The afikra Podcast

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

Episodes

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Renowned professor of ethics, law and political thought and leading scholar of Islamic Legal Studies

Maysoon Zayid, Palestinian comedian, actress, graphic novel author and co-creator of the NY Arab-Ame

The first of three live Design Doha podcast recordings features an interview with the Biennial's dep

Marwan Kraidy, CEO and Dean of Northwestern Qatar and leading scholar of global communication and me

Art historian, educator and author Jonathan Bloom joins us on the afikra podcast to talk about paper

Wael Al Awar is an architect and founder of waiwai alongside Kazuma Yamao — an architectural, landsc

Waleed Ziad is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the aut

John Esposito is a Professor of Religion and International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown

Wendy Shaw is an art historian and professor of the Art History of Islamic Cultures at the Freie Uni

Laila Soliman is an independent Egyptian theater director and playwright who lives and works in Cair

We reflect on why it's difficult to put an exact date on when al-Andalus actually "ended", the broth

We sat down with Mehdi Benchaabane, director of Qatar Academy Doha, to discuss the current advantage

Each night we taped live conversations with the artists on stage. This special Quartertones episode

Finally, she highlights the critical role that artists and their art play as “interpreters of our ti

Each night we taped live conversations with the artists on stage. This special Quartertones episode

We asked him about his decision to set the film between 2005 and 2011 — a significant moment in Suda

We partnered with Habibi Festival for a six-night celebration of ancient + contemporary sounds from

We're excited to announce that our special episodes on Palestine are turning into their own podcast.

We partnered with Habibi Festival for a six-night celebration of ancient + contemporary sounds from

This conversation is a rerun of a 2021 episode with Professor Rashid Khalidi author of "The Hundred