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What was Jeffrey Epstein doing for Israeli intelligence? A new series of reports by Drop Site News has been examining this very question. Drop Site journalist Murtaza Hussain joined Mohamed Hashem on Real Talk to...

If AI is an empire, Karen Hao is saying you can resist it. “We don’t need empires to benefit from AI.” Hao is an investigative journalist and author of Empire of AI, she joined Mohamed Hashem to share what she saw while...

Does the UK need its own Zohran Mamdani? “It’s not The Office,” says British comedian Nish Kumar. “You can’t remake it from one country to another.” The acclaimed stand-up comedian sat down with Mohamed Hashem on Real...

“Ben Gvir came to me and said, ‘You are a terrorist, and you will be treated as a terrorist’.” In her first media testimony since leaving Israel, Yasemin Acar recounts what she endured after being on the Global Sumud...

“I hear her voice in my dreams.” Israel’s killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab in 2024 sent shockwaves around the world, sparking global outrage and condemnation. Hind was fleeing Gaza City with her relatives when their...

On this week’s Real Talk, MSNBC host and veteran reporter Ayman Mohyeldin joined Mohamed Hashem to discuss the US political rhetoric on Gaza. For over two decades, Ayman has reported on the front lines of the world’s...

“One voice message I got from a journalist in Gaza… that’s worth more to me than anything I did with Reuters.” For eight years, Valerie Zink worked as a photojournalist for Reuters. But after Israel killed her...

"The overwhelming will of the world is for a state of Palestine now… I want it to be imposed on Israel, pure and simple." Jeffrey Sachs joins Real Talk to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza, America’s complicity, and why...

“The existence of a Palestinian student or pro-Palestine students on campus is an issue for [Columbia].” Mahmoud Khalil became the face of the US government’s crackdown on pro-Palestine protests across American...

“What I experienced is a glimpse of what Palestinians have to go through.” Prominent labour activist Chris Smalls speaks out after returning to his home in the United States following his detention in an Israeli prison...

“I haven’t worked in a very long time.” What are the repercussions of speaking out for Gaza in Hollywood? In this Real Talk interview, US model and actor Indya Moore opens up about the cost of speaking out for Gaza...

‘These journalistic institutions have done far more to support the genocide than… Starbucks or McDonald’s’ Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mona Chalabi joins Real Talk to unpack how mainstream media coverage has...

“I was sold a lie.” One of Britain’s most acclaimed historians slams the country’s education system - which he feels has distorted the history of Palestine, portraying it as an “empty desert” before 1948. In this Real...

“I have no business with genocidaires.” That’s how artist, poet and activist Saul Williams describes his refusal to stay silent on Israel’s war on Gaza. In this Real Talk interview, Williams opens up about witnessing...

Bilal Hassan is a Pakistani doctor who also happens to be one of the most popular travel storytellers from his country. He is a content creator whose work captures the people, the cultures, the food and the human...

“The point was to make people aware… The world knows now who [Microsoft] truly are, and what they’re doing.” As Microsoft celebrated its 50th anniversary with a panel featuring Bill Gates, one employee stood up and...

‘The crimes [in Gaza] are so egregious that are being carried out... The attempt to cover them up and whitewash them is failing’ Since 7 October, western media coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza has come under intense...

"You can’t be a filmmaker. You’re Palestinian - no one will care." Cherien Dabis is a Palestinian-American filmmaker and actress constantly working to break new ground for Palestinian representation in Hollywood. In...

In The World After Gaza, acclaimed Indian author Pankaj Mishra reckons with Israel’s war on Gaza and its far-reaching moral and geopolitical consequences. He situates the onslaught within the broader context of western...

"The more they offer the Trump administration, the more the Trump administration is going to ask - and the demands in that letter [sent to Columbia] are absolutely unacceptable." In this Real Talk interview, Columbia...

Over a year ago in January 2024, Jewish-American academic Maura Finkelstein found herself placed on administrative leave by her institution at the time: Muhlenberg College. A few months later she was fired, despite...

“From the moment Israel was created, there’s this idea that it is unimaginable that it can perpetrate any crime under international law, let alone genocide.” US-Israeli genocide scholar Raz Segal was the first academic...

Will Brics nations pose a real challenge to Donald Trump’s second term in office? And how do Trump’s tariffs stack up against this rising bloc? US economist Richard D Wolff joined us for an extended conversation on...

"Elon Musk has been given by Trump… almost dictatorial power” Today we’re taking on the MAGA ‘civil war’ that’s publicly erupted within Donald Trump’s own ranks. Did Elon Musk and the tech billionaires already win the...

“I don’t believe this is about Israel’s security.” What’s it like to be a medic inside Gaza’s shattered healthcare system? British plastic surgeon Dr Victoria Rose joins us on Real Talk to share her first-hand account...