Funboat Diplomacy

Abeer Khairy is from Sudan and currently writing her Masters Thesis in Geospatial Technologies in Münster, Germany. In part two we discuss her experience studying in Germany and the European Refugee Crisis.

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Abeer Khairy is from Sudan and currently writing her Masters Thesis in Geospatial Technologies in Münster, Germany. In part one we discuss her home country of Sudan, her birth country of Saudi Arabia, and the state of the modern Middle East.

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Derek Marshall is a filmmaker, bar-owner, entrepreneur, and fellow Berlin-enthusiast from the United States. We discuss his new film Of Fortune and Gold, Burning Man, starting businesses, habits and goals, studying abroad in Beijing, and the value of travel among many other topics.

Please check out his film Of Fortune and Gold

http://www.offortuneandgold.com

Alyona Shulika lived most of her life in Ukraine and went to Portugal under the Erasmus Mundus Programme. We discuss education and society as well as tensions between the west-leaning Ukraine and the pro-Russian elements that have been active in East Ukraine in recent times.

Alex Garofalo writes for the television section of International Business Times in New York City. He visited me in Lisbon and allegedly had a great time in his first taste of Europe. We discuss the American perspective of foreign countries and US current events in the past year.

Hamza Abbas is from France and has worked for a couple of months at the Embassy of France in Berlin, Germany. We discuss the refugee crisis in Europe, the state of contemporary Algeria, and the secret trade agreements (TPP and TTIP) involving the United States and many nations around the world that will come into effect in the next few years.

Karla Landripet and Romana Ficko are Erasmus students from Croatia studying Lisbon. We discuss the history and identity of Croatia and their transformative Erasmus semester in the capital of Portugal.

Kara-Lisa Scott is from Australia and is the creator of Cartwheeling the Globe on Youtube. Check out her work in the link below:

https://www.facebook.com/cartwheeltheglobe?fref=ts

Katarina Maltar and Armin Karalic work in visual and creative communications are from Croatia and Bosnia respectively. We discuss their project, Hostel People as well as the difficult history and memories of the Balkan Wars in the 90s.

Check out Hostel People at:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7lB0Ytpq-8qGCWtf6kjyIg

Ilker Kutlucan is an electrical engineering student from Ankara, Turkey. We discuss the Kurdish identity in modern Turkey.