5-15: Sykes And Picot

Bonus episode about the history of the Caliphate. 

In this episode, we explore the fragile balance of power during the later years of the Umayyad Caliphate under Caliph Hisham ibn Abdul Malik. Between 112–114 AH (731–733 CE), the empire faced crushing defeats on nearly every frontier. Yet Hisham refused to abandon his policy of c ...  Show more

Today on the show, Fareed is joined live by an expert panel to discuss the events unfolding in the Middle East. Randa Slim, conflict resolution director at the Middle East Institute, and Richard Haass, president emeritus at the Council on Foreign Relations, speak about the escala ...  Show more

In The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West (Cambridge UP, 2022), Phillip Lieberman revisits one of the foundational narratives of medieval Jewish history--that the rise of Islam led the Jews of Babylonia, the largest Je ...  Show more

Episode 132. Negar Mortazavi speaks with Professor Mohsen Milani about his latest book “Iran’s Rise and Rivalry with the U.S. in the Middle East” 

With Gaza smoldering and Iran reeling, Israel now faces a new threat from Syria—and it's coming fast.In this urgent episode of MidEast & Beyond, Amir Tsarfati and Pastor Barry Stagner break down explosive developments on Israel’s northern front as jihadist forces backed by Iran m ...  Show more