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The long version.

The reel on the home page shows what a room looks like. This is the whole thing: five series he fronted, the interviews, and the podcasts. Twenty-one hours of it.

  • 57films
  • 21hours
  • 12broadcasters

هذه الأفلام ناطقة باللغة الإنجليزية.

For Visit Qatar · 13 films

Discover Qatar

Thirteen short films about the country. The regions, the history, Souq Waqif, the machboos, and the Arabic you will actually use.

Qatar's Regions

Doha

Before You Go

Arrival & Getting Around

Basic Arabic Phrases

Qatar Adventures

Souq Waqif

Making Machboos

Qatari Drinks

History of Qatar

Al Zubarah Explained

Qatar Today

Moving Towards Sustainability

For the U.S. Embassy in Doha · 12 episodes

Swalif

A conversation series he hosted. An hour with an American guest each time, on mental health, democracy, media, water, running for office. No script, no edit.

Volunteering

Jennifer Bennett

All About U.S. Elections

Dr Amel Ahmed

Responsible Media Consumption

Dr Stephanie Edgerly

Building a Business on Social

Rania Renno

Demystifying Mental Health

Dr Nadine Kaslow

Water and Its Importance

Jose Saucedo

Arabs Running for Office

Rima Nashashibi

Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy

Ahmad Ashkar

Paralympic Day and Inclusion

Tucker Dupree

The Role of Individuals in Democracy

Dr Brian MacHarg

Be The Change You Want To Be

Wendy Lesko

Innovation & Intellectual Property

On stage and on air · 8 pieces

Talks and interviews

The times he was the one being asked the questions.

From 'The Qatari Guy' to the Qatari guide

euronews · The Dialogue

A tour of Doha

Al Jazeera English

Exploring the Northern Sites

Qatar Creates

Gossip Talks

Gossip People

Why We All Hate Change

TEDxYouth@NIA

Becoming an Arab Meme

afikra · live in Doha

Distant Socializing

The Geeky Amreeki

A glimpse into Qatar's entertainment world

Nestwork

For Workinton Qatar · 18 short episodes

Business Bites

One business term explained in under two minutes, eighteen times over. MVPs, seed funding, EBITDA, churn. One idea each, no padding.

E01 · What is an MVP?

E02 · Rebranding

E03 · Getting some funding

E04 · Growth hacking

E05 · The investors

E06 · Design thinking

E07 · Pivoting

E08 · Seed funding

E09 · What KPIs are for

E10 · CAPEX and OPEX

E11 · ROI vs IRR

E12 · What is EBITDA?

E13 · Intrapreneurship

E14 · Search engine optimisation

E15 · Retention and churn

E16 · Active users

E17 · Pipeline vs funnel

E18 · B2B, B2C, C2B2C

For Qatar Creates · 3 episodes

Karak with Friends

Conversations over a cup of karak with people passing through Doha — a musician, a media executive, an ambassador. The karak is real and so is the talk.

Zakes Bantwini

Musician, South Africa

Dr Yaser Bishr on AI and the blockchain

Media executive

Indonesia's Ambassador on coffee

Ambassador to Qatar

For Nestwork · 2 long conversations

WorkinTalks

An hour and a half or more with a single guest, unhurried and unscripted. A political artist, and a media executive.

Khalid Albaih on art and advocacy

Artist and cartoonist

Dr Yaser Bishr on the AI landscape

Media executive

For ILoveQatar · one film

The camel

A stunt from early on: a camel through a Burger King drive-through in Doha. ABC News picked it up in 2014 and ran it in the United States.

Riding a camel through the drive-through

ILoveQatar

Four episodes · podcasts

In conversation

When he is the guest rather than the host. Three of these play right here, on a player that draws the sound as it runs.

The Legacy Pod

Hamad Al Amari · The Qatari Guy

On building a career out of translating one country to everyone else.

0:001:07:40

The One Way Ticket Show

A symbiotic relationship between man and technology

Where he would go on a one way ticket, and why it is not a place.

0:001:10:54

Media Majlis · Live in Doha

Becoming an Arab Meme

With anthropologist Laure Assaf, recorded in front of an audience. This is the audio of the same session filmed above.

0:0040:30

Riyada · Business, Tech and Innovation in MENA

An unconventional career

This one lives on Amazon Music, which does not allow playback outside its own app.

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