Iraq's year of protests, assassinations and foreign interference
On October the 1st 2019, protestors took to the streets of Iraq demonstrating against unemployment, government corruption and poor public services, such as electricity and clean water. As Iraqis mark ...
30 Sep 202017min
Saudi Arabia at 90, an evolution from Bedouin culture to leading power
Nadia Abdulwahab, Lecturer in English Literature at Umm Al Qura University, and Marcel Kupershoek, author and senior humanities research fellow at NYU Abu Dhabi takes us through the evolution of Saudi...
23 Sep 202016min
The Abraham Accord between Israel and the UAE
On the 15th of September, the UAE signed the historic Abraham Accord with Israel at a ceremony in Washington DC, in the first such agreement between an Arab country and Israel in over a quarter of a c...
15 Sep 202016min
Social media and the freedom of speech
Free speech is part of the US bill of rights, which was ratified in 1791. It grants the freedom to express any opinion, without any restrictions or penalty from the government. However, there are rest...
10 Sep 202020min
How gas exploration in the Mediterranean is pitting Turkey against Europe
News update. Since publishing this podcast Greece and Turkey have agreed to talks to avoid military escalation and accidents in the Eastern Mediterranean, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said ...
3 Sep 202019min
How do people become radicalised online and can we stop it?
This week on Beyond the Headlines, we ask Athina Tzemprin from Moonshot CVE, an organisation that works to prevent radicalisation of people online, and Jesse Morton a former recruiter for Al Qaeda, wh...
26 Aug 202025min
What is long-haul Covid and is it real?
‘Long haulers’ or ‘Long-termers’ are people who have recovered from the coronavirus but weeks or even months later, are still experiencing symptoms. Diana Berrent, founder of Survivor Corps - a Face...
20 Aug 202018min
Lebanon explosion: What will Lebanon do now?
In this episode, we talk to Bassam ZaaZaa, a reporter with The National, and Zina Malas, a student at the American University of Beirut about their experience of the explosion. We also talk to Mariann...
13 Aug 202024min
