In this episode we spoke with Amirah Fadhlina from Indonesia and Moataz Noureddine from Lebanon who are both currently based in Boston, Massachusetts. Because of the length of our conversation we are publishing this episode in two parts. This is part two. In this part of the episode Amirah and Moataz discuss healthcare being politicized and its relation to social media, how the urban environment in Boston has been shaped by the pandemic and hope and direction for the future. This is Interlocking Threads: Conversations with International Students.

Amirah Fadhlina was born and raised in Indonesia until the age of fourteen when she moved abroad to Singapore where she began her academic career. Amirah graduated from Earlham College in 2017 with a double major in Human Development & Social Relations (HDSR) and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. After Earlham she earned her Masters at Harvard University and this fall she started her first year of her PhD program at Boston University in the department of Sociocultural Anthropology.

Moataz Noureddine is originally from Lebanon. He graduated from Earlham College in 2019 with a double major in Biology and Physics. He is currently a Research Associate at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts.

Music Credit: Jordan Connor

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