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 President Trump's 20 point plan to end the Gaza war much rides on the pressure Washington will bring to bear on the participants. Meanwhile the Gulf states watch and wonder whether Benjamin Netanyahu has replaced Iran as the gravest threat to regional security.

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William Law's guest this week is Renad Mansour director of the Iraq Initiative at Chatham House. With the annual Iraq Initiative conference getting underway under his leadership Renad discusses the many challenges as well as the opportunities the country faces as it strives to move forward in an uncertain and unstable neighbourhood. Details on the two day conference are found here -

https://www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/research-event/iraq-initiative-conference-2025

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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-Huthi has used Gaza to strengthen his iron control and to enhance his reputation as the man who stands up to Netanyahu. But with the Israelis acting with impunity the stakes grow ever higher with the Yemeni people caught between two reckless, arrogant and intransigent leaders.

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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 Middle East of Israel's missile strike on Doha. With Donald Trump functioning as a loyal sidekick rather than as the president of the mightiest military nation in the world Benjamin Netanyahu continues to wreak regional havoc crossing red line after red line with impunity.

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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 vicious civil war between two generals erupted, one that has been aided and armed by different international players on both sides. Today Sudan is the world's worst humanitarian disaster and the world has chosen to look away.

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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 remains a significant challenge and a potential stumbling block to the ambitions of Mohammed bin Salman.

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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 extremists in the Netanyahu government as an opportunity to seize territory in pursuing their vision of Greater Israel. First podcast 8 January 2025.

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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 given them a huge propaganda victory, one that would be decisively undercut should Palestinian statehood be enabled. No. 3 in our Top Ten with Elisabeth Kendall was first broadcast on 29 January 2025.

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In a landscape of genocide and ethnic cleansing a leading Middle East writer and analyst peels away the empty rhetoric to unflinchingly show the catastrophe that Israel has chosen to inflict upon the Palestinian people over decades while finding hope in the generation of young Arabs who have discovered their identity in the ongoing tragedy of Palestine.

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A brilliant anthology of images, essays and slang locates and embraces Arab queerness and defines the urgency of resistance to oppression, arbitrary force and to the Gaza genocide.

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