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An ex-Al Qaeda jihadi turned MI6 spy and a former monk turned filmmaker, have been embedded at the heart of conflicts in the Middle East. Together Aimen Dean and Thomas Small unpack the realities of war, fundamentalism and their global implications through first-hand experience.

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242 episodes

  1. Taiz: The Yemeni City That Refuses to Surrender 58:56
  2. We’re Addicted to Security, and It’s Destroying Us 1:14:04
  3. Adrian Wooldridge: Can Liberalism Save Itself? 1:23:01
  4. The Real Geopolitics of Sudan’s Civil War 53:21
  5. The Middle East Braces for Escalation 57:26
  6. Carlos the Jackal: The World’s First Super-Terrorist 1:04:07
  7. The Houthis Are Winning — Here’s Why 1:09:59
  8. 1453: The Catastrophe That Ended Rome 1:24:01
  9. Globalisation Made Global Jihad Possible 1:00:27
  10. Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Disaster 1:03:16
  11. Re-Interrogating 9/11: A 25th Anniversary Debate 1:06:22
  12. The End of the Nation State? 1:34:00
  13. The Battle for Taiwan 1:13:18
  14. Trump's Strangulation Strategy 57:51
  15. Simon Sebag Montefiore: How the Modern Middle East Was Made 1:11:36
  16. The Rise of the Offshore World 1:00:47
  17. The Battle for Yemen Begins Again 56:20
  18. Libya: The Return of the Arab Strongman? 1:19:15
  19. The Crusades: What Was Really Going On? 1:19:07
  20. Slavery and Islam: The Whole Story 1:06:22
  21. Will America Cut and Run? 49:51
  22. U Thant: The Diplomat Who Defined the 1960s 1:23:37
  23. Wassim Nasr: My Inside Account of Macron’s Syria Visit 1:04:21
  24. Indo-European: The Language Family That Went Global 1:14:45
  25. Iran Will Never Give Up Hormuz 1:06:39
  26. How Netanyahu Failed to Prevent October 7 1:01:39
  27. Ben Hodges: Russia Can Be Defeated 50:56
  28. Syria Turns Another Corner (Conflicted Revisited) 50:21
  29. Guns, Greed and the Making of Modernity 58:59
  30. Undiscovered: The Battle of Qala-i-Jangi 36:09
  31. The Bastard Children of Neoliberalism 1:03:32
  32. The Middle East’s AI Arms Race 56:53
  33. The Betrayal of the Iranian People 1:09:37
  34. Video Games: The Global Battleground of Modern Politics 1:38:33
  35. Memorandum of Misunderstanding 1:13:10
  36. Israel’s Road to Endless War 1:19:17
  37. Has Trump Lost the Middle East? 1:06:20
  38. The West Bank Is Reaching Breaking Point 1:05:38
  39. My Road to Conflicted (with Jake Warren) 1:03:12
  40. Jeremy Hunt: Democracy’s Defeat Is Not Inevitable 1:11:59
  41. The Madman Theory from Nixon to Trump 1:13:41
  42. The UAE’s OPEC Withdrawal & Trump’s Wartime Dilemma 1:09:10
  43. Utopia or Dystopia? The Truth About Jewish-Muslim History 1:01:48
  44. Mali’s Crisis is Not What it Seems 59:22
  45. Sir Vince Cable: The Crisis of Liberal Democracy 55:51
  46. Iraq: Anatomy of a Broken State 1:14:15
  47. The CIA: What is It For? 1:12:18
  48. The Problem of President Trump 1:02:33
  49. Jack Carr: My Journey Through America’s Long War 1:05:19
  50. The Power Struggle Inside Iran 55:14