The Habibis is three game developers drinking some good Arab Tea for what should be about fourty minutes, inshallah, each week, inshallah. Fawzi Mesmar, Osama Dorias, and Rami Ismail discuss games and media and life as Arabs living all around the big world.
The 3 Habibis dive into everything from flying planes and wild airport stories to movies, gaming and life lessons from aviation. It's a rollercoaster of laughs, deep thoughts, and unexpected twists.
Fawzi, Osama, and Rami try to beat Fawzi's AirBnB checkout time as they discuss their favorite games from an incredibly tough year for the games industry.Note that there are spoilers for the original Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth between 42:23 and 45:00.
The Habibis reunite to share laughs, stories, favorite games and what's been keeping them hooked. Stick around for an exciting surprise reveal!
Every day for the entire Holy Month of Ramadan, one of the Habibis will release a short 5-10 minute "Suhoor Bite" episode to join you for your Suhoor. This year, Fawzi Mesmar will use his Suhoor Bites to describe his top 10 anime movies of all time. Today, #9.
Every day for the entire Holy Month of Ramadan, one of the Habibis will release a short 5-10 minute "Suhoor Bite" episode to join you for your Suhoor. This year, Osama Dorias will use his Suhoor Bites to sit down and tell some fun anecdotes from his life.
Every day for the entire Holy Month of Ramadan, one of the Habibis will release a short 5-10 minute "Suhoor Bite" episode to join you for your Suhoor. As every year, Rami talks to Muslims, Arabs, or those who grew with or around Ramadan. For the first episode, the story of Maged Hamdy and the sprinkle.
Every day for the entire Holy Month of Ramadan, one of the Habibis will release a short 5-10 minute "Suhoor Bite" episode to join you for your Suhoor. This year, Fawzi Mesmar will use his Suhoor Bites to describe his top 10 anime movies of all time. Today, #10.
Osama and Rami celebrate Fawzi's GDC Ambassador Award, and the Habibis catch up on what they've been up to, and what they've been playing and watching.
How many Habibis does it take to make a Top 10 games of 2023 list? Three Habibis, it turns out: one to make the spreadsheets Fawzi can copy-paste into, one to correct Fawzi's copy-pasting skills, and one Fawzi.Happy New Year, everyone
The Habibis start on the impossible task of creating a Habibis Top 10.
Fawzi, Rami, and Osama try to figure out what they would sound like as Pokémon.
Rami recounts the story of how Fawzi turned the entire country of Portugal against Egyptian kebab (this may be an exaggeration).
Fawzi & Rami visited devcom at the end of August, and caught up with Ahmed Salama to talk about devcom, gamescom, and games industry.
Creators & Guests Rami Ismail (رامي) - Host Osama Dorias - Host Fawzi Mesmar (فوزي) - Host catch up and exchange stories of (busy) lives, travel, games, and to hear Osama get very excited about reading e-mails about Osama.
The Habibis look back at 100 episodes of doilies, agent Smith, segues, and inshallahs.
Note: as this is an episode featuring Anisa, there is cursing as the edit-time to remove the cursing would exceed the full lifespan of the universe.Fawzi & Rami are joined by Osama Dorias-representative Anisa Sanusi. We talk about the BAFTAs, Ramadan, and wearing suits in a Starbucks.
The three Habibis talk about a topic that cannot be avoided, the eternal truth of Arab culture: Amr Diab.
Osama and Fawzi spend almost an hour talking about time, Tunic, Pinnochio, and board games - all in anticipation of the big question of the week: if Osama messes up the intro, will that free him from the outro curse?
Rami faces a dilemma: who *is* the second guest on the Habibi's this week? It's impossible to tell, and he has to come up with a devious plan to figure out whether it is Osama or Fawzi who has joined him for this episode.
The Habibis kick off 2023 with what we would like to point out is a remarkably smooth episode that somehow goes all over the place anyway.
The Habibis discuss their favorite games of 2022, and discover that there were so many good games that it's hard to make a list of just 10 games.Games mentioned (in alphabetical order): Atari 50 The anniversary Celebration Cult of the Lamb Destiny 2: The Witch Queen Dome Keeper Dwarf Fortress Elden Ring God of War Ragnarok Gotham Knights High on Life Horizon Forbidden West Hyper Demon King of Fighters 15 Kirby & the Forgotten Land Marvel Snap Marvel: Midnight Suns Metal Hellsinger Neon White NFS Unbound Norco Overwatch 2 Pokemon Legends Arceus Return to Monkey Island Rogue Legacy 2 Rogue Tower Stacklands Stray The Case of the Golden Idol TNMT Shredder's Revenge Trombone Champ Tunic Vampire Survivors Wordle Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Apologies for this excessively delayed episode - we were switching backends and it turned out to be a disaster! We've got everything back to work now: so enjoy this belated episode in which we talk about Marvel Snap.
Fawzi & Osama talk about games, and all the other stuff that went down this last week. Also, Osama agrees to an absolutely formally binding royalty share with Fawzi.
Fawzi & Rami talk about why Osama couldn't make it to this episode.
After a few weeks of hiatus, Rami, Fawzi, and Osama get back together to catch up on games, TV series, and... karaoke?
Note: as this is an episode featuring Anisa, there is cursing as the edit-time to remove the cursing would exceed the full lifespan of the universe. Fawzi & Rami are joined by Osama Dorias-representative Anisa Sanusi. Things go off the rails pretty much instantly, and never quite recover, although we do manage to talk about games and movies and stuff for like 5 minutes.
Arab Rami, Arab Fawzi, and Arab Osama are three Arab Game Developers Arab-drinking Good Arab Tea.
Osama & Rami congratulate Fawzi on the announcement of Assassins' Creed Mirage.
Rami, Osama, and also Fawzi catch up on the events of the week.
This time with proper microphones, Osama, Fawzi, and Rami run out of time to discuss all the things they want to talk about this episode.
So, disclaimer: we messed up the recording. We're posting it anyway because the talk is good, but we fully understand if you can't stomach the super-echo.
Fawzi, Rami, and Osama talk about AI? Is that right? Yeah, actually - AI.
The three Habibis get back together for a lot of catching up, and everything descends into beautiful chaos.
It's been a while! Osama and Fawzi finally find a gap in their schedules to record a new episode, and it starts off well!
Fawzi, Osama, and Rami are joined by Brosephene in a special episode for Draw4Charity, a livestream marathon for charity happening the weekend of this episode, July 15-17th of 2022! For more information, or to donate, check out https://draw4charity.org/
It's hard to make Rami stop talking, but Osama finds a way.
Osama & Fawzi talk about absolutely-not-copyrighted-things.
Rami posted this for the wrong date so it's a few days late. Fawzi & Rami talk about being old and having gadgets!Gadgets mentioned:- Switch Dock Dongle- Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard- Mango Wireless router- SONY MP-CD1 (No Longer In Production)
Rami talks about too many gadgets, and Osama ponders what the difference between Dubai & Abu Dhabi is.
Fawzi and Rami talk about aviation, live performances, and Fawzi's love for The Wire's writers' new series, We Own This City.
The Habibis and guest Nazih Fares consider what Sprite, the most magical medicine, won't fix.Guest link: Nazih Faris - https://twitter.com/nazihfares
It was the summer of '62. Eid Mubarak!
Fawzi counts down his top 10 favorite TV drama shows.