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Apr 2024
1h 9m

Eid cash, Saudi.AI?, and guest contribut...

Lucien Zeigler and Hanaa Almoaibed
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This week, in the first full episode of The TWENTY30, the hosts discuss a recent report on Saudi Arabia’s AI ambitions and welcomes onto its MAINSTAGE segment social media influencer Ghada AlMuhanna, a Saudi media and visual anthropologist and cultural and media advisor, to discuss her work and the origins of misperceptions on Saudi Arabia. 
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