Middle East Monitor Conversations

With Donald Trump back in the White House vowing to tighten sanctions against Iran, the Gulf"s ties with the Islamic Republic are in new unchartered waters, how will the US president"s actions alter relations in the Middle East? Iran and the GCC countries have a long history of suspicion, co-operation, competition, con

The genocide in Gaza has raised an important matter, Jews are not facing an existential crisis concerning the state of Israel, but a moral one — one that could reshape Jewish tradition more profoundly than any crisis in centuries, Beinart says. Cast as a Cassandra figure within the Jewish community, Peter Beinart has b

Western media has often distorted the image of the Palestinian resistance, shaping narratives in a way that harms the fate of Palestinians, but truly understanding Hamas is the only way to have a meaningful conversation on events in the Middle East, the co-author of a book on the movement says. At a time when Western g

The Arabs of Khuzestan and the Iranians of Iraq were at the forefront of suspicion, anxiety and whose loyalty was questioned by the national building projects in Iran and Iraq in the 20th century.  People who inhabit the border regions of any country often find themselves being treated with a mixture of suspicion and o

Events in the MENA directly impact Italy which is just 35 miles away, but how are the changing political dynamics affecting Rome"s Middle East policy?  Italy"s fate is deeply entangled with the Middle East and North Africa, the Italian island of Pantelleria is just 35 miles off the Tunsian coast. Whenever tensions flar

 Is the new Syrian administration reflective of society and is it able to build a country free of political authoritarianism? A member of the Syrian Women’s Political Movement joins us to discuss this and more. We are now three months on from the fall of the Bashar Al-Assad regime in Syria ending 54-years of his family