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The hosts of ROPESCAST Ksenia Svetlova and Ibrahim Abu-Ahmad and invite you to join the only podcast in the Middle East that discusses peacebuilding, the regional vision and the cooperation between the countries in the Middle East, as well as politics, economics, culture and…
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New Alliances, Old Rivals: Egypt and Israel in a Changing Region (opens the original)
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What happens to one of Israel’s most important regional relationships when the Middle East is being reshaped by war, new alliances and shifting interests? In this episode of ROPESCAST, Ksenia Svetlova speaks with Amira Oron, former Israeli Ambassador to Egypt, a senior diplomat with deep expertise in the Arab world. They discuss the increasingly tense Israeli-Egyptian relationship, Egypt’s role in a rapidly changing Middle East, and how new regional alliances are affecting Cairo and Jerusalem. T
Getting Iran Right with Danny Citrinowicz (opens the original)
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Weeks before the war broke out, Danny Citrinowicz was already warning that Israel's read on Iran was heading somewhere dangerous. In this episode of ROPESCAST, he walks through what he saw coming — and why. We cover the full landscape of options on the table for Iran, the US, Israel, and the wider region, and what each side actually stood to gain or lose from escalation. Citrinowicz also critically asseses the almost unbelievable inside story of how Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — a figure many assumed wa
Reading the Middle East: A Conversation with Elizabeth Tsurkov (opens the original)
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Elizabeth Tsurkov has spent years doing what most researchers only read about — traveling into conflict zones, sitting with militia commanders, and listening to the people living inside the stories we think we understand. A doctoral candidate at Princeton and fellow at both the Middle East Policy Council in Washington and the Forum for Regional Thinking in Jerusalem, she is one of the sharpest independent voices on the Arab world today. In 2023, while conducting field research in Iraq, she was a
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