Lights out in Lebanon‘s schools as crisis hits
Every year, for millions of parents, pupils and teachers around the world, September means the summer holidays are coming to an end and it is time to go back to school. But in Lebanon, the mix of fue...
16 Sep 202117min
20 years of the war on terror
On September 11, 2001 New York's World Trade Centre towers were brought crashing down, forever changing the course of history. Almost 3,000 lives were lost that day – as well as America’s innocence....
9 Sep 202116min
Evacuees left behind in Afghanistan
America’s longest war is over after the dramatic withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan ordered by President Joe Biden. The Taliban have taken Kabul. Barely a shot was fired. With the final evacuati...
2 Sep 202113min
The Middle East’s Captagon crisis
In April 2021, customs officers in the Saudi city of Jeddah searched a shipment of Lebanese pomegranates. Hidden inside the fruit were more than five million circular, beige Captagon pills – illegal a...
26 Aug 202128min
How Kabul fell to the Taliban
Afghanistan has seen war for decades, but none of them has involved so decisive a military takeover of the country as the latest. The speed with which the Taliban swept the country has shocked the wor...
19 Aug 202123min
A new era for Iran
On August 5th, Iran inaugurated a new president putting an end to the 8-year presidency of reformist Hassan Rouhani and ushered in a new, hard-line government. The new president, Ebrahim Raisi is sai...
11 Aug 202116min
Ep 4. The Blast - Fallout
In the final episode, we follow the volunteers who took to the shattered streets of Beirut in the hours and days after the explosion of August 4, 2020. Host Finbar Anderson delves into the ongoing inv...
5 Aug 202137min
Ep 3. The Blast - Zero Hour
In Episode 3 of The Blast, The National’s Finbar Anderson recounts the day of the explosion. As The fire in Warehouse 12 grows in intensity, a fire crew arrives to try to tackle the blaze, but it’s li...
4 Aug 202127min
