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.

History
Religion & Spirituality
1
Taiz: The Yemeni City That Refuses to Surrender
54 min
2
We’re Addicted to Security, and It’s Destroying Us
71 min
3
Adrian Wooldridge: Can Liberalism Save Itself?
79 min
4
The Real Geopolitics of Sudan’s Civil War
50 min
5
The Middle East Braces for Escalation
53 min
6
Carlos the Jackal: The World’s First Super-Terr...
60 min
7
The Houthis Are Winning — Here’s Why
65 min
8
1453: The Catastrophe That Ended Rome
80 min
9
Globalisation Made Global Jihad Possible
56 min
10
Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Disaster
59 min
11
Re-Interrogating 9/11: A 25th Anniversary Debate
62 min
12
The End of the Nation State?
90 min
13
The Battle for Taiwan
69 min
14
Trump's Strangulation Strategy
53 min
15
Simon Sebag Montefiore: How the Modern Middle E...
67 min
16
The Rise of the Offshore World
57 min
17
The Battle for Yemen Begins Again
53 min
18
Libya: The Return of the Arab Strongman?
75 min
19
The Crusades: What Was Really Going On?
75 min
20
Slavery and Islam: The Whole Story
62 min
21
Will America Cut and Run?
46 min
22
U Thant: The Diplomat Who Defined the 1960s
79 min
23
Wassim Nasr: My Inside Account of Macron’s Syri...
60 min
24
Indo-European: The Language Family That Went Gl...
70 min
25
Iran Will Never Give Up Hormuz
62 min