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Tell Me More

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  • Tell Me More is a podcast for kids and adults. Join us as we time travel through Dubai with an 8 year old, to uncover what the city looked like in the beginning, told by the people who made and experienced some of it.
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  • Sabkhas: The UAE’s Carbon Sinks

    Sabkhas: The UAE’s Carbon Sinks
    Nov 20 2023
    Our latest episode looks at sabkhas – seemingly uninhabitable salt flats that might help us fight climate change. These salty ecosystems can sequester four times more carbon (per square meter) than rainforests can. This episode is really timely given that the UAE is gearing up to host COP28—the 28th UN Climate Conference, also known as the Conference of Parties, where negotiators from countries around the world will meet and have to find a way to agree on how we’re going to limit global warming to 1.5C by 2050. Spatika and Liz had a lot of questions about sabkhas so they talked to some experts to find out the answers. Listen as architect and curator Wael Al Awar and sustainability expert Mai Shalaby TELL US MORE. Tell Us More! Kids in Dubai, have ever seen a sabkha in the UAE? If so, we want to hear about it! Tell us where you saw it and what it looked like. You or a grown up can write to us at tellmemore@amaeya.media. Find Out More! The National Pavilion UAE was awarded the Golden Lion Award for Best National Participation at La Biennale Architettura 2021 for the exhibit Wetlands. Curated by Wael Al Awar and Kenichi Teramoto of waiwai design, Wetlands was inspired by research into sabkhas.  The Anatomy of Sabkhas: Salt and Architecture by Ahmed and Rashid Bin Shabib is available for purchase online and in Dubai bookshops. Episode Credits This episode of TELL ME MORE was brought to you by Amaeya Media. It was produced by Liz McEnaney with help from Sundar Raman and Chirag Desai and hosted by Spatika and Liz. Our fantastic music is composed by Daniel Belquer. 
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    22 mins
  • Keeping Cool in Old Dubai

    Keeping Cool in Old Dubai
    Jan 13 2022
    Summer in Dubai is intense with relentless humidity and temperatures soaring close to 50°C (122°F). How did people stay cool before air conditioning? We had heard about barjeels – traditional wind towers – but we didn’t quite know how they worked, or if they were still used today. So, we went to Al Bastakiya, one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods, to find out more. There we discovered the barjeels were just one architectural element – there are more! – that kept the houses and streets cool.  Listen as architects Rashad Bukhash, Chairman of the Architectural Heritage Society for the UAE; and Dalia Hamati, professor of architecture at American University of Sharjah TELL US MORE.   Find Out More! To find out more about Dubai’s windtowers and to see drawings of the Bukhash family home, check out Peter Jackson’s book Windtower: Houses of Bastakiya (co-authored by Anne Coles).  Episode Credits This episode of TELL ME MORE was brought to you by Amaeya Media. It was produced and edited by Liz McEnaney and hosted by Spatika and Liz. Our fantastic music is composed by Daniel Belquer.  A big thank you to Rashad Bukhash and Dalia Hamati, and to XVA founder Mona Hauser and architect Clemens Russ who helped us with our research. They’re very important people and we’re grateful to them.
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    24 mins
  • The Ghaf Tree

    The Ghaf Tree
    Oct 4 2021
    What’s a forest of ghaf trees called? Are ghaf leaves and pods edible? What do ghaf trees have to do with tree huggers? What might you find if you dig around ghaf trees? This episode is dedicated to the ghaf tree, the national tree of the UAE and a symbol of tolerance. This amazingly resilient, drought-tolerant plant survives in the harshest of desert environments. Bedouins depended on all parts of the tree for their survival -- for shade, food, and medicinals. Many animals would not survive in the desert without the ghaf, and the tree is the home to the world's largest beetle outside the Brazilian rainforest. The ghaf is so important to life in the UAE that it is the subject of many poems and stories, some a bit scary. Today the tree is endangered, but luckily there are some amazing people who share a love of the ghaf and who are each in their own way working to protect it for the future.  Listen as landscape architect Will Bennett; Give-A-Ghaf Tree Planting Initiative founder Tatiana Antonelli Abella; and journalist and artist Rym Ghazal TELL US MORE.   Find Out More! Information on how to get more involved in the Give-A-Ghaf Tree Planting initiative can be found here.   Episode Credits This episode of TELL ME MORE was brought to you by Amaeya Media. It was produced and edited by Liz McEnaney and hosted by Spatika and Liz. Our fantastic music is composed by Daniel Belquer.   A big thank you to Will Bennett, Tatiana Antonelli Abella, Rym Ghazal, and Olivier Carbone (beekeeper and honey maker extraordinaire). They’re very important people and we’re grateful to them. 
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    21 mins
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