Arab Digest podcasts

Arab Digest editor William Law in conversation with Cinzia Bianco, a visiting fellow at the European Council for Foreign Relations on the impact of America's diplomatic withdrawal from the MENA regions and who in the region and beyond are moving in to fill the vacuum Donald Trump's disregard has left behind. Sign up NOW at Arabdigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.

As outside players continue to use Libya as a proxy battlefield, Arab Digest editor William Law is in conversation with Libya specialist Tarek Megerisi, a policy fellow with the North Africa and Middle East programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Is endless war the likely outcome of foreign powers' incessant meddling in Libya’s civil conflict? Sign up NOW at Arabdigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.

Arab Digest editor William Law in conversation with Kristian Coates Ulrichsen on the difficult, challenging and complex relations between Iran and their Gulf neighbours Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Dr Ulrichsen is a Middle East fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. His latest book is Qatar and the Gulf Crisis, published by Hurst. Sign up NOW at Arabdigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.

Lina Khatib, director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, in conversation with Arab Digest editor William Law on the subject of young Arabs, leadership and the possibilities for change in the MENA region. Sign up NOW at Arabdigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.

After a price crash some modest gains as oil climbs back to $40. Arab Digest energy analyst Alastair Newton in a conversation with Digest editor William Law assesses where oil is headed and what the direction of travel means for the Saudi economy. Sign up NOW at Arabdigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.

Kuwaiti author and academic Dr Alanoud Alsharekh in conversation with Arab Digest editor William Law on the impact of social media influencers in the Gulf and the wider Middle East. Dr Alsharekh is director of Ibtkar Strategic Consultancy and an associate fellow of Chatham House's MENA region programme. Her latest publication is Love or Country: A Difficult Choice for women in Kuwait published by Arabian Humanities. Sign up NOW at Arabdigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.

Arab Digest editor William Law in conversation with Karim Zidan an investigative journalist covering the intersection of sports, politics, and society for a number of outlets including the Guardian, Vox Media and HBO Real Sports. Karim discusses the Saudi attempt to purchase Newcastle United, Abu Dhabi's skillful manipulation of sport, Qatar and the 2020 World Cup and the curious links between Ultimate Fighting Championship and sportswashing in the MENA region. Sign up NOW at Arabdigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.

Neil Partrick joins Arab Digest editor William Law to talk about the Gulf States' relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Dr Partrick is a freelance writer and consultant on the Gulf and the wider Middle East and the lead contributor to the book “Saudi Foreign Policy: Conflict & Cooperation” published by IB Tauris. He blogs at https://www.neilpartrick.com/blog Sign up NOW at Arabdigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.

Marc Owen Jones is Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies and Digital Humanities at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Doha. He scours the internet, forensically uncovering disinformation and deceit. Marc is the author of Political Repression in Bahrain published by Cambridge University Press. His latest book Disinformation in the Middle East published by Hurst and OUP will be available shortly. His conversation with Arab Digest editor William Law focusses on the dark arts of digital deception in the MENA region. Sign up NOW at Arabdigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.

Yahia Zoubir, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Centre, discusses Algeria and President Abdelmajid Tebboune. Is it a case of same old, same old or is a new Algeria emerging from the street protests known as the Hirak? Sign up NOW at Arabdigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.