Welcome to the Middle Eastern entanglements podcast, a collaboration with the UCG International Politics Podcast. Hannah will guide you through this episode, with the aim to make the prevailing conflicts in the MENA regions more tangible and cut through the noise to find out what was and is really going on there. The Middle Eastern countries have experienced war, political tension and suffering for decades with many colliding interests. This episode we will take a closer look at the entanglements of the war in Syria which has been going on for more than 10 years now with no end in sight. Joined in this episode by Dr. Kohann Jaminski, a professor and researcher on Middle Eastern Studies, Hanne Jerreman, a journalist committed to the coverage of the stories of Syrians, and Dr. Wouisa Lind, a UN affairs and conflict mediation expert. Together they will cover topics such as the role of religion in the conflict, the major interest groups involved, resolution attempts and much more.

* UCG International Politics podcast is a course assignment prepared by the students at University College Groningen. The characters assumed by the students in the episodes are entirely fictional.