Cairo Calling

We’re so touched by your Valentines messages. Definitely catch up with that episode if you didn't, it'll change the way you think about love, as it did for us.

It's beautiful to create this podcast with friends – thank you for opening up so trustingly. We’d love to make another montage of the moments you share with us.

Our next prompt for your stories and insights is first memories. These moments from our early lives can resonate in so many ways with who we are now. Or maybe yours are very different from your life now?

Let us know. Bringing our stories together, from all over the world, let’s us create something unique together.

Share your first memories at Speakpipe.com/CairoCalling or send a voicenote to Dody on whatsapp +20 127 979 9935. We can make your voice anonymous on request.

As ever, music and audio production by Tarek. Thanks to Raph for the suggestion of this subject.

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Friends around the world told us love saved them, how it hurt them, and what they're still looking for. We hear about love in marriages, divorce, arranged marriages 2.0, and situationships, self-love and the violence of love.

Whether you're resenting or celebrating Valentines days, loving or still looking, or “inbetween of inbetween”, this episode will touch you and probably change the way you feel about love, as it did for us.

And yes, 7 continents means that there is a detailed description of dating culture in “the Ice” continent.

We’re so grateful for people who shared their experiences with honesty and insight.

And we’d love to hear more! Tell us what you thought or something about your story. Send us a message at SpeakPipe.com/CairoCalling or on whatsapp them to Dody on +20 127 979 9935.

This episode was made possible by everyone who sent us a message. Dody was the doctor of love bringing people together, Tarek is the surgeon of sound, Raph choreographed and Peter (almost) managed to stop talking.

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Dody and Peter speak with Nomsa, who tells us about returning to South Africa in the early 2000s and how she was part of a generational change in black professionals entering the corporate workforce.

It's a conversation full of laughter and reflections, with fresh perspectives on what's changed, what hasn't, and how Nomsa stays optimistic about the future. We talk about how the violence of apartheid carries through to today, the legacy of Mandela and how the 2010 World Cup brought out the best in people.

It's a good one! Send us a voicemail to let us know what you think. Message us on [email protected].

You can see more about Nomsa's 2007 paper “The Rolling Stones: Exploring the job-hopping phenomenon amongst Black Professionals” on page 22 of this journal.

Thanks Nomsa for sharing her experiences, to Tarek for music and sound production, and to Raph for creative advice.

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Peter and Dody put 2022 on the chopping board. Weaving in and out of our own experiences and big ways the world is changing, we get into catching covid, the war in Ukraine, and how it impacted cat food in Cairo.

Episode two has our first listener voice message, the question Dody won't answer – but he definitely wants all of you to send us notes about. Message us on [email protected].

We included audio from a documentary on 90 years of the BBC World Service. Peter talked about The Pink Line: The World's Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser and Dody about Dirt: Adventures in French Cooking by Bill Burford. Dody also mentioned Dave Winer's blog, Scripting News.

Thanks to Tarek for music and sound production and Anne for the voice note.

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Episode One has our very first guest, the wonderful Stephanie. She tells us about work with Dublin Simon, a charity tackling the long-term crisis of homelessness in Dublin.

We talk about what home means, and how dealing with homelessness means providing services in all areas of life, as well as taking measures to stop it happening in the first place.

See Scrappy but Happy for artwork and creative writing by people using Dublin Simon Community’s services.

Thanks to Stephanie for her passion and time, and to Tarek for music and sound production.

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We’re trying to figure out how to live right now: and we’re trying to figure out how to make a podcast about it.

This episode is about memory, connection and sharing, and how we hope to shape meaningful conversations with people all over the world.

All credit to Tarek for brilliant sound-track and producing the audio.

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