Middle East Monitor Conversations
Middle East Monitor Conversations brings you lively discussions with prominent voices from the region and beyond as we delve deeper into issues shaping the Middle East and North Africa - from politics, to culture and the arts. For more: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/
Episodes
166 episodes
The Occult and Holy Men in A New Age: MEMO in Conversation with Raphael Cormack
After a new age spirituality movement sprung up in the West in the late 19th century, the wisdom of Egyptian holy men, the healers of Palestine and the fakirs of the Ottomans were highly sought after from clubs in New York to Paris. Joining us ...
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Unveiling the British betrayal: A Conversation with Blake Alcott
Join us as we explore why Britain repeatedly deceived the Palestinian leadership and assess Britain’s direct role in displacing Palestinians ahead of the creation of the occupation state of Israel. Was there ever a real chance that London might...
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Iran, the Gulf and the Great Reset: MEMO in Conversation with Mehran Kamrava
With Donald Trump back in the White House vowing to tighten sanctions against Iran, the Gulf's ties with the Islamic Republic are in new unchartered waters, how will the US president's actions alter relations in the Middle East?<...
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The moral reckoning of Jewish identity: MEMO in Conversation with Peter Beinart
The genocide in Gaza has raised an important matter, Jews are not facing an existential crisis concerning the state of Israel, but a moral one — one that could reshape Jewish tradition more profoundly than any crisis in centuries, Beinart says....
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Decoding Hamas: MEMO in Conversation with Helena Cobban
Western media has often distorted the image of the Palestinian resistance, shaping narratives in a way that harms the fate of Palestinians, but truly understanding Hamas is the only way to have a meaningful conversation on events in the Midd...
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A People Without Borders, Iranian Arabs: MEMO In Conversation with Shaherzad Ahmadi
The Arabs of Khuzestan and the Iranians of Iraq were at the forefront of suspicion, anxiety and whose loyalty was questioned by the national building projects in Iran and Iraq in the 20th century. People who inhabi...
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Influencing the Middle East the Italian way: MEMO in Conversation with Maria Luisa Fantappie
Events in the MENA directly impact Italy which is just 35 miles away, but how are the changing political dynamics affecting Rome's Middle East policy? Italy's fate is deeply entangled with the Middle East and N...
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A new Syria is born: MEMO in Conversation with Sarah Hunaidi
Is the new Syrian administration reflective of society and is it able to build a country free of political authoritarianism? A member of the Syrian Women’s Political Movement joins us to discuss this and more....
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Salafist populism in the Lebanese crisis: MEMO in Conversation with Giulia Gozzini
People in Lebanon are angry at the level of state corruption and dysfunction, and Salafist movements are offering them an alternative. Nationalist populism has been sweeping the world in the last decade overturning...
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Weaponising anti-Semitism: MEMO in Conversation with Rachel Shabi
Accusations of anti-Semitism have shaped the way governments and institutions respond to Israel’s actions over the past 15 months, but this not only limits open discussion, but also hurts the Jewish community, the journalist and au...
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Biden, Trump & the Gaza genocide: MEMO in Conversation with Khaled Elgindy
Joe Biden was said to be the most pro-Israel US president in decades, with Donald Trump taking over the White House, we ask what will Washington do next?Israel's 15-month genocidal assault on the besieged Gaza Strip was...
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The Middle East in 2025: MEMO in Conversation with Nader Hashemi
How will the new year shape the ever changing Middle East? And will US President-elect Donald Trump give in to pressure from Israel and take military steps against Iran and widen the unrest in the region? <...
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Israel, Gaza & the international division of humanity: MEMO in Coversation with Vijay Prashad
The 'international division of humanity' is central to imperialist logic and explains the reasons behind the treatment of Palestinians by the Global North, but this very concept is leading to the West's waning power on the world stage, journali...
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Children in Gaza want to die: MEMO in Conversation with Kieran King
In its recent report, War Child revealed that 96% of children in Gaza believe death is imminent, while 49% expressed a wish to die due to Israel's relentless bombing campaign, making Gaza 'the most horrifying places in the world to be a child'....
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Israel's role in the global arms trade: MEMO in Conversation with Antony Loewenstein
Israel has deep historical ties with oppressive regimes, arming many that have been accused of genocide. But how is Tel Aviv using expertise it is gaining during its war on Gaza to make a profit? Israel has tra...
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Did the Ottomans silence the media? MEMO in Conversation with Nir Shafir
Pamphlets were the social media of their time, they helped spread dissent and were pivotal to the polarisation of politics during the Ottoman Empire, Nir Shafir guides us through the communications revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries.&nbs...
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Gaza's future under Trump: MEMO in Conversation with Muhammad Shehada
The war on Gaza is raging on, with Israel looking set to impose a permanent security zone in the Strip. With less than one month before US President-elect Donald Trump enters the White House, what should Europe do to bring peace to the regio...
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ISIS Prions Museum: MEMO in Conversation with Robin Yassin-Kassab
When Daesh was defeated in 2017, many thought their crimes would be forgotten and their victims would have the terrors they experienced swept under the carpet, but a new online museum has been launched to preserve and educate people about the g...
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Understanding Germany's unwavering support for Israel: MEMO in Conversation with Jurgen Mackert
Germany has repeatedly stressed its unwavering support for Israel and its actions in Gaza over the past 14 months, but what is underpinning this position and will it ever shift?Against the backdrop ...
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Syria burns again: MEMO in Conversation with Hussam Hammoud
For many, the civil war in Syria has been a distant memory, but that all changed when in a sudden turn of events, rebel groups captured the country's second largest city, Aleppo, and began to move towards other northern cities. But why is al...
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The forces driving the genocide in Gaza: MEMO in Conversation with Matt Kennard
Many have wondered how states have allowed the massacres in Gaza to continue for over a year and what can be gained from them. Investigative journalist Kennard exposes corporate power and state intervention to highlight why the genocide in Gaza...
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The New Arab Woman: MEMO in Conversation with Susanna Ferguson
From raising a family to a nation, how debates around modernisation, democracy and capitalism gave birth to a new Arab woman. In the 1850s the Arab world underwent a gendered revolution brought about by western ...
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Spying for the Ottomans: MEMO in Conversation with Emrah Safa Gurkan
The 16 and 17 centuries saw an eruption in espionage, spying and covert operations, with a growing network of Christian clergymen, traders, slaves, travellers, nobles and others who were also intelligence operatives for Istanbul. We speak to th...
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The long Israeli arm of British law: MEMO in Conversation with Stavit Sinai
As an anti-apartheid activist, Stavit Sinai has repeatedly taken action against the occupation state of Israel, but she made headlines when, in 2022, she was one of two Israelis arrested for storming the site of Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit ...
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Taking on Israel's arms industry: MEMO in Conversation with Ronnie Barkan
CAPTION: On Nakba Day in 2022, 7 activists stormed the site of Israel's largest weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems in an effort to disrupt its operations and highlight the atrocities its 'field tested' weapons have caused against Palestinian...
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