This episode was shot a little before the most recent attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and in this episode we talk to Khashy, an Iranian about the issues surrounding the Iranian sanctions and last year's protests in Iran. An insider's perspective right now is more required than ever considering that a regular person's perspective from Iran is never portrayed in the media. 

In this episode, we look at the Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka in detail, the connection with ISIS, intelligence failure and petty politics in Sri Lanka that has led to the failure to prevent these attacks and we talk to a journalist from India, Ratnadeep Chakraborty, about media reactions to the attacks from all over the world. This is the final episode of the first season of The Smart Power Podcast and we will be back in two weeks with more interesting content! Stay tuned and stay curious!

In this episode, the last episode of the Palestine series. We will be talking to Saladin, who has lived in a Palestinian refugee camp. We will be talking about matters of importance in Palestine, the joys and sorrows of the people living in Palestine, the idiosyncracies and the beauties of the Palestinian state which a large majority of the world now recognises as a state, even though practically Palestine due to Israeli aggression is not a sovereign state. Hope you enjoy this episode. You could leave us a message on the Anchor app and we'll try to include that message in our next episode.

In the second episode of the Palestine series, we talk to Diego who is from the West Bank area of Palestine. We delve deep into the atrocities commited by the Israeli security forces, child abuse, issues around water security and various other issues around Israeli occupation of Palestine. We are very grateful for your listenership, it is of utmost importance that more people know and understand what's happening in Palestine and we're grateful for Diego's participation in the Palestine series. 

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This is the first of three episodes in a series on Palestine. In this episode, we get up close and personal with Ali, a Palestinian-Syrian about the problems he has faced as a result of the turmoil in Palestine and the issues he has with his identity due to his Palestinian origin. Despite the problems that he faces, he is proud to consider himself a Palestinian. We are grateful to Ali for sitting down and talking to us about Palestine from a personal perspective and describing to us the human problems stemming from conflict. 

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Hi there! In this episode of The Smart Power Podcast with Akash and Tal, the Rise of China. How China rose by distributing huge amounts of foreign aid in order to gain influence and project power. Is this power projection, soft power, hard power, or is it really smart power? Listen in on this conversation between Akash and Tal to find out. Here is the link to Akash's article in The Diplomat on the conflicting media narratives between India and Pakistan as discussed in the previous episode. https://thediplomat.com/2019/03/a-war-of-words-conflicting-media-narratives-between-india-and-pakistan/