Wirelessly Yours Ziad Matar

Ziad Matar talks (in person) with Marta Gràcia, CEO of Cloudworks, about how co-working spaces are reshaping Barcelona’s ideas about work, and why Cloudworks is ready for business unusual. Marta previously served as Cloudworks’ business strategist and guides the company as it sets the standard for an emerging work model in Spain. She graduated in business administration and management from ESADE in Barcelona and for the past five years, she has been a cultural industries academic collaborator for the institution.

Ziad Matar hosts Matteo di Pascale, an award-winning creative, UX designer, entrepreneur, publisher, and founder of Intùiti—a synthesis tool of design, tarot, and gestalt psychology that is being used by innovative people all over the world to find instinctive solutions to problems.

Ziad Matar talks politics, TV shows vs reality, shifting political alliances, and writing to make sense of the chaos in a world where few read with Kim Ghattas, contributing writer for The Atlantic, non-resident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and celebrated NYT bestselling and notable author for Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Forty Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion and Collective Memory in the Middle East, and The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power.

Ziad Matar hosts Dr. Nadine Chahine, award-winning Lebanese type designer, director at Arabic Type, and one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business” according to Fact Company magazine. As an expert in Arabic typography and font design, Nadine talks about how Arabic fonts have the power to give a wider representation and voice to the Arabic narrative.

Ziad Matar talks with Saad Umerani, co-founder and CEO of the Protein Bakeshop; founding partner at the investment firm, Enabling Future; and founder Melange bakery about building and branding products.

In the latest episode, wwe spoke to Mashael Alobaidan— Saudi Arabia’s first female rally driver, Investment Attraction and Development Manager at the Kingdom’s Ministry of Investment, as well as an accomplished athlete and passionate photographer.