Confused about what’s going on in the Middle East? Tired of black and white images drawn by the media? Listen to the first hand account of two Middle Easterners who made their way to the United States from Iraq and Iran. We talk about our lives in the Middle East, and our experience with religion, human rights and democracy.
Mert and Elnaz talk about secularism in the Middle East. What it mean and why we need it in the Middle East.
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Music is from the track Mina by “Sound: The Encounter”.
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25 Jan 2022
Let Us Talk
Mert and Elnaz talk about #LetUsTalk, a campaign by the Middle Eastern women who share their living experience of oppression by the Islamic ideology and why it is important that we talk about it.
Listen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CZJDIXJFcuf/ (https://www.instagram.com/tv/CZJDIXJFcuf/)
Music is from the track Mina by “Sound: The Encounter”.
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18 Jan 2022
Regime Change
Elnaz is from Iran where people are trying hard to change the regime and they are not successful. Mert is from Iraq where the regime change happened by outside forces. In this episode we talk about the pros and cons of regime change.
Listen on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CY29zXVlwvK/ (https://anchor.fm/elnaz-mert/episodes/Regime-Change-e1d3kq1)
Music is from the track Mina by “Sound: The Encounter”.
1 Jan 2022
I Am Not the Only One
Curious about what’s going on in the Middle East? Tired of black and white images drawn by the media? Listen to the first hand account of two Middle Easterners who made their way to the United States from Iraq and Iran. Learn who we are, where we met and what drives us to speak up in our first episode: I am not the only one.
Music is from the track Mina by “Sound: The Encounter”.
Listen on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CYNulo-lGLn/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/CYNulo-lGLn/)
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