Forgotten Schools, Limited Vision
While spending some days in Portugal this month I got to enjoy the beauty of spring in the small agricultural villages of my ancestors. Places where social and economic life has slowed down over the…
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali: Population Explosion and Water in Egypt
Podcast: Download (Duration: 46:00 — 31.6MB) | Embed As part of the Arab Artists in a Revolution series, during our three weeks in Cairo, we had the pleasure of meeting up with the former UN…
Family That Doesn’t Recognize One Another
In the conclusion of our last major podcast of the Arab Artists Series on Radio Open Source, I told my podcasting partner Chris Lydon that throughout our experience in North Africa, including in Egypt, I…
Sounds of the Sultan Hassan Mosque
During our time in Cairo, in between the steady stream of interviews and journeys to different neighborhoods, there were also the moments when we managed to do a little tourism and visit magnificent sights of…
Amin’s Beautiful Family
The idea was to start our Arab Artists adventure with something extra special, with someone that could get us moving on the right foot, and that person turned out to be celebrated author and journalist…