Tag: Gulf states

This episode's guest is Dr. Moran Zaga, a geographer, Middle East scholar, and expert on the Gulf states from the University of Haifa. The conversation covers the history of the Strait of Hormuz, its geopolitical importance through the ages, and the powers that have shaped the region to this day.

This episode's guest is Mor Shapira, a lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University and a researcher at the MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute). The conversation deals with how the agreement between the United States and Iran is covered and received in the Arab world, and with the new strategies the region's countries are adopting in its wake.

The episode features Dr. Ariel Admoni, a Qatar expert and a researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security. The conversation deals with what Dr. Admoni calls the "failure of the Gulf concept." According to him, the recent war revealed that there is no unified Gulf bloc, and that the foreign and security policy of each country, especially Qatar, was tested in a way that undermined basic assumptions about the region's stability.

In this episode, recorded as the military campaign against Iran was unfolding, the guest is Eran Efrat, an expert in energy economics. The conversation revolves around the immediate economic consequences of the conflict, primarily the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and examines the dramatic changes that could occur in the global economy the day after the fall of the ayatollahs' regime.

In this episode, Dr. Yaron Friedman is a guest, discussing Saudi Arabia's surprising position on the protests in Iran. According to him, contrary to expectations, it seems the Saudis are working to prevent the fall of the ayatollahs' regime for several strategic, economic, and ideological reasons.

This episode's guest is Mor Shapira, a lecturer in Arabic at Bar-Ilan University and a researcher at the MEMRI institute. Shapira analyzes how the media and public in the Arab world and Iran reacted to the Israeli attack on Iran, the collapse of the Iranian deterrence myth, and the various narratives that developed following the events.