The Big Picture with Mohamed Hassan
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The Big Picture with Mohamed Hassan

by Middle East Eye

A weekly podcast focused on long-form interviews on history, pop culture and society affecting the MENA region and diaspora communities. It aims to inform and illuminate the region through a non-newsy lens, exploring the MENA region's past, present and future and its people. Each episode begins with a question and an introduction to an expert who will attempt to answer it. 

73 episodes
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1
Why I turned my camera from Hollywood to Palestine | Misan Harriman
58:00 Jul 25, 2025
2
Francesca Albanese exposed a global "economy of genocide", then she was sanctioned
59:44 Jul 10, 2025
3
Silicon Valley, Israel and the new AI arms race | Antony Loewenstein
1:06:07 Jul 4, 2025
4
Norman Finkelstein on Israel, Zohran Mamdani and the coming class war
1:48:29 Jun 27, 2025
5
The Israel-Iran war is more dangerous than we imagine | David Hearst
1:06:10 Jun 16, 2025
6
How the Military Industrial Complex really works | William Hartung
1:17:05 Jun 9, 2025
7
Trump and Zionists want to scare us into silence. We won’t let them | Linda Sarsour
1:11:08 May 12, 2025
8
Pope Francis and the Muslim World | Jordan Denari Duffner
29:56 Apr 26, 2025
9
Why I had to flee America | Momodou Taal
24:11 Apr 3, 2025
10
American doctor in Gaza: ending the carnage is in Trump's hands | Dr Feroze Sidhwa
24:07 Mar 21, 2025
11
Netanyahu commits a 'bloodbath' in Gaza to save himself | Daniel Levy
17:30 Mar 18, 2025
12
Judaism is 6000 years old. It can outlive Zionism | Rabbia Alissa Wise
47:01 Feb 18, 2025
13
A Hamas official speaks on Gaza ceasefire & the next war with Israel | Basem Naim
1:04:05 Jan 24, 2025
14
Netanyahu’s total victory narrative collapsed, and Israelis are in shock | Daniel Levy | The Big Picture
1:09:55 Jan 23, 2025
15
The Muslim senator who took on Australia’s government | Fatima Payman | The Big Picture
42:30 Jan 14, 2025
16
Piers Morgan, CNN and the fight for Palestinian dignity | Mohammed el-Kurd
1:00:05 Dec 28, 2024
17
The Syrian dream rises from the ashes of Assad’s nightmare | Waad al-Kateab
27:29 Dec 13, 2024
18
Trump’s intrusive demons and Israel’s ‘enlightened cause’ | Norman Finkelstein
1:41:22 Nov 16, 2024
19
Americans are socialised into capitalism, racism and then Zionism | Noura Erakat
37:03 Nov 13, 2024
20
The birth of Israel and the death of Zionism | Ilan Pappé
1:16:25 Oct 31, 2024
21
The untold history of the Israeli Defence Forces | The Big Picture
32:10 Oct 24, 2024
22
Will Kamal Harris lose the election because of the Gaza vote | Abbas Alawieh
1:10:37 Sep 16, 2024
23
A (very) online history of Elon Musk | Marc Owen Jones
57:47 Aug 20, 2024
24
Israel, Iran, Hezbollah and the tightrope of regional war | Trita Parsi
1:02:32 Aug 10, 2024
25
Netanyahu's end game: Why Israel assassinated Hamas chief in Iran | Gideon Levy
35:48 Jul 31, 2024
26
Why real change for Palestine can't come from the fringes | Naz Shah
1:05:27 Jul 1, 2024
27
Palestine, people power and changing the two party system | Leanne Mohamad
33:57 Jun 28, 2024
28
After 40 years with Labour, Corbyn is taking them on | Jeremy Corbyn
45:22 Jun 26, 2024
29
What investigating the Iraq War taught me about Gaza | Les Roberts
49:05 Jun 24, 2024
30
We can never trust these instruments of power | Norman Finkelstein
1:25:40 Jun 14, 2024
31
Fiona Lali took down Suella Braverman, now she's going after the government
49:56 Jun 4, 2024
32
[BONUS] The ICC arrest warrants against Israel and Hamas explained | The Big Picture
10:32 May 20, 2024
33
The untold legacy of Winston Churchill and the British Empire | Tariq Ali
57:19 May 16, 2024
34
Why young Jewish Americans are turning on Israel | Simone Zimmerman
52:47 Apr 24, 2024
35
Why are Israel and Iran on the brink of war? | David Hearst
43:11 Apr 15, 2024
36
Antisemitism, White Supremacy and the death of liberal Europe | Ghassan Hage
51:37 Apr 11, 2024
37
Why Sadiq Khan still believes in Labour under Keir Starmer
48:47 Apr 4, 2024
38
Finding my voice and leaving Gaza | Plestia Alaqad
50:20 Mar 29, 2024
39
How Israel tests its weapons in Gaza then sells them to the world | Antony Loewenstein
1:05:12 Mar 21, 2024
40
Changing the narrative around Palestine | Randa Abdel Fattah
51:02 Mar 14, 2024
41
Why the West is wrong about Islam | Peter Oborne
1:03:11 Jan 24, 2024
42
The Labour Party has a racism problem | Ali Milani
54:16 Jan 18, 2024
43
How to build a mass movement around Palestine | Chris Nineham
1:01:31 Jan 11, 2024
44
The 'righteous anger' of Palestinians | Omar Suleiman
1:27:06 Jan 4, 2024
45
A British lawmaker fights for her Christian family in Gaza | Layla Moran
24:40 Dec 20, 2023
46
The legal team pursuing justice in the Gaza War | Tayab Ali
1:44:22 Dec 14, 2023
47
[BONUS] Biden needs the Arab vote to beat Trump | The Big Picture Explained
9:41 Dec 10, 2023
48
Why a weapons expert is taking on the US government | Josh Paul
51:27 Dec 7, 2023
49
Israel's fears, its delusions and its future | Daniel Levy
1:00:31 Nov 16, 2023
50
[BONUS] Why American politicians are 'lying' about Gaza | The Big Picture Explained
19:40 Nov 15, 2023
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