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Explore podcast episodes featuring Arab travelers sharing experiences of living abroad, long-term travel, and cross-cultural travel across borders. Hear perspectives from Palestinian and other Arab travelers on migration, displacement, community, and building lives across cultures.

Arab travelers bring diverse perspectives shaped by culture, language, and history across the Middle East, North Africa, and the global diaspora. In this collection from The Maverick Show, Arab guests share stories of living abroad, long-term travel, and navigating life across cultures. Guests include Palestinian travelers and others from the region and its diaspora, reflecting experiences of migration, displacement, exile, and building lives beyond borders. Together, these episodes explore cross-cultural travel, identity abroad, and the realities of finding community and belonging in different parts of the world.

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138: Transnational Solidarity Against Israeli Apartheid and Founding the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library with Vivien Sansour

Vivien Sansour reflects on growing up in Bethlehem, Palestine, under Israeli military occupation, and connecting with the Palestinian land and the nature as a child. She then opens up about her experience immigrating to the U.S. at age 10 and navigating anti-Arab racism in North Carolina. Vivien reflects on the humiliation deeply ingrained in the…

139: Anthony Bourdain in Palestine, Merging Art and Agriculture, and How to Be an Ally to the Palestinian Struggle with Vivien Sansour

In Part 2 of this interview with Vivien Sansour she reflects on her travels in Guatemala and why she feels such a profound connection to the country and the indigenous Mayan people. Vivien explains some of the primary causes of emigration, including the US and Israeli foreign policy violence in Guatemala, and how many of…

166: Empowering Displaced Persons and Refugees to Become Online Language Teachers and Tell Their Stories Across the World with Aline Sara

Aline Sara takes us on her journey growing up in a Lebanese immigrant family in New York and reflects on how her family’s experience in Beirut during the civil war shaped her passion for international human rights and conflict resolution. She shares her extensive world travel experiences through Lebanon, Syria and Turkey, as well as…

201: Being Imprisoned in Bahrain, Teaching Windsurfing in Barbados as an Anti-Colonial Gesture, and the Role of Poetry in Arab Culture with Zein El-Amine

Zein El-Amine talks about growing up in Lebanon at the start of the Lebanese civil war and tells the story of being trapped between two warring factions in Beirut at 12 years old. He then opens up about his time attending high school in Bahrain and college in Saudi Arabia. Zein shares the story of…

203: How to Tell Great Travel Stories and Turn Your Lived Experiences into Poetry or Prose with Zein El-Amine

In the third and final installment of this interview, Zein El-Amine discusses what makes a great piece of writing for him, as a reader. He then talks about his process for writing great stories, explains the difference between poetry and prose, and shares how he chooses the medium through which to tell his stories. Zein…

284: Roaming with Rasha, Riding Motorcycles Around the World, And Helping to Stop the Genocide in Gaza with Rasha Mediene

Learn about growing up as a Palestinian-American, traveling to Gaza as a kid, and how you can help stop the genocide. Rasha joins Matt from Dahab, Egypt, and starts by sharing what she loves about Egypt. Rasha then talks about her parents’ experience growing up in Palestine and immigrating to the U.S.. She then reflects

331: From Palestine to Global Impact: The Transformative Power of Cultural Exchange Through Travel with Yazan Badarny

Learn how volunteering, internships, and cultural exchanges abroad can transform your life & positively impact the world. Yazan Badarny joins Matt from Haifa and starts off by talking about his experience growing up in the Palestinian city of Arraba. He describes the racism and second class citizenship experienced by Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, and explains…

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Arab Travelers

138: Transnational Solidarity Against Israeli Apartheid and Founding the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library with Vivien Sansour

139: Anthony Bourdain in Palestine, Merging Art and Agriculture, and How to Be an Ally to the Palestinian Struggle with Vivien Sansour

166: Empowering Displaced Persons and Refugees to Become Online Language Teachers and Tell Their Stories Across the World with Aline Sara

201: Being Imprisoned in Bahrain, Teaching Windsurfing in Barbados as an Anti-Colonial Gesture, and the Role of Poetry in Arab Culture with Zein El-Amine

203: How to Tell Great Travel Stories and Turn Your Lived Experiences into Poetry or Prose with Zein El-Amine

284: Roaming with Rasha, Riding Motorcycles Around the World, And Helping to Stop the Genocide in Gaza with Rasha Mediene

331: From Palestine to Global Impact: The Transformative Power of Cultural Exchange Through Travel with Yazan Badarny

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