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A critical, collaborative, and independent monthly Audio Journal combining analysis, reporting, and satire, comprised mainly of hard-hitting interviews/conversations, on-the-scene reports, reviews, informed commentary, and readings on the Middle East and beyond.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Status/ connects Middle Eastern politics to the institutional, environmental and human consequences that persist after the headline has moved on.
Status/ follows political power through its consequences for people living under war, occupation and authoritarian rule. Interview-led conversations connect the invasion of Iraq to sectarian governance and damaged public systems, examine the political coalition behind Recep…
A veterans' benefits story turns toward Iraqi exposure just when you think the question is settled.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A hard-edged account of the Iraq invasion, its long aftermath, and the arguments that helped justify it.
The episode treats the Iraq war as a violent undertaking whose effects still hang over Iraqi life. It keeps the focus on death, destruction, sectarian tension, civil war, and the displacement that uprooted millions, while also tracing how intellectual defenses in liberal circles…
A sober look at how nationalism, identity politics, and industrial symbolism helped explain Erdogan's third-term win.
Turkey's election comes through here less like a neat verdict than a hard-won hold on power. Shahram Aghamir and UC Berkeley sociologist Johan Tual track Erdogan's third term through the parliamentary shift to the right, the battered economy, the earthquake response, and the…
Burn pits become a longer story about war, contamination, and who the law still leaves out.
This episode follows the PACT Act and the question it leaves behind: what happens when U.S. veterans get recognition for burn-pit exposure, while Iraqis stay outside the frame?
A sober account of eviction politics, settler-backed land control, and the continuing structure of Palestinian dispossession.
Amani Khalifa treats the Sheikh Jarrah ruling as one piece of a wider pattern, linking Jerusalem, al-Naqab, and Palestinian land confiscation into a single political map.
Jewish thought under present pressure.
Jerusalem-based strategy for a volatile region.
Israel news with biblical voltage.
Jewish public affairs with context and consequence.
Israelis argue Zionism live, and callers get a say.
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa marks the twentieth anniversary of the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq with a conversation about its human and political toll.
Turkey's election result is framed as a test of political endurance.
Malihe Razazan opens with the PACT Act and the veterans it now covers.
Pacifica Radio opens with the March 1 ruling on four Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah.