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Mo Gawdat
Mo is the author of Solve for Happy, Scary Smart, and more recently, That Little Voice in Your Head. He’s also behind the One Billion Happy movement.
What I Did Next
What I Did Next is a show that explores lives’ pivotal moments. Host Malak Fouad welcomes guests from our region and across a variety of industries to bring you conversations of success, failure, and everything in-between.
New episodes every second Tuesday.
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Bonus, with Amy Mowafi
We’re continuing our conversation with Amy Mowafi, co-founder of the MO4 network. We dig into MO4’s plans to
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Amy Mowafi
Amy, along with her siblings, runs the MO4 network of companies.
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Bonus, with Fadi Ghandour
We’re continuing our conversation with Fadi Ghandour, the co-founder of Aramex, Wamda Capital and the NGO Ruwwad. On this
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Fadi Ghandour
Fadi Ghandour is the co-founder of Aramex, Wamda Capital and the non-profit, Ruwwad.
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Season 4 launches September 5
What I Did Next is back with a new season, beginning September 5th.
If you’ve heard the show before,
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Season 3 Wrap-up
I sit down with our producer Chirag Desai to talk about the highlights of the season, some learnings and a look ahead to Season 4.
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Youssef El Deeb
Youssef is a film-maker, photographer, writer, ad-man, broadcaster, foodie and even a sailor. A son of Alexandria, Youssef’s life has seen him move from Egypt to Canada, to Kuwait, and finally to Dubai, where he currently resides.
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Nadine Kanso
Nadine Kanso has taken the concept of what it means to be an Arab and translated it using her camera lens, calligraphy or by moulding gold into bold, strong letters to form her signature brand, Bilarabi.
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Dr. Ahmed Heikal
As chairman and CEO of Qalaa Holdings, Ahmed is well known to many in the business community across the Middle East. We talk candidly about the trajectory of his career, his appetite for risk and how he views the current phase of his career.
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Clarissa Ward
Clarissa is a multi-award winning journalist and Chief International Correspondent for the CNN. She is also the author of On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist.
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Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi
Sultan’s story starts out as a proud son of Sharjah in the UAE before he came to the attention of a wide audience around the world for his activism during the 2011 revolutions in the Arab World.
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Hend Sabri
Hend is the queen of our cinematic hearts, and a leading light of both the silver and the small screens.
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Bonus, with Kito de Boer
I’m continuing my conversation with Kito de Boer for this special bonus episode about his role with the Quartet,
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Kito de Boer
Kito spent nearly 30 years at McKinsey, and his exposure to the world of management consultancy as well as international political institutions has given him unique insights into what makes the world go ‘round.
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Fatma Said
Since starting out at the iconic La Scala theatre in Milan, Fatma Said tours the world as a soprano bringing beloved roles to life in productions spanning the traditional languages of opera; Italian, German, French and Russian.
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Season 2 Wrap-up
Tune in to our wrap-up episode where we discuss the highlights of the last 8 episodes and look ahead to Season 3.
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Prince Abbas Hilmi
I’m delighted to welcome Prince Abbas Hilmi onto the last episode of Season 2.
Prince Abbas Hilmi is a
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Kim Ghattas
Meet Kim Ghattas, journalist, writer and lecturer. Kim’s career has been extensive and multi-layered. Kim, who is half Lebanese
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Bobby Chinn
Bobby Chinn—celebrity chef, raconteur, comic, mimic and globetrotter—is my guest on the show this week. Perhaps best known