We ask: what happens to the memory of a place when the neighbourhood changes faster than its residents can narrate it? And how do people rebuild their belonging in a city that is new every decade?
Riyadh: a city writing itself again
Guest: Faisal Alotaibi
How do residents live through urban change at this speed? A conversation about memory, the neighbourhood and belonging.
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