Tarwida
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Episodes: 46
Frequency: Irregular
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Male
Location: USA
Contact Information
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Host
Afaf Shawwa Bibi - Listed as the episode intro by Afaf Shawwa Bibi (Episode 1 and Episode 3).
Noora Baker - Head of Production at El-Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe; appears as the seated guest in Episode 2, not as a host.
Makdisi brothers, Kareem - Listed as one of the Makdisi brothers (Kareem) who host the adapted episode segment.
Makdisi brothers, Sari - Listed as one of the Makdisi brothers (Sari) who host the adapted episode segment.
Makdisi brothers, Ossama - Listed as one of the Makdisi brothers (Ossama) who host the adapted episode segment.
Tala Elissa - Credited as the host and producer on Episode 2, and lead producer on Episodes 1 and 3.
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Recent Guest Discussions
Faisal Saleh - Founding A Permanent Palestinian Museum In The Western Hemisphere; Museum Growth And International Recognition; Venice Biennale Acceptance; “gaza, No Words” Tatreez Panels; Future Gaza Genocide Museum And Book
Noora Baker - Journey In Palestinian Dabke And Dance As Resistance; El-funoun’s Preservation Of Folklore; Tensions Between Street Ritual And Choreographed Stage Performance; Refusal Of Politically Conditioned Funding; Latest Work Ya Sahib Al-tayr (2025)
Dr. Salman Abu Sitta - Oral History Vs. Colonial Archive; UN Resolution 194 And The Right Of Return; Preserving Unrwa; Mapping Villages/place Names; Legal/practical Feasibility Of Return; “war On Archives” And Rebuilding Palestine
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Episodes
Palestine's Museums — From Connecticut to Edinburgh to Venice | Faisal Saleh
June 22, 2026
"We spent all our lives walking into other people's museums. The time had come to walk into our own." Today, we sit down with Faisal Saleh — Palestinian entrepreneur, photographer, and founder of the Palestine Museum US — to talk about what it took to build the first permanent Palestinian museum in the Western Hemisphere, and what it means to tell Palestine's story through art when so much of the world refuses to look. Faisal walks through his early life in Al-Bireh and the entrepreneurial in...
Palestinian Dabke & Dance as Resistance | El-Funoun
June 08, 2026
In this episode of Tarwida, we sit down with Noora Baker, Head of Production at El-Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe — one of the most celebrated Palestinian folk dance companies in the world, founded in 1979 with over 300 members and 16 major productions. Noora takes us through her journey as a dancer since 1987, beginning at age seven during the First Intifada, to leading production on El-Funoun's latest work Ya Sahib Al-Tayr (2025). We explore the roots of Palestinian dabke, its evolution fr...
Makdisi Street x Tarwida Podcast: "They carried a memory in their head" | Dr. Salman Abu Sitta
May 25, 2026
In this episode of Tarwida, we share a remarkable conversation with Dr. Salman Abu Sitta — cartographer, historian, and founder of the Palestine Land Society — recorded on the Makdisi Street podcast. Dr. Abu Sitta was born in Al-Maa'in near Khan Yunis and was expelled from his home as a 10-year-old boy during the Nakba of 1948. Over the following 75 years, he transformed personal loss into one of the most comprehensive documentary projects on Palestine ever undertaken: mapping 1,200 villages,...
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