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In this episode of Tak on the Pod, Andrea sits down with Samer Abou Hamad to talk about his journey cycling from Boston to Beirut.After leaving a career in corporate America, Samer set out on a three-year journey cycling from Boston to Beirut - crossing five continents, more than ...  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

Creative director, activist, and storyteller Alana Hadid joins us for an in-depth conversation, sharing her earliest memories of growing up in a Palestinian-American family, the influence of her family members, and how she navigates social media algorithms to educate and raise ...

Send us Fan Mail24. ILLUSTRATING PALESTINIAN IDENTITY WITH TATREEZ WITH NADA ESMAEELNADA ESMAEEL IS A PROFESSIONAL VISUAL ARTIST THAT SPECIALIZES IN DIGITAL ART AND IS A RECENT AMATEUR TATREEZ-ER (@nadasink).Together, we discuss coming to terms with the effects of colonialism on ...  Show more

On this week's episode, we chat with Nadir Nahdi, a storyteller and filmmaker with a richly woven background that spans London, Yemen, Indonesia, Kenya, and Pakistan. Nadir opens the conversation up to the heart of multicultural and multi-ethnic experiences, examining the fluid a ...  Show more

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 ...