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Jan 24 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: We've launched a new podcast! It's called "Intergalactic Tarboush" (@tarboush_pod), will be short format (20 mins), and will run weekly. Links to the first two episodes below, but first, some background
Our flagship podcast, the Arab Tyrant Manual (@ArabTyrantMan) was launched in 2017 and came out of hiatus this month. It's a serious, long-format, deep-dive political podcast. We thought we also needed a faster paced, shorter, more eclectic podcast, hence @tarboush_pod
Intergalactic Tarboush is about... eclectic conversations between political activists from MENA. We talk about anything and everything (from disinformation to evolution to sports), but we're coming from a very specific background. Political activists from the MENA.
We've never done this before - most of our content has been extremely political. But in our private conversations, not everything is about politics. Sometimes it's about psychedelic treatments. Sometimes it's about workouts. Sometimes we just geek out. So let's see how this goes.
We're looking forward to your support and your feedback. Please follow @tarboush_pod, subscribe (on your podcast app + on Youtube), and share/retweet. And please give us your feedback, because we really need it if we are to improve. Like we said, we've never done this before.
Here's a link to our first episode (click through to find the video/Youtube version)
Here's a link to our second episode (click through for video/Youtube)

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