Kurdish researcher Giran Ozcan: Understanding the Kurdish people and their aspirations will benefit the United States’ own interests
It’s often said that the Kurds are the world’s largest nation without a state. Yet, in the Middle East they play an outsized role, helping Western powers advance their security goals sometimes at the ...
17 Maj 202228min
Sinjar now a strategic dispute for Iraq involving regional parties, says Mirza Dinnayi
Mirza Dinnayi, 2019 Aurora Prize Laureate for Awakening Humanity & Founder of House of Coexistence in Sinjar, explains how and why Sinjar has become a regional dispute involving Turkey, Syria and Iran...
12 Maj 202226min
Palestinian violence reflects absence of a political horizon, says Daoud Kuttab
Al-Monitor columnist Daoud Kuttab discusses the background to the confrontations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and what comes next, whether Hamas is gaining in the West Bank, Palestinian perceptions of the Is...
5 Maj 202226min
‘We can’t walk away from Saudi Arabia,’ says Steve Clemons
Steve Clemons, Founding Editor At Large of Semafor, discusses why the Russia-Ukraine war has not boosted Biden’s ‘Trump-level’ popularity; reasons for American fatigue with global security commitments...
28 Apr 202237min
Human Rights Defender Sarah Leah Whitson says Turkey’s cynical U turn on Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi is no surprise
Turkey was at the forefront of an international campaign to name and shame the perpetrators of the 2018 murder in Istanbul of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Ankara has just dropped a case...
21 Apr 202219min
Impossible for Turkey to sustain sanctions on Russia, says Kadri Gursel
Al-Monitor columnist Kadri Gursel discusses the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on Turkey’s economy and domestic politics; why Turkey is well-positioned as mediator between Kyiv and Moscow; why the p...
13 Apr 202252min
Russian conduct in Ukraine could spur calls for accountability in Syria, says Elizabeth Hagedorn
Elizabeth Hagedorn, Al-Monitor State Department Correspondent, and Andrew discuss the terrorist attacks in Israel; the Middle East reaction to the Ukraine war; the prospects for an Iran nuclear deal; ...
8 Apr 202234min
Abdulaziz Sager on US-Saudi relations, the JCPOA, and the impact of the Ukraine war on regional security
Abdulaziz Sager, chairman and founder of the Gulf Research Center, discusses the challenges to US-Saudi relations; why he does not necessarily expect an Iran nuclear deal to lead to progress in Yemen;...
1 Apr 202232min
