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On the Middle East with Amberin Zaman

by Al-monitor
177 EPISODES
Apr 2020
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Turkey and the UAE's fight for regional influence: Who's winning?
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How Syria's tribes hold the key to power
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Why the PKK and its campaign for Kurdish rights are not history
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Turkey's military might will never open doors to EU membership, says Euro-MP Nacho Sánchez Amor
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Why Trump’s bromance with Erdogan is risk to Syria’s Kurds as Turkey seeks to dismantle PKK
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Kashmir conflict a reminder of why Saudi Arabia & other Gulf nations favor India over Pakistan
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How power is reshaping Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa & why he’s not ‘a Turkish puppet’
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US diplomacy can end sectarian clashes between Druze, Syrian government forces
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What do the mass protests mean for future of Turkey & Erdogan?
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Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa will keep Russia in the game
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French academic Fabrice Balanche: Syria's Islamist leader wants to make example of Alawites
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Russian mercenaries remain in business even after death of Wagner's Prighozin
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PKK leader Ocalan has the power to deliver peace, but is Turkey sincere?
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What Trump means for Iran
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Why Syria's new Islamist leaders deserve Western support
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Will Turkey and Israel go to war over Syria?
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Turkish lawmaker Cengiz Candar: 'Turkey's endgame is to destroy Kurdish autonomy in Syria'
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How Turkey is playing with fire in Syria with its backing of new anti-Assad offensive
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What will Middle East policy look like under the new Trump administration?
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What is Turkey’s human rights outlook with new spy law, ousting of Kurdish mayors?
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What does the PKK want from Turkey?
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What does the death of Fethullah Gulen mean for Turkey?
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What are Hezbollah's choices after Israel killed its leader, and which way will Iran point?
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Israel's war on Hezbollah: Why it's existential and what comes next
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Why growing US-Cyprus defense cooperation spooks Turkey
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Turkey's Islamists tried to topple Syria's Assad, its pro-secular military backed Syrian Islamists against his dad
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How will Kamala Harris approach the Middle East if elected and what does her top foreign policy adviser Phil Gordon think?
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What are the risks and opportunities for Russia as it grows closer to Iran at Israel's expense?
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How will Iran respond to Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran?
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New Islamists value power over ideology and Turkey's Erdogan is their master
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How Iran may look under new Reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian
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Benyamin Poghosyan on why Armenia's peace bid with Azerbaijan, Turkey is proving so hard
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Vali Nasr explains why Iran's presidential elections matter and how a Western-friendly heart surgeon might win
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Why Iran is stronger, Israel more vulnerable, and the US needs to engage more in the Mideast
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Syrian-Kurdish leader Saleh Muslim says it's the people, not US or Turkey, who decide local elections in northeast Syria
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Why did Kuwait, one of the most democratic countries in the Mideast, take a sharp autocratic turn & what comes next?
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As Greek PM heads to Ankara to meet Erdogan, is this truly 'a new era' between Turkey & Greece?
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Turkey’s former PM Davutoglu, who met Hamas leaders this week, outlines their demands for peace
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Sister of Israeli-Russian scholar Elizabeth Tsurkov, who is being held by Iran-backed Shiite militia, calls for US military sanctions on Iraq
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Iran established deterrence against Israel proving through its actions it could do more harm, says academic Hassan Ahmadian
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What path lies ahead for Turkey after Erdogan's stunning local election defeat? Commentator Kadri Gursel explains
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How the West began losing the Mideast to Iran, Russia & China since start of Syria conflict, French academic Fabrice Balanche explains
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Will Turkey's Erdogan seize back Istanbul and fully secure his regime in March 31 elections?
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Why are Britain’s Jews facing the largest wave of anti-semitic violence in modern times?
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American doctor Seema Jilani faces backlash for her eyewitness accounts of horrors unfolding in Gaza
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Sweden did not take Turkey's terrorism concerns seriously enough says former Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde
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Does Turkey really support ISIS and, if so, why did ISIS just attack it again? Expert Aaron Zelin explains
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Does Iran control Shiite militias that are attacking US forces in Iraq and Syria? Two leading experts weigh in
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German federal prosecutors petitioned to launch war crimes case against Turkish-backed Sunni factions abusing Kurds in Syria
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Kuwaiti academic says Red Sea escalation with Yemen's Houthis won't end without US pressure on Israel to end Gaza war
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