The Borgen Project Podcast

Dr. Nour Sharaf provides insight into global diseases and war injuries. Dr. Sharaf is an Emergency Medicine Doctor from Dallas and serves on The Borgen Project's Board of Directors. She has done three medical missions to Gaza during the war.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 


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Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project and Chief of Staff, Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest global news. 

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

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Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and ad...

Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project and Chief of Staff, Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest global news. 

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

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Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and ad...

Clint Borgen's quick take on the Elon Musk interview with the Economist. Despite shutting down the largest humanitarian agency in the world, Musk continues to deny anyone was killed.

The Borgen Project Podcast provides a humourous look at the biggest global issues.

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Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and advocacy.

Learn more at borgenproject.org.

Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project and Chief of Staff, Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest global news. 

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

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Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and ad...

Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project discusses the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Erica Tavares from the International Medical Corps provides insight into the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

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Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the w...

Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project and Chief of Staff, Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest global news. 

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

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Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and ad...

Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project and Chief of Staff, Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest global news. 

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

borgenproject.org

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and ad...

Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project and Chief of Staff, Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest global news. The U.S. and Israel have attacked Iran, but the White House appears to have very little strategy.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

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Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that f...

Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project and Chief of Staff, Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest global news. The U.S. and Israel have attacked Iran, but the White House appears to have very little strategy.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

Watch John Oliver coverage of USAID

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Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project and Chief of Staff, Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest global news. The U.S. and Israel have attacked Iran, but the White House appears to have very little strategy.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

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Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that f...

Cinematographer Jean-Gabriel Leynaud latest documentary, Of Mud and Blood, covers the mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Numbi, a small village clinging to the mountains of South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, silently powers the modern world. Under the shadow of the Nyiragongo volcano, men, women, and children extract coltan by hand, a mineral essential to our electronic devices. Caught between armed groups, traffickers, and the military, the inhabitants live to the rhythm of an endless war, where alliances change but misery remains. While multinational corporations source through often opaque channels, the miners are mired...

Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project and Chief of Staff, Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest global news.

Halo Trust doing great work in Sri Lanka. Judge rules Elon Musk must testify under oath about DOGE cuts to USAID.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

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Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project and Chief of Staff, Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest global news.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

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Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and a...

Dr. Nahreen Ahmed returns to the show after her fourth trip to Gaza. Dr. Nahreen is a critical care doctor based in Philadelphia and serves as a technical consultant for the Gates Foundation. Dr. Ahmed has extensive experience working in humanitarian disasters and warzones across the globe, including Sierra Leone, Yemen, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Bangladesh and Gaza.

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Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and advocacy.

Learn more at borgenproject.org.

Dr. Thaer Ahmad is a board-certified emergency medicine physician, global health leader, and humanitarian who has provided medical relief in some of the world’s most devastated conflict zones, including Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Greece, Lebanon, and Kenya. Based in Chicago, he serves as an Assistant Program Director for his department’s emergency medicine residency program and is the director of global health. He is also an assistant clinical professor at the University of Illinois and at Wake Forest School of Medicine. In a widely publicized moment, Dr. Ahmad delivered a powerful firsthand account during a private briefing with President Bide...

Clint Borgen and Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest global news.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

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Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and advocacy.

Learn more at borgenproject.org.

Dr. Joshua Blumenstock discusses the estimated cost of ending global poverty. Josh is the Co-director of the Global Opportunity Lab and the Center for Effective Global Action. He is also an Associate Professor at the School of Information at UC Berkeley.

Learn about the cost of ending global poverty.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

Clint Borgen and Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest global news.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

borgenproject.org

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and advocacy.

Learn more at borgenproject.org.

Dr. Nahreen Ahmed is a critical care doctor based in Philadelphia and serves as a technical consultant for the Gates Foundation. Dr. Ahmed has extensive experience working in humanitarian disasters and warzones across the globe, including Sierra Leone, Yemen, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Bangladesh and Gaza.

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Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and advocacy.

Learn more at borgenproject.org.

Clint Borgen and Lynsey Alexander discuss Sudan and the latest in Gaza.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

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Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and advocacy.

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Clint Borgen and Lynsey Alexander discuss Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and the man behind the Nobel Peace Prize.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

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Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, p...

Dr. Nour Sharaf, an ER doctor from Dallas discusses working in Gaza. Dr. Sharaf was in Gaza during the height of hunger and shoots at the GHF site. 

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and advocacy.

Learn more at borgenproject.org.

Clint Borgen and Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest humanitarian developments.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

borgenproject.org

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and advocacy.

Learn more at borgenproject.org.

Clint Borgen and Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest humanitarian developments.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

borgenproject.org

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and advocacy.

Learn more at borgenproject.org.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

borgenproject.org

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and advocacy.

Learn more at borgenproject.org.

Clint Borgen and Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest humanitarian developments.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

borgenproject.org

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and advocacy.

Learn more at borgenproject.org.

Clint Borgen and Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest humanitarian developments.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. 

borgenproject.org

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and advocacy.

Learn more at borgenproject.org.

Dr. Mimi Syed is an American board-certified emergency medicine physician, Dr. Syed served in Gaza from August 8 to September 5, 2024, and December 3 to December 31, 2024, at both Al-Aqsa Hospital and Nasser Hospital. 

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Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. borgenproject.org

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fi...

Clint Borgen and Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest humanitarian developments.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. borgenproject.org

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and advocacy.

Learn more at borgenproject.org.

Women’s rights activist Gulalai Ismail is one of Pakistan’s most prominent human rights defenders and critics of the Pakistani security services. Authorities in Pakistan have falsely accused her of a litany of serious offences including sedition, financing terrorism and defaming state institutions as a result of her advocacy for a grassroots Pashtun rights movement.Ismail was forced to go on the run in 2019, managing to escape to the U.S. despite significant efforts to capture her. Pakistani security services have since targeted Ismail’s parents, throwing her 65-year-old father into jail on charges of sedition and terrorism financing, which...

Professor Omer Bartov recently wrote an op ed in The New York Times titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.” The United States Holocaust Memorial Mueseum has cited him as one of the world’s leading specialist on genocide. Professor Bartov shares his insight.

Omer Bartov Bio: Born in Israel and educated at Tel Aviv University and St. Antony's College, Oxford, Omer Bartov's early research concerned the Nazi indoctrination of the Wehrmacht and the crimes it committed in World War II, analyzed in his books, The Eastern Front, 1941-1945, and Hitler's Ar...

Clint Borgen and Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest humanitarian news and developments.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. borgenproject.org



Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and advocacy.

Learn more at bo...

Josh Paul is the Co-Founder, of A New Policy, which is focused on transforming American foreign policy toward the Middle East, to reflect American values of liberty, equality, democracy, and human rights.

Paul was a Director at the State Department for 12-years and involved with sending weapons to foreign countries. In October of 2023, Paul publicly resigned citing concerns the U.S. wasn’t following its own laws and procedures when it came to supplying weapons to Israel. Paul noted that Israel was requesting a "variety of weapons that have no applicability to the current conflict.”

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Clint Borgen and Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest humanitarian developments.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. borgenproject.org

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and advocacy.

Learn more at borgenproject.org.

Clint Borgen and Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest humanitarian developments.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. borgenproject.org

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and advocacy.

Learn more at borgenproject.org.

Dr. Henryk Szadziewski is Director of Research at the Uyghur Human Rights Project. He lived in the People's Republic of China for five years, including a three-year period in Uyghur-populated regions. Henryk Szadziewski studied modern Chinese and Mongolian at the University of Leeds, and completed a master's degree at the University of Wales, where he specialised in Uyghur economic, social and cultural rights

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and advocacy.

Learn more at borgenproject.o...

Tim Hanstad, Vice-Chair of the Chandler Foundation and Co-founder of the land rights organization Landesa and Catalyst Now, the world’s largest global network of social entrepreneurs and innovators. 


Guest Bio
Tim Hanstad serves as the Vice-Chair of the Chandler Foundation’s Board of Directors. Prior to this Tim was the Chandler Foundation's first Chief Executive Officer, a position he held for five years. Before joining the Foundation, Tim co-founded Landesa with Roy Prosterman and served as its CEO for many years, helping to grow the organisation and its impact from a two-person start-up to a G...

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa discusses Gaza with Clint Borgen. Dr. Sidhaw is a Trauma Surgeon, based in California, with experience in Gaza, Ukraine, the West Bank, Zimbabwe, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Burkina Faso. He received his Masters in Public Health from Harvard and his Medical Degree from the University of Texas Medical School.

Take Action: Urge Congress to meet with American doctors who served in Gaza.

Mentioned: Read the letter U.S. doctors sent to Congress.

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Clint Borgen and Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest humanitarian developments.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.
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Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and advocacy.

Learn more at borgenproject.org.