Living outside the Middle Eastern stereotypes...

In this episode, MEEDA's VP Carine El Khazen receives Ricardo Karam. Mr Karam is a talk-show host, public speaker, writer and advocate of promoting Arab achievement and social causes. In 2010, Mr Karam decided to take storytelling to the next level and use it as a means of creati ...  Show more

In this episode, MEEDA discusses women's mental health with Nadia Al Sayed. Nadia Al-Sayed is a British-Kuwaiti-Palestinian anthropologist and cultural consultant. Born and raised in North London, she spent her teenage years in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She currently lives between Lo ...  Show more

What does it mean to live outside the stereotypes, and how can we free ourselves from shame?How do we stop caring about others' judgments and start living for ourselves?Alya Mooro, Egyptian-born and London-raised writer and best-selling author of The Greater Freedom: Life as a Mi ...  Show more

Alya Mooro is an Egyptian-born, London-raised freelance journalist and author of the bestselling non-fiction book The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes. Alya is also the host of a new podcast, Talk of Shame, in which she speaks with guests fr ...  Show more

Ask your question or share your story Alya Mooro is an Egyptian-born journalist and writer based in London who wrote her first book The Greater Freedom: Life As a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes where she discusses the identity crisis that can be caused as a result o ...  Show more

We enjoyed discussing with Alya her bestselling non-fiction book The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes and the recently launched newsletter "The Greater Conversation", centering female Middle Eastern stories with an aim to de-stigmatize throu ...  Show more