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  • UAE: football, the far right and Reform UK

    October 22, 2026 · 31 min

    Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is Nick McGeehan director of FairSquare. Their conversation focusses not just on football and Manchester City but on the wider effort by Abu Dhabi's ruling family to destroy political Islam…

  • How the Iran war is impacting GCC finances

    October 14, 2026 · 25 min

    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…

  • Time is short for Syria’s al-Sharaa

    October 7, 2026 · 27 min

    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…

  • Are we weeks away from nuclear war in the Gulf?

    September 30, 2026 · 25 min

    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…

  • Energy and a hard winter ahead

    September 23, 2026 · 24 min

    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…

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  • Jordan’s Dilemma

    September 16, 2026 · 29 min

    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…

  • Saudi Arabia and the Mecca Pact

    September 9, 2026 · 32 min

    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…

  • The Gulf: sitting on a security fault line

    September 2, 2026 · 29 min

    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…

  • Arab Digest top five podcast countdown: #1 A template for troubled times

    August 26, 2026 · 30 min

    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 &…

  • Arab Digest top five podcast countdown: #2 The Gulf and three mad countries

    August 19, 2026 · 34 min

    Coming in at number 2 in our top five is the 14 April 2026 podcast with the Gulf security and defence analyst Andreas Krieg. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly…

  • Arab Digest top five podcast countdown: #3 How hard has the war hit GCC economies?

    August 12, 2026 · 29 min

    Coming in at number 3 in our top five is the 19 May 2026 podcast with the Gulf banking and finance analyst Andrew Cunningham. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly…

  • Arab Digest top five podcast countdown: #4 Football, Sudan and Sheikh Mansour

    August 5, 2026 · 30 min

    Coming in at number 4 in our top five is the 15 May 2026 podcast with Nick McGeehan, the director and co-founder of the non-profit organisation FairSquare which focuses on sport to promote systemic change and stop human rights abuses…

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Arab Digest is where business leaders and experts on the Middle East and North Africa come together to share analysis and insight about the issues in the region that matter most. contact email: editor@arabdigest.org