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Delhi, home to more than 32 million people, has long been ranked the world’s most polluted capital city – for years, experts have called it a “gas chamber”.
And while pollution is a year-round struggle here, the crisis peaks every October and November, turning what was once a season of sunny picnics into months of suffocating smog.
In the past, winter was eagerly awaited by Delhi residents, who could step out of their homes and enjoy a warm, sunny day in public parks, with a cool breeze blowing.
But now a foul concoction of smoke from farm residue and firecrackers and emissions from industry and vehicles smothers the city when winter arrives.
In this special episode of the Recorded podcast, host Taniya Dutta reports from the heart of the crisis in New Delhi. She looks at the reasons for Delhi's annual pollution peak with experts, asks if the Indian capital is on the verge of becoming an uninhabitable place and considers what the government can do to clean the city's air – before it's too late.
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Over the course of 2023, Sulaiman Hakemy, opinion editor at The National, had the chance to sit down with three international thought leaders, representing the fields of media and business strategy, public opinion and space science.
In this episode of the Big Ideas Edition, Sulaiman speaks to space science expert Prof John Zarnecki, who offers his observations of the UAE space programme, the country’s mission to Mars and its effect on the next generation.
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Over the course of 2023, Sulaiman Hakemy, opinion editor at The National, had the chance to sit down with three international thought leaders, representing the fields of media and business strategy, public opinion and space science.
In this episode of the Big Ideas Edition, Sulaiman speaks to Joe Twyman, co-founder and director of Deltapoll, a leading polling and market research company.
They talk about understanding public opinion through surveys and discuss how to poll diverse audiences.
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Over the course of 2023, Sulaiman Hakemy, opinion editor at The National, had the chance to sit down with three international thought leaders to explore the big ideas in the realms of media and business strategy, public opinion and space science.
They represent these fields, bring fresh insights to the table and go beyond the narratives in the context of the Middle East region.
On this episode of the Big Ideas Edition, Sulaiman speaks to Raju Narisetti, global publishing director at McKinsey & Company.
They talked about the business of journalism, the profitability of the media landscape, internet access in different regions and how technology will continue to transform the industry.
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Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in the UAE, yet a large-scale review shows that better screening is reducing the number of advanced cases of the disease and improved survival rates are now comparable with those of leading western nations.
This was a recent study, led by Prof Humaid Al Shamsi, director of medical oncology at Burjeel Medical City.
In this episode of Recorded podcast, we sat down with Prof Al Shamsi to get to the bottom of how complicated breast cancer health literacy is and how much it affects the lives of people who have it. He is an esteemed oncologist, university professor and one of the most respected experts in the field, whose goal is to make people with breast cancer healthier.
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The creative economy. The term refers to the interchange of ideas, intellectual property, knowledge and technology. But it is an ever-evolving concept, and resists being pigeonholed into a single definition.
It has also become a bit of a buzzword in the UAE, especially in the last 15 years as the country has endeavoured to bolster its creative sector. In this time, several cultural institutions have been launched that reshaped the local creative landscape, notably Louvre Abu Dhabi and NYUAD on Saadiyat, Jameel Arts Centre and AlSerkal Avenue in Dubai and the House of Wisdom in Sharjah.
But launching cultural institutions is only the first step. Next comes the challenge of engaging with the public and inspiring the next generation of artists, architects, software engineers, writers, publishers, researchers and filmmakers.
Maya Allison, Executive Director of The NYUAD Art Gallery, and Bill Bragin, Executive Artistic Director at NYUAD Arts Centre, discuss the role NYUAD is playing in nurturing and developing this creative economy.
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The NYUAD Arts Centre and Art Gallery have returned to in-person programming for the first time in two years.
The Spring 2022 line-up features an eclectic mix of live musical, cinematic and dance performances as well as art exhibitions that defy traditional categorisation. Bill Bragin, from the NYUAD Arts Centre, and Maya Allison, from the NYUAD Art Gallery, have been working to cement the role of the University in the public sphere. Although the pandemic caused disruption, it also provided an opportunity to reflect on how the Gallery’s work reaches the local community. The pandemic was a call for cultural institutions to step up and help artists during a time of crisis and ensure local arts communities thrive.
In this podcast Bill Bragin, Executive Artistic Director at the NYUAD Arts Center, and Maya Allison, Executive Director of The NYUAD Art Gallery, speak about the importance of nurturing local artists.
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Hesam Rahmanian, Rokhni Haerizadeh and Ramin Haerizadeh met in the underground art scene in Tehran in the early 1990s. After the Iranian Cultural Revolution that followed the overthrow of the Shah, free artistic expression could only take place in furtive private gatherings. It was during these meetings that the three were inspired to come together to form a collective, one founded on the principles of sharing and cooperation.
The trio have been in the UAE since 2009. Their latest show at the NYUAD Art Gallery, titled Parthenogenesis, offers the audience the opportunity to become immersed in a surreal, multimedia landscape representing what they’ve been doing since coming to the Emirates. The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, poetry and dance made by them or in collaboration with other artists, encompassing vast themes of displacement, transformation and their ongoing commitment to working together.
This episode of Recorded is brought to you in Partnership with the NYUAD Art Gallery and Arts Centre.
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Alaa Krimed is a luminary of the Middle East's contemporary dance scene. For the better part of the last decade, the Palestinian choreographer has been an ardent advocate of the art form through his Sima Dance Company, which he founded in Damascus in 2003. On a path that has been full of displacement, dance has remained his anchor as he first left Syria to avoid the war, then Lebanon to avoid the instability, to finally find a place for his creative practice to be nurtured in the Emirates. Philip Rachid has always found solace in hip-hop, be it the music, the dance, or the aesthetic. As a half-Bulgarian, half-Iraqi Kurdish kid growing up in Amsterdam he felt like an outsider and soaked in the messages of hip-hop's global culture to help him expand his creativity. But it was in the UAE that Rachid found a way to combine all his different creative mediums into one. This episode of Recorded is brought to you in Partnership with the NYUAD Art Gallery and Arts Centre.
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After six months of cultural shows, concerts and summits, Expo 2020 Dubai is over. But what happens next? What will stay and what will go? Ahmed Al Khatib, the Chief Development and Delivery Officer for Expo 2020 Dubai, tells us how the now iconic site will be transformed into a city where people live, work and play.
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Since the Emirates’ formation in 1971, it has become a close friend and strategic partner of the United Kingdom. In this miniseries, The UAE at 50, we examine how the relationship between the UAE and the UK has developed over the past fifty years. In this episode, we take a look at the giant leaps made in the UAE’s STEM fields and how exchanges with the UK have helped launch the young nation's space programme. The UAE launched the Emirates Mars Mission last year and is already collaborating with other countries like the UK on a project to build the first human settlement on the planet by 2117. We talk to Alia Al Mansoori, an aspiring Emirati astronaut and student at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and mechanical engineer Nora Al Matrooshi, who became the first Arab female astronaut after joining the UAE's astronaut corps.
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Since its formation in 1971, the UAE has become a close friend and strategic partner of the United Kingdom. In this mini-series, The UAE at 50, we examine how the relationship between the two countries has developed over the past 50 years.
In this episode, we speak to two experts in archaeology based in the UAE about their most recent discoveries and how the young country is searching both its vast desert and deep waters to learn more about its ancient past.
Noura Hamad Al Hameli is a young Emirati archaeologist with the Department of Culture and Tourism in Abu Dhabi and Tim Power is a British archaeologist and historian specialising in Arabia and the Islamic world. He has been working as an academic, consultant and writer in the UAE since 2009 and is currently completing his next book, a 500-page history of the Emirati people.
Hosted by Layla MaghribiInterviewed by Alice Haine and James LangtonProduced by Ayesha Khan and Arthur Eddyson
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In this bonus episode, The National is live from Adipec 2021 in Abu Dhabi, to discuss how the energy sector is evolving after the Covid-19 pandemic and Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow. Host Mustafa Alrawi talks to Robin Mills, CEO of Qamar Energy, and a regular contributor to The National, about the outlook for oil and gas, how the industry will marry short-term supply needs with the path to net zero. Also, how viable is hydrogen as an option for the clean energy mix?
Hosted by Mustafa Alrawi
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Since the Emirates’ formation 50 years ago, it has become a close friend and strategic partner of the UK.After an official visit by Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed to the UK earlier this year, the UAE’s relationship with the country has entered a new chapter. Several high profile investments in greener, high-tech industries were announced, expanding on the Sovereign Investment Partnership, announced last March, with an initial £1 billion joint investment in life sciences.
In this miniseries, The UAE at 50, we speak to those at the heart of this connection about what it means and examine how the links between businesses, governments and institutions have developed over the period.In this episode, we talk speak to Nick Cochran-Dyet, Director and Chairman of the British Business Group about the very long history of commerce between the two nations.
Hosted by Layla Maghribi
Interview conducted by Alice Haine
Produced by Ayesha Khan and Arthur Eddyson
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Since the Emirates’ formation 50 years ago, it has become a close friend and strategic partner of the UK.In this miniseries, The UAE at 50, we speak to those at the heart of this connection about what it means.In this episode, we talk to two environmental experts about the UAE’s fast-changing environmental sector and how the country is forging ahead with its commitment to have net-zero emissions by 2050.
Sheikha Shamma bint Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, who sits on the board of advisors of the Yale Centre for Environmental Law and Policy, and Dr Richard Perry, advisor to Abu Dhabi’s Environment Agency, who helped establish the institution decades ago, tell us how partnerships and collaborations with countries such as the UK are at the heart of the UAE’s goal to become a world leader in sustainability and renewable energy.
Hosted by Layla MaghribiProduced by Ayesha Khan and Arthur Pereira
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The deadly 9/11 terror attacks reshaped US foreign policy with regards to the Middle East. Its consequences continue to be felt, 20 years on.
In this special episode, The National’s Assistant Editor in Chief, Mustafa Alrawi, and Sean Murphy, Charge d’Affaires at the US Embassy in Abu Dhabi, discuss the impact of that tragic event, both broadly on the region and in terms of their own careers. -
Ten years ago, Diego Maradona stunned the world as he arrived in the UAE to manage club team Al Wasl. In this series, Paul Radley, sportswriter for The National, and football correspondent John McAuley will be looking back at the time when Maradona mania arrived in the UAE.
Subscribe to this five-part special to hear the story in full.
Produced by Ayesha Khan and Arthur Eddyson.
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In stark contrast to his gilded playing career, Diego Maradona never won a trophy as a manager. His spells in charge of teams were only ever brief, and often ended in turmoil.
And yet those who played for him during his time in the UAE remember him with deep affection. They describe a manager full of empathy, warmth, and charisma, who would back them - even when all was lost.
In Episode 4 of our podcast series, hosts John McAuley and Paul Radley hear from a number of players who were managed by Maradona at Al Wasl and Fujairah.
The question to each of them was a simple one: what was it like to be coached by one of the most effervescent characters in all of sport?
Subscribe to this five-part special to hear the story in full.
Produced by Ayesha Khan and Arthur Eddyson.
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Diego Maradona is, for many, the greatest footballer to have ever played the game. So what made him so good?
In 1982, when aged 22, he moved from Boca Juniors to Barcelona for a world-record $7.6 million fee.
During his two years at Camp Nou, Maradona was a constant thorn in the side of arch-rivals Real Madrid, even helping Barcelona defeat the old enemy in the 1983 Copa del Rey final.
He would spend two spells at Boca, returning in 1995 following an ignominious exit from the World Cup the previous summer. Two years later, he brought down the curtain on his professional career with a 2-1 victory away to bitter rivals River Plate.
That wasn’t technically when Maradona hung up his boots, though. In 2011, he arrived in the UAE to manage Al Wasl, and was a regular on the 5-aside or 7-aside pitch. Apparently, he treated those games as anything but recreational.
In Episode 3 of our podcast series looking at the Maradona's time in the country, hosts Paul Radley and John McAuley speak to a former opponent at Real Madrid, an ex-teammate at Boca, and even a close friend who was tasked with organising the weekly “friendly” matches in Dubai.
True to form, they attest to the fact the World Cup winner could be a handful on and off the pitch.
Subscribe to this five-part special to hear the story in full.
Produced by Ayesha Khan and Arthur Eddyson.
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