Omar Samra - Mountaineering, Surviving the Atlantic and a Love of Nepal
Omar Samra is a household name by now, he's the first Egyptian to climb Mount Everest and to achieve many adventuring milestones including skiing the North and South poles. He shares how his childhood...
16 Maj 202150min
Felukah - New York and Cairo, Storytelling, and Rap
Felukah doesn't believe in labels, but if she did, she'd fall under many: artist, storyteller, poet, rapper, and soon to be director. She started with poetry in her high school english class and she's...
2 Maj 202143min
Iman Le Caire - Egyptian Trans Activist in New York
Iman Le Caire is an Egyptian Trans woman and activist living in New York. She is the founder of TRANS ASYLIAS, an organization providing help to Trans asylum seekers. Iman shares her heartbreaking and...
18 Apr 202152min
Amir El-Masry - Limbo, Studying Criminology, and a British-Egyptian Identity
Amir El-Masry is an Egyptian-British actor whose work spans countries, languages and genres. More known to Egyptians from his first role in "Ramadan Mabrouk Abul-Alamein Hamouda" as Ramzy, El-Masry ha...
4 Apr 202145min
Ganzeer - Street Art, Art as Commentary, and Graphic Novels
You may know him from the days of 2011, but Ganzeer is far more than a street artist. Currently based in Houston, Texas, Ganzeer travelled the world creating commentary art on each place he’s lived, f...
21 Mars 202141min
Nour Emam - Doula by Day, ThisIsMotherBeing By Night
Taking Egyptian internet by storm, Nour Emam, known as “This is Mother Being” has been a brave voice in changing misconceptions in sexual health and mythbusting old traditions. Guest Host Mary Aravani...
7 Mars 202139min
Merhan Keller - Activism, Motherhood and Work-Life Balance
Merhan Keller works full-time and is a women’s rights activist and mother of three. She first became prominent on social media when she accused a famous Egyptian football player of widespread harassme...
21 Feb 202137min
Bassem Youssef - Reinvention, Political Satire and a Plant Based Diet
We often establish in this episode that Bassem Youssef needs no introduction, at least in the Arab World and North Africa - but to those who aren't as familiar, he was once considered the Jon Stewart ...
7 Feb 202153min
