What's happening right now in Sudan is a case-study in ousting a regime backed by a secretive apparatus of plutocrats and militias. The protests in Sudan have toppled a dictatorship, but they're not stopping. After six months of protests, thousands are still staging sit-ins around Khartoum and the rest of the country to demonstrate against the ruling, transitional military council. Many Sudanese consider this council the remnants of the old dictator, Omar al-Bashir, and his regime.

Al Bawaba spoke with Eric Reeves, a veteran of Sudan's politics, to understand how the protests have managed to win such crucial political victories, and what more needs to be done.

A military coup in Gabon was partially inspired by a video of the country's leader that may have been a deepfake. The coup failed, but the future of deepfake videos and politics remains deeply unsettling yet certainly tumultuous. Al Bawaba spoke with Ali Breland, a disinformation reporter, to understand what deepfake videos are and what their emergence means.

A new report suggests that Bashar al-Assad relied on chemical weapons to depopulate and terrorize Syria's civilians into submission. We speak to that report's principal author, Tobias Schneider, as to how that strategy worked to win the war in Syria while creating one of the biggest migrant crises on Earth.

About a third of the US population are Christian evangelicals, about half of whom think a prophesied apocalypse will happen before 2050. They're Trump's largest and most loyal voter base, and they may be responsible for influencing Trump's foreign policy. We spoke with Matthew Sutton, a religious history professor about what this all means.

Yemeni politics has, for decades, relied on decentralized local governance structures and tribes. Nadwa al-Dawsari, an expert on Yemen's tribes, speaks with Al Bawaba about how this dimension has been ignored by the international community's attempt to push for peace in the country by only including the Houthis, Yemeni government, and Saudi-led coalition in the peace process.

When drones first emerged as a potent weapon at the end of the George W. Bush presidency and into Barack Obama’s, their use seemed opaque and calls for transparency were everywhere.

But now, two years into Donald Trump’s tenure as president, drones of all shapes and sizes are used all over the globe for a range of purposes. To try and understand the uses and abuses of drones, and if there’s anything that can be done to respond to them, Al Bawaba spoke with Arthur Holland Michel, co-director of the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College in New York.

Afghanistan's cricketers went from playing shoe-less on dusty pitches in Pakistan to leading the world in the sport. Its star player, Rashid Khan, is considered one of the greatest cricketing talents to grace the game, and he hasn't even turned 21. We asked an expert in Afghanistan how the team's dominance is uniting a scarred nation

From 2006-10, a protest movement comprised of day-wage laborers shook Jordan's economic and social order to its core with radical tactics, and achieved momentous success in the process. Our guest this episode, Dr. Sara Ababneh of the University of Jordan, thinks it was one of the most profound moments for women's rights in Jordan. But it was ignored and forgotten. We ask her why.

Why does the war in Yemen appear designed to kill, maim and starve but not to be won? That’s the central question Al Bawaba asked Peter Salisbury, who has worked in and with Yemen for ten years, as a journalist and analyst. He’s now a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group and a Senior Consulting Fellow at Chatham House.

Lea Baroudi brought two opposing sides in a generations-long conflict to act in a play together. Miraculously, the play was a knockout hit. Al Bawaba spoke to her about how she did it, and and how others interested in reconciliation can follow her lead.