The second episode for our Conflicted Community is here!  This bonus episode is the final one going out to all of... more

Welcome to the first episode for our Conflicted Community!  We’ll be coming to you every two weeks with interactive episodes for... more

The Conflicted Community is now live!  Want to hear bonus episodes of Conflicted and chat with fellow Dear Listeners? Now you... more

On Friday, January 12th, the Houthis added their muscle to the spreading conflict in the Middle East. By attacking commercial... more

The state of Yemen in 2023 is precarious. After the Arab Spring revolution descended into civil war, the Houthis have... more

The Arab Spring of 2011 may have brought with it hope for a new dawn in Yemen, one of democracy... more

2011 was a pivotal year for Yemen, and indeed the entire Middle East. After years of wars against the insurgent... more

Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president of Yemen from 1990 - 2012, described the process of governing Yemen as akin to... more

Ask anyone from the Middle East about Yemen, that country on the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula, and they’ll... more

In the last episode of Conflicted, we saw Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia terror group, grow in power in the midst... more

Some four decades ago, out of the chaos of the Lebanese civil war, a Shia militant group was born who... more

Emergency Episode: On Saturday October 7th 2023, Hamas terrorists broke through the border of the Gaza Strip and carried out a... more

It’s always difficult to know exactly what is going on in Iran - that isolated, Shia theocracy that dominates so... more

President Erdogan’s time in power has been a fascinating period for Turkey - at once nodding to the liberal West,... more

Over the past couple of episodes we explained the inner workings of the Muslim Brotherhood - that mysterious organisation based... more

In last week’s discussion of the Muslim Brotherhood, we told you how this clandestine group are structured - headed in... more

After finishing our extensive exploration into some of the most colourful and fascinating characters in Islamic History - figures who... more

If the start of Sayyid Qutb’s life was defined by the evolution of his thought, the second part was defined... more

When it comes to the modern era, no Islamic intellectual has influenced modern Salafi Jihadism more than Sayyid Qutb. This... more

When Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab gained the patronage of Muhammad Ibn Saud, it was a fusing of ideology with power... more