Mounaz and Aya Abdel Raouf

This week, I'm sitting down with my producer Chirag Desai to reflect on a whirlwind first half of the year—from interviewing iconic figures and taking the show international to the importance of reclaiming our narrative. We talk about what drives the show, the magic of the MENA r ...  Show more

This week, we're continuing the conversation with Karim Mekhtigian and Mohamed Fares, where they tell me about their design philosophy, and their new destination in Downtown Cairo, Tamara Haus, which is where we recorded the episode.Karim & Fares, alongside Emy Hussein, are the v ...  Show more

في هذه الحلقة، نجتمع مع آية و موناز، مؤسسي العلامة الشهيرة أختين. نتعرف عليهم بعيدا عن علامة الأزياء، ونجعلهم يتعرفون على بعض ايضاً على مستوى اعمق. تحدثانا الأختين عن تجارب طفولتهم المشتركة، شخصياتهم الفريدة، ومعنى ان تكون جزء من عائلة تعمل في مجال واحد معاً. .شاهد آية وموناز يتع ...  Show more

Mona Kattan is an Iraqi-American entrepreneur and businesswoman who also runs Huda Beauty, a global cosmetics line along with her sister, Huda Kattan. Not many have known the ‘real’ Mona outside the world of beauty and business…until this interview. Mona herself admits to being c ...  Show more

Mona Kattan has been obsessed with fragrance her whole life. So after building Huda Beauty with her sister, Huda, following its launch in 2013, she decided to build her own brand, Kayali, starting in 2018. Now, Huda Beauty, Kayali and Wishful (which makes skin care) form the Katt ...  Show more

Can you really mix friendship, family and business? This week’s guests think you can. Shirin, Shida, and Shideh Kaviani are the co-founders of Naked Wardrobe. When they started their everyday basics fashion line out of their family home, they had no idea it would soon become an i ...  Show more