Tahrir Podcast is the first political podcast to broadcast from Cairo, offering conversations on Middle Eastern and North African politics and history, along with independent analysis, reporting, and commentary on Egyptian politics. Top 5% podcasts globally. Best 60 Middle East podcasts.
.أول بودكاست سياسي يُبث من القاهرة. لقائات مع أكاديميين وصحفيين ونشطاء وسياسيين وأفراد بارزين حول سياسات وتاريخ الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيامن أكثر البودكاست إستماعًا في الشرق الأوسط ومن ضمن أعلي ٥٪ عالميًا.
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EP 58 - NAZA, Gaza and Israel's October Knesset Elections w/Mairav Zonszein & Dahlia Scheindlin
In episode 58 of Tahrir Podcast, Mairav Zonszein and Dahlia Scheindlin tuned in to discuss and dissect the upcoming Israeli Knesset elections, future scenarios, and what polling suggests. We discussed the banning of Arab parties from the election, the rise of the Israeli right, and Gadi Eisenkot's bid to lead the new government, the NAZA documentary, and West Bank settler violence.
Episode on YouTube: youtu.be/kVPv8PMvUoo (https://youtu.be/kVPv8PMvUoo)
Mairav Zonszein is an Israel-Palestine senior analyst at the International Crisis Group. She is also a contributing Opinion writer to the New York Times and has covered Israeli politics and U.S. foreign policy for over a decade.
Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin is a public opinion expert and strategic consultant with over 25 years of experience. She is among the founders of +972 Magazine, an award-winning independent magazine run by Palestinian and Israeli journalists. Dr. Dahlia is currently a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy and a senior analyst at Haaretz Newspaper. Her 2023 book, The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel, was listed among the Best Books of 2024 by Foreign Affairs.
2 Jul 2026
EP 57 - The Blood Between Us: Syria After the Fall of Assad w/Robin Yassin-Kassab
In episode 57 of Tahrir Podcast, Robin Yassin-Kassab joined to discuss his new book, "The Blood Between Us: Syria After the Fall of Assad" (Saqi Books, 2026).This book offers a first-hand account of Syria's abrupt transformation after the collapse of the brutal Assad regime, tracing how decades of protest, repression and resistance culminated in the swift fall of a sixty-year dictatorship. Drawing on reporting and interviews gathered across the country, Robin Yassin-Kassab follows the Syrians living through this fragile new chapter, weighing the freedoms unlocked by the regime's end against the unresolved violence, competing powers and open questions of justice that will determine whether Syria rebuilds or slides back into conflict.Robin Yassin-Kassab is a leading British Syrian writer and journalist. He is a prominent voice on the Syrian Revolution and war, with by-lines in The Guardian, Foreign Policy and Newsweek, and regular appearances on the BBC, Channel 4 and Al Jazeera. He is a contributing editor to the quarterly journal Critical Muslim, and the author, with Leila al-Shami, of the critically acclaimed "Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War" (shortlisted for the Folio Prize), as well as the novel "The Road from Damascus". Yassin-Kassab is currently the English editor of the Prisons Museum, an NGO that documents and investigates detention facilities run by both ISIS and the Assad regime.Link to book: https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/the-blood-between-us/ (https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/the-blood-between-us/)Episode on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=RBl1godKL5U (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBl1godKL5U)Streaming everywhere! https://linktr.ee/TahrirPodcastReach out! TahrirPodcast@gmail.comSupport us on Patreon for as low as $2 per month ($20 per year)!https://www.patreon.com/TahrirPodcast
29 May 2026
EP 56 - Former Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed on Governance, the Arab Spring, and Lessons Learned
In episode 56 of Tahrir Podcast, Abdalla Nasef sits down in-person at Harvard University with former Tunisian Prime Minister Dr. Youssef Chahed for a conversation about Dr. Chahed's rise within Tunisian politics as the youngest head of government in Tunisia's history, and the longest serving since 2011. The conversation touched on day-to-day governance, counter-terrorism, Tunisian democracy (and its erosion), managing fiscal stress, and advice about building democracy in the Arab World/Middle East and North Africa region.
Dr. Youssef Chahed is a Tunisian politician who served as the 14th Prime Minister of Tunisia—being the youngest head of government in Tunisia’s history and the longest serving since the country’s democratic transition in 2011. He’s currently a senior fellow with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative.
Following Tunisia’s democratic backsliding in 2021 after a vibrant democratic decade in which it was the only success story out of the Arab Spring with Dr. Chahed being Prime Minister from 2016 to 2020, he found himself in elected president-turned-autocrat Kais Saed’s crossfires, with many cases and charges against him.
Episode on YouTube:https://youtu.be/Bqp9hRzIjKs (https://youtu.be/Bqp9hRzIjKs)
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Vali Nasr
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