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Walid Hamad024 An-NoorWalid Hamad – 024 An-Noor
2022-06-0729 min
ODI | Think Change“I felt like I was in jail”: adolescent refugees, child marriage and violenceAccording to the UN, up to 650 million women and girls were married under the age of 18. Most are in countries deemed fragile states marked by conflict, climate crisis, and weak institutions. In episode three, we learn about the issues adolescent girls face with violence and child marriage. We hear from Sabreen*, an adolescent refugee from Syria who was married at the age of 16 and now lives in a camp in Lebanon in a small tent with her family and in-laws. We hear about life in the camp and the challenges of being a young mother, and her advice to other...2021-11-0837 min
Podcast Noor4. Ib Hamad on Dreamville, Working with Friends, Building a Community, and MoreIbrahim Hamad is one of the forces behind some of the best artists of our time, J. Cole, Ari Lennox, Bas, JID and more. He is the co-founder of the label Dreamville that he started with Cole after evolving their college friendship into a business partnership. Ibrahim, also known as, Ib, is Sudanese American, born in Paris, and thanks to his dad’s UNESCO job, lived all over the globe. He ended up in the most diverse county in the world - Queens, New York, where he turned his passion for music (aka putting people onto the great music) in...2021-05-181h 49
Checking in with Noor & Hamad8- Hamad Hates PhoebeIn a spectacular but actually super chilled out return, Hayat joins us once again for a quick check-in with friends. We talk TV shows, productivity (or lack thereof), and the tendency for artists to stagnate in their creativity and self-development. We also talk about the word “dears.”
Follow Hayat and the rest of us if that’s your thing:
Hayat’s Instagram: instagram.com/_collision
Hayat’s Twitter: twitter.com/cloudplant_
Noor's Twitter: twitter.com/nunudeen
Hamad's Twitter: twitter.com/7amandi
Hamad's Instagram: instagram.com/7mnd2020-08-2452 min
Checking in with Noor & Hamad7- WUSUUUUUUUUUPOh, hi there. We decided to do a little catch-up on what each of us has been up to over the last couple of months, how we’re feeling now that we’re half-way into the year and quite a chunk into this weird way of life, and what we’ve been producing and consuming in the meantime.
Follow us elsewhere if you just can’t get enough:
Noor's Twitter: twitter.com/nunudeen
Hamad's Twitter: twitter.com/7amandi
Hamad's Instagram: instagram.com/7mnd
Leaves (ft. 7MND) - T...2020-07-2640 min
Checking in with Noor & Hamad6- Ma3alaihAfter taking a break for a week, we checked in with each other and had a casual conversation about what we’ve been up to, where we are emotionally, what we’ve got planned, and of course we talked video games a little bit too.
Check out Hamad’s newly launched Twitch channel where he makes music and plays video games: https://twitch.tv/7mnd
Follow Noor & Hamad everywhere else too:
Noor's Twitter: twitter.com/nunudeen
Noor’s blog and vlog: shda3wa.com
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Checking in with Noor & Hamad5- Hot take FiestaThis episode, we checked in with professional photographer, Ali Haji. We talk about some of the negative effects of the current situation on one’s emotional well-being, and we get a little bit of insight into Ali’s photography. We then digress into video games and our favorite content creators, and what it is about them that keeps us coming back.
Follow Ali Haji on Twitter: twitter.com/alihaji_
Check out his photography on Instagram: instagram.com/alihajiphotography
And his other account, where he focuses on his Batman collection: inst...2020-05-0444 min
Checking in with Noor & Hamad4- Shrug EmojiThis week, we checked in with our friend and favorite academic, Deema, chitchatting about cool social-distancing activities she’s working on for her friends, reality TV, and some existentialism here and there. She also delved into what it’s like to get into the academic industry, what she thought before she started and how she feels now after almost two years as a graduate student in the US.
Follow Deema on Twitter: twitter.com/edeemame
Follow Noor & Hamad but only if it makes you happy:
Noor...2020-04-261h 02
Checking in with Noor & Hamad3 - Productive SnoozeWe were excited this week to check in with DJ and music producer Ahmed Zainal to see how he's been adapting to the current situation, both as someone with a day job and as someone who relies on gigs in his music career. He was happy to share everything he's learned and give us some nuggets of wisdom for the session.
Follow Ahmed Zainal and check out his work:
Instagram: www.instagram.com/ahmedzainal
Twitter: twitter.com/ahmedzainal
His Live Techno Set is also up on YouTube: https...2020-04-1934 min
Checking in with Noor & Hamad2- (insert title noor pls love you)This week, we checked in with artist and creator Hayat Abdulsaheb to see what she's been up to. We get a little insight into her artistic process, the underlying themes in her work, and where she sees herself going. We also talked about sexy fruits.
Follow Hayat and check out her work:
Instagram: www.instagram.com/_collision/
Twitter: twitter.com/cloudplant_
Her latest comic - Stories on Loneliness: gumroad.com/hayathasan
Follow Noor & Hamad if you want it's cool I mean up to you:
Noor's Twitter: twitter.com/nunudeen
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Checking in with Noor & Hamad1- Intro? Epilogue!? Beginning!The first of (hopefully) many episodes of Checking in with Noor & Hamad! (CIWNH? We don't know) where we discuss the state of the world, the state of our minds, and all the latest cool and boring things we've been up to!2020-04-1325 min