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Sep 2022
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Introducing People Like Us, with Kim Gha...

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A new podcast show hosted from Beirut by NYT best selling author, Kim Ghattas, connecting the dots between today’s Middle East and the world, how it works and why it matters to you, wherever you are. From Dubai to Kyiv, from Amman to Las Vegas, every episode brings you conversations with great people doing great things in the region and beyond, breaking barriers, connecting people around pressing themes and defining issues of the moment for people everywhere, from impunity in war to reproductive rights, censorship and protest movements around the globe.

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