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Hosted by Raja Haddad · EN-US · 48 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 48 episodes published.
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[FROM THE VAULT] is the summer series where we go back to some episodes that marked the past 3 seasons. In this episode form 2025 Raja Haddad is joined by Zain Masud, a London-trained art world professional turned landsc
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[FROM THE VAULT] is the summer series where we go back to some episodes that marked the past 3 seasons. In this episode Chef Bader Najeeb, Emirati pastry chef, chocolatier, and founder of Burnt Orange, sits down with Raj
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[FROM THE VAULT] is the summer series where we go back to some episodes that marked the past 3 seasons, and as we prepare to launch season 4. In this episode, Dubai based photographer Natalya Urmanova, shares thoughts ab
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
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