Yemen: In the Shadow of the Imam
Ask anyone from the Middle East about Yemen, that country on the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula, and they’ll tell you tales about the Queen of Sheba, Frankincense and Myrrh. It’s a place steepe...
1 Nov 20231h 11min
Hezbollah: Israel's Menace or Lebanon's Defender?
In the last episode of Conflicted, we saw Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia terror group, grow in power in the midst of the brutal Lebanese civil war of the 1980s. But after a precarious peace came to the ...
25 Okt 20231h 3min
Hezbollah: Rise of the Islamic Resistance
Some four decades ago, out of the chaos of the Lebanese civil war, a Shia militant group was born who would grow into one of the most dominant and malign forces in Lebanese politics. A proxy for Iran,...
18 Okt 202356min
What Was Hamas Thinking?
Emergency Episode: On Saturday October 7th 2023, Hamas terrorists broke through the border of the Gaza Strip and carried out a brutal assault on Southern Israel. As of publication, the death toll stan...
11 Okt 20231h 5min
How Iran Works
It’s always difficult to know exactly what is going on in Iran - that isolated, Shia theocracy that dominates so much of the Middle Eastern land mass. It's a diverse and divisive state, ruled with an ...
4 Okt 202358min
President Erdogan: The Mask Slips
President Erdogan’s time in power has been a fascinating period for Turkey - at once nodding to the liberal West, while simultaneously winking at the more Conservative East. It’s his country in a nuts...
27 Sep 202358min
President Erdogan: The Rise to Power
Over the past couple of episodes we explained the inner workings of the Muslim Brotherhood - that mysterious organisation based in Cairo who have their sights set on a new Caliphate for the Muslim wor...
20 Sep 202354min
The Muslim Brotherhood: What do they want?
In last week’s discussion of the Muslim Brotherhood, we told you how this clandestine group are structured - headed in Egypt, but with chapters across the globe. But we tip-toed around their ideology,...
13 Sep 202344min
