Podcast
Reading the World | قراءة العالم
A bilingual (English/Arabic) podcast exploring world literature, culture, and higher education as connected ways of understanding how meaning is made. Each episode treats reading as a humanities-based method of inquiry—attentive to language, context, power, perspective, translation, and interpretation.

What to expect
- Careful conversations about texts, ideas, and cultural debates—without oversimplification.
- Episodes organized around one concept at a time (reading practices, translation, narrative, universities).
- Practical takeaways: reading prompts, short bibliographies, and links for further study.
Show notes & transcripts
Selected episodes include expanded notes, references, and transcripts to make the conversation searchable and useful for teaching, research, and public reading.
Podcast inquiries
If you’d like to invite me for an interview, panel, or collaboration, please use the Contact page.
Latest Episodes
This page will feature the newest episodes with short summaries and links to show notes and transcripts (when available).
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The Quiet Force of Small Towns in Fiction: Insights from Susan Gooch
Small-town fiction, as discussed by Susan Gooch, highlights the town as a narrative force shaping character…
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Reading the World Through Economics
Economic systems are rarely encountered by ordinary people as systems. They are encountered as moral languages:…
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Embracing Visibility: Empowering Introverts in an Extroverted World
In a recent episode of Reading the World, host Ali Alhajji interviews Serena Low, a coach…
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What Travel Photos Fail to Tell Us—and Why it Matters
Travel photos can make us feel like we’ve already “seen” a place—but a photograph isn’t a…
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How We Choose Episode Topics
A note on how we choose episode topics: we look for concepts that benefit from a…
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Introducing Reading the World | قراءة العالم
Reading the World | قراءة العالم is a bilingual podcast that takes questions from the classroom…



