The Foreign Local is a podcast about Egypt — through the lens of the Egyptian diaspora. While the speakers we hear mostly grew up abroad, many have decided to return to a “home” that is both familiar and in many ways still foreign. Along with host Monica Gerges, whose Instagram bio states she is “chronicling the chaos of Cairo after 20 years in Canada,” guests share anecdotes of their lives from playing hockey in the streets of Mississauga to the alleyways of Cairo’s Zabaleen district (bonus episode), and from living in Austria to returning to medical school in Egypt (episode 7).

Tune in to Episode 8: This 44-minute episode features a conversation with Amira Salah-Ahmed (Twitter), whose life was dramatically altered when she moved back to Egypt to attend the American University in Cairo after many years of living in New York with her family — a city they had first settled in when she was only a child. Amira takes us through the journey she took towards developing a different connection with her home country, after immersing herself in the world of journalism.

WHERE TO LISTEN- You can listen to it on Google or Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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