The Mstdfr Show

In this episode, Ammar Skypes in from Abudhabi and we have Widad Hammidadin in the studio. We talk comic books, the Civil War movie,and whether learning language grammar is important or not. Check http://www.mstdfr.com/mstdfr-37/ for show links.

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90% Arabic - 10% English In this episode we host Yaser Bakr, comedian and founder of The Comedy Club.

60% Arabic - 40% English The boys bring in Mai Hakeem to ponder the new ways of things thanks to the Internet. Privacy, knowledge sharing, cultural boundaries, influence, and coping come up. A saucy challenge also awaits listeners at the end. Can you answer the question? Answer at http://twitter.com/mstdfr http://facebook.com/mstdfr http://instagram.com/mstdfr http://snapchat.com/add/mstdfr Guest...

30% Arabic - 70% English This show we host nobody; just The MSTDFR Show gang. We bask in the glory of our brand new studio (for real now!) We talk about our favorite sitcoms over the past two decades, we then goes down a list of shows that you probably never heard of, our first online communities we actively participated in eons ago, and much more.

20% Arabic - 80% English In this episode we host Omair Taibah to talk about the latest breakthrough in astrophysics and the detection of gravitational waves resulting from two black holes colliding billions of light years away. ## Guest - Omair Taibah http://twitter.com/amrush ## Show links - Loot Crate http://lootcrate.com - Interferometry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferometry - Eliminatin...

#031: Daya3 Anonymous 80% Arabic - 20% English This episode we host Anmar Fathaldin, founder of U-Turn, Lammt, and serial entrepreneur. Anmar comes for a very candid conversation about his struggles as an independent entrepreneur in Saudi Arabia. ## Hosts - Ammar Sabban http://twitter.com/sabban31 - Rami Taibah http://twitter.com/rtaibah - Faisal Aseeri http://twitter.com/4aisal - Anmar Fathaldin...

#030: What About Winning the Oscars? 20% Arabic - 80% English This episode we host Maram Taibah, travel blogger, writer, screenwriter, and filmmaker. We discuss self-publishing online, blogging, improv, and Maram's work with the movie Munikeer. ## Hosts Ammar Al-Sabban Rami Taibah Maram Taibah ## Showlinks - The Road to Elephants http://www.amazon.com/Road-Elephants-Maram-Taibah/dp/1518639011/ref=...

Arabic 80% - English 20# In this episode we host Alaa Balkhy, Saudi fashion blogger and founder of Fyunka. We talk about the origin of the Fyunka brand, fashion blogging, the resilience of the web, the ethics of social media advertising, and a lot more. ## Hosts ## Shownotes - The Uber Redeisgn http://www.wired.com/2016/02/the-inside-story-behind-ubers-colorful-redesign/ - Fyunka http://fyunka.co...

20% Arabic - 80% English This episode we host Osaid Halawani, we talk about video games! In this episode there are 4 generations of gamers: Atari, NES, SNES, N64. We reminisce about our favorite video games over the decades, Osaid takes us down the weird side of Youtube, we talk about education in Saudi Arabia, and much much more. ## Hosts Ammar Al-Sabban Rami Taibah Khayra Bundukji Osaid Halawani...

10% Arabic - 90% English This episode we host Widad Hammidadin, an educator turned management consultant. Widad tells us how she juggles her hectic job and being a single-mom. We then talk about Netflix going global, genres in Arabic music (or lack thereof) and much more. ## Hosts Ammar Al-Sabban http://twitter.com/sabban31 Rami Taibah http://twitter.com/rtaibah Khayra Bundukji http://twitter.com/...

40% Arabic - 60% English This episode we host Nawaf Al-Nassar, an interior designer and an art lover. We discuss how we lost our architectural & design identity over the past couple decades, and how we can recaputre what was lost. ## Hosts - Ammar Sabban http://twitter.com/sabban31 - Rami Taibah http://twitter.com/rtaibah - Khayra Bundukji http://twitter.com/kharayb - Faisal Aseeri http://twitter....

40% Arabic - 60% English This episode we host Ali Kamakhi and talk about his upcoming business podcast and the motivation behind it. We then explore why the Arab world doesn't have a lot of business cases compared to the western world. We also talk about TED talks in Saudi Arabia vs. other countries, the lean startup methodology, the consulting business, and a lot more. ## Hosts - Ammar Sabban htt...

80% Arabic - 20% English Among the usual random conversations, today has emphasis on 3D Printing! You see those two figurines in the episode photo (available on Soundcloud or Instagram)? Those are 3D printed statues created by scanning the subjects in 5 minutes. And that, according to Hashim Al-Zain, is the simplest of things he can make. We talk science, startups, and everything in between and un...

20% Arabic - 80% English This episode we host Hassan Al-Bargi. We talk about police officers in Saudi Arabia, card trading games like Magic The Gathering, World of Warcraft, and Juventus soccer club. Then we try to answer the hypothetical question: How will the world be different if it was a matriarchy? We wrap up with a poem Hassan wrote for MSTDFR. This show is brought to you by Uber. Sign up no...

10% Arabic - 90% English This episode we host Omar Hussein. We try to spell out the sound of lightsabre, discuss the left-brain vs. right-brain myth, Omar's latest projects Al-Noghair and his personal vlog, Arab trolls and the Saudi twittersphere, Mark Zuckerberg's new charity, Justin Timberlake vs. Justin Beiber, and much much more. ## Hosts Ammar Sabban http://twitter.com/sabban31 Rami Taibah ht...

10% Arabic - 90% English Superheroes time! We talk the origin of the Spiderman colors, why we as people relate to super heroes, the Hulk's/Bruce Banner psychological issues, Vash the Stampede, and much much more. Check it out. ## Hosts Ammar Sabban http://twitter.com/sabban31 Rami Taibah http://twitter.com/rtaibah Majid Al-Reefi Khayra Bundukji http://twitter.com/kharayb Faisal Aseeri http://twitt...

10% Arabic - 90% English We geek Star Wars today! We discuss the best order to watch the movies, the infamous Darth Vader misquote, why did Luke kiss his sister, how sci-fi feeds into technological advancement, The Force Awakens Trailer, and much more. Of course: SPOILERS ALERT! ## Hosts - Ammar Sabban http://twitter.com/sabban31 - Rami Taibah http://twitter.com/rtaibah - Majid Al-Reefi - Khayra B...

10% Arabic - 90% English We host Majid Al-Reefi a sports fan and an american football die-hard. We discuss what makes sports exciting, the role it played in former Yugoslavia politics, the rules and history of american football, refereeing in soccer, american football, and tennis, injuries and concussions, sports in Saudi Arabia, and a lot more. ## Hosts - Ammar Sabban http://twitter.com/sabban31...

20% Arabic - 80% English Nour Fetyani, Jeddah's pre-eminent tree hugger, joins us on MSTDFR to talk to us about Mother Earth. We talk about the journey toward, and the struggle for, environmentalism in Saudi Arabia. We appreciate the balance of nature and talk about the need to protect that balance. And we discuss the the quality of our food and where it comes from. Nour showed up with an upcycled...

70% Arabic - 30% English In this episode we explore the interesting success story of Lomar thobes with it's founder Loai Nasseem. No success story is complete without failures. Loai tells us his failures that led to the success of Lomar. PS: From a fashion design point of view, the Saudi thobe stayed unchanged for decades. At the turn of the century Lomar spearheaded a cultural shift in thobe desi...

40% Arabic - 60% English In this episode we host Abdullah Sabban. Listen to this episode to find out how Abdullah was involved in a major international political incident. We then talk about corporate life, self-help books & self-improvement, discipline in the Saudi workforce, and realizing dreams. ## Hosts - Ammar Sabban - Rami Taibah - Khayra Bundukji - Abdullah Al-Sabban Links - Saudi Plane Bou...

20% Arabic - 80% English For the month of Movember, we decided to shed light on prostate cancer. We host Dr. Abdulhakeem Jomah and start talking about working out, supplements, and nutrition. We also talk about the medical industry in Saudi Arabia from Hakeem's experience in Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies to his adventures in practicing medicine in the 'Karantena' district in Jeddah...

50% Arabic - 50% English We start talking about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which is a test designed to indicate psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. We then geek out on our very own show; MSTDFR! We talk about how the show came to be, our listeners, our stats so far, and our plans. The gang then takes a trip down media & technology memory lane: Walkm...

50% Arabic - 50% English This week we host Dr. Sari Sabban (No relation to Ammar :D) a molecular biologist and biotechnologist. Sari tells us how he got into science and the interesting journey on how he ended up as a molecular biology. We discuss DNA, the human genome project, and protein folding. Then Sari proceeds to blow our minds with amazing biological facts: Gros Michel bananas, fecal trans...