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Middle East Analysis
The Middle East North Africa region is complex - hardly breaking news. There are complicated religious, political and socio-economic realities. Our 'Middle East Analysis' podcasts feature the analysis of Dr Harry Hagopian, an international lawyer and commentator on the Middle East North Africa regio...
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Pessoptimism on the path to peace
There are two ways of looking at every subject covered in this 'Middle East Analysis' podcast. Recorded just after US President Donald Trump presented...
Israel-Palestine: A Personal Armenian Story
On occasion, Dr Harry Hagopian, the voice of Middle East Analysis, offers a personal reflection on a key regional topic. This piece focuses on the pol...
Gaza: Walk the Talk?
Ordinarily, a disclaimer would be bolted on at the end of the introductory blurb. However, one of the key talking points in this podcast - Palestinian...
Gaza and the Holy Land
A Papal death, conclave and election, in tandem with our key contributor's multiple regional travels have dented our once-a-month aspirations for Midd...
Discombobulated Realities
Being lost for words is no state to be in when preparing to record a podcast. This 50-minute 'Middle East Analysis' episode started with head-scratchi...
Rock - human - hard place
Passing comment on the myriad of complex issues playing out in the Middle East North Africa region is challenging at the best of times. These are not...
Assad time no more
'Middle East Analysis' started in earnest in 2010-11 when a series of anti-regime uprisings took place across a large swathe of the Middle East North...
Latin Patriarch | Cardinal Pizzaballa
Our studio guest for this special 30-minute Middle East Analysis podcast is the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa.
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A hole in the soul
It's hard to put into words - let alone sensible ones - how one feels looking on at the multiple tragedies unfolding (rapidly) in the Middle East. Par...
Separated from Gaza's Catholic community
When Father Gabriel Romanelli travelled to the West Bank to get some urgently-needed medicine for a nun living with his community in Gaza, it never cr...
Fr Fadi Diab | The Church's Prophetic Voice in the Holy Land
We keep our firm focus on the Holy Land and whilst we continue to weep as we look on at the humanitarian disaster in Gaza and the suffering of all civ...
Any hope left in the Holy Land?
Five long, painful months after the Hamas terror attack of 7 October and the subsequent bombing and ground offensive that has reduced Gaza to rubble a...
Walls are meant for climbing
Ending a long-running podcast is painful. It's also hard to let go - especially when the expert sitting opposite you has been a friend for 15 years.
Arab states not just making up the numbers
The football World Cup, hurtling through the group stages in Qatar after a fair helping of pre-tournament controversy, takes centre stage for our Nove...
404 Solution Not Found
Ever clicked a link and hit a 404 "not found" error page? Happens a lot. It's also very frustrating. You think you've finally found that elusive conte...
UN-workable demands for the MENA and Gulf regions?
Dr Harry Hagopian, the voice of 'Middle East Analysis', came up with the novel idea of looking behind the interventions made by the Heads of State and...
Human Rights or Wrongs?
August's 'Middle East Analysis' podcast sees Dr Harry Hagopian rewind 34 years to look at the publication of Salman Rushdie's controversial fourth nov...
Fist Bumps and Formalities - President Biden in the Middle East
It's more of a hot rather than warm welcome to this 'Middle East Analysis' podcast. We've 'enjoyed' record temperatures of over 40°C in recent times...
Holy Land, Unholy Problems
A sharp, thirty-minute podcast for June's 'Middle East Analysis' that takes a slightly different format. Having returned from a six-day visit to Jerus...
Only justice can open the door to peace
Middle East Analysis takes a sombre tone this month as, just before recording, we learned of the killing of long-term Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Shi...
Violence, Instability, Uncertainty - What's New?
Just over two years ago we started recording our 'Middle East Analysis' podcasts remotely. The pandemic rendered face-to-face interaction impossible....
Ukraine: Invasion Aftershocks felt in MENA
In this Middle East Analysis podcast we're turning our attention to the on-going war in Ukraine and how the aftershocks are reverberating across Europ...
Legal realities, political remedies?
Today's Middle East Analysis podcast sees resident contributor Dr Harry Hagopian don his jabot and peruke, the white bib and curly wig of a barrister-...
Stubborn beasts and seasonal fireside reflections
How do you fit a year into an hour? Impossible, surely? Not so. As the voice of Middle East Analysis, Dr Harry Hagopian is charged with defying the la...
Forgotten wars, street violence and delayed elections
As the cold sets in here in the UK, we turn our attention to a region where something's always heating up. The three prongs to today's 'Middle East An...
Gulf Cooperation and Bailout Billionaires?
We're always gloriously counter-cultural, a little like the regions we discuss, but if you're looking at the image for this podcast you'll get a rare...
A year on from the devastating Beirut port blasts
Dr Harry Hagopian's message on the one-year anniversary of the blasts that tore through the port in Lebanon's capital Beirut taking lives, livelihoods...
Tunisia: A coup or not a coup? That is the question
If it looks like a coup and smells like a coup, it's a coup... right? Not so fast says Dr Harry Hagopian in this 'Middle East Analysis' podcast as we...
New leaders but age old problems
New leaders are popping up all over the place in the Middle East and North Africa. Today's 'Middle East Analysis' is something of a presidential, prim...
Israel - Palestine: Violence begets violence
This 'Middle East Analysis' can only have one topic up for discussion - the escalating violence between Israel and Palestine.
Much has b...
Elections, non elections and a right royal rumpus
April's Middle East Analysis is squeaking in on the last day of the month. In its own way it carries some of the chaos of the region.
To...
Regional Realities - What Price Victory?
This Middle East Analysis podcast is a one-hour journey through a variety of countries and regional realities. It's a podcast of questions - and quest...
Reaching for the stars: Historic visit, historic ruling
Pope Francis, the spiritual leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, makes an historic visit to Iraq - the first by a Pope - from 5-8 March 2021.<...
Discarding the "tool of fools" to embrace a new diplomacy in the Gulf
Don't act the prophet and learn to bear the recurring disappointment of one false dawn after another. Two lessons I've learned the hard way after thir...
Normalisation in MENA, Gulf States thaw, and an abnormal Christmas
Our last Middle East Analysis podcast of 2020 is out ten years to the day since the Tunisian street seller Mohamed Bouazizi self-immolated in frustrat...
Biden his time - The US and the MENA and Gulf regions
'MENA Gulf 140' sees Dr Harry Hagopian given a mere 140 seconds per topic to discuss the often complex realities playing out in the Middle East, North...
To the brave and the faithful, nothing is impossible
Today signals a new dawn for our Middle East Analysis podcasts. MEA continues after more than a decade but the format has changed.
In th...
Lebanon - things have to change
Dr Harry Hagopian, the voice of Middle East Analysis, is fluent in many languages. French? Doesn't even break sweat. For me it's more of a struggle bu...
COVID, poverty, chaos and meddling neighbours
This Middle East Analysis podcast takes our resident regional analyst, international lawyer Dr Harry Hagopian, around not just the Middle East but als...
Render unto Trump? Caesar's Act and Syria
One of Dr Harry Hagopian's 'Intuitive Reactions' provides the meat in the sandwich of this 'Middle East Analysis - Extra' podcast.
In Dec...