CONFLICTED
An ex-Al Qaeda jihadi turned MI6 spy and a former monk turned filmmaker, have been embedded at the heart of conflicts in the Middle East. Together Aimen Dean and Thomas Small unpack the realities of war, fundamentalism and their global implications through first-hand experience.
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President Erdogan: The Mask Slips
54 min
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President Erdogan: The Rise to Power
50 min
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The Muslim Brotherhood: What do they want?
40 min
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The Muslim Brotherhood: Who Are They?
52 min
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Sayyid Qutb: Poet, Reactionary, Islamist (Part 2)
55 min
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Sayyid Qutb: Poet, Reactionary, Islamist (Part 1)
50 min
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Ibn Abdul Wahhab's Militant Mission (Part 2)
57 min
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Ibn Abdul Wahhab's Militant Mission (Part 1)
48 min
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The Firebrand from Damascus (Part 2)
53 min
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The Firebrand from Damascus (Part 1)
48 min
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The First Fundamentalist (Part 2)
56 min
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The First Fundamentalist (Part 1)
43 min
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The Mind of a Fundamentalist
40 min
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Where Have All The Terrorists Gone?
43 min
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Conflicted Season 4 Announcement
Season 4 of Conflicted is coming soon on June 28th!
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Conflicted LIVE Q&A
60 min
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Announcement: Conflicted LIVE
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The West vs. the Rest?
64 min
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Algerian Civil War
Algeria has been at the vanguard of Middle Eastern developments for over two hundred years. For this reason, it’s the perfect prism through which to revisit all the historical themes from this season.
84 min
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Anti-Soviet Jihad
With the assassination of Al Qaeda leader Aymen al-Zawahiri ringing in their ears, Aimen & Thomas turn their attention once again to Afghanistan, focusing this time on the Soviet invasion in 1979 and the rise of global jihadism that followed.
95 min
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Saddam vs. Ayatollah
This episode describes Saddam’s blood-soaked rise to power and his tragic and ultimately futile decision to invade Iran, thus inaugurating the 20th century’s bloodiest and costliest conventional war.
80 min
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Ayatollah vs. Shah
It was out with the Shah, in with the Ayatollah; and the consequences have been without parallel—for the Middle East, and the world.
77 min
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Petrostates of the World, Unite!
War, terrorism, kidnappings, assassinations, and an ever-present threat to the global economy—the story of OPEC has it all!
72 min
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Lebanon: Failed Narco-Terrorist State?
Circling back to the Arab world after a brief excursus further afield, this episode of Conflicted takes up the themes of sectarian strife and political radicalism and applies them to the country that has perhaps been most affected by the Clash of Civilizations: Lebanon
68 min
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Turkquake!
Having flitted around the edges of the Ottoman Empire for most of this season, now we’re going straight to the jugular: the heart of that empire, the city of Istanbul.
56 min