| The London Circle | 22 May 2025

The impact of Arab and Muslim history and culture on the West is far greater than we are told, taught and educated. Damascus alone; its history, culture, literature and cuisine, provides a lesson we would be advised to learn from.

Diana Darke talks about her house in Damascus, as though describing a love story that embodies her fascination with Arab and Middle Eastern history and culture.

In this episode, she discusses with Anas Altikriti how her love affair with that region began and how it developed over the years.

She also talks about the Ottomans and how history might have not credited them as it should have.

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Guests:

| Dr. Diana Darke, Arabist Historian and Author

 

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| The London Circle | 17 May 2025

With a mixture of romance, medicine, politics, religion and history, Murjana is a novel that speaks of a fascinating time and place, but with unmistakable parallels with the here and now.

Whether motivated by the illegal war and occupation against Iraq in 2003, or even the chaotic state of the world today, Dr. Ghada Karmi writes a beautiful tale that has many truths for today’s readers. Baghdad, the capital of the world and the cradle of one of the most fascinating civilisations in history, sees the unfolding of events that speak of everything, but tells of how the distortion of history and memory can be one of the cruelest crimes committed against man.

In this episode, she speaks with Anas Altikriti about her latest book.

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Guests:

| Dr. Ghada Karmi

 

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| The London Circle | 01 May 2025

In this episode of The London Circle, Anas Altikriti speaks with Palestinian American analyst and commentator Khalid Turaani about Trump's first months back in the White House.

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Guests:

| Khalid Turaani, Palestinian American analyst and commentator

 

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| The London Circle | 24 April 2025

With all eyes on Gaza and the ongoing genocide, Kashmir remains, 78 years on, under Indian occupation and subject to continuous genocidal policies.

Whilst receiving plentiful prayers and well-wishes, and whilst recognized as an ongoing occupation which wants to eradicate the natives, it seems that no one has a clue what to do regarding the crisis of Kashmir. For 78 years and counting, India has been implementing policies of extermination against the people of Kashmir, yet no state, let alone Muslim state, has stood for the freedom of Kashmir on the public sphere.

India being the economic and human resource powerhouse that it is, seems to have succeeded in intimidating everyone into accepting this calamity to simply carry on and continue.

Anas Altikriti, speaks with Muzzammil Ayyub Thakur about this and the ongoing struggle of freedom for Kashmir.

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Guests:

| Muzzammil Ayyub Thakur, President, World Kashmir Freedom Movement (WKFM)

 

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| The London Circle | 06 Feb 2025

The World finds itself in a mess of epic proportions, with a future that doesn’t seem much brighter. Why, and what needs to happen to create a new reality?

Civilisational resurgence is a dream that many talk about, but very few manage to structure better than Drs. Hussein Qazzaz and Amr Darrag.

In this two-part discussion, they speak with Anas Altikriti about the foundations of the world’s state today, and how this can be overhauled to bring about a different and more humane reality.

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Guests:

| Hussein Qazzaz, Leader of the Insaan Civilisational Resurgence Project

| Amr Darrag, President of the Egyptian Centre for Studies

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| The London Circle | 30 Jan 2025

With Islam standing as the fastest growing religion in the world, how can a new approach to the propagation of Islam become a tool of addressing the multiple crisis facing all of humanity?

With his unique perspective as a convert to Islam who travelled from a life fighting for social justice in his home in Portugal, to someone who embraced Islam as a faith that fits his interests as a way of life that has the capacity to resolve the many crisis faces society, indeed all of humanity, once structured and framed as such.

Bilal sits with Anas Altikriti to discuss these and many other issues.

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Guests:

| Anaximenis Silva (Bilal), Researcher in Minority Groups

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| The London Circle | 23 Jan 2025

The toll that the Aafia Siddiqui saga has taken on the immediate family is tremendous, but the tenacity to keep going is incessant and drives the family to rally behind this pursuit of justice.

Fowzia Siddiqui was described by Clive Stafford Smith as the sister that anyone in trouble would wish to have. For years, and as Aafia Siddiqui endured the most horrid injustice, her immediate family including her surviving children, her late mother and most significantly her sister, Neurologist and campaigner, Fowzia, have never given up on the pursuit for justice for Aafia.

In this episode, Anas Altikriti catches up with Fowzia before her trip to the US, seeking the release of her sister.

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Guests:

| Fowzia Siddiqui, Neurologist and Sister of Aafia Siddiqui

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| The London Circle | 16 Jan 2025

India’s global importance is beyond doubt, but since the revival of Hindu Nationalism amid the Narendra Modi rule, it’s image as well as its huge Muslim minority have suffered tremendously.

With over 200 million Muslims, India has the most Muslims anywhere in the world. Yet, with Kashmir seemingly further away from a peaceful resolution than any time in the past, and Hindu nationalism (Hindutva) taking grip and manifesting in horrific means, the question regarding India’s global position and role is pressing.

How will India fare in light of a surprisingly receding popularity of Modi in the last elections, and with an imminent Trump presidency?

C. Davood, Managing Editor of one of the biggest and most prominent media networks in India and throughout the GCC speaks with Anas Altikriti in their studios in the state of Kerala.

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Guests:

| C Davood, Managing Editor, MediaOne TV

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| The London Circle | 09 Jan 2025

For almost 22 years, Aafia Siddiqui has been subject to an almost unbelievable series of injustices that speak of the evil of a system that governs today.

Aafia Siddiqui’s story is truly harrowing, yet it’s one that has actually taken place, and Aafia lingers in a high security US prison cell after almost 22 years after it all started.

For no reason whatsoever, Aafia and her three children were abducted and what followed over more than 2 decades will leave everyone in disbelief.

Clive Stafford Smith tells all in this interview with Anas Altikriti.

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Guests:

| Clive Stafford Smith, International Human Rights Lawyer

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| The London Circle | 21 Nov 2024

With Donald Trump achieving a landslide victory over Kamala Harris in the recent US Presidential elections, countless questions emerge regarding what the world, as well as the US itself, can expect from the next 4 years.

Whether, the US economy or the issue of illegal migration, or whether Ukraine, China, the Middle East, the questions surrounding that Trump 2nd term are many and pressing. Without doubt, Israel, Palestine and particularly the ongoing attacks on Gaza and Lebanon are high amongst those questions, as well as the normalization process which Trump launched in his first term.

Few are more capable of dissecting America and forecasting what the world can expect, than Professor Sami Al-Arian, who sits with Anas Altikriti to discuss these questions and more. 

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Guests:

| Prof. Sami Al-Arian, Director of the Centre for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) at Zaim University in Istanbul

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