Experiments in Dialogue is a podcast co-hosted by two Egyptian friends, attempting to reconstruct the world through good-faith and honest dialogue. In each episode, we attempt to couple the best of Enlightenment values with an evolutionary lens to explore the intimate and difficult questions posed by our modern circumstance. Join us, as we weave a diverse array of guests with discussions, covering culture, philosophy, and science.
Episode Description:Ahmed and Youssef sit down to speak with Iman Eldeeb (AKA Camelicked), model and founder of UNN Model Management, the first modelling agency in Egypt. They discuss the nature of the modelling industry, Iman's history, and what it was like starting the first model management agency in Egypt. The discussion switches gears, as they discuss the origins of beauty standards, what men want vs. what women think men want, sexual selection's role in forming our ideals of beauty, social signalling, and how culture, biology, and markets interact to produce the modelling industry as we see it today.Podcast Description:Experiments in Dialogue is a podcast co-hosted by two Egyptian friends, attempting to reconstruct the world through good-faith and honest dialogue. In each episode, we attempt to couple the best of Enlightenment values with an evolutionary lens to explore the intimate and difficult questions posed by our modern circumstances. Join us, as we weave a diverse array of guests and discussions into a tapestry of stories about culture, philosophy, and science.If you like our material and want regular updates or would like to connect, follow us on our social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/expindialogue...Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/experimentsindialogue/...Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ExperimentsinDialogue/If you want to support what we're doing, please check out our Patreon: http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/
Episode Description:Zade Sadek joins Ahmed and Youssef to discuss education in Egypt and around the world, in what ways it is lacking, and how to fix it. They delve into philosophical issues, such as the unity of knowledge, science as method vs. science as fact, the problem with informational discrepancies in education, and the stigmatisation of polymaths. The discussion, at times, assumes the character of a debate, but ultimately leads down roads that clarify the ideas at hand. Whether you've thought about educational systems and challenges or are just up for a novel discussion between three individuals who are happy to push the envelope and challenge several status-quo notions about education, this discussion is for you!We hope you enjoy this discussion and the creativity Zade brings into it. If you like our content, make sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.Podcast Description:Experiments in Dialogue is a podcast co-hosted by two Egyptian friends, attempting to reconstruct the world through good-faith and honest dialogue. In each episode, we attempt to couple the best of Enlightenment values with an evolutionary lens to explore the intimate and difficult questions posed by our modern circumstances. Join us, as we weave a diverse array of guests and discussions into a tapestry of stories about culture, philosophy, and science.If you like our material and want regular updates or would like to connect, follow us on our social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/expindialogue...Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/experimentsindialogue/...Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ExperimentsinDialogue/If you want to support what we're doing, please check out our Patreon: http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/
Episode Description:In this solo episode of the Experiments in Dialogue podcast, Youssef and Ahmed get a bit more personal, discussing the origins of their friendship, how they came to see friendship throughout their lives, and to what degree the quality of the friendships they formed influenced their lives. They spend some time discussing the evolutionary paradox of friendship, as they see it, and try to unravel the mystery behind why people can select bad friends and how to avoid it. We hope you enjoy this most personal of podcasts so far and, if you like our content, make sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.Podcast Description:Experiments in Dialogue is a podcast co-hosted by two Egyptian friends, attempting to reconstruct the world through good-faith and honest dialogue. In each episode, we attempt to couple the best of Enlightenment values with an evolutionary lens to explore the intimate and difficult questions posed by our modern circumstances. Join us, as we weave a diverse array of guests and discussions into a tapestry of stories about culture, philosophy, and science.If you like our material and want regular updates or would like to connect, follow us on our social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/expindialogue...Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/experimentsindialogue/...Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ExperimentsinDialogue/If you want to support what we're doing, please check out our Patreon: http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/
Episode Description:Youssef and Ahmed are joined by Joshua Pawaar, a Psychoanalysis and Pyscho-social studies student at the University of Essex, who is able to dance gracefully with ideas.The three sit down to discuss psychoanalysis and the role it can play in helping us understand humanity, its deepest nature, and the psyche as such. The conversation delves into issues like: the role of the internet in the proliferation of memes, the origins and roots of suicide, and how to conceive of individual identity. They cover ground, such as how Freudian Psychoanalysis sheds light on humanity's deepest fears and insecurities, the role of Jungian archetypes in human evolution and their applications to hero mythology, and where the proper purview of psychoanalytic ideas should be within human affairs. We hope you enjoy this combustible meeting between the psychoanalytic lens and the evolutionary one!Podcast Description:Experiments in Dialogue is a podcast co-hosted by two Egyptian friends, attempting to reconstruct the world through good-faith and honest dialogue. In each episode, we attempt to couple the best of Enlightenment values with an evolutionary lens to explore the intimate and difficult questions posed by our modern circumstances. Join us, as we weave a diverse array of guests and discussions into a tapestry of stories about culture, philosophy, and science.If you like our material and want regular updates or would like to connect, follow us on our social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/expindialogue...Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/experimentsindialogue/...Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ExperimentsinDialogue/If you want to support what we're doing, please check out our Patreon: http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/
Episode Description:Following on from their last conversation with Mofe Onuwaje, Youssef and Ahmed sit down to engage in a more abstract conversation about our current philosophical and existential circumstance. The discussion starts off as an elaboration on the notion of the loneliness of subjectivity, and its relationship to the identity politics of the day. This soon turns into an exploration of issues, such as: the current meaning crisis and the degree to which we find ourselves seeking deeper connections, at a time when our ancient institutions for finding that seem obsolete.Drawing on their own and the ideas of thinkers, like Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, and Nicholas Christakis, they come to discuss how we can best resist the temptation to abandon the difficult job of finding meaning as individuals. Ultimately, this line of reasoning leads them to a discussion of the failures of capitalism to provide sufficient avenues for exploring the deepest realms we have, as well as the equally failing, albeit more seductive, siren song of the identitarian far-left.Podcast Description:Experiments in Dialogue is a podcast co-hosted by two Egyptian friends, attempting to reconstruct the world through good-faith and honest dialogue. In each episode, we attempt to couple the best of Enlightenment values with an evolutionary lens to explore the intimate and difficult questions posed by our modern circumstances. Join us, as we weave a diverse array of guests and discussions into a tapestry of stories about culture, philosophy, and science.If you like our material and want regular updates or would like to connect, follow us on our social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/expindialogue...Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/experimentsindialogue/...Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ExperimentsinDialogue/If you want to support what we're doing, please check out our Patreon: http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/
Episode Description:The tragic and brutal death of George Floyd at the hands of police officer Derrek Chauvin, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, is still fresh in everyone's minds. Nevertheless, what has captivated the media in the days that followed has been the resultant outcry by protesters who, in search of racial justice, flooded the streets. Since then, this outcry for justice has reverberated and spread, not only across the US, but around the world, with protests slowly morphing into riots and being hijacked by cynics, who wish to wreak havoc upon an already weakened and fragile system. Youssef and Ahmed are joined by Mofe Onuwaje, a Law Student at the University of Durham and a friend who, in the wake of the events, sought to arrange a discussion on the issues at hand. The discussion delves into various topics, ranging from the specifics of George Floyd's brutalisation, to the reality vs lived experience of institutional racism, to the values and methods of Black Lives Matter movement, and, finally, to the problems with the ideology underlying anti-racism. Podcast Description:Experiments in Dialogue is a podcast co-hosted by two Egyptian friends, attempting to reconstruct the world through good-faith and honest dialogue. In each episode, we attempt to couple the best of Enlightenment values with an evolutionary lens to explore the intimate and difficult questions posed by our modern circumstances. Join us, as we weave a diverse array of guests and discussions into a tapestry of stories about culture, philosophy, and science.If you like our material and want regular updates or would like to connect, follow us on our social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/expindialogue...Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/experimentsindialogue/...Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ExperimentsinDialogue/If you want to support what we're doing, please check out our Patreon: http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/
Episode Description:After much anticipation, the first experiment begins! Youssef and Ahmed sit down, recounting the events leading up to the podcast's creation and then offer a taster of what kind of content is to come. We discuss the ever-conflicting twin-forces of tradition and progress as abstractions of a biological struggle that has analogies at the cultural, societal, and even individual level. We get into how currently our cultural tools, both in the west and the Middle-East, offer us only partial answers to questions of how to navigate the world and how to find internal meaning. Finally, we talk about how, today, humanity is uniquely positioned to develop true and actionable answers to the questions about where we come from and why we are here.Podcast Description:Experiments in Dialogue is a podcast co-hosted by two Egyptian friends, attempting to reconstruct the world through good-faith and honest dialogue. In each episode, we attempt to couple the best of Enlightenment values with an evolutionary lens to explore the intimate and difficult questions posed by our modern circumstances. Join us, as we weave a diverse array of guests and discussions into a tapestry of stories about culture, philosophy, and science.If you like our material and want regular updates or would like to connect, follow us on our social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/expindialogue...Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/experimentsindialogue/...Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ExperimentsinDialogue/If you want to support what we're doing, please check out our Patreon: http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/
Description:Youssef and Ahmed are joined, once again, by their friend and intellectual sparring partner, Zade Sadek. This time around, rather than discussing Zade's visionary ideas on education, the guys get down into the philosophical details of various abstract but important topics. The discussion opens up with Zade challenging Ahmed and Youssef's "Only on an Island" notion, which was developed in episode 5, and the co-hosts of the podcast begin to hash out their views under siege from Zade's sharp skepticism and arguments. From there, the conversation begins to flow, shifting into a debate about free-will, accountability and justice, and how the legal system can be reformed. The discussion's expanse widens, as the guys cover Robert Sapolsky's work on biology, the role of art, science and philosophy in forging meaning, how language can dictate the structure of culture, and eventually concluding with a long discussion about the pitfalls of social media culture. Time Stamps:00:00 - Introduction00:50 - Only on an Island, revisited17:40 - Do we have free will?23:12 - Robert Sapolsky, biology, Frame-shifting as a limited form of agency29:08 - Accountability, justice, and free-will as a useful fiction 36:05 - Recapitulating Sam Harris' views on justice and free-will41:41 - How losing free-will can pave the way to restorative justice50:33 - Customary Law and the future of informal institutions 53:15 - Art, science, philosophy, and the pain of losing cultural avenues for abstraction58:00 - Free expression, the Process, and the search for meaning1:04:14 - Linguistic precision and the structure of culture1:09:51 - Social media and the devaluation of virtue1:15:49 - How social media forcibly excise the nuances and complexities of conversation1:19:15 - The evolutionary origins of racism and the biology of race1:26:00 - The memetic resonance of enlightenment values and how we can improve itWhere to Find More:If you like our content, make sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.If you want to support what we’re doing, please check out our Patreon: http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/
Join Youssef and Ahmed as they delve into the ever-changing dynamics of male-female relations. The first part of the discussion focuses on the tensions created when men and women go from operating in distinct spheres to competing in the same one. This prompts them to “steel-man” opposing feminist and leftist arguments about capitalism’s relationship to “the patriarchy”, as they discuss the costs and benefits of feminine and masculine ways of working and whether there should be any place for the extremes of either in corporate or, more broadly, productive settings.The second part of their conversation revolves around male and female mate-selection preferences and what drives underly them. They cover male-female dynamics and the emergence of hook-up culture, which culminates in a discussion about how men and women can best act to facilitate meaning in their lives, especially by noticing their internally competing and evolution-instantiated desires.If you like our content, make sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.If you want to support what we’re doing, please check out our Patreon: http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/
Join Youssef and Ahmed as they grapple with the subject of love in the wake of the 21st century and the reformulation of male-female dynamics that preceded it. They discuss the multivariate and evolutionary origins of modern-day romantic dismay, the poverty of our cultures, western and eastern, in providing a new but effective wisdom of love, and how the romantic intertwining of lovers in mutual respect, trust, and acceptance can emancipate romance from genetic constraints and memetic dogmas. We hope you enjoy the discussion and find it insightful, don’t forget to show some love by following us on social media and telling us what you think!If you like our content, make sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.If you want to support what we’re doing, please check out our Patreon: http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/
Youssef and Ahmed are joined by activist, freethinker, and co-founder of Ideas without Borders and Global Conversations, Faisal Saeed Al Mutar. The three begin by discussing the impetus behind his organization and its mass digital translation project, Bayt Al Hikma 2.0, covering questions, such as the role of translation and memetic exposure in facilitating cultural change. They proceed to discuss parallels between the tribalism and dogmatism rampant across the Middle East and the siloed political viewpoints that have come to characterize even the US and the West, more broadly. This leads them down a reflection on the the fragility of enlightenment values, as well as the importance of continually renewing and reiterating the arguments for them, lest they ossify into dogmas. We, therefore, bring you a discussion spanning the past, present, and future of enlightenment in the Arab World.If you like our content, make sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.If you want to support what we’re doing, please check out our Patreon:http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/
After an extended break, Youssef and Ahmed sit down again, this time for a discussion about free speech motivated by the recent events in France, which produced global uproar from the Muslim community. They recount the details of Samuel Paty's beheading as an entry-point from-which to proceed to discuss the value of free speech and what it means for a civilization to foster a censorious culture. The discussion delves into questions, such as when censorship is appropriate, whether the right to free speech encapsulates a right to offend, and how to guard against the dogma of the majority, an idea first articulated by John Stuart Mill.If you like our content, make sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.If you want to support what we’re doing, please check out our Patreon:http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/
Youssef and Ahmed sit down for a discussion with five of the six members of Sublunary. They discuss the individual origin story of each band member, the details of how they discovered and developed their respective passions for music, and how they came to find their place in Sublunary. This segues into a discussion about the formation of Sublunary, the story behind the band's name, what the band set out to be and offer, and a spoiler about what Sublunary has in store for the world. The discussion morphs when a discussion about succeeding in and making a living in the music industry turns into an ever-expansive philosophical and analytical discussion. The 7 guys find themselves engrossed in a discussion about the music industry as a market, why everyone loves to hate mainstream music and pop, the relationship between musical complexity and risk/authenticity, among other issues. The band's members do not fail to impress, as they play gracefully with ideas about music as patterned sound of ancestral origins, the unknown and mysterious nature of nature's aesthetic taste, the sources of musical inspiration, among other complex topics. If your interest is at all piqued by the musically, intellectually, and generally brilliant minds we had the pleasure of speaking to on this episode make sure to like and follow Sublunary on:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sublunaryofficial/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sublunaryofficial/You can find Sublunary's beautiful music and receive immediate updates on their content releases by subscribing on any of these platforms: Spotify Apple Music Anghami Sublunary is also listed on iTunes, Google Play/YouTube, Amazon, Pandora, Deezer, Tidal, Napster, iHeartRadio, ClaroMusica, Saavn, Anghami, KKBox, MediaNet, Instagram/FacebookFinally, if you enjoy the Experiments in Dialogue Podcast, make sure to like and follow us on social media and if you want to support us, consider becoming our patron on Patreon, as every donation, no matter how small, helps to keep this podcast going.
Ahmed and Youssef sit down to speak with Iman Eldeeb (AKA Camelicked), model and founder of UNN Model Management, the first modelling agency in Egypt. They discuss the nature of the modelling industry, Iman's history, and what it was like starting the first model management agency in Egypt. The discussion switches gears, as they discuss the origins of beauty standards, what men want vs. what women think men want, sexual selection's role in forming our ideals of beauty, social signalling, and how culture, biology, and markets interact to produce the modelling industry as we see it today.We hope you find this an illuminating and thought-provoking discussion! You can check out Iman's work and UNN Model Management here:UNN Model Management:- Website: https://www.unnmodels.com/home- Instagram: @unnmodelsIman ElDeeb : @camelickedAs always, you can find us on: - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ExperimentsinDialogue- Instagram: @expindialogue- Twitter: @expindialogue- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAKflCnZcnlfQq1GD8Gn-VwIf you want to support what we’re doing, please check out our Patreon:http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/
Zade Sadek joins Ahmed and Youssef to discuss education in Egypt and around the world, in what ways it is lacking, and how to fix it. They delve into philosophical issues, such as the unity of knowledge, science as method vs. science as fact, the problem with informational discrepancies in education, and the stigmatisation of polymaths. The discussion, at times, assumes the character of a debate, but ultimately leads down roads that clarify the ideas at hand. Whether you've thought about educational systems and challenges or are just up for a novel discussion between three individuals who are happy to push the envelope and challenge several status-quo notions about education, this discussion is for you!We hope you enjoy this discussion and the creativity Zade brings into it. If you like our content, make sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.If you want to support what we’re doing, please check out our Patreon:http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/
In this solo episode of the Experiments in Dialogue podcast, Youssef and Ahmed get a bit more personal, discussing the origins of their friendship, how they came to see friendship throughout their lives, and to what degree the quality of the friendships they formed influenced their lives. They spend some time discussing the evolutionary paradox of friendship, as they see it, and try to unravel the mystery behind why people can select bad friends and how to avoid it. We hope you enjoy this most personal of podcasts so far and, if you like our content, make sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.If you want to support what we’re doing, please check out our Patreon:http://patreon.com/join/ExperimentsinDialogue/
Youssef and Ahmed are joined by Joshua Pawaar, a psychoanalysis and pyscho-social studies student at the University of Essex, who is able to dance gracefully with ideas. The three sit down to discuss psychoanalysis and the role it can play in helping us understand humanity, its deepest nature, and the psyche as such. The conversation delves into issues like: the role of the internet in the proliferation of memes, the origins and roots of suicide, and how to conceive of individual identity. They cover ground, such as how Freudian psychoanalysis sheds light on humanity's deepest fears and insecurities, the role of Jungian archetypes in human evolution and their applications to hero mythology, and where the proper purview of psychoanalytic ideas should be within human affairs. We hope you enjoy this combustible meeting between the psychoanalytic lens and the evolutionary one!Note: Though the discussion does get technical at times, a fair bit of time is spent defining ideas and concepts clearly to ensure anyone with any background is able follow. If you like what we're doing here, become our patron on Patreon as it does help us continue what we are doing!
Following on from their last conversation with Mofe Onuwaje, Youssef and Ahmed sit down to engage in a more abstract conversation about our current philosophical and existential circumstance. The discussion starts off as an elaboration on the notion of the loneliness of subjectivity, and its relationship to the identity politics of the day. This soon turns into an exploration of issues, such as: the current meaning crisis and the degree to which we find ourselves seeking deeper connections, at a time when our ancient institutions for finding that seem obsolete. Drawing on their own and the ideas of thinkers, like Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, and Nicholas Christakis, they come to discuss how we can best resist the temptation to abandon the difficult job of finding meaning as individuals. Ultimately, this line of reasoning leads them to a discussion of the failures of capitalism to provide sufficient avenues for exploring the deepest realms we have, as well as the equally failing, albeit more seductive, siren song of the identitarian far-left. If you like what we're doing here, become our patron on Patreon as it does help us continue what we are doing!
The tragic and brutal death of George Floyd at the hands of police officer Derrek Chauvin, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, is still fresh in everyone's minds. Nevertheless, what has captivated the media in the days that followed has been the resultant outcry by protesters who, in search of racial justice, flooded the streets. Since then, this outcry for justice has reverberated and spread, not only across the US, but around the world, with protests slowly morphing into riots and being hijacked by cynics, who wish to wreak havoc upon an already weakened and fragile system. Youssef and Ahmed are joined by Mofe Onuwaje, a Law Student at the University of Durham and a friend who, in the wake of the events, sought to arrange a discussion on the issues at hand. The discussion delves into various topics, ranging from the specifics of George Floyd's brutalisation, to the reality vs lived experience of institutional racism, to the values and methods of Black Lives Matter movement, and, finally, to the problems with the ideology underlying anti-racism.
After much anticipation, the first experiment begins! Youssef and Ahmed sit down, recounting the events leading up to the podcast's creation and then offer a taster of what kind of content is to come. We discuss the ever-conflicting twin-forces of tradition and progress as abstractions of a biological struggle that has analogies at the cultural, societal, and even individual level. We get into how our cultural tools, both in the west and the Middle East, offer us only partial answers at the moment, to the questions of how to navigate the world and how to find internal meaning. Finally, we talk about how today humanity is uniquely positioned to develop true and actionable answers to the most intimate questions about where we come from and why we are here.
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