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The Global JigsawEpisodes

  1. Persian poetry and politics

    How poetry is used by Persian speaking leaders to build legitimacy

  2. Made in Russia: The Kremlin’s economic rebrand

    How Moscow is working around international sanctions by promoting self-sustainability

  3. What is the 'Russian cultural code'?

    Why a headdress has become a poster image for the Kremlin’s vision of national identity

  4. Jihadists and AI

    The AI dilemma facing IS and al-Qaeda

  5. Nuclear tensions in the Middle East

    Why fears of a new nuclear arms race are growing in the Middle East

  6. Decoding China’s doublespeak

    How the Chinese Communist Party gets lost in translation

  7. The JNIM branch of al-Qaeda

    The JNIM branch of al-Qaeda is one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups

  8. What next for Poland?

    Why are Poland's young voters turning to the right?

  9. What’s Iran’s IRGC?

    The engine powering Tehran’s “Axis of resistance”

  10. Netanyahu’s media squeeze

    The Israeli government’s push to transform the media landscape

  11. The Trump effect on global media

    Exploring the changes to media around the world caused by cuts to USAGM and USAID

  12. The Kurdish issue: Part three

    What does the future hold for Kurdish people?

  13. The Kurdish issue: Part two

    What does the future hold for Kurdish people?

  14. The Kurdish issue: Part one

    What does the future hold for Kurdish people?

  15. Life in occupied Ukraine: Kherson and Zaporizhzhia

    The uncertainty over what Ukraine calls “temporarily occupied territories” grows bigger

  16. Life in occupied Ukraine: Donbas

    Moscow’s efforts to assert itself in the east of Ukraine

  17. Life in occupied Ukraine: Crimea

    Looking at the world through the lens of its media

  18. The language of war: Ukraine

    Kyiv’s answer to the Kremlin’s warspeak

  19. The language of war: Russia

    Decoding the Kremlin’s warspeak

  20. Turkey’s foothold in Africa

    A dive into the narratives surrounding Turkey’s ambitions in Africa

  21. Monitoring Africa

    What does it take to track media in Africa where radio is king?

  22. The rebels who retook Aleppo

    A shock offensive turned Syria’s forgotten conflict into hot war

  23. Yemen: A frozen conflict

    Ten years on, where do the warring parties in Yemen stand?

  24. Yemen: A tale of three cities

    Sanaa, Aden and Taiz - stuck in a “no war, no peace” limbo

  25. Russia’s “special demographic operation”

    Why is the Kremlin worried about population decline?

  26. Culture wars: Turkey’s anti-LGBT drive

    What’s behind the evolution of the Turkish president's anti-LGBT narrative?

  27. The Taliban’s war on women

    The group’s return to power in Afghanistan has seen the erasure of women from public life

  28. The Sahel’s coup contagion

    The geopolitical tectonic shifts in Africa that could be felt in Europe too.

  29. The evolution of the Islamic State Group

    After a lull in activities, in 2024 IS claimed to be behind several major attacks

  30. How China sees itself in Africa

    Beijing says it is building, not buying, Africa. Do people in Nairobi agree?

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