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Middle East Overview
Channel News Asia (CNA) Singapore, June 2, 2026, 14 min.: Israel and militant group Hezbollah have accepted a US proposal to pause hostilities. US President Donald Trump persuaded Israeli and Hezbollah leaders to de-escalate, after Iran threatened to end indirect…
Firstpost America, June 1, 2026 [Zunes from 4-10 mins.]
Arab Organisation for Human Rights in UK, May 23, 2026 full seminar, 55 min. Repression in Egypt is not happening in isolation, but is sustained through Washington’s continuous political and military support. Successive U.S. administrations have shielded the Egyptian government…
KTVU Fox 2, Bay Area TV affiliate, May 20, 2026
Truthout May 5, 2026: The same kind of US hubris that led to the tragic wars in Vietnam and Iraq is manifesting itself with Iran today. U.S. efforts to force an end to the stalemate in the Strait of Hormuz…
KTVU, Bay Area Fox 2, May 5, 2026, 5 min.
At Resource Center for Nonviolence, May 8, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz: Film screening of “Plate It With Silver,” and discussion led by Stephen Zunes (USF) and Nidhi Mahajan (UCSC), on the current war and histories of trade across the…
Fair Observer, April 24, 2026 (32 min.) with 20-second soundbite: “The origins of Hezbollah was the direct result of the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon in 1982. And here’s the irony, they’re saying, ‘We have to occupy southern Lebanon to…
Firstpost America, April 28, 2026 (from 5:00-9:00)
Fair Observer Talks April 24, 2026, 46 min. [Also
Wyoming Star, April 24, 2026: Zunes offered a bleak long‑view: “It’s hard to see an end to the conflict any time soon. Hopefully, both sides now recognize they cannot achieve their aims through full-scale war, but the positions of the…
DemocracyNow.org April 23, 2026 (14 min.)
Panel Zunes hosted April 20. 2026 [1:16] with Robert Malley, a key figure in recent Democratic administrations in negotiations with Iran and with Israel & Palestine, and Daniel Zoughbie of the Institute of International Studies at the University of California-Berkeley.…
BBC April 21, 2026: Uncertainty over US-Iran peace talks.
KPFA-FM, Pacifica Radio with Kris Welch, April 17, 2026 (begins at 15:35)
Truthout, April 17, 2026: Democrats share responsibility with the GOP for creating the climate that made such a war possible. Unlike the invasion of Iraq, which received the support of a sizable minority of congressional Democrats, Donald Trump’s war on…
The 2026 edition of Globus magazine, a student publication on global affairs at the University of San Francisco, features Zunes, who “In between teaching graduate courses, is often found at his desk [dwarfed by] a time capsule of his publications…