AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #1 A good year for MbS

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1. The Arab Digest Podcast Top Ten Countdown: number 10
   

   This podcast conversation aired 14 May 2021 as violence flared in the wake of Israeli security forces actions at Al Aqsa mosque and the attempted eviction of Palestinians from their homes in the East Jerusalem quarter of Sheikh Jarrah.  Jordan's Prince Hassan has long advocated on behalf of interfaith and humanitarian issues with particular stress on the human dimension of conflicts....

2. The Arab Digest Podcast Top Ten Countdown: number 9
   

   Coming in at number nine in our all-time Arab Digest top ten is Annelle Sheline’s podcast The Weaponisation of Moderate Islam, first broadcast 30 July 2021. Annelle is a Research Fellow in the Middle East program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and an expert on religious and political authority in the Middle East and North Africa....

3. Iraq’s powerbrokers ahead of the consequential parliamentary elections in November
   

   Summary: Iraq faces severe socioeconomic challenges against a backdrop of increasing oil wealth fueling inequality and corruption. As the country prepares for parliamentary elections in November, the contest for power within and between its Shia majority, Sunni minority, and Kurdish components is highly unpredictable, with significant implications for Iraq's future stability and regional role....

4. The Sick Man of the Middle East
   

   Summary: a summer energy crisis with rolling power cuts, the continuing Gaza war and an ever-deepening reliance on costly foreign borrowing further underline the multiple vulnerabilities of the Egyptian economy....