Episode 9 • Season Three — Cities 52:40 2026/08/14

Jeddah: the rawshan, the sea and the stranger

Guest: Noura Alshamsi

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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A conversation about historic Jeddah: the rawshan as a climatic and social technology, the quarter as a unit of organisation, and the effect of the Hajj on the making of the city.

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