Why superstorms are the new normal
The Philippines is no stranger to storms. The country's group of islands weather around 20 storms and typhoons a year. But when news of supertyphoon Goni was announced, it took action, preparing itsel...
5 Nov 202017min
US election special: Who will be the next US President?
In this special edition of Beyond the Headlines, Michael Goldfarb, author, journalist and host of the FRDH podcast based in the UK, talks to Joyce Karam, The National's correspondent in Washington, an...
28 Okt 202023min
Arab Americans vote in divisive presidential election
Arab-Americans make up a tiny fraction of America’s 300 plus million people. But in three key swing states: Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania they are a significant enough voting block that th...
22 Okt 202017min
A year of revolution in Lebanon between fires, crisis and blast
The fires didn’t start the revolution, but you could say it was the kindling. The country suffers fires every year, but these were different. In this week's Beyond the Headlines, host James Haines-You...
15 Okt 202026min
The challenges of finding a Covid-19 vaccine
News update: Since publishing this podcast China announced on October 9 that it has joined Covax, the global scheme for the distribution of COVID-19 vaccine backed by the World Health Organisation. ...
8 Okt 202024min
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
