On this week’s episode of the podcast, the historian Sam Dalrymple joins Faisal Al Yafai to discuss the partition of the Raj from Myanmar to Yemen; how borders continue to shape our lives today and their influence on nationalism and ethnic conflict; and his new book, “Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia.”
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Today
Death of the Ayatollah, and War Comes to Iran
In a special emergency episode of The Lede, journalist and The Iran Podcast host Negar Mortazavi and historian Arash Azizi join Faisal Al Yafai to discuss the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and what comes next for the country and the ... Show More
51m 34s
Nov 2025
The Pro Palestine Movement Two Years After Genocide feat. Dana El Kurd
Dana El Kurd speaks with author, activist, and 2025 Foundation for Middle East Peace fellow Ahmed Moor on the pro-Palestine movement in the US, and what we can learn after two years of genocide. Sources: Ahmed Moor & Antony Loewenstein’s book - https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/af ... Show More
26m 28s
Dec 2024
Review of the Year: Part 2
2024 is coming to an end and The New Arab Voice is bringing you our annual round up of the year's biggest stories from the Middle East and North Africa. We gathered a host of journalists and editors to look at the conflict, tragedies, confrontations, elections, and shocks that ma ... Show More
50m 53s
Dec 2024
Review of the Year: Part 1
2024 is coming to an end and The New Arab Voice is bringing you our annual round up of the year's biggest stories from the Middle East and North Africa. We gathered a host of journalists and editors to look at the conflict, tragedies, confrontations, elections, and shocks that ma ... Show More
44m 45s
Jan 2025
39. The World is Syrianised with Yassin al-Haj Saleh
The Syrian writer and political theorist, Yassin al-Haj Saleh, has lived a remarkable life. As a student activist affiliated with one of Syria's communist parties, Yassin spent 16 years in Hafez al Assad's prisons. Then, shortly after the revolution of 2011, Yassin's wife, Samira ... Show More
43m 6s
Sep 2024
Reflections on the Current Moment in Palestine with Makdisi Street
<p>In this episode, our host Yara Hawari joins hosts of the Makdisi Street podcast Saree, Ussama and Karim Makdisi to discuss the ongoing genocide in Gaza, intra Palestinian-Israeli politics and more.<br><br>This episode is co-published with the <a href="https://podcasts.apple.co ... Show More
1h 4m
Mar 2025
Introducing Sanaa's Odyssey
Subscribe now to be notified when new episodes are available.Available on Apple, Spotify, and wherever else you get your podcast.Sanaa Kamal is a freelance journalist, who was born and raised in Gaza.She has lived through a series of wars in Gaza, but nothing like the war that fo ... Show More
1m 16s
Aug 2025
Palestine State Recognition: Europe's Response to Genocide
<p>In this episode, Al-Shabaka policy analysts Diana Buttu, Inès Abdel Razek, and Al-Shabaka’s Co-Director Yara Hawari, are interviewed by Al-Shabaka's commissioning editor Dina Hussein on the recent wave of Palestine State recognition by several European powers as a policy ... Show More
58m 54s
Nov 2025
Two Years of Genocide: Motherhood Under Fire in Gaza
Two years into Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza, we listen closely to Yaqeen Baker, a mother of two little daughters, Salwa (5) and Nusaiba (2). She shares what it means to be a mother under constant Israeli fire; to love, to fear, and to hope amid the destruction. We also ... Show More
34m 20s