COVID, poverty, chaos and meddling neighbours
This Middle East Analysis podcast takes our resident regional analyst, international lawyer Dr Harry Hagopian, around not just the Middle East but also North Africa. We start with a coronavirus […]
Category Archives: Palestine
Israel’s Annexation of West Bank land is inevitable… or is it?
It’s rather dangerous to assume anything in the Middle East North Africa region – least of all the shifting dynamics of the relationship between Israel and Palestine. One assumption is […]
Israel-Palestine: A Hope-less Deal?
The so-called ‘Deal of the Century’ has been released – US President Donald Trump’s road map to peace for Israelis and Palestinians. Peace to Prosperity, as it’s called, has been […]
Keeping Faith With Hope – The Challenge of Israel – Palestine
Arguably the biggest threat to the human spirit is a loss of hope. The Israel / Palestine conflict has raged in one form or another since the mid-20th century and […]
Solving Israel / Palestine: Making Brexit look easy
Whatever the turmoil in the Middle East North Africa region, the tension in the lands where three of the world’s major religions meet – the Holy Land – often paints […]
Jamal Khashoggi – The impact on Saudi Arabia, the region and the wider world
Middle East Analysis returns from a four month hiatus to tackle the subject that’s front and centre as far as current regional analysis goes – the alleged murder of Saudi […]
Deal or No Deal (of the Century) for Israel and Palestine
To Be or Not to Be! Or in this case, To Deal or Not to Deal! As the US Administration reportedly gets ready to announce the “Deal of the Century” […]
Christians and a Third Palestinian Intifada
With tensions in Israel and Palestine rising alarmingly, we ask how Christians would deal with a third Palestinian Intifada. Will it even happen? Are the Christians the pacifists on the […]
Aleppo, Mosul, Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Trump
We’re inching very close to a significant milestone for our Middle East Analysis podcasts. This programme is the 99th in a series that started just as those popular uprisings took […]
Palestine: How do we retain hope for a peaceful future?
This ‘Middle East Analysis’ podcast comes just before Eid at the end of Ramadan and it’s only right that our thoughts and prayers are for the victims of the horrific […]
The Middle East North Africa: An Analysis 