After finally reaching Europe, Aizen was back in jail. He had calculated that the journey from Afghanistan to France would take three months. But more than two years later, he was somewhere completely different. Then, finally, his luck started to turn. Th

Through smugglers, barbed wire fences and forests, Aizen arrives in Europe. But the sense of relief he feels at making it this far is short-lived: the physical and mental toll of travelling so far from home begins to weigh heavy. This episode was produced

A game is what smugglers and migrants call attempting to cross illegally from one country to another. As Aizen leaves his childhood behind in Afghanistan, his only way to get to Europe is to play the game, travelling through this dangerous network of hu

Aizen says hes the most unlucky person in the world. This football-obsessed teenager from Afghanistan grew up in the chaos of Kabul, and at 15, was imprisoned in one of the worst adult prisons in the world. All for a crime he didnt commit. In this fou

When you think of good quality olive oil, which countries first come to mind? This week, were travelling to the heart of the worlds largest exporter of organic olive oil to learn all about the liquid gold that graces dinner tables around the globe. And

A father and daughter journey to their ancestral homeland, looking to track down the place their family had lived before being forced to flee the Armenian genocide.Theyre among hundreds of Armenian families who, over the last three decades, have returne

This is the final week of the first World Cup hosted in the Middle East. And its been a tournament like no other: Weve seen Morocco advance further than any Middle East or African team has before, making the whole region proud. And weve seen many joyou

Alex Odeh was well known in the Arab community in Santa Ana, California. He was often on TV or writing into newspapers, talking about discrimination against Arabs in the US or about his beloved homeland, Palestine. But on the morning of October 11th 1985,

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Were thrilled to share another podcast from Kerning Cultures Network with you: Beyond the Raging Sea: State of Mind.In 2016, Omar Samra called Omar Nour with a life-changing idea: How about we row across the Atlantic Ocean? Within a matter of hours,