# CONFLICTED

A podcast by Message Heard. An ex-Al Qaeda jihadi turned MI6 spy and a former monk turned filmmaker, have been embedded at the heart of conflicts in the Middle East. Together Aimen Dean and Thomas Small unpack the realities of war, fundamentalism and their global implications through first-hand experience.

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## Latest episodes

- [Taiz: The Yemeni City That Refuses to Surrender](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/6c9203e99bc3) (2026-10-15, 59 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR4486869025.mp3
- [We’re Addicted to Security, and It’s Destroying Us](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/3c34086c693b) (2026-10-13, 75 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR3930520610.mp3
- [Adrian Wooldridge: Can Liberalism Save Itself?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/efbcf646878e) (2026-10-08, 84 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR9155039891.mp3
- [The Real Geopolitics of Sudan’s Civil War](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/550e647d5d03) (2026-10-06, 54 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR1668721888.mp3
- [The Middle East Braces for Escalation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/18ed23002fc2) (2026-10-02, 58 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR1313828526.mp3
- [Carlos the Jackal: The World’s First Super-Terrorist](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/a5d10705cf2d) (2026-09-29, 65 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR8044443027.mp3
- [The Houthis Are Winning — Here’s Why](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/8d16ba832e71) (2026-09-24, 70 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR8375151543.mp3
- [1453: The Catastrophe That Ended Rome](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/41d42df4815f) (2026-09-22, 85 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR9047149501.mp3
- [Globalisation Made Global Jihad Possible](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/11bc35eaca93) (2026-09-17, 61 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR2297487851.mp3
- [Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Disaster](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/56b3f5c53e2c) (2026-09-16, 64 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR3459733960.mp3
- [Re-Interrogating 9/11: A 25th Anniversary Debate](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/b1fb7b8e68db) (2026-09-11, 67 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR8176076182.mp3
- [The End of the Nation State?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/babb4ef3a3e0) (2026-09-09, 94 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR3085228498.mp3
- [The Battle for Taiwan](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/1a262deaeaa1) (2026-09-03, 74 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR7470717485.mp3
- [Trump's Strangulation Strategy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/b36def1cbd97) (2026-09-01, 58 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR4573312187.mp3
- [Simon Sebag Montefiore: How the Modern Middle East Was Made](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/ed749a35cd68) (2026-08-25, 72 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR5729290216.mp3
- [The Rise of the Offshore World](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/0cd68dfd2904) (2026-08-20, 61 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR4842811773.mp3
- [The Battle for Yemen Begins Again](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/b1b1292656bd) (2026-08-18, 57 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR8902684302.mp3
- [Libya: The Return of the Arab Strongman?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/a664f6e2ddd6) (2026-08-13, 80 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR2797599065.mp3
- [The Crusades: What Was Really Going On?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/41943583024f) (2026-08-11, 80 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR6658647541.mp3
- [Slavery and Islam: The Whole Story](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/04395fef2bcb) (2026-08-06, 67 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR9153660169.mp3
- [Will America Cut and Run?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/cdf6fde15bc6) (2026-08-04, 50 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR2498063846.mp3
- [U Thant: The Diplomat Who Defined the 1960s](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/b0be300c166d) (2026-07-30, 84 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR3636428217.mp3
- [Wassim Nasr: My Inside Account of Macron’s Syria Visit](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/56f4738f6a61) (2026-07-28, 65 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR8827040290.mp3
- [Indo-European: The Language Family That Went Global](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/adc846ebfa47) (2026-07-23, 75 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR3869063173.mp3
- [Iran Will Never Give Up Hormuz](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/f3d529ca4991) (2026-07-21, 67 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR3467995381.mp3
- [How Netanyahu Failed to Prevent October 7](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/5f0bb15062aa) (2026-07-16, 62 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR8625119310.mp3
- [Ben Hodges: Russia Can Be Defeated](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/5b2441884bc9) (2026-07-14, 51 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR6087963187.mp3
- [Syria Turns Another Corner (Conflicted Revisited)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/c076c44bba98) (2026-07-10, 51 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR9307276431.mp3
- [Guns, Greed and the Making of Modernity](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/90decb14d865) (2026-07-07, 59 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR6566534168.mp3
- [Undiscovered: The Battle of Qala-i-Jangi](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/abaac931243d) (2026-07-03, 37 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR2222256341.mp3
- [The Bastard Children of Neoliberalism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/6e3d25ba20d7) (2026-06-30, 64 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR7792216237.mp3
- [The Middle East’s AI Arms Race](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/72ee874214fb) (2026-06-25, 57 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR3284112988.mp3
- [The Betrayal of the Iranian People](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/b41e17c285e6) (2026-06-23, 70 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR7524266835.mp3
- [Video Games: The Global Battleground of Modern Politics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/e4844eac738c) (2026-06-18, 99 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR7238516539.mp3
- [Memorandum of Misunderstanding](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/8c44afa2a13b) (2026-06-17, 74 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR2394877759.mp3
- [Israel’s Road to Endless War](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/85ad1f445e3c) (2026-06-11, 80 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR2953965018.mp3
- [Has Trump Lost the Middle East?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/fcdc5a97d9e2) (2026-06-09, 67 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR7075210322.mp3
- [The West Bank Is Reaching Breaking Point](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/be8bb2f739c3) (2026-06-04, 66 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR1781861095.mp3
- [My Road to Conflicted (with Jake Warren)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/d1e71954fcf4) (2026-06-02, 64 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR4752233457.mp3
- [Jeremy Hunt: Democracy’s Defeat Is Not Inevitable](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/0845f602c7cb) (2026-05-28, 72 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR3746604250.mp3
- [The Madman Theory from Nixon to Trump](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/b1e056df452b) (2026-05-21, 74 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR7603719934.mp3
- [The UAE’s OPEC Withdrawal & Trump’s Wartime Dilemma](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/35e79cc65e25) (2026-05-20, 70 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR2337975666.mp3
- [Utopia or Dystopia? The Truth About Jewish-Muslim History](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/ffcefc5c90f0) (2026-05-14, 62 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR9583306902.mp3
- [Mali’s Crisis is Not What it Seems](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/d36e8397727b) (2026-05-12, 60 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR6213107027.mp3
- [Sir Vince Cable: The Crisis of Liberal Democracy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/2a3f5c1354eb) (2026-05-07, 56 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR8509220699.mp3
- [Iraq: Anatomy of a Broken State](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/439b0ce7c0b4) (2026-05-05, 75 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR7592138795.mp3?updated=1777938550
- [The CIA: What is It For?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/bef650a3cdca) (2026-05-01, 73 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR9684842572.mp3?updated=1777580918
- [The Problem of President Trump](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/bc967a6aa161) (2026-04-28, 63 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR7268657410.mp3?updated=1777327135
- [Jack Carr: My Journey Through America’s Long War](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/288e930f4d59) (2026-04-23, 66 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR2652577511.mp3?updated=1776879598
- [The Power Struggle Inside Iran](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443491069/12ef1a0e5bb4) (2026-04-21, 56 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR9316162007.mp3?updated=1776725936

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