On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Hendrik Kraetzschmar, Associate Professor in the Comparative Politics of the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Leeds. Hendrik holds a PhD from the LSE and works on the comparative politics of the Middle East with a particular interest in Islamism and political parties. He has been working at the Department of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Leeds University since 2007. Prior to that he worked at the American University in Cairo. He tweets at @henky74,

On this episode, Simon and Hendrik talk about the journey to working on the Middle East, learning Arabic in Cairo, political parties, Islamism, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and much more. It’s not to be missed!