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Mar 01 2025 70 ep. 38 mins
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Explaining Sudan's civil war with Cameron Hudson

Mar 01 2025 46 mins  
CMEC Director talks to Cameron Hudson about the civil war raging in Sudan. Cameron Hudson is Senior Fellow in the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies based in Washington, DC. He has served in a number of high level roles in think tanks, NGOs and with the UN and in the U.S. government specialising in Sudan and genocide. Cameron began his government c

Saudi women's boxing star, Rasha Al-Khamis, talks to CMEC

Feb 27 2025 6 mins  
CMEC Director Charlotte Leslie talks to Saudi sports star, in the ring, on the pitch, and in management, Rasha Al Khamis about the success and popularity of women's sports in Saudi Arabia and the extraordinary cultural and societal changes that have made it possible. Rasha Al-Khamis is one of the women leading the way in Saudi sport. She served for more than five years on the boa

CON COUGHLIN ON COLLAPSE OF SYRIA'S ASSAD

Dec 12 2024 13 mins  
CMEC Director Charlotte Leslie talks about the dramatic events in Syria and the sudden collapse of the 53-year old Assad regime to author and journalist Con Coughlin, the executive defence and foreign affairs editor of the Telegraph, and author of several books, including his latest book, Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny.

DOHA FORUM 2024

Dec 10 2024 47 mins  
CMEC Director Charlotte Leslie is at the 2024 Doha Forum and discusses latest events in the Middle East & North Africa, including the lightening collapse of the Assad regime in Syria, with ex-ambassador Nicholas Hopton, Director-General of the Middle East Association, the Right Hon. Victoria Prentis, former Attorney-General, Chris Doyle, Director of the Council for Arab -British Un

What can the Middle East expect with Trump?

Nov 26 2024 31 mins  
Charlotte Leslie talks to renowned scholar and security specialist Dr H.A Hellyer FRSA FRHistS - Senior Associate Fellow in International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) for Defence and Security (UK). He is also a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. What can the Middle East & North Africa expect under what is expected to be a t

Baalbek under fire with Nayla De Freige

Nov 24 2024 26 mins  
CMEC Director Charlotte Leslie talks to celebrated Lebanese journalist and editor Nayla de Freige, who is also president of the world-renowned international annual Baalbek Festival, held among the ancient ruins of Baalbek in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, north east of #Beirut.. Nayla, CEO of L'Orient-Le Jour media group, describes the terrible impact on Lebanon and the grave threat pose

"THE COMING STORM - WHY WATER WILL WRITE THE 21ST CENTURY" WITH SIR LIAM FOX

Oct 30 2024 36 mins  
CMEC Director Charlotte Leslie talks Ex-Defence Secretary Sir Liam Fox about the growing global water crisis - the subject of Sir Liam's latest book, "The Coming Storm, Why water will write the 21st Century." The combination of an ever-increasing global population, climate change, industrialisation, urbanisation and limited natural resources means that one difficulty, above all, w

Alistair Burt on the 1st anniversary of the October 7 attacks

Oct 06 2024 36 mins  
CMEC Director Charlotte Leslie talks to The Right Hon. Alistair Burt, the highly respected former Foreign Office Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa on the first anniversary of the October 7th terror attacks by Hamas on Israel which resulted in the murder of around 1,195 Israelis, with another 251 taken hostage. The attacks in turn have led to a massive 12 month

CMEC AT CPC24 - ON TACKLING MIGRATION

Oct 01 2024 69 mins  
Conservative Shadow Foreign Secretary The Right Hon. Andrew Mitchell MP was a special panel guest at CMEC's second conference event in Birmingham for CPC24 - "Tackling migration starts in North Africa" - does it?" CMEC Director Charlotte Leslie chaired the panel discussion which also included Middle East experts Ghanem Nuseibeh, the businessman and Chairman of Muslims against Ant

CMEC AT CONSERVATIVE PARTY CONFERENCE

Oct 01 2024 82 mins  
CMEC Director Charlotte Leslie introduces a an impressive panel of Middle East experts at the Conservative Party Conference 2024 to discuss "The UK's global presence after October 7th". In the chair for the discussion is The Right Honourable Alistair Burt, the highly respected former Former Office minister for the Middle East. (@AlistairBurt UK.) The other distinguished members