Tackling food scarcity in the Middle East
All six Arabian Gulf countries import between 80 to 97 per cent of their food. Due to water scarcity and poor soil, it typically costs less to import food than to grow it here. According to the minist...
7 Feb 201821min
In Yemen, a violent week complicates a nuanced war
Clashes broke out in Aden over the weekend when the Southern Transitional Council called to its constituents to demonstrate. The Yemen government banned protests on the streets and prompted the semi-a...
31 Jan 201823min
Turkey's military offensive against Kurdish Syria, explained
Turkey launched this week a military offensive into Afrin, a heavily Kurdish enclave of Syria. Ankara is calling it an 'anti-terror campaign,' targeting the US-backed Kurdish group, the People’s Prote...
24 Jan 201823min
World Future Energy Summit rewards world's most energy conscious
Reporting from The World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, taking place during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, host Naser Al Wasmi talks to two Paraguayan girls who have been honoured for their conser...
17 Jan 201825min
Palestine-activist groups respond to being banned from Israel
This week, Israel banned twenty activist organisations over their support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement against Israel or BDS for short. The movement, whose co-founder we speak t...
10 Jan 201823min
Saudi Arabia and the Future of the Regional Order from emerge85
From our friends on the 85% podcast, we consider the changes unfolding in Saudi Arabia from a regional perspective. In conversation with emerge85 Lab editor-in-chief Joseph Dana, emerge85 co-director ...
5 Jan 201834min
Iran has a long history of protest and civil unrest
In Iran, this week a small demonstration that started in Mashhad turned into nationwide protests, with some calling for regime change. Iran has a long history of coups, protests and demonstrations. Of...
3 Jan 201834min
Saudi Arabia's greatest change, the GCC crisis in 2018 and Iraq finally changing for the better
The Middle East in 2017 could look like relatively tame year in a region that has become so characteristic of extreme often dramatic changes. The Arab world has become a stage for an ever shifting p...
28 Dec 201731min
