The afikra Podcast

The afikra Podcast is our flagship series featuring experts from academia, art, media, urban plannin

Episodes

Total: 423

Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann talked about her latest book, Sudan Retold. The book is not primarily concern

In this conversation, we talked to Tarek Atrissi about his career in contemporary graphic design lan

In this Mujalasa interview, we talked to Eugene Rogan his research on modern middle eastern history.

In this interview, we talked to Charles Al Hayek about our new podcast series, Mujalasa, in collabor

In this event, we talked to professor of linguistics Enam Al-Wer and professor and chair of Arabic l

In this Matbakh event, we talked to Mennat-Allah El Dorry about her career in archaeobotanical analy

In this conversation, we talked to Fida Adely about her research on education, labor, development, a

In this Movie Night event, we talked to Viola Shafik about her career in the filmmaking industry. Sh

In this conversation, we talked to Peter Adamson about his career in the field of ancient and mediev

In this conversation, we talked to Issam Kourbaj about his career in fine arts and design. Issam’s w

In this Quartertones event, we listened to Adnan Joubran as he performed three musical pieces follow

In this conversation, we talked to Naomi Shihab Nye about her career in prose and poetry writing. Ny

In this Matbakh event, we talked to Charles Perry about his career as a translator of several mediev

In this conversation in collaboration with Liwan Design Studios & Labs at Qatar Museums, we talked t

In this conversation, we talked to Roger Allen about  his career in translating the works of renowne

In this event, we talked to Yara Khoury Nammour and Lara Captan about the future of the Arab script.

In this Quartertones event, we listened to Firas Zreik as he performed three musical pieces: Taksim,

In this conversation, we talked to Zeina Maasri about her investigation focused on post-1945 anti-co

In this Book Club, we talked to Safia Elhillo about her book "Home is not a country."  The novel is

In this conversation in collaboration with Liwan Design Studios & Labs at Qatar Museums, we talked t