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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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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…

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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…

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392: Beyond the Pyramids: Nadine Arab on Egyptian Identity, Challenging Stereotypes & Travel as a Political Act

Hear how Nadine solo-travels the world as an Egyptian woman while showcasing a side of Egypt most visitors never see. Egyptian travel writer and Curls en Route founder Nadine Arab shares her journey…

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

Hear how travel and creative writing revealed the power of story to confront prejudice, politics & how we see the world. In the third and final installment of this interview, Zein El-Amine discusses…

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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 (Ep 201)

Hear how growing up amid war and political imprisonment transformed his consciousness and shaped his path as a writer. Zein El-Amine talks about growing up in Lebanon at the start of the Lebanese…

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De-Exotifying The Arab World, Teaching The Most Dangerous Book, and Founding Left Turn Magazine with Zein El-Amine (Ep 202)

Hear how exile, immersive study abroad, and activism shaped his ideas about culture, solidarity, and belonging abroad. Zein El-Amine starts off talking about the study abroad program he designed to take his students…

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

Hear how her family’s experience of war shaped a mission to build dignity, opportunity, and connection across cultures. Aline Sara takes us on her journey growing up in a Lebanese immigrant family in…

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

Hear how immigration, racism, and connection to the land shaped her resilience, self-love, and commitment to resistance. Vivien Sansour reflects on growing up in Bethlehem, Palestine, under Israeli military occupation, and connecting with…

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

Hear how returning to Palestine reshaped her relationship with land, creativity, and what solidarity means in practice. In Part 2 of this interview with Vivien Sansour she reflects on her travels in Guatemala…

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