Radio War Nerd

Guest: Joshua Landis, Director of Center for Middle East Studies Recorded: December 9, 2022 The war in Ukraine has sucked all the west's attention away from other wars around the world, including the Syria war, which was once the star of the NATO thinktank world. Dr. Joshua Landis is of the few west

Guest: Ryan Gingeras, historian & professor In Part 2 of our interview with historian Ryan Gingeras on the final years of the Ottoman Empire [Part 1/EP #355 here], we discuss the Ottoman catastrophes in World War One, the Armenian Genocide, surrender in 1918, and the transformation of the Ottoman re

Guest: Joshua Landis, Director of Center for Middle East Studies & blogger Recorded: January 25, 2022 Our monthly World Of Wars looks at two wars: the phony Russia-Ukraine war that NATO & western media is screaming about...and the grim, real ongoing war in Syria, which NATO and the western media don

Guest: Lindsey Snell, journalist Recorded: February 3, 2021 We talk to investigative journalist Lindsey Snell about what it was like to be kidnapped by Al Qaeda's Syria franchise, Jabhat al-Nusra/HTS, and her reporting on Turkey's wars in Artsakh, Libya and Syria. Follow Lindsey on Twitter. Check ou

Guest: Lika Zakaryan, journalist Recorded: October 11, 2020 Journalist Lika Zakaryan speaks to us from under Azerbajaini bombardment in her hometown Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh (also known as "Artsakh"). Lika describes war—and life under existential threat—from a very close-up and p

Guest: Maurice Grela, game developer Recorded: September 29, 2020 Following up on our RWN episode surveying war-themed video games with Gunnar Hrafn Jónsson (EP #217), we're joined by game developer Maurice Grela to talk about how video games—specifically war gaming—are created and developed. Grela

Guests: Narin Briar & Elijah Magnier Recorded: October 23, 2019 Recorded just after Russia and Turkey announced an agreement on the dismantling of Rojava, we talked first to Kurdish-American activist Narin Briar for the Rojava perspective of this grim moment . . . At 1:05:00 we talk to longtime Midd

Guest: Joey L., photographer & filmmaker Recorded: July 6, 2019 For non-subscribers, here is a 30+ minute preview of Radio War Nerd episode #189 with guest Joey Lawrence about his incredible stories & photos from his journeys to Iraqi Kurdistan & Rojava. Joey talks about his new book, "We Came From