Episodes: 25
Frequency: Weekly
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Listener location: USA
Publicly listed emails
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Joe Kawly - Journalist, Washington Bureau Chief, and host with extensive experience covering conflict zones in the Middle East and the power corridors of Washington. He is a Georgetown graduate and former CNN ...
Danny Danon - The Israel-lebanon Framework, Hezbollah Disarmament, Southern Lebanon, And Regional Security
Michael Baumgartner - Iran’s Nuclear Program, Congressional War Powers, Negotiating Leverage, Lebanon, And Hezbollah
Susan Ziadeh - Gaza, Gulf State Strategy, Regional Diplomacy, Reconstruction, And Middle East Stability
Ryan Crocker - U.s.-iran Talks, Regional Stability, Diplomacy, And The Limits Of Military Pressure On Iran
Tom Nides - U.s.-israel Relations, Saudi Normalization, Iran, Palestinian Policy, And The Changing Middle East
The Summit Is the Message | Trump, Xi, and What the Summit Actually Delivered
September 28, 2026
When Washington needs to make sense of Beijing, it calls Bonnie Glaser. She is Managing Director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the German Marshall Fund, and she has spent decades tracking how China makes decisions under pressure.She joins Washington Bureau Chief Joe Kawly fresh off the Trump-Xi summit to deliver the read that official Washington will not: Xi Jinping got more than Trump, Taiwan is being used as a negotiating chip, and Chinese companies are supplying satellite imagery that is ...
Who Controls Southern Lebanon? | Amb. Danny Danon on the Israel-Lebanon Framework
June 30, 2026
Israel and Lebanon have signed a framework agreement both sides are calling historic. Lebanon’s parliament speaker has rejected it, warning of civil war. A secret security annex has leaked. And the question of whether Hezbollah will actually disarm remains open.Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon joins MBN Washington Bureau Chief Joe Kawly to defend the agreement, respond to its harshest critics, and explain what comes next for southern Lebanon, for Hezbollah, and for a region he says is...
Middle East: Oil and Turmoil
June 15, 2026
Four months into the war with Iran, Congress just voted on whether it should continue. Congressman Michael Baumgartner was at the center of that debate.A member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and its Middle East subcommittee, Baumgartner served at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and in Afghanistan before Congress, and first visited the region as a student thirty years ago.In this episode, he tells Washington Bureau Chief Joe Kawly what was actually buried, not destroyed, in Iran's nuclear...
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The Diplomat | ديبلومات typically books well-known public figures. Typical guest background: Current or former ambassadors, senior diplomats, foreign-policy lawmakers, negotiators, and established experts on Iran, the Middle East, regional security, or U.S. foreign policy. Recent guests include Danny Danon, Michael Baumgartner, and Susan Ziadeh.
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