Middle East Analysis

With tensions in Israel and Palestine rising alarmingly, we ask how Christians would deal with a third Palestinian Intifada. Will it even happen? Are the Christians the pacifists on the periphery? How do the Arab Christians live with the ongoing conflict?

Dr Harry Hagopian, an international lawyer and analyst on the Middle East North Africa and the Gulf States, provides the commentary.

Part Two sees us take a closer look at the 'majority minorities' - the large Christian communities in countries like Lebanon and Egypt. It's not just the Maronites in the former and the Copts in the latter. Dr Harry Hagopian, an international lawyer and analyst on the Middle East North Africa region and the Gulf States, provides the commentary.

In this, the concluding episode of our four-part series on the tough realities facing Christians in the Middle East North Africa region and the Gulf States, we turn our attention to the heart-breaking humanitarian disaster that Syria has become. How do the Christians cope living between a rock and a hard place?

Dr Harry Hagopian, an international lawyer and analyst on the Middle East North Africa region and the Gulf States, provides the commentary.

It's with very heavy hearts that we bring you the 100th and final 'Middle East Analysis' podcast. We sign off by looking over our shoulders at what was then termed the Arab Spring, walking briefly through what we covered since 2011 before casting an eye to the future.

Today's 'Middle East Analysis' podcast - the 99th in the series - sees us analyse the following: Donald Trump, President-elect of the United States, the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo as a number of short ceasefires have come to an end, the Mosul Offensive in Iraq and the $4m restoration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Today's Middle East Analysis podcast sees a welcome return to studio duties for Dr Harry Hagopian. After a two-month Summer hiatus, there was much to talk about - the US-Russian brokered ceasefire in Syria, the UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants and the World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel.

In today's podcast, Dr Harry Hagopian reflects on the Nice lorry attack that killed at least 84 people in southern France looking at the causes as well as the symptoms of modern terrorism and how tactics have changed over the years.

Today's focus is on Palestine and our studio guest, Fr Jamal Khader, Chair of Bethlehem University's Department of Religious Studies joins us to discuss fifty years of military occupation, the Bishops' annual Holy Land Coordination pilgrimage and more.

Pope Francis is in Armenia from 24 - 26 June 2016. Our Bishops' MENA consultant Dr Harry Hagopian - himself an Armenian - joins us for a podcast to talk about the Pope's 14th overseas visit.

When we talk about the realities facing Syria's Christians, we do so from a comfortable studio in the centre of London. Today we get a valuable insight from one of Syria's Christian leaders - Reverend Harout Selimian.