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Real Talk

Real Talk is a Middle East Eye interview series hosted by Mohamed Hashem that explores the unique stories and experiences of a diverse range of guests — from artists, to musicians, to politicians and more.

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39 episodes

Sep 18, 2024•—

US presidential candidate Cornel West slams Joe Biden’s Gaza policy | Real Talk

Sep 18, 2024•—

Alana Hadid: ‘Gaza gave me a greater understanding of the Nakba’ | Real Talk

Sep 19, 2024•—

Francesca Albanese: Israel should be treated as a 'pariah state' | Episode 4 | Real Talk

Sep 19, 2024•—

Rana Ayyub on Hindu nationalism, India-Israel relations & Modi’s anti-Muslim rhetoric | Episode 3 | Real Talk

Sep 19, 2024•—

Chris Hedges: Is this the end of the American Empire? | Episode 5 | Real Talk

Sep 26, 2024•—

How Gaza exposed the US empire ‘like never before’ | Matt Kennard | Real Talk

Oct 9, 2024•—

America’s Gaza policy failed. Now what? | Matt Duss, ex-Bernie Sanders adviser | Real Talk

Oct 17, 2024•—

Why Humza Yousaf is sounding the alarm: Islamophobia, far right, & Elon Musk

Oct 26, 2024•—

Iran, Gaza, & Lebanon: How the pro-Israel lobby influences US policy | Stephen Walt | Real Talk

Oct 31, 2024•—

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Gaza genocide, witnessing Israel’s apartheid & the US elections | Real Talk

Dec 18, 2024•—

How AIPAC unseated US congressman Jamaal Bowman over Israel | Real Talk

Dec 20, 2024•—

The rise of Syria's brutal Assad dynasty rule | Joshua Landis | Real Talk

Dec 27, 2024•—

Assad took my father: One woman's fight to find her dad in Syria | Wafa Mustafa | Real Talk

Jan 10, 2025•—

Hind Hassan on western media & Gaza: ‘If you’re an Arab journalist, you’re political’ | | Real Talk

Jan 25, 2025•—

Inside Gaza's health system: British doctor tell of harrowing experience amid Israeli bombardment | Victoria Rose | Real Talk

Feb 7, 2025•—

How Elon Musk is taking over the MAGA movement | Rick Perlstein | Real Talk

Feb 21, 2025•—

Richard Wolff: Trump's victory & theatrics are just symptoms of US decline | Real Talk

Mar 1, 2025•—

How Jewish scholars are attacked in the US for calling out Gaza genocide | Raz Segal | Real Talk

Mar 11, 2025•—

This Jewish academic shared an anti-Zionist post. She was then fired | Maura Finkelstein | Real Talk

Mar 20, 2025•—

Inside Trump’s crackdown on Columbia University | Prof. Bruce Robbins | Real Talk

Mar 29, 2025•—

Pankaj Mishra: How the West assists & enables Israel’s war on Gaza | Real Talk

Apr 18, 2025•—

‘You’re Palestinian. No one will care’: Cherien Dabis on ‘Mo’ and making space in Hollywood | Real Talk

Apr 25, 2025•—

How does western media ‘whitewash’ genocide? | Assal Rad

May 3, 2025•—

I called out Microsoft’s complicity in Gaza. They fired me | Vaniya Agrawal

May 17, 2025•—

Pakistani influencer on India, partition & the language of ‘dehumanisation’ | Bilal Hassan | Real Talk

Jun 9, 2025•—

'I have no business with genocidaires': Actor & poet Saul Williams speaks out on Gaza, Hollywood, & the US empire | Real Talk

Jul 7, 2025•—

William Dalrymple: ‘Britain’s education system sold me a lie about Palestine’ | Real Talk

Jul 14, 2025•—

Forget Starbucks. Boycott the New York Times | Mona Chalabi | Real Talk

Aug 5, 2025•—

‘Gross betrayal’: My agents left me for speaking out on Gaza | Indya Moore | Real Talk

Aug 8, 2025•—

‘They used my chain to choke me’: Chris Smalls speaks out after Israeli prison assault | Real Talk

Aug 22, 2025•—

‘They don’t care about Jewish safety’: Mahmoud Khalil slams US government & Columbia after detention

Aug 29, 2025•—

Has Gaza made the UN irrelevant? | Jeffrey Sachs | Real Talk

Sep 8, 2025•—

Valerie Zink: Why I quit and cut up my Reuters press card over Gaza | Real Talk

Sep 30, 2025•—

Have Democrats lost to MAGA on Gaza? | Ayman Mohyeldin | Real Talk

Oct 13, 2025•—

‘I believed I could save her’: Inside the making of The voice of Hind Rajab | Motaz Malhees | Real Talk

Nov 10, 2025•—

Facing Ben Gvir: I was stripped, beaten and detained in Israel | Yasemin Acar | Real Talk

Nov 18, 2025•—

Can this pod save the UK? (Feat. Mamdani win & Nando’s) | Nish Kumar | Real Talk

Dec 1, 2025•—

She's an insider now exposing OpenAI. Here's why you should be concerned | Karen Hao | Real Talk

Dec 13, 2025•—

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