Episode 8 • Season Three — Cities 61:05 2026/08/02

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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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?

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