Episodes

  • How the Iran war is impacting GCC finances

    How the Iran war is impacting GCC finances
    Oct 14 2026
    Arab Digest editor William Law is joined by the Gulf banking and finance analyst Andrew Cunningham. Their conversation focusses on the impact on Gulf financial sectors as the Iran conflict enters its eighth month and Saudi Arabia is forced back into a hot war against Yemen’s Huthis. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.
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    25 mins
  • Time is short for Syria’s al-Sharaa

    Time is short for Syria’s al-Sharaa
    Oct 7 2026
    Arab Digest editor William Law brings the Syrian pollster and analyst Malik al-Abdeh onto this week’s podcast to talk about the pressure that Syria’s president Ahmed al-Sharaa is facing from growing protests on the economic front to the menacing presence of Israeli troops in southern Syria. Al-Abdeh argues that time is running short for the president to deliver solutions that will move the country forward. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.
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    27 mins
  • Are we weeks away from nuclear war in the Gulf?

    Are we weeks away from nuclear war in the Gulf?
    Sep 30 2026
    The Iran expert Trita Parsi joins Arab Digest editor William Law to discuss the direction the Iran war is heading towards. With the Trump administration insisting the Iranians will buckle and capitulate and Iran standing firm will Israel take matters into its own hands, including using nuclear weapons, as Netanyahu seeks an election victory? Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.
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    25 mins
  • Energy and a hard winter ahead

    Energy and a hard winter ahead
    Sep 23 2026
    Arab Digest editor William Law’s guest this week is the Digest’s energy analyst Alastair Newton. With the war between the Huthis and Saudi Arabia flaring up and continued uncertainty over what steps Donald Trump will take in the Iran war the outlook remains bleak over the next several months that any relief will come on the price of crude and refined oil with the result that economic hardship will spread across the globe. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.
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    24 mins
  • Jordan’s Dilemma

    Jordan’s Dilemma
    Sep 16 2026
    The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is caught in a vice: US bases there are the target of Iranian missiles and influential Jordanians are calling for the removal of the bases but the US presence is part of the 1994 peace deal with Israel which is now threatening to drive Palestinians out of the West Bank and into the kingdom. Arab Digest editor William Law is joined by the journalist Nour Halabi to discuss Jordan’s dilemma. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.
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    29 mins
  • Saudi Arabia and the Mecca Pact

    Saudi Arabia and the Mecca Pact
    Sep 9 2026
    Arab Digest editor William Law welcomes the Brooking Institution’s Aslı Aydıntaşbaş as his guest this week. Their conversation focusses on the Mecca Pact, the defence deal signed by the Saudis, Pakistan and Türkiye. The pact is designed to provide security against threats from both Iran and Israel in a neighbourhood where increasingly war, rather than diplomacy, is the weapon of choice. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.
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    32 mins
  • The Gulf: sitting on a security fault line

    The Gulf: sitting on a security fault line
    Sep 2 2026
    Arab Digest editor William Law kicks off season 8 of the Arab Digest podcast with the Gulf analyst and author Kristian Coates Ulrichsen. As the war with Iran settles into no war no peace the Gulf states find themselves caught in an insecure landscape facing both Iran and Israel and unsure what President Trump will say or do from one day to the next. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.
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    29 mins
  • Arab Digest top five podcast countdown: #1 A template for troubled times

    Arab Digest top five podcast countdown: #1 A template for troubled times
    Aug 26 2026
    Coming in at number 1 in our top five is the 6 May 2026 podcast with the North Africa analyst and ECFR visiting fellow Tarek Megerisi. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.
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    30 mins