Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLebanon explosion: What will Lebanon do now?
In this episode, we talk to Bassam ZaaZaa, a reporter with The National, and Zina Malas, a student at the American University of Beirut about their e…
6 years, 1 month ago
What happened when Beirut exploded?
James Haines Young pieces together the explosion and the immediate aftermath.
He talks to The National’s Sunniva Rose and Lina Mokadden, a resident…
6 years, 2 months ago
How Hajj will be different during the coronavirus pandemic
In this episode, we talk to Mohammed Mushfiq Uddin, a lead guide and scholar for a UK Hajj and Umrah operator, and Balquees Basalom, a social media j…
6 years, 2 months ago
The global sand trade: Are we running out of sand?
This week, we talk to Vince Beiser, author of the book The World in a Grain of Sand and Arora Torres, fellow at the Université catholique de Louvain …
6 years, 2 months ago
The Hope Probe: UAE's mission to Mars
In July 2020, UAE’s Hope Probe will blast off from Japan to study Mars.
This week, Mohsen Al Alwahdi, the Mission Systems Engineer at Dubai’s Mohamm…
6 years, 2 months ago
USA: The world's epicentre of the coronavirus
The United States of America is setting grim records. The number of daily cases of the coronavirus in the US are ahead of every other country in the …
6 years, 3 months ago
How do you solve the great Nile Dam dispute?
The Nile is Egypt and Egypt, for many, is the Nile. For over 8,000 years, this historic River has nurtured civilization. But now, Cairo says that’s u…
6 years, 3 months ago
Should internet access be declared a human right?
On the 1st of October 2019 mass protests spread through Iraq. People demanded an end to widespread corruption and access to basic services, like wate…
6 years, 3 months ago
Who will help the abandoned Ethiopian workers in Lebanon?
In Beirut, a white saloon car comes to a swift halt outside the Ethiopian Embassy in the south west of the city. A woman climbs out, and the car spee…
6 years, 3 months ago
George Floyd and how social media is changing social justice
On the evening of May 25th, George Floyd Jr walked into a shop in Minneapolis and tried to use a $20 note. Within half an hour, his limp body was loa…
6 years, 4 months ago