This week, our guest is Mohamed Hassan. Mohamed is a journalist, writer, and poet from Auckland and Cairo. He was the winner of the 2015 NZ National Poetry Slam, is a TEDx fellow and recipient of the Gold Trophy at the 2017 New York Radio Awards. His poetry has been watched and shared widely online and taught in schools internationally. His 2020 poetry collection National Anthem was shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards.

A lot of Mohamed's work focuses on the Middle East and he has gotten the chance several times to report live from Palestine. In this podcast, we talk about the media’s portrayal of the Middle East, what it’s like being a third culture kid, and Mohamed gives us his insights from his work in Palestine.