Join me and the renowned Persian historian Farshid Emami, as we discuss the importance of coffee to Persian royal society, common culture and its impact on architecture in Isfahan.
Join me and Mokhtar Alkhanshali (historian, community historian and coffee innovator) as we follow the roots of Coffee from Ethiopia, Yemen to Makkah and then Istanbul and Europe. Mokhtar shares the intimate history of Coffee in Islam and its u
What is the Ghazal? Where did it start and to where did it travel? PersianPoetics (Sharghzadeh) and I discuss the beautiful structure of the Ghazal and its most famous poets from Attar, Mawlana Rumi, Hafez and Attar to Ghalib, Iqbal and modern
You've heard about Orientalism of the east, but are things much different in Mexico, Central America or South America? Join me and Andrea Muñoz, a Mexican archaeologist and anthropologist discuss the common phenomenon of being studied and cat
Episode 1: Join Omar Sheira and me for a walk through of the history of Cairo, from its foundations a thousand years ago to present time. We discuss the Fatimid, Ayyubid (and of course Saladin) and the mighty Mamluks, the giant Ottomans before