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 a...
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| 10/15/26 | Taiz: The Yemeni City That Refuses to Surrender | We welcome back friend of the show Baraa Shiban, who was recently on the front lines in Yemen. The Houthis have surrounded Taiz once again. Can the city that has defied Yemen's tyrants for generations hold out against another devastating siege? For mind-expanding Q&A's with Aimen, join the CONFLICTED COMMUNITY here: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm/ Baraa and Thomas discuss: Baraa's eyewitness journey into besieged Taiz along its treacherous mountain supply route. Life under siege: ruined streets, sniper fire, shelling and hospitals running short of supplies. Displaced families, makeshift schools and the children dreaming of justice. Taiz's defiant celebration of Yemen's 1962 republican revolution. From Rasulid capital to republican stronghold: Taiz's turbulent history. Taiz's political traditions: Nasserists, Socialists, Islamists and resistance to the Imamate. Outgunned defenders confronting Houthi artillery, drones and Iranian support. The fall of Al-Turbah and the battle for Mocha, Bab al-Mandab and Taiz's supply routes. The Saudi-backed counteroffensive and whether Taiz can survive without outside help. Find Baraa on X: https://x.com/BShtwtr Find us on X: https://x.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren. Produced and edited by Thomas Small. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 58m 56s | ||||||
| 10/13/26 |  We’re Addicted to Security, and It’s Destroying Us | In this latest Conflicted Conversation, Ruben Andersson, professor of social anthropology at Oxford University's Department of International Development, discusses his new book Age of Security: The Rise of a Global Obsession. For deeper dives and world-class Q&As with Aimen Dean, join the CONFLICTED COMMUNITY here: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm Ruben and Thomas explore: How security replaced politics Why failed security breeds more security The border crackdown that fuels illegal migration How neoliberalism hollowed out social order Sweden’s slide into gang violence When Big Tech became Big Security China and the rise of the Paranopticon How surveillance blurred civilian and military life Why Covid made us surrender freedom so easily Can we escape the politics of fear? Find us on X: https://x.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren. Produced and edited by Thomas Small. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 14m 04s | ||||||
| 10/8/26 |  Adrian Wooldridge: Can Liberalism Save Itself? | In this latest Conflicted Conversation, journalist Adrian Wooldridge discusses his latest book Centrists of the World Unite: The Lost Genius of Liberalism. For deeper dives and world-class Q&As with Aimen Dean, join the CONFLICTED COMMUNITY here: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm Adrian and Thomas explore: Why liberalism is in crisis — and whether it can reinvent itself Modernity, permanent change and the birth of the liberal world Erasmus, tolerance and the case for a “chastened liberalism” Hobbes, individualism and whether liberalism misunderstands human nature John Stuart Mill, moral formation and the need for cultural elites Power, authority and how liberal distrust became a “democracy of disdain” Meritocracy, elite failure and the rise of the examination class Identity politics, minority rights and the limits of anti-majoritarian liberalism America, China and the unraveling of the liberal international order Can liberalism recover its moral foundations without Christianity? Find us on X: https://x.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren. Produced and edited by Thomas Small . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 23m 01s | ||||||
| 10/6/26 | The Real Geopolitics of Sudan’s Civil War | Sudan’s civil war has become a regional proxy struggle, with the UAE, Egypt, Iran, Turkey and other powers backing rival armed camps as the country fragments under the pressure of war. But while the RSF’s foreign support has drawn intense scrutiny, the forces sustaining Sudan’s army — from Islamist networks to drones, money and weapons supplied from abroad — have received far less attention. For mind-expanding Q&A's with Aimen, join the CONFLICTED COMMUNITY here: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm/ Aimen and Thomas discuss: Why Sudan has become everyone’s proxy war The UAE, the RSF — and the case against the usual narrative Who is really backing Burhan’s army? How the Muslim Brotherhood returned through Sudan’s war Iran, Turkey and the drone war changing the battlefield The hidden regional contest between Egypt and Ethiopia Did Sudan’s army use chemical weapons? Can the outside powers stop the war they helped sustain? Find us on X: https://x.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren. Produced and edited by Thomas Small. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 53m 21s | ||||||
| 10/2/26 | The Middle East Braces for Escalation | The war is widening, diplomacy has stalled, and the Middle East is once again sliding towards escalation as the relationship between Israel and the Gulf states grows closer while pressure on Iran is mounting at sea, in the air, and across its network of regional allies. For mind-expanding Q&A's with Aimen, join the CONFLICTED COMMUNITY here: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm/ Aimen and Thomas discuss: The failure of the latest US-Iran diplomacy at the UN and the growing risk of renewed escalation. Israeli claims of renewed Iranian nuclear activity at Pickaxe Mountain and the wider nuclear question. The secret Abu Dhabi meeting and the emerging Saudi-UAE-Israeli security alignment. The war in Yemen, the Houthi advance, and Saudi plans for a major counter-offensive. Pakistan’s growing military role in Saudi Arabia and the significance of the Mecca Pact. The widening regional front: Somaliland, al-Shabaab, Eritrea, Europe, and security around the Bab al-Mandab. Iraq after the US troop withdrawal and the future of Iran-backed militias across the region. The Strait of Hormuz, pressure on Iran’s economy and aviation, and the attempted FlyDubai terrorist attack. Find us on X: https://x.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren. Produced and edited by Thomas Small. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 57m 26s | ||||||
| 9/29/26 |  Carlos the Jackal: The World’s First Super-Terrorist | In this latest Conflicted Conversation, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Joby Warrick tells Thomas all about his latest book The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World's First Super-Terrorist. For deeper dives and world-class Q&As with Aimen Dean, join the CONFLICTED COMMUNITY here: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm Joby explains: Carlos the Jackal: From Venezuelan Marxist to Global Terror Icon Wadi Haddad, the KGB and the Birth of International Terrorism Dawson’s Field and the Rise of Made-for-TV Terror How the Media Created the Myth of “Carlos the Jackal” OPEC 1975: Gaddafi, Ransom Millions and Carlos’s Biggest Coup Carlos Inc: How Dictators Turned Terrorism Into a Hired Service From Carlos to Bin Laden: The Shift From Marxism to Jihadism Joby Warrick Meets Carlos: Unrepentant After 30 Years in Prison Find Joby on X: https://x.com/JobyWarrick Find us on X: https://x.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren. Produced and edited by Thomas Small . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 04m 07s | ||||||
| 9/24/26 | The Houthis Are Winning — Here’s Why | Aimen's away this week. But not to worry! Sitting in his seat is Mohammed al-Basha: a Yemeni-American analyst with over twenty years of experience. Basha is the perfect person to help us understand better the larger forces at work in the Yemen Civil War — with consequences for the entire world. For world-class Q&A's with Aimen, join the CONFLICTED COMMUNITY here: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm/ Basha and Thomas discuss: How the Houthis Smashed Yemen’s Western Front in Just Seven Days Inside the Houthi Machine: From Mountain Rebels to a Revolutionary State Abdul-Malik al-Houthi: The Hidden Leader His Followers Treat Like a Sacred Authority How Gaza Supercharged Houthi Recruitment, Weapons and Global Ambition Why Yemen’s Anti-Houthi Forces Keep Falling Apart Tareq Saleh: The Warlord Who Embodies Yemen’s “Game of Thrones” Saleh Co-Opted the Tribes — the Houthis Are Trying to Crush Them Could the Houthis Take All of Yemen — and Would Yemen Survive It? Find Basha on X: https://x.com/BashaReport And on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bashareport Find us on X: https://x.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren. Produced and edited by Thomas Small. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 09m 59s | ||||||
| 9/22/26 |  1453: The Catastrophe That Ended Rome | In this latest Conflicted Conversation, historian Anthony Kaldellis of the University of Chicago discusses his new book 1453: The Conquest and Tragedy of Constantinople. For deeper dives and world-class Q&As with Aimen Dean, join the CONFLICTED COMMUNITY here: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm Anthony explains: Why the ‘Byzantines’ were really Romans The Roman state’s extraordinary longevity Constantinople’s strategic importance The rise of the Ottoman state Ottoman slavery, the devşirme, and the janissaries Romans, Italians and Turks living side by side Venice and Genoa’s role in the East Ottoman cannon and the myth of Orban Why the siege was not inevitable The enslavement and dispersal of the Romans How ‘Byzantium’ was reinvented after its fall Find us on X: https://x.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren. Produced and edited by Thomas Small . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 24m 01s | ||||||
| 9/17/26 |  Globalisation Made Global Jihad Possible | In this week’s Conflicted Conversation, UCL associate professor Philip Cunliffe makes a provocative case: far from being polar opposites, global Islamism and American unipolarity were born of the same globalised order. But what happens when that order starts to fall apart? And is today’s rising New Left inadvertently fighting to save the liberal-imperial system it says it wants to destroy? For deeper dives and world-class Q&As with Aimen Dean, join the CONFLICTED COMMUNITY here: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm Philip and Thomas discuss: How U.S. unipolarity and globalisation reshaped the world after the Cold War Why Cunliffe thinks ‘global Islam’ is a distinctly modern political phenomenon How early state-seeking Islamism gave way to transnational Islamism and jihadism Why neoliberal globalisation weakened state sovereignty and boosted Islamist networks The strange overlap between liberal humanitarianism and jihadist causes How the CIA, Afghanistan and Syria blurred the line between ally and enemy Why the new American Left could revive the logic of liberal interventionism over Israel What comes after the decline of American empire: sovereign nation-states or rival new blocs? Find Philip on X: https://x.com/thephilippics Find us on X: https://x.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren. Produced and edited by Thomas Small . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 00m 27s | ||||||
| 9/16/26 | Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Disaster | Every region-watcher was stunned over past week as the anti-Houthi forces in Yemen suffered an extremely brutal reversal—with global consequences. Aimen lifts up the curtain of inter-Gulf politics to help Thomas understand better what went wrong, and why Saudi Arabia's confused foreign policy may deserve the lion's share of the blame. For mind-expanding Q&A's with Aimen, join the CONFLICTED COMMUNITY here: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm/ Aimen and Thomas discuss: Did Iran dupe Saudi Arabia? How the Houthis humiliated their rivals Mocha falls: Bab al-Mandab exposed Saudi Arabia’s oil lifeline gets hit Why Yemen’s anti-Houthi coalition imploded The bitter Saudi-UAE divorce Has Qatar reshaped Saudi foreign policy? Why Trump refused MBS’s rescue call Find us on X: https://x.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren. Produced and edited by Thomas Small. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 03m 16s | ||||||
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| 9/11/26 | Re-Interrogating 9/11: A 25th Anniversary Debate | To commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Aimen and Thomas take a deeper, wider look at the historical, ideological, and geopolitical context on either side of that momentous world-changing event. Join the CONFLICTED COMMUNITY here: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm/ Aimen and Thomas discuss: Was 9/11 an ending as well as a beginning? The myth of the peaceful 1990s America inherited a geopolitical mess after the USSR's collapse America as a revolutionary power Could preserving Middle Eastern monarchies have prevented later disasters? Al-Qaeda and liberal globalisation Jihadism amid the wreckage of earlier promises Was the War on Terror a rupture or an acceleration? Bin Laden’s selective use of history History without a puppet master Find us on X: https://x.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren. Produced and edited by Thomas Small. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 06m 22s | ||||||
| 9/9/26 | nation-stateglobal order+5 | Rana Dasgupta | East India CompanySilicon Valley+1 | China | nation-stateRana Dasgupta+5 | — | 1h 34m 00s | ||
| 9/3/26 | TaiwanChina+4 | Chris Horton | KuomintangGhost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival | TaiwanChina+3 | TaiwanChina+6 | — | 1h 13m 18s | ||
| 9/1/26 | US sanctionsIran economic crisis+5 | AimenThomas | IRGCUAE+1 | United StatesStrait of Hormuz+2 | IranUS sanctions+8 | — | 57m 51s | ||
| 8/25/26 | Middle East historynationalism+4 | Simon Sebag Montefiore | BritainFrance+1 | MoroccoJordan+3 | Middle EastSykes-Picot+5 | — | 1h 11m 36s | ||
| 8/20/26 | offshore economyglobal trade+4 | Ian Kumekawa | Harvard UniversityMIT+9 | SwedenManhattan+1 | offshore economyglobal trade+6 | — | 1h 00m 47s | ||
| 8/18/26 | Yemen civil warHouthi control+4 | Baraa Shiban | Saudi ArabiaIran+3 | YemenSanaa+4 | YemenHouthi+6 | — | 56m 20s | ||
| 8/13/26 | LibyaArab Spring+4 | — | NATONOC+2 | LibyaEgypt+4 | LibyaKhalifa Haftar+5 | — | 1h 19m 15s | ||
| 8/11/26 | Crusadesmedieval Middle East+5 | Nicholas Morton | Nottingham Trent UniversityThe Crusader Storm: A Global History of the Wars for the Middle East | Middle EastAnatolia+2 | CrusadesSeljuk-Turkmen+6 | — | 1h 19m 07s | ||
| 8/6/26 | slaveryIslam+5 | Justin Marozzi | DaeshCaptives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World | Abbasid IraqMauritania+2 | slaveryIslam+7 | — | 1h 06m 22s | ||
| 8/4/26 | Iran WarUS foreign policy+4 | Thomas | IRGCIsrael+4 | — | IranTrump+5 | — | 49m 51s | ||
| 7/30/26 |  U Thant: The Diplomat Who Defined the 1960s | In this Conflicted Conversation, Thant Myint-U talks about his new book Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s. It tells the story of his grandfather U Thant, the Burmese schoolteacher turned UN Secretary-General who guided the United Nations through some of the most dangerous crises of the 1960s, yet is now woefully forgotten or badly misremembered. Thant explains: U Thant’s forgotten role as UN Secretary-General during the great crises of the 1960s His sociability, humour, directness, and moral imagination How Buddhism shaped U Thant’s approach to crisis How newly independent post-colonial states tried to remake the world order Burma/Myanmar after empire: colonial destruction, weak institutions, and postcolonial state-building The Non-Aligned Movement: Afro-Asian internationalism beyond the US–Soviet Cold War Congo, Katanga and sovereignty: U Thant’s defence of postcolonial borders against neo-imperial fragmentation The Cuban Missile Crisis: U Thant’s overlooked role in helping Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro de-escalate Vietnam and the lost peace channel: U Thant’s ignored 1964 attempt to open talks with Ho Chi Minh The Six-Day War and the UN-Israel rupture: UNEF, Nasser, Israel, and the myth that the UN abandoned Israel U Thant’s late one-world vision, the decline of Bandung idealism, and the lost promise of postcolonial internationalism Join the Conflicted Community here: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm/ Visit Thant’s website: thantmyintu.com Find us on X: https://x.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren. Produced and edited by Thomas Small. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 23m 37s | ||||||
| 7/28/26 | Wassim Nasr: My Inside Account of Macron’s Syria Visit | French war reporter and global jihadism expert Wassim Nasr was part of the presidential press party during Emmanuel Macron’s recent visit to Damascus. He shares his first-hand account not only of what happened between Macron and Syrian president Ahmad al-Sharaa during the visit, but also what he discovered afterwards, during a trip to Aleppo and to the northern town of Kobane. Wassim and Thomas discuss: What it was like inside Macron’s presidential delegation to Syria France–Syria relations after the fall of Bashar al-Assad Macron and Ahmed al-Sharaa at the Umayyad Mosque and Mount Qasioun Islamic State bombings during Macron’s Damascus visit French investment in Syrian reconstruction, energy, ports and transport Aleppo’s security, political representation and slow post-war recovery Kobani, SDF integration, PKK influence and Arab–Kurdish tensions Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Islamist pragmatism and Syria’s dependence on his leadership Join the Conflicted Community here: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm/ Follow Wassim on X: https://x.com/SimNasr Find us on X: https://x.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren. Produced and edited by Thomas Small. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 04m 21s | ||||||
| 7/23/26 |  Indo-European: The Language Family That Went Global | In this Conflicted Conversation, Thomas meets Laura Spinney, author of Proto: How One Language Went Global, the story of the Proto-Indo-European language and its descendants, which are spoken today by half of humanity. Laura explains: How, where, and among whom Proto-Indo-European emerged How Indo-European split into English, Hindi, Persian, Russian, Greek, Latin-derived Romance languages, Celtic, Germanic, Baltic and Slavic tongues How linguists reconstruct an unwritten prehistoric language through sound laws, comparative vocabulary and ancient texts Why ancient DNA has transformed the debate over Indo-European origins by restoring migration to the centre of the story Who the Yamnaya were, and how mobile pastoralists north of the Black Sea spread language through cattle, wagons, dairy and steppe mobility How a small number of steppe migrants may have transformed Europe’s languages through disease, prestige, violence, intermarriage and social networks Why Tocharian, Sanskrit and Persian reveal extraordinary Indo-European journeys from the Pontic-Caspian steppe to China, India and Iran How ‘Aryan’ began as a real Indo-Iranian self-description before being distorted by racial nationalism and Nazi pseudoscience Join the Conflicted Community here: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm/ Find Laura on X: https://x.com/lfspinney And on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/laurainparis.bsky.social And on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laura.spinney Find us on X: https://x.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren. Produced and edited by Thomas Small. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 14m 45s | ||||||
| 7/21/26 | IranMiddle East conflict+5 | Aimen | USIran+5 | Strait of HormuzBab al-Mandab+6 | IranStrait of Hormuz+5 | — | 1h 06m 39s | ||
| 7/16/26 | intelligence failureHamas+4 | Yaakov Katz | The Jerusalem PostUnit 8200+5 | — | October 7intelligence failure+6 | — | 1h 01m 39s | ||
| 7/14/26 | Ukrainian victoryNATO leadership+4 | Ben Hodges | NATOUS Army Europe+2 | UkraineRussia+2 | UkraineRussia+6 | — | 50m 56s | ||
| 7/10/26 | Syriajihad+4 | — | Message HeardConflicted Community+4 | SyriaAssad regime | Syriajihad+5 | — | 50m 21s | ||
| 7/7/26 | modernityviolence+4 | Clifton Crais | The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World | — | modernityviolence+5 | — | 58m 59s | ||
| 7/3/26 | Qala-i-Jangiwar on terror+5 | Robert Young Pelton | ConflictedMessage Heard | — | Qala-i-JangiRobert Young Pelton+5 | — | 36m 09s | ||
| 6/30/26 | neoliberalismpopulism+4 | Quinn Slobodian | Boston UniversityHayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right | — | neoliberalismpopulism+5 | — | 1h 03m 32s | ||
| 6/25/26 | AI Arms RaceMiddle East+4 | — | HUMAINIran+7 | — | AIMiddle East+5 | — | 56m 53s | ||
| 6/23/26 | Iranian Revolutionauthoritarianism+4 | Yeganeh Torbati | New York TimesStolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran | IranIranian | Iranrevolution+5 | — | 1h 09m 37s | ||
| 6/18/26 | video gamespolitics+5 | George Osborn | Saudi ArabiaRussia+4 | — | video gamespolitics+5 | — | 1h 38m 33s | ||
| 6/11/26 | Israel's security doctrinepolitical journey+5 | Elizabeth Tsurkov | Message HeardHamas+4 | IsraelGaza+2 | Israelwar+6 | — | 1h 19m 17s | ||
| 6/9/26 | Middle East diplomacyUS foreign policy+4 | Aimen | SwitzerlandUAE+8 | Middle EastLebanon | TrumpIran diplomacy+8 | — | 1h 06m 20s | ||
| 6/4/26 | West Bank conflictsettler violence+5 | Hamza Abu Howidy | HamasOslo+1 | GazaGermany+3 | West BankHamas+6 | — | 1h 05m 38s | ||
| 6/2/26 | journalismorigin story+3 | Jake Warren | Message HeardVice Media | — | ConflictedJake Warren+5 | — | 1h 03m 12s | ||
| 5/28/26 | democracyWestern defeatism+4 | Sir Jeremy Hunt | Conservative governmentNATO+1 | BritainIran+2 | democracyforeign office+4 | — | 1h 11m 59s | ||
| 5/21/26 | Madman TheoryU.S. Grand Strategy+4 | James D. Boys | Message HeardU.S. Grand Strategy and the Madman Theory: From Nixon to Trump | North KoreaIran+1 | Madman TheoryDonald Trump+5 | — | 1h 13m 41s | ||
| 5/20/26 | Middle EastOPEC+5 | Aimen | OPECMar-a-Lago+3 | UAEQatar+1 | UAEOPEC withdrawal+5 | — | 1h 09m 10s | ||
| 5/14/26 | Jewish-Muslim relationshistory+5 | Marc David Baer | London School of EconomicsChildren of Abraham: The Story of Jewish-Muslim Relations | Golders Green, North LondonKhazar Kingdom+2 | Jewish-Muslim historyutopia+5 | — | 1h 01m 48s | ||
| 5/12/26 | Mali crisiscounterterrorism+4 | Wassim Nasr | FranceJNIM+1 | Mali | MaliWassim Nasr+6 | — | 59m 22s | ||
| 5/7/26 | liberal democracyglobalisation+5 | Sir Vince Cable | Liberal DemocratsEclipsing the West | UKKenya+3 | liberal democracySir Vince Cable+7 | — | 55m 51s | ||
| 5/5/26 | Iraq's political landscapeShia religious politics+5 | Elizabeth Tsurkov | Kata'ib HezbollahPrinceton University | IraqIran | Iraqmilitias+8 | — | 1h 14m 15s | ||
| 5/1/26 | CIA historyintelligence gathering+5 | Tim Weiner | CIAReagan+2 | — | CIAintelligence+6 | — | 1h 12m 18s | ||
| 4/28/26 | Iran WarTrump+3 | Aimen | ConflictedMessage Heard | IranIslamabad+2 | TrumpIran War+5 | — | 1h 02m 33s | ||
| 4/23/26 | Navy SEALwar+4 | Jack Carr | Targeted: BeirutThe Fourth Option+5 | IraqAfghanistan+3 | Targeted: BeirutThe Fourth Option+2 | — | 1h 05m 19s | ||
| 4/21/26 | Iranpolitics+3 | — | the Conflicted CommunityConflicted is | Iranthe Islamic Republic+1 | Mohammad-Bagher GhalibafSpeaker of the Iranian Parliament+1 | — | 55m 14s | ||
| 4/16/26 | modern terrorismorigins of terrorism+3 | Jason Burke | The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970sthis Conflicted Conversation+2 | — | Palestinian militant groupstheatrical violence+3 | — | 1h 17m 53s | ||
| 4/14/26 | Iran Warblockade+1 | — | the Conflicted CommunityConflicted is | AmericaIran+2 | peace talksIslamabad+1 | — | 54m 26s | ||
| 4/10/26 | IranUnited States+8 | — | GCCthe Conflicted Community+1 | the United StatesIran+9 | ceasefiregeopolitics+2 | — | 1h 22m 38s | ||
| 4/7/26 | money launderingIranian oil money+6 | Oliver Bullough | Everybody Loves Our DollarsWhite House+4 | LondonMiami+1 | financial crimeelite networks+3 | — | 59m 55s | ||
| 4/2/26 | Syrian revolutionManbij+6 | Anand Gopal | Days of Love and RageISIS+2 | SyriaManbij | freedomcrisis of faith+4 | — | 1h 06m 39s | ||
| 3/31/26 | Iran Warsleeper cells+3 | Aimen | IRGCAWACS+2 | IranU.S.+5 | IRGCBandar Abbas+5 | — | 1h 17m 26s | ||
| 3/27/26 | LebanonHezbollah+4 | — | Hezbollahthe Conflicted Community+1 | LebanonU.S.+3 | Trumpregime destruction+3 | — | 1h 17m 35s | ||
| 3/24/26 | Yemeni tribalismHouthi war policy+8 | Nadwa Al-Dawsari | IRGCAl Qaeda+2 | IranYemen+3 | IranHouthi+3 | — | 1h 23m 58s | ||
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Peaked at #17 in AE, currently #17 in AE.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AE | — | #17 | #17 | — |
| SA | — | #28 | #28 | — |
| India | — | #30 | #30 | — |
| NG | — | #48 | #48 | — |
| MY | — | #50 | #50 | — |
| CH | — | #64 | #64 | — |
| Ireland | — | #67 | #67 | — |
| SG | — | #69 | #69 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #72 | #72 | — |
| Norway | — | #73 | #73 | — |
| GR | — | #86 | #86 | — |
| TH | — | #86 | #86 | — |
| IS | — | #89 | #89 | — |
| RO | — | #94 | #94 | — |
| Sweden | — | #100 | #100 | — |
| Australia | — | #101 | #101 | — |
| CZ | — | #106 | #106 | — |
| Finland | — | #127 | #127 | — |
| PT | — | #131 | #131 | — |
| CL | — | #131 | #131 | — |
Chart Positions
34 placements across 34 markets.
Chart Positions
34 placements across 34 markets.