Aaron David Miller served six US Administrations (Rep & Dem). He worked extensively on Middle East issues, especially on Israeli-Arab negotiations. He discusses his time as a US diplomat and his point of view on today's situation in the region and the Biden Administration Foreign policy.
Joby Warrick, author of RED LINE and reporter for The Washington Post, has won the Pulitzer Prize twice. He tells uq the inside story of the Syrian chemical weapons program.
Husain Haqqani, former Pakistani ambassador to the United States and close adviser to several Prime Ministers, discuss the situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan... and is very harsh against its own country.
Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth is our guest. Syria, Israel, Palestine, Yemen, etc. Is there any country without any human rights violations in the Middle East? Ken Roth gives his answer to this question and many others in this 11th episode of French Accent.
Martin Indyk, who worked with Presidents Clinton and Obama, just published "Master Of The Game", a fascinating book about Henry Kissinger and the Middle East.
Antoine Mariotti speaks for nearly an hour with General David Petraeus about Iraq, Afghanistan and his career in the US army and CIA.
Ehud Olmert, former Prime Minister of Israel, is in French Accent just before the new round of elections in Israel. He speaks with Antoine Mariotti about Israelis going back to the polls, Netanyahu, Trump, Biden and the Middle East (non existent) peace process.
10 years after the beginning of the conflict in Syria, former US Ambassador in Damascus Robert Ford (who was there when it started) is our guest in this 7th episode.
Antoine Mariotti speaks with James Jeffrey, former Donald Trump's envoy for Syria and to the Global Coalition to defeat ISIS. Jeffrey has also been US Ambassador in Turkey. (The interview had to be shortened because the line was not that good, we apologize for this)
In this 5th episode, Antoine Mariotti speaks with former senior Palestinian official Dr Hanan Ashrawi. She just resigned from the PLO executive committee and decided to continue the fight for Palestinian rights as a member of the civil society.
Our guest, Arash Azizi, just published a a book about the man who was at the center of the Middle East : Qassem Soleimani. We take time to speak about Soleimani, his "transnational army" and influence of Iran in the Middle East.
Who will be the next US President and what impact for the Middle East? Leon Panetta, former CIA Director and Secretary of Defense, talks about the election, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, the Middle East and the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden while he was CIA Director.
Nickolay Mladenov, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, is our guest in this second episode of French Accent.
In this first episode of French Accent former US National Security Advisor John Bolton talks about Donald Trump, Middle East, Iran, Peace Process and more...