00:00:00ElSeed
00:00:00Sumayya Dabbagh
00:00:00Badr Najeeb
00:00:00Mariam Yehia
00:00:00Amad Mian
00:00:00Closing remarks
00:13:36Intro
ÜBER DIESE EPISODE
There is a distinction at the heart of this episode that is easy to miss. The difference between making something here and making it from here.
Making something here is a logistical fact: the geography is incidental, the work could have come from anywhere. Making it from here is entirely something else.
It means the work carries the region inside it: the specific freedom of a city with no inherited idea of what you're supposed to be, the specific weight of building in a place that is simultaneously ancient and still becoming.
This episode does not celebrate the outcomes, the awards, the exhibitions, the international recognition. It sits with the specific conditions that shaped the work. The cost of insisting on where you come from when the market rewards you more generously for smoothing it out. The permission that didn't exist until someone built anyway. The honest negotiation between the full version of who you are and the version that travels more easily.
Five guests, five disciplines, one thread: the region is not a backdrop to the work. It is inside the work.
El Seed — Paris-born Tunisian artist
Sumayya Dabbagh — Saudi architect
Badr Najeeb — Emirati pastry chef and chocolatier
Mariam Yehia — Egyptian-French fashion designer and founder of Mrs Keepa,
Amad Mian — Co-founder of Dastaangoi, a Dubai-based luxury fragrance house
Chapters
00:00 Intro
03:43 ElSeed on Arabic calligraphy as a bridge
05:47 Sumatra Dabbagh on her return
07:52 Badr Najeeb on the societal challenge
10:11 Mariam Yehia on being an Egyptian fashion designer
12:58 Amad Mian on the shift
13:58 Closing remarks
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