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  1. JAN 20

    34: Alireza Nader - The Uprising in Iran

    With thousands reportedly killed by the regime, Fathom spoke to Iran expert Alireza Nader about the uprising in the country. He discussed what he terms the revolutionary movement in Iran, opposition perspectives on the late Shah's son, some of the challenges faced by the opposition in light of the 'frenzied killing' carried out by the Islamic Republic, and the approach of the Trump Administration - which may have missed an opportunity to intervene in the crisis.

    37 min

  2. 11/12/2025

    33: Efraim Halevy - Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors (9)

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    46 min

  3. 07/01/2025

    32: Sima Shine, Alireza Nader, and Jonathan Rynhold - Insights from the 12 Day Israel-Iran War

    Sima Shine, Alireza Nader, and Jonathan Rynhold consider the achievements of Israeli and American action in Iran. Were the aims to degrade or destroy the Iranian nuclear programme? What do they assess has been the true damage to the programme? What comes next in this war, and what do the latest developments signify in terms of the grip the Tehran regime holds on the country?

    1h 9m

  4. 06/17/2025

    31: Tal Becker - Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors (7)

    Tal Becker is the vice president of the Shalom Hartman Institute, where he leads educational initiatives on Israel in the Jewish world. He served until recently as a legal advisor with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has been a senior member of Israeli peace negotiation team in successive rounds of peace negotiations. He also played an instrumental role in negotiating and drafting the Abraham Accords between Israel and the UAE and Bahrain. America. In this interview, Becker recounts his time negotiating during the Annapolis process and the Abraham Accords, and shares his insights about creating a better future in the Middle East.

    48 min

  5. 06/17/2025

    30: The Israel-Iran War: What's Next?

    Fathom Co-editor Calev Ben-Dor spoke with Matthew Levitt, the Director of Reinhard Counter terrorism program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Ksenia Svetlova, executive director at ROPES and a research associate at Chatham House. They discussed the current war between Israel and Iran and potential scenarios for how it might play out.

    35 min

  6. 06/03/2025

    29: Hanin Ghaddar - Lebanon Six Months After the Ceasefire

    Six months after the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was secured, Fathom editors Jack Omer-Jackaman and Calev Ben-Dor talk to Lebanon expert Hanin Ghaddar, Friedman Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute and author of Hezbollahland: Mapping Dahiya and Lebanon’s Shia Community. Ghaddar talks about Hezbollah’s current strength; whether the Lebanese government will succeed in its aim to disarm the organisation through negotiation; and Iran’s response to the apparent weakening of the ‘crown jewel’ in its regional ‘ring of fire’.

    39 min

  7. 04/22/2025

    28: Gilead Sher - Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors (6)

    Attorney Gilead Sher is a former Israeli senior peace negotiator and Chief of Staff to PM Ehud Barak. Formerly a peace negotiator under PM Rabin, he is a Rice University’s Baker Institute fellow and a former senior fellow at Tel Aviv's Institute for National Studies INSS. In 2023, Sher co-founded the Central Resistance Headquarters for the pro-democracy struggle. He has authored three books, co-edited two, contributed numerous chapters in edited volumes and published dozens of articles in Israeli and international media. In this conversation, Sher recounts the reasons for the failure of the negotiations he was involved in during the Barak era. He argues that personalities and tactical issues were secondary - although he believes Arafat was unwilling to seriously negotiate and make the requisite compromises. Sher explains that too little time was spent trying to resolve all the myriad issues: 'not enough time and not enough continuous effort was put into the purpose of ending the conflict.' He also critiques the 'package approach' that meant nothing was agreed until everything was agreed, and suggests replacing it with a gradual formula whereby what is agreed should be immediately implemented, which Sher believes would create positive traction on the ground, allowing people to realise that something is changing. In the later part of the conversation, Sher details his current vision for creating a better future for Israelis and Palestinians in the aftermath of 7 October.

    54 min

  8. 03/09/2025

    26: Koby Huberman - Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors (5)

    Koby Huberman talks to Fathom about his insights from decades of work in regional peacemaking.

    53 min
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    Fathom
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    32
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