
The Mentor and The Mentee
The word mentor arrives with a very specific image. Teacher and student. Expert and apprentice. The knowledge moves in one direction — from the one who has it to the one who doesn't yet. It is a reassuring image. It impl

Hosted by Raja Haddad · EN · 45 episodes
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Forward_Moves is a podcast hosted by Raja Haddad, that shares lived experiences and stories of successful personalities in the Middle East from the creative world of art, design, entertainment, hospitality, business, and other disciplines.
Raja Haddad hosts Forward_Moves, a society show with 45 episodes published.

The word mentor arrives with a very specific image. Teacher and student. Expert and apprentice. The knowledge moves in one direction — from the one who has it to the one who doesn't yet. It is a reassuring image. It impl

There is a distinction at the heart of this episode that is easy to miss. The difference between making something here and making it from here. Making something here is a logistical fact: the geography is incidental, the

The algorithm rewards the new, the rapid, the instantly shareable. Brands need to go viral. Artists need to build audiences in months. Restaurants need to trend or they're written off. The entire vocabulary of ambition i

On creativity as resistance — and why making something from where you come from is never entirely innocent There is a word Raja was initially hesitant to use in this episode. The word is resistance. Not the confrontation

Every single person featured across three seasons of Forward_Moves lives between two places. Some between two countries. Some between a homeland they can access and one they cannot. Some between the person they were expe

What does it actually mean to honour a tradition? In this recap episode, Raja Haddad revisits 6 conversations from the archive to explore a single, essential distinction: the difference between preserving the ashes and k

What does it actually look like when someone changes course? In this recap episode, Raja Haddad revisits 5 conversations from the archive and finds a common thread running through all of them that reframes how we think a

What if the identity question isn't something to resolve before you start creating , but the creative material itself? In this first episode of the Forward Moves recap series , Raja revisits 38 episodes across 3 seasons

History has always been a point of view. Bady Dalloul has built his entire practice around proving it. In this episode of Forward Moves, host Raja Haddad sits down in Paris with Bady Dalloul—French-Syrian multimedia arti

Some artists define an era. Salma Mousfi lived through several—and made music in every one of them, redefining each of them.. In this episode of Forward Moves, host Raja Haddad sits down in Paris with Salma Mousfi—the Le

What can a Dubai-based food obsessive and a regional fragrance founder teach corporate leaders? In this special recap of two Forward Moves conversations, host Raja Haddad weaves together key moments from food writer and

Some people post food photos. Hani AlMalki asks why it matters. In this episode of Forward_Moves, host Raja Haddad sits down with Hani AlMalki — the Dubai-based food writer, curator, and culinary entrepreneur known as Be

Some brands sell candles. Dastaangoi ignites memories. In this episode of Forward Moves, host Raja Haddad sits down with Amad Mian—co-founder of Dastaangoi, the Dubai-based luxury home fragrance brand turning cultural he

Some radio stations broadcast content. Radio Alhara creates neighborhoods. In this episode of Forward Moves, host Raja Haddad sits down with Yousef Anastas and Saeed Abu Jaber—two of the five founders behind Radio Alhara

Every chapter needs space to breathe — and this one earned it. In this paused episode of Forward Moves, host Raja Haddad steps back from the past 2 episodes to reflect on four truths from his exchanges with Ricardo Karam

In this episode of Forward Moves, host Raja Haddad sits down with Dubai-based portrait photographer Natalya Urmanova inside her exhibition Whimsical World for a deeply personal conversation about fear, reinvention, and t

� In this powerful episode of Forward Moves, host Raja Haddad sits down with renowned Lebanese media personality, entrepreneur, and TAKREEM Foundation founder Ricardo Karam for an unfiltered conversation about dignity, i

In this in-between-episodes reflection, host Raja Haddad unpacks the first conversations of Chapter Three with Basil Yassin and Anthony Maalouf. Instead of recapping, Raja dives into four reflections: heritage as creativ

What does it mean to preserve culture through cuisine? In this candid conversation, host Raja Haddad sits down with Basil Yassin — the culinary creator behind Yava and Tonton Bakes, two of Dubai’s most talked-about dinin

Chapter 3 is finally here, and with it the deep personal conversations with thought leaders of the creative community in the Middle East continue to share lived experiences and life hacks to move forward. In this episode
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