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
Why China’s Rise Cannot Be Stopped
61 min
2
Trump vs Iran: The War That Wasn’t
60 min
3
Paul Kenyon: 30 Years Under Fire as a BBC War R...
54 min
4
Mali: When Jihadists Win
50 min
5
Syrian Blitzkrieg: How Damascus Crushed the SDF
51 min
6
Trump vs USAID: The Rise and Fall of America’s ...
50 min
7
How Yemen Broke the Saudi-UAE Alliance
81 min
8
Crisis in the Gulf: Saudi vs UAE
48 min
9
Re-Thinking Islam’s Global History
55 min
10
The Crisis in Iran: The History Behind US-Iran ...
52 min
11
Zohran Mamdani and the Ascendancy of Third Worl...
75 min
12
2025 Year in Review
48 min
13
Inside the Trenches of Ukraine
78 min
14
2025 Conflicted Christmas Special
45 min
15
What Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy Me...
56 min
16
The 2026 Middle East Forecast
48 min
17
What the U.S. Gets Wrong About the Muslim Broth...
59 min
18
Saudi Arabia’s New Bargaining Chip
51 min
19
Has the Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrated the UK?
47 min
20
Conflicted Returns: A New Era Begins
48 min
21
Conflicted Revisited: Ethiopia’s Overlooked Con...
86 min
22
India and the Future of World Order: A Conversa...
70 min
23
Conflicted Revisited… Husam Mahjoub – How Forei...
72 min
24
CC: Patrick McGee – How Apple Built a Superpower
71 min
25
Conflicted Revisited… Hamza Howidy – Protest, E...
92 min