Connections 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. 

Guest:

Amal Saad is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University. She specialises in Hizbullah and its relations with the Resistance Axis.  She has authored several works on Hizbullah including the book Hizbullah: Politics and Religion, Pluto Press (2002). She is currently writing a book on Hizbullah's regional power Hizbullah and the Resistance Axis: From National Resistance to Regional Power, London: Palgrave-Macmillan, expected submission, summer 2024.

Host:

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. Mouin Rabbani is also a Non-resident Fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies.

 

Connections Podcast Episode 84