Podcast: Dr Harry Hagopian discusses Middle East and North Africa

Dr Harry Hagopian

In this week's Middle East Analysis, Dr Harry Hagopian discusses the on-going struggles and turmoil in the MENA region. He looks at the deteriorating situation in Syria with thousands of refugees fleeing into Turkey after a military crackdown in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour.

He also looks at Yemen and the current state of play. President Ali Abdullah Saleh is undergoing medical treatment in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for wounds suffered in an attack on his palace earlier this month.

Finally he discusses Bahrain, the lifting of emergency laws and a potentially significant court case. There is also a regional round-up examining the situation in Libya, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.

Dr Hagopian is an international lawyer and consultant to the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales on the Middle East. He's also a former Assistant General Secretary of the Middle East Council of Churches and Executive Secretary of the Jerusalem Inter-Church Committee.


To listen to the podcast see: www.catholicchurch.org.uk/mena-7

Dr Harry Hagopian's website is at: www.epektasis.net/