The Middle East Forum presents this week's podcasts.

Israel’s Seven-Front War - #7: Yemen

with Michael Rubin

A decade after the Houthi movement seized Yemen’s capital Sana’a, the Iran-supported Shia Islamist group officially known as Ansar Allah has become the country’s dominant power. How did it achieve this? Where is the country headed? How can the West end the attacks on international shipping? Has Washington acquiesced to Houthi domination of Yemen?  


Monday, July 1, 2024
2:00pm - 2:30pm ET


Michael Rubin is director of policy analysis at the Middle East Forum and a past editor of the Middle East Quarterly. He is also as a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Mr. Rubin has lived and traveled throughout the Middle East, including Yemen, Lebanon Syria, Iraq, and Iran. He holds a BS in biology and history and an MA and PhD in history, all from Yale University.

Israel Insider

with Ashley Perry

The U.S.-Israel bond has reached a special intensity, mutually influencing both countries. How will the U.S. election campaign impact Israel’s seven-front war? Conversely, how will that crisis influence the November elections?  


Wednesday, July 3, 2024
3:00pm - 3:30pm ET

Ashley Perry is an advisor to the Middle East Forum’s Israel office. He served as adviser to Israel's minister of foreign affairs and deputy prime minister in 2009-15, and has also worked with Israel's Ministers of Intelligence, Agriculture and Rural Development, Energy, Water and Infrastructure, Defense, Tourism, Internal Security, and Immigrant Absorption and as an advisor to The Negev Forum. Originally from the UK, he moved to Israel in 2001. He holds a BA from University College London and an MA from Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

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