#7 - Art, Culture & The Arab Narrative: Rima ...

In this episode of Tak on the Pod, host Andrea Makhlouf sits down with Habib Kairouz, Managing Partner at Rho Capital Partners, for a conversation about long-term thinking, conviction, and responsibility.With over three decades of experience backing founders through cycles of boo ...  Show more

In this episode of Tak on the Pod, our host Andrea Makhlouf sits down with Dr. Shihab Kuran - a Jordanian-born inventor, serial entrepreneur, and seasoned executive in the global semiconductor, power, and clean tech sectors. Throughout his career, Dr. Kuran has engineered solutio ...  Show more

A series of conversations with Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and people who have been part of Qatar’s architecture & culture development journey. In this episode, Her Excellency is joined by Zeina Arida, the Director of MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art, in Doha. Zei ...  Show more

Yasmine Nachabe Taan interviews Beirut-born Lebanese graphic designer @RanaSalam, "Queen of Arab Pop", founder of Rana Salam Studio in Beirut, Lebanon. Together they unpack her journey as a designer, what inspires her, what she is passionate about, and how she translates that int ...  Show more

In this conversation, we are talking to Rima Rantisi on her writing and being the founding editor of Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal, which publishes artists and writers from Lebanon, its diaspora, and the region and is currently in its eighth circulation.

With each stitch and surface, Naqsh Collective reimagines the boundaries between craft, architecture, and memory. In this episode, we sit with Nisreen, Nermeen and Shireen Abu Dail, the sisters behind the collective, to reflect on what it means to carry Palestinian identity th ...