Experiments in Dialogue

Episode Description:
In this solo episode of the Experiments in Dialogue podcast, Youssef and Ahmed get a bit more personal, discussing the origins of their friendship, how they came to see friendship throughout their lives, and to what degree the quality of the friendships they formed influenced their lives. They spend some time discussing the evolutionary paradox of friendship, as they see it, and try to unravel the mystery behind why people can select bad friends and how to avoid it. We hope you enjoy this most personal of podcasts so far and, if you like our content, make sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

Podcast Description:
Experiments in Dialogue is a podcast co-hosted by two Egyptian friends, attempting to reconstruct the world through good-faith and honest dialogue. In each episode, we attempt to couple the best of Enlightenment values with an evolutionary lens to explore the intimate and difficult questions posed by our modern circumstances. Join us, as we weave a diverse array of guests and discussions into a tapestry of stories about culture, philosophy, and science.

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Episode Description:
Ahmed and Youssef sit down to speak with Iman Eldeeb (AKA Camelicked), model and founder of UNN Model Management, the first modelling agency in Egypt. They discuss the nature of the modelling industry, Iman's history, and what it was like starting the first model management agency in Egypt. 

The discussion switches gears, as they discuss the origins of beauty standards, what men want vs. what women think men want, sexual selection's role in forming our ideals of beauty, social signalling, and how culture, biology, and markets interact to produce the modelling industry as we see it today.

Podcast Description:
Experiments in Dialogue is a podcast co-hosted by two Egyptian friends, attempting to reconstruct the world through good-faith and honest dialogue. In each episode, we attempt to couple the best of Enlightenment values with an evolutionary lens to explore the intimate and difficult questions posed by our modern circumstances. Join us, as we weave a diverse array of guests and discussions into a tapestry of stories about culture, philosophy, and science.

If you like our material and want regular updates or would like to connect, follow us on our social media:

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/expindialogue...

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https://www.facebook.com/ExperimentsinDialogue/

If you want to support what we’re doing, please check out our Patreon:  http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/

Episode Description:
Following on from their last conversation with Mofe Onuwaje, Youssef and Ahmed sit down to engage in a more abstract conversation about our current philosophical and existential circumstance. The discussion starts off as an elaboration on the notion of the loneliness of subjectivity, and its relationship to the identity politics of the day. This soon turns into an exploration of issues, such as: the current meaning crisis and the degree to which we find ourselves seeking deeper connections, at a time when our ancient institutions for finding that seem obsolete.

Drawing on their own and the ideas of thinkers, like Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, and Nicholas Christakis, they come to discuss how we can best resist the temptation to abandon the difficult job of finding meaning as individuals. Ultimately, this line of reasoning leads them to a discussion of the failures of capitalism to provide sufficient avenues for exploring the deepest realms we have, as well as the equally failing, albeit more seductive, siren song of the identitarian far-left.

Podcast Description:
Experiments in Dialogue is a podcast co-hosted by two Egyptian friends, attempting to reconstruct the world through good-faith and honest dialogue. In each episode, we attempt to couple the best of Enlightenment values with an evolutionary lens to explore the intimate and difficult questions posed by our modern circumstances. Join us, as we weave a diverse array of guests and discussions into a tapestry of stories about culture, philosophy, and science.

If you like our material and want regular updates or would like to connect, follow us on our social media:

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/expindialogue...

Instagram:

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https://www.facebook.com/ExperimentsinDialogue/

If you want to support what we’re doing, please check out our Patreon:  http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/

Episode Description:
Zade Sadek joins Ahmed and Youssef to discuss education in Egypt and around the world, in  what ways it is lacking, and how to fix it. They delve into philosophical issues, such as the unity of knowledge, science as method vs. science as fact, the problem with informational discrepancies in education, and the stigmatisation of polymaths. The discussion, at times, assumes the character of a debate, but ultimately leads down roads that clarify the ideas at hand. Whether you've thought about educational systems and challenges or are just up for a novel discussion between three individuals who are happy to push the envelope and challenge several status-quo notions about education, this discussion is for you!

We hope you enjoy this discussion and the creativity Zade brings into it. If you like our content, make sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

Podcast Description:
Experiments in Dialogue is a podcast co-hosted by two Egyptian friends, attempting to reconstruct the world through good-faith and honest dialogue. In each episode, we attempt to couple the best of Enlightenment values with an evolutionary lens to explore the intimate and difficult questions posed by our modern circumstances. Join us, as we weave a diverse array of guests and discussions into a tapestry of stories about culture, philosophy, and science.

If you like our material and want regular updates or would like to connect, follow us on our social media:

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/expindialogue...

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/experimentsindialogue/...

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https://www.facebook.com/ExperimentsinDialogue/

If you want to support what we’re doing, please check out our Patreon:  http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/

Episode Description:
The tragic and brutal death of George Floyd at the hands of police officer Derrek Chauvin, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, is still fresh in everyone's minds. Nevertheless, what has captivated the media in the days that followed has been the resultant outcry by protesters who, in search of racial justice, flooded the streets. Since then, this outcry for justice has reverberated and spread, not only across the US, but around the world, with protests slowly morphing into riots and being hijacked by cynics, who wish to wreak havoc upon an already weakened and fragile system. 

Youssef and Ahmed are joined by Mofe Onuwaje, a Law Student at the University of Durham and a friend who, in the wake of the events, sought to arrange a discussion on the issues at hand. The discussion delves into various topics, ranging from the specifics of George Floyd's brutalisation, to the reality vs lived experience of institutional racism, to the values and methods of Black Lives Matter movement, and, finally, to the problems with the ideology underlying anti-racism. 

Podcast Description:
Experiments in Dialogue is a podcast co-hosted by two Egyptian friends, attempting to reconstruct the world through good-faith and honest dialogue. In each episode, we attempt to couple the best of Enlightenment values with an evolutionary lens to explore the intimate and difficult questions posed by our modern circumstances. Join us, as we weave a diverse array of guests and discussions into a tapestry of stories about culture, philosophy, and science.

If you like our material and want regular updates or would like to connect, follow us on our social media:

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/expindialogue...

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/experimentsindialogue/...

Facebook: 

https://www.facebook.com/ExperimentsinDialogue/

If you want to support what we’re doing, please check out our Patreon:  http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/

Episode Description:
Youssef and Ahmed are joined by Joshua Pawaar, a Psychoanalysis and Pyscho-social studies student at the University of Essex, who is able to dance gracefully with ideas.

The three sit down to discuss psychoanalysis and the role it can play in helping us understand humanity, its deepest nature, and the psyche as such. The conversation delves into issues like: the role of the internet in the proliferation of memes, the origins and roots of suicide, and how to conceive of individual identity. 

They cover ground, such as how Freudian Psychoanalysis sheds light on humanity's deepest fears and insecurities, the role of Jungian archetypes in human evolution and their applications to hero mythology, and where the proper purview of psychoanalytic ideas should be within human affairs. We hope you enjoy this combustible meeting between the psychoanalytic lens and the evolutionary one!

Podcast Description:
Experiments in Dialogue is a podcast co-hosted by two Egyptian friends, attempting to reconstruct the world through good-faith and honest dialogue. In each episode, we attempt to couple the best of Enlightenment values with an evolutionary lens to explore the intimate and difficult questions posed by our modern circumstances. Join us, as we weave a diverse array of guests and discussions into a tapestry of stories about culture, philosophy, and science.

If you like our material and want regular updates or would like to connect, follow us on our social media:

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/expindialogue...

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/experimentsindialogue/...

Facebook: 

https://www.facebook.com/ExperimentsinDialogue/

If you want to support what we’re doing, please check out our Patreon:  http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/

Episode Description:
After much anticipation, the first experiment begins! Youssef and Ahmed sit down, recounting the events leading up to the podcast's creation and then offer a taster of what kind of content is to come. We discuss the ever-conflicting twin-forces of tradition and progress as abstractions of a biological struggle that has analogies at the cultural, societal, and even individual level. We get into how currently our cultural tools, both in the west and the Middle-East, offer us only partial answers to questions of how to navigate the world and how to find internal meaning. Finally, we talk about how, today, humanity is uniquely positioned to develop true and actionable answers to the questions about where we come from and why we are here.

Podcast Description:
Experiments in Dialogue is a podcast co-hosted by two Egyptian friends, attempting to reconstruct the world through good-faith and honest dialogue. In each episode, we attempt to couple the best of Enlightenment values with an evolutionary lens to explore the intimate and difficult questions posed by our modern circumstances. Join us, as we weave a diverse array of guests and discussions into a tapestry of stories about culture, philosophy, and science.

If you like our material and want regular updates or would like to connect, follow us on our social media:

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/expindialogue...

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/experimentsindialogue/...

Facebook: 

https://www.facebook.com/ExperimentsinDialogue/

If you want to support what we’re doing, please check out our Patreon:  http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/