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Arab Digest is where business leaders and experts on the Middle East and North Africa come together to share analysis and insight about the issues in the region that matter most. contact email: editor@arabdigest.org
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Vultures over Libya
Libya expert Tarek Megerisi joins William Law to discuss the plundering of the country's energy wealth by external players and foreign commercial enti...
Trump chases a Nobel Peace Prize
William Law's guest this week on the Arab Digest podcast is the Gulf analyst and author Kristian Coates Ulrichsen. As talks continue in Cairo on Presi...
Iraq: challenges and opportunities
William Law's guest this week is Renad Mansour director of the Iraq Initiative at Chatham House. With the annual Iraq Initiative conference getting un...
Netanyahu's Yemen war
The Yemeni political analyst Maysaa Shuja al-Deen joins William Law as they discuss the smouldering war between the Huthis and Israel. Abdul-Malik al-...
Netanyahu unhinged
The Gulf defence and security analyst Andreas Krieg joins Arab Digest's William Law as they assess implications for the Gulf States and the wider Midd...
Sudan and the war the world ignores
Arab Digest's William Law launches a new podcast season with the Sudanese political analyst Dallia Abdelmoneim. It's been more than two years since a...
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #1 A good year for MbS
The Saudi crown prince continued to polish his image while staking his claim to leadership of the Arab and Muslim world but the issue of Palestine rem...
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #2 Syria: caught between Türkiye and Israel
Both Israel and Türkiye see Syria as a prize to be grasped; for President Erdoğan as a zone of influence and economic opportunity; for the far right e...
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #3 Yemen: the Huthis and Al Qaeda
With the ability to attack maritime shipping in the Red Sea the Huthis threaten not just regional but international security while the Gaza war has gi...
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #4 Palestine and a new awakening
In a landscape of genocide and ethnic cleansing a leading Middle East writer and analyst peels away the empty rhetoric to unflinchingly show the catas...
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #5 The Queer Arab Glossary
A brilliant anthology of images, essays and slang locates and embraces Arab queerness and defines the urgency of resistance to oppression, arbitrary f...
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #6 Erdoğan plays a long game
Just after Joe Biden’s disastrous presidential debate in June of last year and just before the annual NATO Summit Arab Digest invited a leading Washin...
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #7 Syria has a new strongman
Summary: on 8 December last year the regime of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was routed in a lightning offensive that had burst out of the previ...
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #8 Netanyahu and the war of weaponised narratives
On 27 September 2024 the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was assassinated in Beirut in an Israeli airstrike. Four days later Arab Digest invited the...
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #9 Lebanon looks forward
With the appointment of a new president and the arrival of a new prime minister in early 2025 optimism among the Lebanese has grown despite a shaky ce...
AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #10 Understanding Iran
Through July and August we are featuring our all new top ten podcasts countdown. We begin with Sanam Vakil’s Understanding Iran first podcast 8 Octobe...
The Danger Games in the Middle East
Arab Digest editor William Law welcomes the defence and security analyst Andreas Krieg to the podcast to discuss the latest moves in a dangerous game...
Walking into war eyes wide open
As the limits of Donald Trump's transactional approach to foreign policy becomes all too dangerously clear Arab Digest editor William Law welcomes the...
The Kurds see an opening
With rapid change sweeping a region still in the throes of wars the Kurdish people spread across four nations see an opportunity to secure if not thei...
US and Iran edge closer to a deal
The Iran expert Sanam Vakil joins Arab Digest editor William Law to discuss the likelihood of Washington and Tehran striking a new nuclear accord. Wha...
Saudi Arabia and an uncertain oil market
Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is the energy analyst and Digest regular contributor Alastair Newton. Their conversation focusses on...
A Gulf bonanza for the 'dealmaker in chief'
Two top Washington Middle East analysts join Arab Digest editor William Law to discuss President Trump's recent trip to the Gulf. Annelle Sheline and...
GHF: aiding and abetting the IDF
Arab Digest editor William Law is joined by Middle East Eye's Dania Akkad and the focus of their conversation is GHF - the Gaza Humanitarian Foundatio...
Libya in a dangerous time
Arab Digest editor William Law welcomes the Libya specialist Tarek Megerisi back to the podcast to discuss Libya and the dangerous stalemate it has se...
Trump's quiet war on Yemen
The podcast returns after a short break with Arab Digest editor William Law in conversation with the Yemen expert Helen Lackner. As the world focusses...
Lebanon looks forward
Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is the Levant expert Dr Lina Khatib. Their conversation focusses on new hope building in Lebanon afte...
Syria in a dangerous time
Syria expert Malik al-Abdeh joins Arab Digest editor William Law to discuss the latest developments in Syria as the country's new leadership struggles...
Assad is gone, Captagon hangs on
Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is the New Lines Institute's Caroline Rose an expert on the illicit drug Captagon. With the fall of B...
A small town in Lebanon
Arab Digest editor William Law welcomes George Kanaan to this week's podcast. His book Beyond Lebanon's Peaks: An Odyssey is a fascinating memoir of a...
Morocco's economic express
In this week's podcast Arab Digest editor William Law is joined by the North Africa expert Francis Ghilès to discuss the reasons why the Moroccan econ...
The Gulf's Islam rebrand
William Law, Arab Digest editor welcomes the Cato Institute's Jon Hoffman to the podcast to discuss his just released book Islam and Statecraft. Jon l...
Refugee crises in the Levant
Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is the European Council on Foreign Relations' Kelly Petillo. While the world is fixated on Trump and...
Yemen: the Huthis and Al Qaeda
Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is the jihadist extremism expert Dr Elisabeth Kendall. Their conversation focuses on Yemen's Huthis a...
A ceasefire and the gap between hope and reality
Arab Digest editor William Law welcomes analyst and author Andreas Krieg back on the podcast to discuss the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. Both s...
Israel, war crimes and a case to answer
Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is the director of Airwars Emily Tripp. Airwars has methodically detailed the civilian casualties cau...
Syria: caught between Türkiye and Israel
Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is the Turkish writer and analyst Aslı Aydıntaşbaş. With the victory of the Salafist HTS in Syria bot...
Editor's choice: Amal Ghandour
The editor's choice for 2024 is our 18 September podcast Palestine and a new awakening with the writer and commentator Amal Ghandour. When we spoke wi...
The Arab Digest 2024 yearender
Arab Digest editor William Law's guest is the analyst and commentator Sami Hamdi. In a rapid fire run through the Middle East headlines of 2024 they c...
Oil, OPEC and the outlook for 2025
William Law's guest this week is Arab Digest's resident energy analyst Alastair Newton. In a tumultuous and violent year in the Middle East and elsewh...
Syria has a new strongman
With the stunning success of HTS and its leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani in bringing down the Assad regime Syria enters a new era. How al-Jolani chooses...