Jabber Al-Bihani's guest appearances

Jabber Al-Bihani

Food Without Borders

Hidden Apron Radio

Phil Rosenthal

Yemi Amu

Ben Miller

Yasmin Khan

Priya Krishna

John Currence

Greg Baxtrom

Tunde Wey

Nik Sharma

Devita Davison

Michael Twitty

Pierre Thiam

Yana Gilbuena

Joanne Boston

Amy Besa

OwlTail

Nasser Jaber

The debut episode of the second season of Food Without Borders features Jabber Al-Bihani and Nasser Jaber, partners at Komeeda, a platform that creates unique dining experiences that amplify the voices and cuisine of immigrant chefs. Jabber and Nasser speak about Displaced Dinners, a post-election series that gives diners an opportunity to taste the food of and hear stories from recently resettled refugees. They also talk about the upcoming Refugee Food and Art Festival that they're producing next weekend in NYC. Tune in for a fascinating conversation about food, conflict, and community. Food Without Borders is powered by Simplecast

The debut episode of the second season of Food Without Borders features Jabber Al-Bihani and Nasser Jaber, partners at <a href="https://www.komeeda.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Komeeda</a>, a platform that creates unique dining experiences that amplify the voices and cuisine of immigrant chefs. Jabber and Nasser speak about Displaced Dinners, a post-election series that gives diners an opportunity to taste the food of and hear stories from recently resettled refugees. They also talk about the upcoming Refugee Food and Art Festival that they're producing next weekend in NYC. Tune in for a fascinating conversation about food, conflict, and community. Food Without Borders is powered by <a href="http://simplecast.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Simplecast</a>

Episode 13: Komeeda with Jabber Al-Bihani and Nasser Jaber

Our guest is Jabber Al-Bihani who started his journey as an engineer and during a trip to Barcelona, took part in a commonplace but nevertheless transformational experience of breaking bread with complete strangers. He’s sought to recreate that experience since then through Komeeda (based on the Spanish word for “Food"), where he gathers people of varying backgrounds to share stories and food at pop-up dinners at local restaurants. The particular dinner where I met Jabber was part of a series called “Displaced Kitchens” which featured newly settled refugees who cooked recipes of their homeland while sharing the struggles they’ve faced. With immigration being a very relevant topic, these dinners - Jabber’s form of “activism” as he calls it - have served to humanize the refugee and connect Americans to people they would normally only hear about on TV. We cover a lot of ground in this episode and many of these topics are definitely hard to discuss without getting too political. Jabber talks: - Starting Komeeda and how food has helped heal our deeply divided society, *Listen in particular to his story of the time a Black Lives Matter Activist sat down to share a meal with a Trump Supporter. - Giving back and helping when things seem overwhelming; how to channel your energy and create change if marching in the streets isn’t your cup of tea, - His experiences balancing between a conservative upbringing and a rapidly changing world, - And the importance of questioning your own beliefs. Most importantly we talk about just being and doing “you”, which is all we can really strive to do. Listen up and we hope you enjoy this episode! More information can be found at hiddenapron.com/podcast, contact us at hiddenapron@gmail.com, or catch us on Instagram @hidden_apron.

Our guest is Jabber Al-Bihani who started his journey as an engineer and during a trip to Barcelona, took part in a commonplace but nevertheless transformational experience of breaking bread with complete strangers. He’s sought to recreate that experience since then through Komeeda (based on the Spanish word for “Food"), where he gathers people of varying backgrounds to share stories and food at pop-up dinners at local restaurants. The particular dinner where I met Jabber was part of a series called “Displaced Kitchens” which featured newly settled refugees who cooked recipes of their homeland while sharing the struggles they’ve faced. With immigration being a very relevant topic, these dinners - Jabber’s form of “activism” as he calls it - have served to humanize the refugee and connect Americans to people they would normally only hear about on TV. We cover a lot of ground in this episode and many of these topics are definitely hard to discuss without getting too political. Jabber talks: - Starting Komeeda and how food has helped heal our deeply divided society, *Listen in particular to his story of the time a Black Lives Matter Activist sat down to share a meal with a Trump Supporter. - Giving back and helping when things seem overwhelming; how to channel your energy and create change if marching in the streets isn’t your cup of tea, - His experiences balancing between a conservative upbringing and a rapidly changing world, - And the importance of questioning your own beliefs. Most importantly we talk about just being and doing “you”, which is all we can really strive to do. Listen up and we hope you enjoy this episode! More information can be found at <a href="http://hiddenapron.com/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hiddenapron.com/podcast</a>, contact us at hiddenapron@gmail.com, or catch us on Instagram @hidden_apron.

Ep. 21: Jabber Al-Bihani - “Activist” Engineer and Dinner Host on Healing Divisions, Refugee Stories, and Doing You