Latest Middle east initiative Podcast Episodes

A Conversation with Mohammed Alyahya, Editor-in-Chief of Al Arabiya English

Middle East Matters - April 27, 2021 15:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
This episode of Middle East Matters is the seventh installment of a series titled, “USA 2020: The View from the Arab World.” Throughout this series, Tarek Masoud, MEI Faculty Director and Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations, and Ambassador Karim Haggag, professor ...

A Conversation with Raghida Dergham, Journalist and Executive Chairman of the Beirut Institute, Lebanon

Middle East Matters - April 27, 2021 15:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
This episode of Middle East Matters is the sixth installment of a series titled, “USA 2020: The View from the Arab World.” Throughout this series, Tarek Masoud, MEI Faculty Director and Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations, and Ambassador Karim Haggag, professor of...

A Conversation with Mina al-Oraibi, Editor-in-Chief of The National

Middle East Matters - March 22, 2021 20:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Throughout this series, Tarek Masoud, MEI Faculty Director and Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations, and Ambassador Karim Haggag, professor of practice at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo, will speak with distinguis...

A Conversation with Ayad Allawi, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq

Middle East Matters - March 22, 2021 20:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Throughout this series, Tarek Masoud, MEI Faculty Director and Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations, and Ambassador Karim Haggag, professor of practice at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo, will speak with distinguis...

A Conversation with Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, Award-Winning Reporter, Kuwait

Middle East Matters - March 22, 2021 20:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Throughout this series, Tarek Masoud, MEI Faculty Director and Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations, and Ambassador Karim Haggag, professor of practice at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo, will speak with distinguis...

A Conversation with Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, Political Scientist and Public Intellectual, UAE

Middle East Matters - March 22, 2021 20:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Throughout this series, Tarek Masoud, MEI Faculty Director and Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations, and Ambassador Karim Haggag, professor of practice at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo, will speak with distinguis...

A Conversation with Nabil Fahmy, former Foreign Minister of Egypt

Middle East Matters - March 22, 2021 20:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Throughout this series, Tarek Masoud, MEI Faculty Director and Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations, and Ambassador Karim Haggag, professor of practice at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo, will speak with distinguis...

“Whither Saudi Arabia?” with guest Bernard Haykel, Princeton University.

Middle East Matters - March 11, 2021 20:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
A week before recording this episode, the U.S. Congress released a report directly naming Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the party responsible for the October 2018 murder of the Saudi columnist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi. The Biden administration has imposed a ban on severa...

A Conversation with Mina Al-Oraibi

Middle East Matters - December 08, 2020 14:23 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Episode Contributors: Guest Mina Al-Oraibi Editor-in-Chief, The National Yale World Fellow Hosts Tarek Masoud Sultan Qaboos Bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Faculty Director, Middle East Initiative Karim Haggag Visiting Fellow, Middle East I...