CC: Hamza Howidy – Protest, Exile, and a Post-Hamas Vision of Gaza
This week, Thomas speaks with Hamza Howidy, a Palestinian activist originally from Gaza now living in exile in Germany. Hamza shares his extraordinary story of growing up under Hamas rule and the cons...
9 Apr 202522min
CC: Kahlil Sayegh – Palestinian Survival in the Face of Israel and Hamas
This week for the Conflicted Community we begin a series of conversations about the conflict in Israel and Palestine, with Palestinians themselves, to shed some light on the Palestinian perspective of...
2 Apr 202523min
The Syrian Civil War Pt.4: Afrin Under Siege & Exile in Turkey
Conflicted brings to an end our three part series with Ronnie Hamada, a Syrian Kurdish civilian, whose experience of the Civil War has been thrilling us over the past few episodes... Thomas and Ronn...
26 Mar 20251h 24min
CC: Q&A – The Truth Behind the Violence in Syria
Thomas and Aimen are back together for another Q&A! This week we answer your questions on the many and varied crises that seem to be engulfing the Middle East and the world in 2025… Thomas and Aimen ...
19 Mar 202523min
The Syrian Civil War Pt.3: The Arab Spring Hits Aleppo
This week on Conflicted, Ronnie Hamada is back with Thomas to describe his experiences as a Kurdish civilian during the Syrian Civil War, as we continue our retrospective on that most complex of confl...
12 Mar 20251h 10min
Conflicted Community: Elisabeth Kendall – Politics, Conflict and Jihadi Poetry in Yemen
This week for our Conflicted Community members, we return to Yemen for an interview with, Dr Elisabeth Kendall, an academic whose work has covered so many varied manifestations of the country’s cultur...
5 Mar 202524min
The Syrian Civil War Pt.2 – The Kurds Rise Up
This week on Conflicted, we begin in earnest our retrospective on the Syrian Civil War, where we will be inviting actual Syrians from a multitude of different perspectives, to tell us about their expe...
26 Feb 20251h 10min
Conflicted Community: Dalia Ziada – Liberal Activism in Egypt, from the Arab Spring to October 7th
This week for our Conflicted Community members, we have an interview with the Egyptian political activist Dalia Ziada, whose incredible personal story crosses so many of the major events in the modern...
19 Feb 202523min
