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🚨Season 5 announcement!🚨
Dear listeners, we are delighted to let you know that
@ConflictedThom
and
@AimenDean
are back for Season 5, which is launching Wednesday July 17th!
This season will be a minimum of 20 episodes and be released every 2 weeks, in the intervening week is
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🚨🚨🚨 EMERGENCY EPISODE ALERT🚨🚨🚨
Dear Listeners,
With the tragic events unfolding in Palestine & Israel
Conflicted was born to explain moments like these and so we interrupt our usual programming to bring you an emergency episode (albeit it may land with you slightly
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بعد اغتيال العالم النووي الإيراني "محسن فخري زاده"، ظهرت روايات متضاربة حول كيفية حدوث ذلك.
يشرح أيمن وتوماس، في أحدث حلقة لنا، لماذا تريد إيران الدفع برواية مختلفة عن ما حصل
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🧵 Yemen Thread!
With everything unfolding in Yemen with attacks against ships in the Red Sea currently and retaliatory strikes from the UK/US against the Houthis.
Conflicted is the show to deep dive and understand all things Yemen, we aim to make the complex, accessible.
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🚨WE ARE BACK!🚨
In S3, we are bringing you even more:
✔️ critical information
✔️ historical nuance
✔️ & unique perspectives that you won't hear anywhere else
🎧 Join us on Jan 19th for our longest season yet as we journey to the Middle East and beyond!
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🚨 Dear listeners, Conflicted is back and it's bigger than ever before...
@ConflictedThom
and
@AimenDean
will be back every Wednesday from June 28th ⏰
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🎉 Conflicted is the number 1 podcast globally in the ‘Religion & Spirituality’ category right now 🥳
Thank you Dear Listeners, you are the best.😎
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Thanks to all our Dear Listeners, old and new alike😊
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🚨 Emergency Conflicted Ep Is Here🚨
Hamas Attacks Israel
On Saturday October 7th 2023, Hamas terrorists broke through the border of the Gaza Strip and carried out a brutal assault on Southern Israel. As of publication, the death toll stands at some 1,200 Israelis, 900 citizens
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🚨 New Conflicted... sort of!
Yesterday
@AimenDean
(supported by
@ConflictedThom
) was invited to the UK Parliament to give testimony to the 'Foreign Affairs Committee' chaired by
@aliciakearns
on all things terrorism and counter terrorism.
A whole host of topics were covered,
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Reunited, and it feels so good!
We have finally been able to meet up IRL for the first time since the pandemic.
Thank you again for being patient waiting for new episodes - we've started working on season 3 and we'll let you know more soon ✨
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Hello dear listeners!
We promise we have been busy preparing for S3 to be bigger and better than ever
However one thing we simply couldn't ignore was everything going on in Afghanistan
Make sure you keep your eyes peeled on your podcast feed.... bonus episode dropping tomorrow
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That's a wrap on Season 2 —thanks for everyone who listened, it's been a blast 🤩
More from us soon, watch this space 👀
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Thank you to
@ApplePodcasts
for featuring our emergency episode ‘What Were You Thinking Hamas?’ On the home page.
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2021 marks twenty years since 9/11 and the start of the war in Afghanistan.
We are back for a deep dive into Afghanistan, Aimen's first hand experiences with the Taliban and an exploration of why the country has been in disarray for decades now.
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"ايران لديها تلك العادة في تطوير التقنية الحربية ونقلها الى كيانات غير الدول"
توماس و
@AimenDean
وفي حلقة استثنائية يُناقشون موضوع إيران وطموحها في تطوير قنبلتها النووية
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Wow, we have reached over a million downloads 😱🎉
This is such an exciting milestone — a massive thank you to everyone who has listened to any one of our episodes!
We have more coming very soon, so watch this space 👀
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🧵Dear Listeners, the Conflicted community sparks incredible discussions, conversations and respectful debate.
With the conflict currently unfolding in Palestine & Israel, we wanted to share some of the resources that have been recommended and shared. In particular with
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🚨Well this seems a prescient time to announce our first episode on Yemen drops tomorrow!
'Yemen - In The Shadow Of The Imam'
Join
@ConflictedThom
,
@AimenDean
and for the first time ever - a very special guest...
BREAKING: YEMEN DECLARED THEY ARE NOW AT WAR WITH ISRAEL
The Republic of Yemen is the first country officially to announce its entry into the “Battle of the Flood” of Al-Aqsa and launches a large number of ballistic and winged missiles and drones at a number of Israeli IOF
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Conflicted Season 5… 👀
Update coming very soon for all dear listeners!
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⌛️The countdown is on to season 5...
... 2 weeks today!
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🚨 S3 IS BACK 🚨
In Episode 1, we are taking you back to Afghanistan to flip the most common argument about the war on its head:
➡️ Everyone talks about the corrupt Afghan military... But do we ever look at the corruption inside the American military?
Listen now! 👇
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🚨New episode out!
'Hezbollah: Rise Of The Islamist Vanguard'
Some four decades ago, out of the chaos of the Lebanese civil war, a Shia militant group was born who would grow into one of the most dominant and malign forces in Lebanese politics. A proxy for Iran, staunchly
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Dear listeners, we have something amazing to share with you.
It may be unofficial, but it certainly is now authorised!
This is an incredible resource put together by
@aerugix
, an entire glossary for all 67 episodes of Conflicted to date.
I spent a weekend mapping out the concepts I picked up from the first season of
@MHconflicted
. I thought I might share it, in case anyone else is interested. A glossary of about 270 terms built through annotating episode transcripts from the first season.
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BREAKING NEWS, dear listeners:
We've been shortlisted in the best co-hosts category at this year's
@lovieawards
!!!
@ConflictedThom
🤝
@AimenDean
= truly the best duo in podcasting
🫂 thank you to all of you for making the show happen.
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Hello Dear Listeners, what does everyone make of the first 2 eps of Season 4?
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🚨New Conflicted Ep🚨
Aimen Goes To Parliament
@ConflictedThom
introduces a whole hour of extra content, as
@AimenDean
gives evidence to the Foreign Affair Committee in the UK Parliament.
Thank you dear listeners for ensuring that this small independent show has reached the
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🚨 New Conflicted Ep is here!
Yemen: In The Shadow Of The Imam
Yemen, where as of yesterday the Houthis declared war on Israel. It’s a place steeped in ancient history and paints a vivid picture in the imagination. But it’s also a place currently riven by conflict, engulfed in
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Amidst all the excitement of people sharing their
#Spotifywrapped
listening, we wanted to take a moment to mark the last year for our podcast Conflicted, which breaks down the complexities of history, religion and politics in the Middle East, and puts them in a global context.
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Dear listeners... keep your eyes peeled for announcements in the near future 👀
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Bonus Conflicted Q&A Episode - Airstrikes on Yemen and the Future of the Middle East. ()
On Friday, January 12th, the Houthis added their muscle to the spreading conflict in the Middle East. By attacking commercial shipping lanes in the Red Sea, they have
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Just 4 more sleeps until S3 of CONFLICTED ✨
We can't wait.
🚨 Subscribe now on all of your favourite podcast providers to make sure you don't miss an episode!
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🚨 New episode is here, with
@ConflictedThom
,
@AimenDean
and once again
@BShtwtr
'Yemen: Dancing On The Heads Of Snakes'
In this second episode of our five part series on the history of Yemen, we find out if Saleh was nimble enough to hold onto power as the vipers beneath him
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Dear Listeners!
On the back of our 5 part series on the history of Yemen we’ve been following recent developments closely and think it’s high time for an emergency Q&A episode of Conflicted, so Thomas and Aimen can answer all your questions.
Reply to this thread with all your
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🚨 New Conflicted Alert 🚨
A return to bread and butter for
@ConflictedThom
and
@AimenDean
: jihadi terrorism. The attacks on a Moscow concert hall in March 2024, carried out by ISIS Khorasan Province, have revealed the return of a kind of terror not witnessed for a few years.
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Did you just... get us to 100 likes?!🤯
Thank you so much for all of your support, we CANNOT WAIT to share our new episodes with you! 🎧
🚨WE ARE BACK!🚨
In S3, we are bringing you even more:
✔️ critical information
✔️ historical nuance
✔️ & unique perspectives that you won't hear anywhere else
🎧 Join us on Jan 19th for our longest season yet as we journey to the Middle East and beyond!
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👋 Happy New Year 'Conflicted' fans!
We have some good news coming your way in 2022... 🥳
So don't forget to follow our FB Conflicted Discussion Group to get it there first:
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🚨Dear Listeners, another episode is with us!
Hezbollah: Israel's Menace Or Lebanon's Defender?
In this second part of our two episode exploration of Hezbollah, we look at the destabilising effect the group have had on the politics of Lebanon and the security of their southern
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✨ Another milestone for CONFLICTED ✨
Welcome to all the new CONFLICTED fans, we can't wait to share a very relevant episode with you tomorrow 👀
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We're on
@spectator
's list of best geopolitical podcasts to listen to during lockdown 💯
Some really great shows on that list, including Untold Killing, another podcast made by our producers
@messageheard
. Make sure to check it out!
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To round out the year, we’re back with a special bonus episode to discuss the regional context of Iran’s nuclear program following the assassination of the nation's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
Out now:
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🚨New Episode for all🚨
Karim Sadjadpour Interview Pt. 1 – Iran’s Global Strategy
Dear listeners, this week
@ConflictedThom
and
@AimenDean
are joined by special guest and new friend of the show
@ksadjadpour
.
Iran is rarely out of the news at the moment: from the death of
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🚨 Episode 2 of Season 3 is officially here! 🚨
It raises the all-important question: what is the “Clash of Civilizations?”
@AimenDean
and
@ConflictedThom
travel back to the Cold War to show how conflicts cast widespread reverberations, across both space — and time.
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🧵Books
Dear listeners, we're sharing relevant & recommended books that come directly from the show or from the Conflicted Community that we hope may be of interest
If you wan't to participate in the Discord chat with like minded Conflicted fans, join!
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Dearest Listeners, tomorrow brings another
#ConflictedCommunity
episode release!
@ConflictedThom
and
@AimenDean
will cover how
on May 19th, Iran President Ebrahim Raisi was killed when the helicopter carrying him, as well as Iran’s foreign minister and other officials, crashed
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Now that the secret about S3 is out, we are also so excited to announce a new official friend of the show...
✨
@JordanHarbinger
✨
Jordan is our marquee sponsor and it is truly a delight to work with incredible talent to spread word about CONFLICTED🙏
Thank you!🎙️
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🚨 EP 15 IS OUT NOW 🚨
What is OPEC?
The
O 👉 Organization of the
P 👉 Petroleum
E 👉 Exporting
C 👉 Countries
It is a murky story... make sure to listen to learn all about it 👀
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This is a cool tool from
@Podnews
!
Your podcast vs a show on Netflix
Using Netflix released data to contextualise success, thanks once again to all our dear listeners in 2023 😎
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The recording of final S3 episode is now done 😭
Just recorded the final episode of season 3 of
@MHconflicted
with my brother from another mother
@ConflictedThom
.. The debate was so intense l’m sweating 😅
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🚨Dear Listeners,
@ConflictedThom
and
@AimenDean
are back!
Welcome to the first episode for our Conflicted Community!
We’ll be coming to you every two weeks with interactive episodes for our subscribers. We’re giving the first couple of episodes out for all of our dear
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Stay connected and up to date with the show you love by joining the Conflicted Community! 🤝
Join our dedicated Conflicted Discord server to connect with fellow listeners; engage in QnA's with our hosts, as well exclusive bonus content and much more!
Link below for the
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Ahead of a new season of Conflicted releasing this year, join our Discord community to get exclusive bonus content!
Join fellow Conflicted fans & enjoy exclusive access to:
- Bonus Content
- Q&A Episodes
- Topic Discussion & Engagement
+ much more!
Try before you buy...?
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🚨 New Conflicted ep is here!
We join
@ConflictedThom
,
@AimenDean
and once again special guest
@BShtwtr
who wasn’t just there during the Arab Spring, he played a really significant part in leading it!
Yemen: The Arab Spring Revolution
2011 was a pivotal year for Yemen, and
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Where have all the terrorists gone?
Find out from
@ConflictedThom
and
@AimenDean
in Ep 1 of Conflicted S4 right now 🤓
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Just one more week until the next episode of CONFLICTED!
If you want your question to be featured in the bonus part of the show, this is your chance to send them to us 🙌
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Dear listeners,
@ConflictedThom
,
@AimenDean
and the entire Conflicted team are very excited that the
#ConflictedCommunity
is going from strength to strength so quickly!
We have bonus episodes in the works for those who join and participate, including some with incredible special
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🚨New Conflicted Ep!
For the final time this season, join
@ConflictedThom
,
@AimenDean
and now legendary guest
@BShtwtr
.
The state of Yemen in 2023 is precarious. After the Arab Spring revolution descended into civil war, the Houthis have cemented their power over large swathes
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🕌 In S3, we deep dive into the Middle East's history of conflict to answer the question:
Is a clash of civilizations to blame for the region's unrest? 🤔
Find the trailer for S3 on
@ApplePodcasts
,
@spotifypodcasts
and wherever you get your podcasts today 🎧
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5,000 dear followers on
@X
(Twitter)!
Huge thanks to everyone for listening, supporting
@ConflictedThom
,
@AimenDean
and the
@messageheard
team.
We love making Conflicted and have exciting news re Season 5 for you, very soon…
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'Al-Qaida’s road to 9/11 – and why it was never finally defeated'
You can hear
@AimenDean
speaking to
@burke_jason
on the latest episode of
#TodayInFocus
from The
@guardian
.
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Dear Listeners,
This Wednesday sees the next bonus episode released for our
#ConflictedCommunity
It's a cracker, don't miss out. Sign up below to get access to both the bonus episodes ,but also become a part of our ever growing Discord chat community
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Dear Listeners Conflicted S4 is here🎉
First episode out everywhere now!
@ConflictedThom
and
@AimenDean
attempt to get to the bottom of the current state of play with Islamic terrorism, asking: where have all the terrorists gone?
Link to listen below
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Who has two amazing hosts (
@ConflictedThom
and
@AimenDean
) AND has a new ep coming out tomorrow 👀
👉 THIS POD 👈
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🚨 New Ep of Conflicted is here!
Yemen: From Revolution To Civil War
Join
@AimenDean
,
@ConflictedThom
and once again special guest
@BShtwtr
.
The Arab Spring of 2011 may have brought with it hope for a new dawn in Yemen, one of democracy and liberal reforms outside the rule of
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🚨 EP 14 IS OUT NOW 🚨
Conflicted takes up the themes of sectarian strife and political radicalism and applies them to... Lebanon! 🇱🇧
👇 Listen to the newest episode now, wherever you get your podcasts 👇
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How Iran Works?
In this episode
@AimenDean
and Thomas move away from looking at the world of Sunni Islam to focus again on the Shia minority, who still retain a real influence over the region’s geopolitics. After getting the state of play in Persia, we’ll try to analyse how the
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On this week’s episode of Conflicted with
@ConflictedThom
and
@AimenDean
, we begin a multi episode exploration into the historical figures who function as antecedents to the modern jihadi movement, beginning with two episodes on one of its earliest examples: Ahmad Bin Hanbal.
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Over the past couple of weeks in lockdown, we’ve been cooking up something a bit different...
In today’s special episode, Aimen and Thomas sit down (remotely) to answer your questions.
Check it out:
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🚨 Important Announcement 🚨
We can officially say we are now live with the Conflicted Community and you can .
Why join the Conflicted Community?
Over the past 4 seasons Conflicted has formed a community that extends past the audio platform, facilitating
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CONFLICTED is back with another episode, and this time... we are looking at the world today with a historical lens:
🇺🇦 The war in Ukraine 🇺🇦
To what extent can Soviet history, and indeed the earlier history of imperial Russia, help us understand what’s going on?
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The BEST feeling is waking up on a Friday to see your podcast featured on
@ApplePodcasts
😍
Can't prove us wrong on this one.
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Who is enjoying
@ConflictedThom
and
@AimenDean
's continuing search for the ideological forebears of modern jihadism?
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It's been a week since our last release, and the reviews are flooding in...
What do you think of CONFLICTED? 👀
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Dear Listeners, you won't want to miss this!
@AimenDean
= 007?
A very special drop in your
@MHconflicted
feed today, a new show which includes the truly amazing story of our very own
@AimenDean
.
From our friends at
@WonderyMedia
, introducing - 'The Spy Who'
'These are stories you were never meant to hear. The invisible but vital work of
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Do you want to know more about why Iran is so important in our geopolitical climate?
Listen to our new episode on Iran today 👀
British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is on her way home to UK after nearly six years in detention in Iran, says MP
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“It encourages deep understanding, not just passing knowledge of what happened and when.” High praise indeed 🙌
The podcast "Conflicted" analyzes the overlooked deep backstories of well-known middle eastern events.
Hosts Thomas Small & Aimen Dean scrutinize, contextualize & challenge what we think we already know.
@MHconflicted
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🚨 EP 13 IS OUT NOW NOW 🚨
This time... we go to Constantinople!
Travel with us to the Ottoman Empire to learn how the conflicts of the past still echo in our world today. 👇
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Do you want to be featured on CONFLICTED?
We want to give you the credit that you deserve ⭐ ON THE SHOW ⭐
Keep tagging us in your most curious questions and then...
Subscribe to the exclusive Apple and Spotify feed for just 99p/month to hear your name & your answer👇
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Hello Dear Listeners!
As a special bonus episode for our Conflicted Community members, we are going to record a Q&A episode. We’ll be answering all your burning questions about the Middle East, terrorism, politics, religion, conflict - and anything else you want to hear our
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Wowee we love to see a super fan 🥰
I think the top 0.05% listeners who listened to
@MHconflicted
as much as I did are
@ConflictedThom
and possibly
@AimenDean
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We are featured on
@ApplePodcasts
' front page once again and this time...
🇺🇦 We are in the 'Ukraine: Context & Analysis' section! 🇺🇦
Listen to us explain why this war came to be and what it means for Russia 📲
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No Spoilers for this weeks episode but..
Not sure anyone is expecting a Looney Tunes special of Elmer Fudd Vs Yosemite Sam.
Listen to
@ConflictedThom
and
@AimenDean
to find out why!
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Our Conflicted community has hit new heights this year and we want to continue this growth by giving more back to you, the listeners.
Think exclusive content, ad-free listening, host Q&A’s and much more.
Introducing, the Conflicted Discord.
Register your interest here
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#OTD
in 2020 the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani took place and the world found itself teetering on the edge of a conflict...
Why not go back and remind ourselves of what
@ConflictedThom
and
@AimenDean
had to unpack, in what feels a very long time ago!
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Don't miss
@ConflictedThom
&
@AimenDean
discussing the headlines in our very first Conflicted Live Q&A!
📆 Wednesday 30th November
⏰18:00pm UK time
💻 Livestream
Tickets are out now:
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🚨Today we want to give a big shout out to Hugi (
@aerugix
)!
Hugi you are a true 'Dear Listener' and a prime example of the quality and engagement of the Conflicted Community.
If you are a fan of Conflicted you have to check out this incredibly living glossary he created for the
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Dear listener, we need your help!
We're looking for your questions about Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia for Aimen and Thomas to discuss at our LIVE Q&A on the 30th November.
Drop them in the thread below👇
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What a fantastic idea from Hugi
Want to be a part of a Conflicted listening circle?
Look below 👇
Are you interested in a listening-circle and discussion group about the backstory of the conflicts in the Middle East?
I recently started listening to
@MHconflicted
, and I am blown away by what I am hearing. Islamic scholar Thomas Small and ex-jihadi turned spy Aimen Dean go
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Our final episode of the season comes out NEXT WEEK 🤯
Who has any guesses about what the hosts will discuss?
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👀 Guess what the next episode of CONFLICTED is all about 👀
Listen soon, wherever you get your podcasts 🎧
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Dear Listeners - 'The Firebrand From Damascus (PT.2)' is here!
Learn how Ibn Taymiyyah cemented himself as the great mediaeval scholar and warrior he is now remembered as. And how he set an ideological precedent which modern Salafi jihadists continue to follow to this day.
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How are we doing, CONFLICTED fans? 😎
We are in the middle of recording our next episode, what is everyone else up to?
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🚨 Final episode of S3 is out now 🚨
The West vs. the Rest? 👇
What do
@ConflictedThom
and
@AimenDean
really think about the Clash of Civilizations?
Listen wherever you get your podcasts 📲
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