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10 Nov 202259s
The West vs. the Rest?
In the final episode of this season, Thomas & Aimen come full circle again, back to the latest chapter in Aimen’s extraordinary life—a new, sad chapter that has forced a difficult and fateful decision...
12 Okt 20221h 7min
Algerian Civil War
As Conflicted approaches the end of season 3, Aimen & Thomas turn their attention to a country which hasn’t featured much on the podcast so far: Algeria. Often overlooked due to the Algerian regime’s ...
28 Sep 20221h 27min
Anti-Soviet Jihad
With the assassination of Al Qaeda leader Aymen al-Zawahiri ringing in their ears, Aimen & Thomas turn their attention once again to Afghanistan, focusing this time on the Soviet invasion in 1979 and ...
14 Sep 20221h 38min
Saddam vs. Ayatollah
In our previous episode on the Iranian revolution, we left the Ayatollah Khomeini sitting high and mighty in Tehran. Little did he know, next door in Baghdad, an Arab strongman nursed revolutionary, e...
31 Aug 20221h 23min
Ayatollah vs. Shah
We’ve reached the Iranian Revolution of 1979! The great showdown! The watershed moment when the tensions which we’ve been tracing—between reform and reaction, modernism and tradition—erupted into swee...
17 Aug 20221h 20min
Petrostates of the World, Unite!
In this episode, Aimen and Thomas talk about one of the many governing institutions which arose out of the wreckage of the old imperial and colonial world, and which still underpins the way the world ...
3 Aug 20221h 15min
Lebanon: Failed Narco-Terrorist State?
Circling back to the Arab world after a brief excursus further afield, this episode of Conflicted takes up the themes of sectarian strife and political radicalism and applies them to the country that ...
20 Jul 20221h 11min
