ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Welcome to ROPESCAST, where the future of the Middle East is debated, reimagined, and brought into focus.
Hosted by Ksenia Svetlova, ROPES CEO, this platform champions pioneering regional dialogue, peacebuilding, and cooperative strategy. Moving beyond crisis commentary, we explore politics, economics, culture, and society with those shaping everyday realities.
From diplomatic realignments to genuine civil society peacebuilding, ROPESCAST connects you with an influential network of regional scholars, opinion-shapers, and changemakers for fresh analysis you won't hear anywhere else.
Hosted by Ksenia Svetlova, ROPES CEO, this platform champions pioneering regional dialogue, peacebuilding, and cooperative strategy. Moving beyond crisis commentary, we explore politics, economics, culture, and society with those shaping everyday realities.
From diplomatic realignments to genuine civil society peacebuilding, ROPESCAST connects you with an influential network of regional scholars, opinion-shapers, and changemakers for fresh analysis you won't hear anywhere else.
Update frequency:
every 17 days
Average audio length:
45 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
58 episodes
since May 22, 2023
episodic
IN THIS PODCAST 🔗
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In this high-stakes episode, host Ksenia Svetlova sits down with Dr. Ephraim Sneh, former senior IDF officer, long-serving Member of Knesset, and former Deputy Minister of Defense. With Israel approaching pivotal elections, Dr. Sneh delivers a stark warning: without a fundamental political change, …
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
In this episode of ROPESCAST, ROPES CEO Ksenia Svetlova sits down with Dr. Marwan Muasher - former Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan and current Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment - for a wide-ranging and candid conversation.
Dr. Muasher draws on decades of dip…
In this episode of ROPESCAST, Ksenia Svetlova sits down with Professor Sari Nusseibeh — Palestinian philosopher, former president of Al-Quds University, and one of the most consistent voices for a political settlement.
They look at why previous peace initiatives collapsed, the reasons those effort…
What happens to one of Israel’s most important regional relationships when the Middle East is being reshaped by war, new alliances and shifting interests?
In this episode of ROPESCAST, Ksenia Svetlova speaks with Amira Oron, former Israeli Ambassador to Egypt, a senior diplomat with deep expertise…
Weeks before the war broke out, Danny Citrinowicz was already warning that Israel's read on Iran was heading somewhere dangerous. In this episode of ROPESCAST, he walks through what he saw coming — and why.
We cover the full landscape of options on the table for Iran, the US, Israel, and the wider…
Elizabeth Tsurkov has spent years doing what most researchers only read about — traveling into conflict zones, sitting with militia commanders, and listening to the people living inside the stories we think we understand.
A doctoral candidate at Princeton and fellow at both the Middle East Policy…
In this episode of ROPESCAST, Ksenia Svetlova sits down with Dr. Sanam Vakil, Director of the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House, who offers an interesting perspective on the shifting strategic landscape of the region.
The discussion centers on Iran’s proxies and the evolving dy…
In a special 50th episode of ROPESCAST, Ksenia Svetlova sits down with Ahmed Khuzaie, a strategic analyst from Bahrain who doesn't pull any punches when it comes to the reality of Gulf security.
We recorded this as the region continues to deal with the messy aftermath of the war in Iran and the pe…
Our new ROPESCAST episode features a high-stakes dialogue between host Ksenia Svetlova and Elliott Abrams, a veteran U.S. diplomat and foundational figure in American foreign policy who served as Deputy National Security Advisor and Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela.
The discussion of…
What happens when the "ghosts" of history dictate the wars of the future? In this episode of ROPESCAST, Ksenia Svetlova sits down with a man who has lived through the heart of the Iranian fire: Ambassador John Limbert.
A veteran diplomat and scholar, Limbert holds a perspective few on ea…
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