Ambassador Murat Mercan expects more US-Turkish cooperation, despite differences
Murat Mercan, Turkey’s Ambassador to the United States, discusses the prospects for enhanced US-Turkish cooperation during the Biden Administration; his country’s purchase of the Russian S-400 missile...
16 Apr 202126min
Sudan hoping for shift in Ethiopian position on Nile Dam talks, says Nureldin Satti, Sudan’s Ambassador to the United States
Nureldin Satti, Sudan’s Ambassador to the United States, says that the ‘stumbling block’ in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations so far has been Ethiopia’s unwillingness to engage i...
14 Apr 202128min
Is Turkey's authoritarian president losing his grip? Wishful thinking, says Ankara-based journalist Raziye Akkoc
Raziye Akkoc, a British-Turkish journalist based in Ankara who reports for Agence France Presse and co-edits a highly regarded weekly newsletter Turkey Recap, speaks to Amberin Zaman about Turkish Pre...
6 Apr 202127min
On China-Iran ties: follow the money, not the MOU’s, says Afshin Molavi
Afshin Molavi, senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Foreign Policy Institute and founder of Emerging World newsletter, discusses why we shouldn’t oversell the Iran-China agreement; the p...
30 Mar 202143min
Renad Mansour of Chatham House breaks down Iraq’s power networks and the PMU’s
Renad Mansour, senior research fellow and project director of the Iraq Initiative at Chatham House, discusses the origins, impacts and trends in Iraq’s protest movements; the influence and role of the...
24 Mar 202140min
Healing child soldiers of the Islamic State remains huge challenge for Iraq, says Sherri Kraham Talabany
Sherri Kraham Talabany, the president and executive director of the Iraqi Kurdistan-based SEED Foundation NGO, speaks to Amberin Zaman this week about the enormous challenges facing Iraq as the countr...
16 Mar 202128min
Post-conflict stabilization in Yemen should be locally-driven and have regional buy-in, says Denise Natali
Dr. Denise Natali, former Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations and Director of the Center for Strategic Research at the National Defense University’s Institute for Na...
9 Mar 202131min
Time for a rethink — and a shift away from ‘threatism ’— for US strategy in the Middle East, says RAND team
Dalia Dassa Kaye, RAND senior political scientist and Wilson Center Fellow; Linda Robinson, Director of the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy; and Jeffrey Martini, RAND Senior Middle East rese...
2 Mar 202144min
