The Egyptian prisoner
Arab Digest editor William Law invites the Egyptian writer Abdelrahman ElGendy onto the podcast to discuss his just released book Huna: A Me...
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UAE: football, the far right and Reform UK
Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is Nick McGeehan director of FairSquare. Their conversation focusses not just on football a...
How the Iran war is impacting GCC finances
Arab Digest editor William Law is joined by the Gulf banking and finance analyst Andrew Cunningham. Their conversation focusses on the impac...
Time is short for Syria’s al-Sharaa
Arab Digest editor William Law brings the Syrian pollster and analyst Malik al-Abdeh onto this week’s podcast to talk about the pressure tha...
Are we weeks away from nuclear war in the Gulf?
The Iran expert Trita Parsi joins Arab Digest editor William Law to discuss the direction the Iran war is heading towards. With the Trump ad...
Energy and a hard winter ahead
Arab Digest editor William Law’s guest this week is the Digest’s energy analyst Alastair Newton. With the war between the Huthis and Saudi A...
Jordan’s Dilemma
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is caught in a vice: US bases there are the target of Iranian missiles and influential Jordanians are callin...
Saudi Arabia and the Mecca Pact
Arab Digest editor William Law welcomes the Brooking Institution’s Aslı Aydıntaşbaş as his guest this week. Their conversation focusses on t...
The Gulf: sitting on a security fault line
Arab Digest editor William Law kicks off season 8 of the Arab Digest podcast with the Gulf analyst and author Kristian Coates Ulrichsen. As...
Arab Digest top five podcast countdown: #1 A template for troubled times
Coming in at number 1 in our top five is the 6 May 2026 podcast with the North Africa analyst and ECFR visiting fellow Tarek Megerisi. Sign...
Arab Digest top five podcast countdown: #2 The Gulf and three mad countries
Coming in at number 2 in our top five is the 14 April 2026 podcast with the Gulf security and defence analyst Andreas Krieg. Sign up NOW at...
Arab Digest top five podcast countdown: #3 How hard has the war hit GCC economies?
Coming in at number 3 in our top five is the 19 May 2026 podcast with the Gulf banking and finance analyst Andrew Cunningham. Sign up NOW at...
Arab Digest top five podcast countdown: #4 Football, Sudan and Sheikh Mansour
Coming in at number 4 in our top five is the 15 May 2026 podcast with Nick McGeehan, the director and co-founder of the non-profit organisat...
Arab Digest Top Five Podcast Countdown: #5 Hezbollah and the war in Lebanon
Today we launch our top five podcast countdown. Coming in at number 5 is our 29 April 2026 podcast with the Levant expert Dr Lina Khatib. Si...
No war, no peace
Arab Digest editor William Law welcomes the Gulf security analyst Andreas Krieg back to the podcast to discuss the ongoing escalation of the...
The GCC, Iran and Trump's busted flush
Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is the Gulf analyst Giorgio Cafiero. Donald Trump blundered into the Iran war. He wants to...
Ever Land: a brilliant debut novel
Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is the writer Amy Abdelnoor. Ever Land, her debut novel, explores the Palestinian resistanc...
Iran and a complicated jigsaw puzzle
Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is the Iran expert Dr Sanam Vakil. Their conversation focuses on the challenges facing any...
Uncertain times in Syria
Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is the Syrian analyst and pollster Malik al-Abdeh. With reconstruction of a war ravaged cou...
Iraq: a new PM and old dilemmas
Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is the Iraq expert Renad Mansour. With a new prime minister in place Iraq still faces sever...