White House. That’s right, dearest listeners, ...
27 Nov 202424min
Ethiopia Pt.1: The Cradle of Humanity
Conflicted’s tour of Africa takes another turn, this time to the East, as we head to the horn of Africa to learn about that most ancient of lands… Ethiopia! Ethiopia is the cradle of humanity – the p...
20 Nov 20241h 16min
La Françafrique Pt.2: Enter the Russians
Conflicted is back, continuing our trip across La Françafrique this week, with a survey of the last 10 years in Francophone West Africa, and yes, you guessed it: it’s insurgencies, jihadi movements an...
6 Nov 20241h 2min
