How Did the US Become Israel’s Unconditional Backer? Professor David Gibbs Explains
How did the United States go from a relatively cautious early supporter of Israel to what Joe Biden once described as a country America would have to invent if it
What Is It Really Like Inside Iran During a War? Hooman Majd Tells Us
What was it actually like for ordinary Iranian families during the recent 12-day war with Israel, cut off from phone and internet contact with the outside world while missiles fell
Did Israel’s War on Iran Actually Fail? Mouin Rabbani’s Definitive Breakdown
Did Israel’s 12-day war against Iran actually achieve any of its stated objectives, or was it, by any honest measure, a strategic failure dressed up as a tactical success? On
Is Hezbollah Really Weakened? Vanessa Beeley Returns to Break Down the Resistance Axis
Is Hezbollah really as weakened as Western media coverage suggests, and what does the fall of Damascus mean for the future of the so-called Axis of Resistance? On this episode
From Physicist to Sufi Scholar: Dr Louay Fatoohi on Karamat, Iraq, and the Search for a True Teacher
How does a physicist raised in a Christian family in Baghdad end up becoming one of the leading English-language scholars of Islamic Sufism? On this episode of the Kianistan Podcast,
Islam One vs Islam Two: Dr. Hushang Amirahmadi’s Radical Theory of Iran’s Future
What if the real fight for Iran’s future is not between reformists and hardliners, but between two entirely different visions of Islam itself? On this episode of the Kianistan Podcast,
Will Russia Ever Abandon Iran? Historian Vladimir Brovkin on the New Cold War
Why does Russia refuse to abandon Iran, even under enormous Western pressure, and what does the escalating crisis in Azerbaijan reveal about Vladimir Putin’s broader strategic doctrine? On this episode
Is Europe Losing Its Sovereignty? A Retired French Colonel Explains the New World Order
Is the European Union quietly surrendering its sovereignty to an unaccountable technocratic elite, even as the world moves decisively toward multipolarity? On this episode of the Kianistan Podcast, host Tafhim
Can Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Syria Survive? Prof. David Lesch Grades the New Government
More than a year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, what grade would a leading Syria scholar give the new government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa? On this episode of the
Is the OIC Failing the Muslim World? Two Top Scholars Weigh In – Professor John Esposito
What happens when two of the world’s most respected scholars of religion and global affairs sit down together to dissect the state of the Muslim world? On this special double-guest