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Real Talk is a Middle East Eye interview series hosted by Mohamed Hashem that explores the unique stories and experiences of a diverse range of guests — from artists, to musicians, to politicians and more.

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57 episodes

  1. Did the US nearly invade Saudi Arabia over oil? | Real Talk: Explained 23:52
  2. How did the pro-Israel lobby shape Obama's Middle East policy? | Eli Clifton 55:56
  3. 'Iraq had no Jewish problem': As an Arab Jew, Israel made me feel inferior | Avi Shlaim | Real Talk 1:03:44
  4. He was born into Israeli ‘privilege’. Now his life's work is to abolish it | Eyal Weizman 59:12
  5. She was asked to defend America's Gaza policy to Arabs. She quit instead | Hala Rharrit 1:07:01
  6. AIPAC spent millions to unseat me. Here’s why they’re now losing: Ex-congressman | Jamaal Bowman 49:58
  7. Why the US pro-Israel lobby wants Trita Parsi out of America | Real Talk 24:25
  8. He's one of the world's most celebrated photographers. Then he spoke on Palestine | Misan Harriman 48:25
  9. I tried cooking for London's top Palestinian chef. And interviewed him in the process | Fadi Kattan 1:05:53
  10. I was an Israeli peace negotiator. Here’s what I later realised about Zionism | Daniel Levy 1:23:47
  11. Molly Crabapple spent 7 years recovering the Jewish history Zionism tried to erase 1:07:17
  12. Arsenal fired me on Christmas Eve for opposing Israel | Mark Bonnick 46:30
  13. Why Ana Kasparian is ready to work with the right on Israel 45:31
  14. ‘Mom, I’m at our house’: How this war reporter covered the horrors of Sudan’s war | Yousra Elbagir 1:21:46
  15. Did the US military turn a blind eye to recruiting neo-Nazis? | Matt Kennard 1:13:26
  16. Why this lifelong Conservative turned on the British establishment | Peter Oborne 1:11:01
  17. She spoke against the Iran War. Her community turned on her | Ariana Jasmine | Real Talk 1:08:35
  18. Hasan Piker: Making sense of a world going to sh*t. Epstein, Israel, & US decline | Real Talk 1:09:13
  19. Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Israel | Murtaza Hussain | Real Talk 1:03:26
  20. She's an insider now exposing OpenAI. Here's why you should be concerned | Karen Hao | Real Talk 1:02:28
  21. Can this pod save the UK? (Feat. Mamdani win & Nando’s) | Nish Kumar | Real Talk 1:08:17
  22. Facing Ben Gvir: I was stripped, beaten and detained in Israel | Yasemin Acar | Real Talk 42:28
  23. ‘I believed I could save her’: Inside the making of The voice of Hind Rajab | Motaz Malhees | Real Talk 57:07
  24. Have Democrats lost to MAGA on Gaza? | Ayman Mohyeldin | Real Talk 52:08
  25. Valerie Zink: Why I quit and cut up my Reuters press card over Gaza | Real Talk 42:15
  26. Has Gaza made the UN irrelevant? | Jeffrey Sachs | Real Talk 31:16
  27. ‘They don’t care about Jewish safety’: Mahmoud Khalil slams US government & Columbia after detention 1:41:08
  28. ‘They used my chain to choke me’: Chris Smalls speaks out after Israeli prison assault | Real Talk 55:14
  29. ‘Gross betrayal’: My agents left me for speaking out on Gaza | Indya Moore | Real Talk 59:44
  30. Forget Starbucks. Boycott the New York Times | Mona Chalabi | Real Talk 1:20:50
  31. William Dalrymple: ‘Britain’s education system sold me a lie about Palestine’ | Real Talk 55:59
  32. 'I have no business with genocidaires': Actor & poet Saul Williams speaks out on Gaza, Hollywood, & the US empire | Real Talk 1:37:02
  33. Pakistani influencer on India, partition & the language of ‘dehumanisation’ | Bilal Hassan | Real Talk 47:28
  34. I called out Microsoft’s complicity in Gaza. They fired me | Vaniya Agrawal 1:01:49
  35. How does western media ‘whitewash’ genocide? | Assal Rad 49:46
  36. ‘You’re Palestinian. No one will care’: Cherien Dabis on ‘Mo’ and making space in Hollywood | Real Talk 1:07:45
  37. Pankaj Mishra: How the West assists & enables Israel’s war on Gaza | Real Talk 56:46
  38. Inside Trump’s crackdown on Columbia University | Prof. Bruce Robbins | Real Talk 51:12
  39. This Jewish academic shared an anti-Zionist post. She was then fired | Maura Finkelstein | Real Talk 1:00:41
  40. How Jewish scholars are attacked in the US for calling out Gaza genocide | Raz Segal | Real Talk 1:16:44
  41. Richard Wolff: Trump's victory & theatrics are just symptoms of US decline | Real Talk 1:36:24
  42. How Elon Musk is taking over the MAGA movement | Rick Perlstein | Real Talk 47:08
  43. Inside Gaza's health system: British doctor tell of harrowing experience amid Israeli bombardment | Victoria Rose | Real Talk 52:00
  44. Hind Hassan on western media & Gaza: ‘If you’re an Arab journalist, you’re political’ | | Real Talk 1:21:28
  45. Assad took my father: One woman's fight to find her dad in Syria | Wafa Mustafa | Real Talk 1:07:21
  46. The rise of Syria's brutal Assad dynasty rule | Joshua Landis | Real Talk 1:33:53
  47. How AIPAC unseated US congressman Jamaal Bowman over Israel | Real Talk 1:08:23
  48. Ta-Nehisi Coates: Gaza genocide, witnessing Israel’s apartheid & the US elections | Real Talk 59:39
  49. Iran, Gaza, & Lebanon: How the pro-Israel lobby influences US policy | Stephen Walt | Real Talk 57:06
  50. Why Humza Yousaf is sounding the alarm: Islamophobia, far right, & Elon Musk 1:00:52