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Jeddah: the rawshan, the sea and the stranger
A port city that lives on passage. How did that shape its architecture, its dialect and its relation to the newcomer?
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Conversations with researchers, storytellers and witnesses to change — listening to Saudis tell their own story.
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Riyadh: a city writing itself again
How do residents live through urban change at this speed? A conversation about memory, the neighbourhood and belonging.
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The wasm: a mark that precedes the alphabet
On marks of ownership on camel and stone, and on the question they open: when does a mark become writing?
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The majlis: who sits at the head?
A reading of the majlis as an ordering of standing, and of what happened to it when housing moved into flats.
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The aflaj: who owns the water?
How did people divide scarce water with a fairness that actually held, before pumps and meters?
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Sadu: when weaving becomes a language
We sit with a craftswoman from the badia to understand how the lines of sadu are read, and why every pattern has...
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From oral history to the digital archive: tools and challenges
How do we document living memory before modernity folds it away? An episode that is technical and philosophical at once, with the...
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Cultural identity in an age of rapid change
An in-depth discussion with Dr Majed Aldhiyabi on questions of identity amid the rapid social change the Kingdom has seen since 2016.
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Mud architecture and a way of life | with an architect of inheritance
In this episode we host the architect Reem Alghamdi to discuss how mud architecture in Najd shaped a complete way of living...
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