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This week on The New Arab Weekly podcast, we discuss chaos at the Reform party conference, the UK banning trade with illegal Israeli settlements, and Israel capturing the Ali al-Taher ridge. Picks of the Week: Israel and Turkey’s uneasy contest to...

This week on The New Arab Weekly podcast, we discuss Trump’s threats to re-start the war on Iran as well as Tehran’s response, a new major defence deal signed between Greece and Israel, and a 20-day long siege on a West Bank town. Picks of the Week...

The recent win of Abdul el-Sayed in the Michigan Democratic primary was the latest in a string of defeats for AIPAC backed candidates. While still strong in some areas of the US, in others, the backing of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee...

This week on The New Arab Weekly podcast, we discuss the 'economic asphixiation' that Donald Trump is imposing on Iran, and the country's ability to cope with sanctions, the militas in Iraq who are refusing to handover their weapons to the state, and...

Israel heads to the polls on 27 October in an election that could become a referendum not only on Benjamin Netanyahu, but on the wider genocidal doctrine that has defined Israel since 7 October 2023. In this episode of The Brief In, we look at what...

This week on The New Arab Weekly, we look at the cast of Qusra, the West Bank village that was besieged by Israeli settlers, the expiration of the Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and the US, and the Israeli airstrike that targeted an airbase...

This week on The New Arab Weekly podcast we explore the recently signed Mecca Defence Pact between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, Netanyahu's rejection of the 15 point peace plan and the idea of an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, and the Houthi's...

Iraq's new Prime Minster Ali al-Zaidi took his first foreign visit to the US, followed shortly after with a trip to Tehran. A political outsider and a surprise winner of the race to be prime minster, Ali al-Zaidi has a considerable inbox. And at the...

For months now, Iran has been pounded by American and Israeli missiles and bombs. Much of the leadership has been eliminated, including the former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. After a short period of calm, when it was hoped that diplomacy...

The Brief In: A week from now, the World Cup will kick off in the US, Mexico and Canada. But the warmongering, authoritarianism, and visa bans of the Trump administration threaten to make this the most controversial in recent memory. Yet there is...