ÜBER DIESEN PODCAST 🔗
Conversations with people who live between cultures and make things — founders, designers, chefs, artists, the occasional novelist. Mostly from the Middle East. Recorded at The Lighthouse. Hosted by Hashem Montasser. No sponsors.
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Aktualisierungshäufigkeit:
every 50 days
Durchschnittliche Audiolänge:
39 minutes
Gastinterviews
NEUESTE FOLGEN 🔗
“I could have opened Mediterranean. Japanese. Anything I already knew how to run. But my heart wasn’t going to be in it.”
Jonathan Colin, founder of El Primo, spent seven years at LPM Dubai and two at Zuma Abu Dhabi — long enough to know exactly how to open another one of those. He opened a taco pl…
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FRÜHERE EPISODEN 🔗
Hani AlMalki — aka Bedouinfoodie — returns to podcast for a second sit-down, and it lands nothing like the first.
When war hit the region, he started writing: a daily diary on his Instagram Stories that became required reading for Dubai’s food community, built on the one thing most creators trade…
Karim Awad walked into EFG Hermes at one of the most turbulent moments in Egypt's recent history — a company caught mid-revolution, a bruised brand, and a region that wasn't sure it wanted to stabilise. What he did next is what this conversation is about. Karim and Hashem talked about the two yea…
“I really wanted to slow things down… to create an experience where people take their time, build relationships, and connect with design in a more human way.”
Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte has spent fifteen years living out of a suitcase, experiencing the quiet palazzos of Venice as well as the bus…
In this year-in-review episode, Hashem looks back on 2025 and what it actually took to open two restaurants in Riyadh in one year.
It’s a conversation about going up the learning curve fast, staying humble, and why consistency always outlasts hype.
Chapters:
0:00 Coming up...
6:13 Navigating Exp…
Lynn Hazim, founder of Middle Child and creator of popular food blog @nosoupforyou, shares her journey from corporate life at Google to building her own restaurant in Dubai.
The episode explores her early love for food, the roots of her inspiration, and her bold pivot to entrepreneurship. Lynn talk…
Raj Malhotra, co-founder of Sole DXB, shares the story behind building one of the GCC’s last major independent festivals — a cultural platform born from minimal capital yet lots of passion and grit.
The episode traces his journey to meeting co-founders Hussain Moloobhoy and Joshua Cox, and how the…
Heba El Gabaly, co-founder and CEO of Efreshli, discusses her journey from corporate to entrepreneurship, scaling a tech-driven design-led business, and the importance of blending online and offline experiences. The episode explores her unique blend of leadership, what it felt like to bring on a co…
Abdullah Alajaji, founder of Driven Properties, shares his insights into the real estate markets of Dubai, the growth of the Saudi Arabia market, as well as the company's expansion into China and Spain.
This week on The Lighthouse Conversations, Hashem sits down with Abdullah Alajaji, Founder of Driven Properties, to discuss his meteoric journey in real estate. Tune in as they discuss taking personal risks, how he spotted a gap in the UAE real-estate market, and how Driven Properties successfully …
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