The Arab and The Manc Podcast special episode

A wild true story of ambition, deception, and literary crime! How one man nearly got away with stealing Shakespeare’s priceless First Folio from Durham University — until it all went wrong… 

We dive into the wild Nutty Putty cave story 😱 —how he got stuck & didn’t make it. Then we chat about what we’d want our fam to do if we were trapped. Would you pull the plug or not? 😬 

We've always wanted to meet Marwan and when another guest couldn't make our recording, the man behind our podcast camera's episode was expedited (need to check this spelling). In this episode, we meet with Marwan, a 25-year-old Egyptian who was born in Dubai we discuss mental hea ...  Show more

This is a special edition of Kalam Podcast due to the dramatic events in Lebanon, effectively escalating the already intense regional tensions in the Middle East. In this conversation, Lebanese journalist Ralph Baydoun joins Edgar for a frank conversation about the precarious sta ...  Show more

We’re currently on a season break and will be back with new episodes in September. In the meantime, I wanted to share my conversation from last year with businessman, art collector, activist and academic Sultan Sooud Al Qaseemi. Sultan’s story starts out as a proud son of Sharjah ...  Show more

‏Author, commentator and human rights advocate Khaled Mansour joins us to talk about how reading Arab women’s memoirs can help one gain a new understanding of the region’s collective history. After he worked with Egyptian psychoanalyst and feminist Afaf Mahfouz to write her autob ...  Show more