Off the Hookah with Phil and Cooper

Episode #130: The Price is Wrong

As the coronavirus crisis continues to grip the world, the markets have been on the shakiest...

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Episode #129: The Wizarding World of Bibi Netanyahu (feat. Ben Caspit)

Phil and Cooper record their first remote podcast due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on...

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Episode #128: Hardliners and Health Scares (feat. Ali Ahmadi)

Iran held parliamentary elections at the end of February, resulting in a serious swing to the...

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Episode #127: Turkey Playing Chicken (feat. Diego Cupolo & Mohammed al-Khatieb)

An update on Syria this week; Turkey is lashing out at a Syrian government offensive across the...

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Episode #126: The Art of No Deal (feat. Yossi Beilin & Daoud Kuttab)

So Trump released the final installment of his Israel-Palestine peace plan. But we’ve heard this...

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Episode #125: Drawing Lines (feat. Nazlan Ertan)

Protests in Iraq and Lebanon. Censorship in Egypt and Iran. Growing conservatism in Turkey. All...

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Episode #124: Muscat’s Out of the Bag (feat. Karen Young)

Oman’s leader, Sultan Qaboos, died last week after ruling the country for 50 years. Qaboos is...

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Episode #123: Off the Brink (feat. Ali Hashem)

We’re back from holiday break and you probably have a lot of questions: Who was Qasem...

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Episode #122: Peace Out 2019 (feat. Special Guests from Al-Monitor)

It’s that time of year, folks, whether you’re trying to find the cheapest apple pie in the...

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Episode #121: The Winter of Iranian Discontent (feat. Sarbas Nazari)

We’ve recently covered the protests in Lebanon and Iraq - two countries where Iran remains...

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Episode #120: Gantz Hardly Wait (feat. Ksenia Svetlova)

Back from Thanksgiving break, Phil and Cooper give a thorough rundown of everything that’s been...

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Episode #119: If You Smell What Iraq is Cooking (feat. Renad Mansour)

In light of the last episode’s updates on protests in Lebanon, Phil and Cooper talk about the...

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Episode #118: Uproot in Beirut (feat. Ghalia al-Alwani)

Massive demonstrations have broken out in Lebanon’s major cities for the past few weeks, where...

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Episode #117: Bombs Over Baghdadi (feat. Ali Hashem)

President Trump announced the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi last Sunday, so Phil and...

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Episode #116: Ceasefire & Desist (feat. Amberin Zaman)

Following up on Episode #115, Phil and Cooper discuss what’s happened in Syria since President...

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Episode #115: Seen and Not Kurd (feat. Bulent Aliriza & Jack Detsch)

This week, President Trump made a controversial decision to pull the US military out of...

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Episode #114: Double Double, Oil and Trouble (feat. Henry Rome)

Phil and Cooper play catch-up on this month’s news, including the attacks on oil infrastructure...

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Episode #113: Déjà-Yahu (feat. Akiva Eldar & Lara Friedman)

Israel held another election this week after a first round in April led to a stalemate, when...

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Episode #112: En-voyage (feat. Yousef Munayyer & Danny Zaken)

President Trump’s foreign policy circle shrunk a little more this week, with National Security...

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Episode #111: Yemen At Work (feat. Naseh Shaker, Afrah Nasser, Bruce Riedel & Bryant Harris)

Phil and Cooper do a deep dive into the ongoing conflict in Yemen, which has become one of the...

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