With an exceptional line up of expert guests, our popular weekly Arab Digest podcasts offer insightful conversation with editor William Law on the hot topics of the week. Available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Soundcloud and all quality podcast platforms.
The editor’s choice for 2025 is our 26 February podcast ‘A small town in Lebanon’ with George Kanaan. His book Beyond Lebanon’s Peaks: An Odyssey is a fascinating memoir of a businessman and banker who though he has travelled the world in a storied career has never left behind Suq el-Gharb and his Levantine roots. In a wide ranging conversation
Arab Digest editor William Law welcomes Tarek Megerisi and Annelle Sheline to this week’s podcast. Their conversation reflects on the big stories of the year just passed – those that made the headlines and those that didn’t – and looks ahead at what 2026 will bring to a region beset by terrible wars and facing great uncertainty in a world
William Law’s guest this week on the Arab Digest podcast is the European Council on Foreign Relations’ Kelly Petillo. Their conversation focusses on three countries – Syria, Sudan and Palestine – and the challenges and obstacles they face both external and internal in managing the millions who have been displaced by years of wars. Petillo argues that Europe must step
On 8 December last year the Syrian capital Damascus fell to rebel forces. Arab Digest editor William Law has invited Syrian analyst and writer Malik al-Abdeh on to this week’s podcast to discuss how the country is faring under the leadership of its president Ahmed al-Sharaa and how outside forces remain significant players in shaping the direction Syria will take
Arab Digest editor William Law’s guest this week is Jon Hoffman from the Washington libertarian think tank the Cato Institute. Their conversation focuses on the growing rift in American right wing circles about ongoing US support for Israel. Jon Hoffman also reflects on his recent visit to Israel and the Occupied West Bank and he delivers a simple message: America
In 1986 Soraya Antonius published a devastatingly powerful novel about the brutality of the British Mandate in Palestine. The book quickly slipped into obscurity. But now 8 years after Antonius’ death it has been rescued from oblivion and republished. William Law’s guest this week is the writer Selma Dabbagh who authored the introduction to a new edition of The Lord.
William Law’s guest this week is Caroline Rose, an expert in tracking the production and distribution of Captagon. The fall of the Assad regime and its Captagon empire has opened up new hubs for the drug. One of those is Sudan. In a country trapped in a vicious civil war there is growing evidence that one side in the conflict,
The arrest of the journalist and Arab Digest contributor Sami Hamdi in San Francisco is an attempt to silence criticism of Israel’s genocidal war against Palestine and the Palestinians. William Law’s guest this week is Hussam Ayloush the head of CAIR-LA. CAIR is the organisation that had invited our contributor to the US to speak for the Palestinian cause.
Arab Digest editor William Law’s guest this week is the Sudanese analyst Kholood Khair. With the RSF conducting a massacre in the city of El Fasher in Darfur questions need to be asked and answered about the role the United Arab Emirates is playing in supplying weapons to the RSF. And Western governments including the UK need to bring pressure
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