Connections: Recent Episodes
Mouin Rabbani
Connections Podcast offers timely and informative interviews on current events and broader policy questions, as well as themes relevant to knowledge production. It combines journalism, analysis, and scholarship. Connections will focus primarily but not exclusively on the Middle East. Mouin Rabbani has published and commented widely on Palestinian affairs, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the contemporary Middle East. He was previously Senior Analyst Middle East and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group, and head of political affairs with the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria. He is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine.
On 12 May 2021, Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani spoke with Norman Finkelstein about Israeli apartheid. This episode of Connections Podcast features a discussion of the recent Human Rights Watch report A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution.
On 11 April 2021, Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani spoke with Mick Dumper and Maha Samman about the politics of holy cities. This episode of Connections Podcast examines the interaction between religion, political power, and conflict through the prism of such contested cities.
On 17 March 2021, Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani spoke with Noam Chomsky about US foreign policy in the Middle East under Biden. This inaugural episode of Connections Podcast examines the Biden administration’s Middle East policies, and explores elements of continuity and change in US policy towards the region after the Trump years.