The Queer Arabs
by Alia, Ellie, Ahmed, Nadia and Adam
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Episode 219 [in English]: Nahid
Episode 219 [in English]: Nahid
About this podcast
Some queer Arabs run a podcast together!
Episodes
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- Episode 219 [in English]: Nahid · 1 h 1 min · Episode 246Nahid is a Sudanese artist and activist with a background in theater, music, education, and human rights work. Nahid talks about her current experience caretaking for her…
- Episode 218 [in English]: Clarissa Bitar · 44 min · Episode 245Clarissa Bitar is an accomplished Palestinian oud musician and composer hailing from Los Angeles, California. With a background in Music and a specialization in Ethnomusicology…
- Episode 217 [in English]: The Legendary X-Knights · 34 min · Episode 244Bijhan Agha is a trans Persian-American comic artist living in Uruguay, and second-time podcast guest! This time, she joined us to talk about her latest superhero comic “The…
- Episode 216 [in English]: Creators for Gaza · 47 min · Episode 243Sheyam Ghieth is an artist, organizer, Egyptian propagandist, and repeat podcast guest after 4 years! Sheyam is a co-founder of Creators for Gaza, a SWANA-led mutual-aid network…
- Episode 215 [in English]: A Whole Lot of Stuff · 59 min · Episode 242We’re back with an episode with Alia, Ellie, and Nadia talking about: – An incredible show Nadia saw called LINES about the interconnected histories of Palestine, Uganda, and the…
- Episode 214 [in English]: Hannah Moushabeck · 56 min · Episode 241Hannah Moushabeck is a second-generation Palestinian American author, editor, and book marketer. She is the author of Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine, a children’s book…
- Episode 213 [in English]: Yaffa · 1 h 0 min · Episode 240Yaffa is a trans displaced Palestinian activist, engineer, death and birthing doula, peer support specialist, and artist. They are the Executive Director of Muslim Alliance for…
- Episode 212 [in English]: Hijab Butch Blues · 47 min · Episode 239Lamya H., author of Hijab Butch Blues, joined us for a wonderful episode! Lamya talks about the line between invisibility and hypervisibility as a brown person in hijab in the…
- Episode 211 [in English]: Mental Health for Liberation · 40 min · Episode 238Finlay Sarafa McHale is a queer Iraqi/Chaldean-American clinical social worker currently facilitating a free peer support group for queer SWANA people. They joined us for a…
- Episode 210 [in English]: Heterosexuals for Palestine · 44 min · Episode 237Leila Mire is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, as well as a dancer, choreographer, organizer, and sometimes disorganized person. She researches Palestinian…
- Episode 209 [in English]: In the Dark (Awake of Course) · 1 h 4 min · Episode 236We got to have Amina Shareef Ali back for another episode! She was on the podcast all the way back in January 2021 (episode 147), and we now had a wonderful conversation about…
- Episode 207 [in English]: Bijhan on Kobra Olympus! · 50 min · Episode 234We were joined by the wonderful Bijhan Agha, a Persian-American author and creator living in Uruguay. Bijhan talked about her wonderful creation, Kobra Olympus. Kobra is a trans…
- Episode 206 [in English]: The Artificially Intelligent Queer Arabs · 54 min · Episode 233We start off this episode by asking an AI to write a script for our podcast and doing a reading (did the AI get it right?) Then we talk about our actual lives. We discuss the…
- Episode 205 [in English]: Hayati · 51 min · Episode 232( See a walkthrough of Noor’s exhibit here! Hayati – My Life/My Love ) Noor Aldayeh is a visual artist from Los Angeles, California. She is an Honors Film and Media student at…
- Episode 204: Alma of Slave to Sirens! · 48 min · Episode 231Alma Doumani is the bassist for Slave to Sirens, an all-women thrash metal band from Lebanon that gained international attention through the documentary Sirens, which depicts the…
- Episode 203 [in English]: Rayan Afif · 43 min · Episode 230Rayan Afif is a multi-media artist and theater maker of Egyptian and Lebanese descent making work that envisions queer SWANA futures. Rayan discussed some of their visual art…
- Episode 202 [in English]: Rana Fayez · 55 min · Episode 229In this episode, we caught up with Rana Fayez, an Arab, non-binary, arts producer, musician/sound artist, DJ, archivist, and founder of YallaPunk. Rana told us how they started…
- Episode 200 [in English]! · 1 h 14 min · Episode 227It’s our 200th episode! Alia, Ellie, and Nadia celebrate with a deep and messy group chat. We recall the early days of the podcast and some tough lessons about trust learned…
- Episode 199 [in English]: Sarah Bitar · 1 h 11 min · Episode 199Sarah Bitar is an actor, writer, and teaching artist from Lebanon. Since graduating from the Stella Adler School of Acting, she has been living and creating in NYC. Sarah joined…
- Episode 198 [in English]: This Arab Is Queer · 1 h 8 min · Episode 225Elias Jahshan is a Palestinian/Lebanese-Australian journalist, writer and editor. He most recently edited the anthology This Arab Is Queer, which features eighteen queer Arab…
