Culturally Clueless

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Culturally Clueless, host Nes is joined by Moroccan activist Abdellah for a special conversation delivered in Darija (translated into English). Together, they analyze the ongoing genocide and crisis in Gaza, Morocco’s historical and contemporary connections to Palestine, the widespread public advocacy and street protests across the country, and the growing polit...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Culturally Clueless, host Nes sits down with activist Geraldine to discuss her eye-witness account aboard the Freedom Flotilla aid convoys sailing to break the siege on Gaza. Geraldine opens up about walking away from her former life in America, her firsthand experiences on the Palestine convoy departing from Turkey, her unlawful detention by Israeli forces in i...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Culturally Clueless, we examine major geopolitical developments and underreported international news:  * Hijab Ban Protests in Azerbaijan: Widespread demonstrations sparked by government restrictions on the hijab in educational institutions.  * Student Protests in France: Nationwide high school blockades demanding funding to fix severe teacher shortages and poor...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Culturally Clueless, we dive into major global headlines and underreported international stories:  * Deportation Order for Wisconsin Mosque President: A breakdown of the case involving Salah Sarsour, president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque, who was arrested by ICE and now faces deportation following an immigration judge's ruling, as his legal team files an...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Culturally Clueless, Nest covers a range of critical global security issues and geopolitical developments:  * US-Iran Rhetoric & Strait of Hormuz: Nest analyzes conflicting claims over maritime control in the Strait of Hormuz, contrasting statements on shipping disruptions with U.S. assertions of authority, alongside Iran's diplomatic proposals and stat...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Culturally Clueless, Nest covers a range of critical global security issues and geopolitical developments:  * US-Iran Rhetoric & Strait of Hormuz: Nest analyzes conflicting claims over maritime control in the Strait of Hormuz, contrasting statements on shipping disruptions with U.S. assertions of authority, alongside Iran's diplomatic proposals and stat...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Culturally Clueless, Nest covers a range of major geopolitical developments:  * US-Iran Tensions & The Strait of Hormuz: Nest discusses J. D. Vance's statements regarding Iranian attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, alongside Donald Trump's assertion of U.S. control over the passage. The episode highlights Iran's explicit rejection of...

Send us Fan Mail Saudi Arabia issued its first-ever air raid alert over Mecca, claiming Houthi drones had targeted the holy city. The Houthis denied the attack. Nes examines the unverified claim and what the escalating conflict between the Houthis and Saudi-backed forces in Yemen means for the region. Gaza continues to bury its dead. *NAZA*, by Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, won...

Send us Fan Mail This episode covers a week where old wounds were reopened and new power moves were made without anyone asking the public's permission. Macklemore has been officially dropped from the remaining dates of Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour after venues threatened cancellation if he remained on the lineup. Pink reshared a post from a pro-Israel group criticizing Macklemore, and after si...

Send us Fan Mail This episode covers a week where art, technology, politics, and human dignity all collide. Glenn Greenwald delivered a speech taking direct aim at Western media hypocrisy — calling out the double standard that condemns Iran, Russia, Hamas, and Syria for behavior that Western governments themselves engage in, often at greater scale. Nes gives it the platform it deserves. Netanyahu...

Send us Fan Mail This episode covers a packed week where hypocrisy, violence, and geopolitics intersect at every turn. Libya's rival political factions signed a UN-brokered agreement to hold long-delayed national elections within two years — the latest in a long line of promises that have repeatedly failed to materialize. Nes examines whether this roadmap will produce anything different, or w...

Send us Fan Mail This episode covers a week where the absurd and the devastating sit side by side — and Nes refuses to look away from either. Settler violence in the West Bank continues to escalate. Israeli activists have been showing up to defend Palestinians on the ground, putting their own bodies between settlers and Palestinian communities. Meanwhile Netanyahu has publicly downplayed the viole...

Send us Fan Mail This episode covers a packed week of stories where power, hypocrisy, and human cost all collide. Rabbi Shmuley is back in the headlines — this time for remarks at an Israeli-American Council summit where, in the context of discussing Mossad operations, he said "why aren't we going after Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens." The clip went viral, with many framing it as...

Send us Fan Mail This episode covers stories that hit differently when you line them all up together. A street encounter in Iceland went viral after Rabbi Shmuley Boteach filmed himself being confronted by an Icelandic couple who criticized Israel's actions in Gaza. Rabbi Shmuley presented himself as the victim — but the footage told a more complicated story, with him and his son following th...

Send us Fan Mail This episode covers stories that sit at the intersection of power, propaganda, and the fight over whose narrative gets told. Morocco's King Mohammed VI confirmed that the country's 1,055-kilometre Tiznit-Dakhla Expressway — the longest road infrastructure in Africa — will be named the Donald J. Trump Highway, citing Trump's 2020 recognition of Morocco's soverei...

Send us Fan Mail This episode takes on fear, history, and the slow erasure of a people's identity. Nes dissects the Iran-US war and the machinery of fear that surrounds it. She examines how politicians weaponize repetitive statements and manufactured urgency to keep populations compliant, pointing to Trump's rhetoric as a textbook example of how fear has always been one of the most power...

Send us Fan Mail This episode covers a week packed with moments that reveal the human cost behind the headlines. Close to 50,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in a single surge, with more than 48,300 subsequently returned to Morocco. At least 67 people died in the chaos. Nes brings the testimonies of the people who made that crossing — many of them young, many of...

Send us Fan Mail Nes covers several stories this episode that connect history, hypocrisy, and the ongoing cost of power left unchecked. She digs into the West Bank, examining the relentless settler violence and retracing how the situation was actually reported on by Western media outlets in the years following the Nakba. That archive footage, she argues, directly contradicts many of the claims mad...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Nes covers stories that all point to the same uncomfortable truth: what is promised and what is delivered are rarely the same thing. The hashtag #TheyLiedToYou emerged from Gaza as people on the ground pushed back against the narrative that a ceasefire was holding. The destruction has not stopped. The killing has not stopped. And the people of Gaza are making sure...

Send us Fan Mail **Culturally Clueless | Iran, Influence, and Illusions of Withdrawal | Episode [XX]** This episode of Culturally Clueless covers the escalating U.S.–Iran conflict, examining Secretary of State Marco Rubio's shifting characterizations of the confrontation as war, hostilities, and a declared victory, alongside his difficulty answering direct challenges on Iran's continued...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Nes sits down with Lama, a young woman who evacuated from Gaza in 2024, first to Egypt and now living in Malaysia, for one of the most personal and deeply human conversations the podcast has ever had. Lama shares what the evacuation was actually like — the chaos, the fear, and the impossible decisions that come with leaving everything behind. She opens up about bu...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Nes sits down with Simon — a writer, journalist, and political analyst from Bangladesh — for a wide-ranging conversation that moves fluidly between sport, politics, and human rights. The two dig into the FIFA World Cup chaos unfolding in America, from the visa crisis affecting team staff, players, and fans trying to enter the country, to the bigger question of who...

Send us Fan Mail This episode covers a range of stories that cut to the core of who gets punished for speaking, who sets the agenda for war, and what is quietly happening in the world while everyone looks elsewhere. The criminalization of pro-Palestine solidarity remains one of the most urgent and underreported stories of this moment. In the UK, more than 500 people were arrested at a mass vigil i...

Send us Fan Mail Trump and Netanyahu's relationship is deteriorating, with the president reportedly feeling manipulated and significantly restricting contact with the Israeli prime minister except for necessary coordination. Nes questions whether this alleged rift is genuine or theater, particularly as Trump's foreign policy appears to be unraveling and he finally acknowledges the failur...

Send us Fan Mail This episode goes deep on stories that expose how power operates when it thinks nobody is watching. Nes shines a light on Belfast, where violent anti-immigration riots broke out following a stabbing attack allegedly carried out by a Sudanese asylum seeker. Masked rioters went door to door trying to identify homes occupied by immigrants, setting vehicles and houses on fire across t...