The Alternative Kitchen Podcast is a series of conversations with people in Lebanon whose work touches animals, food and justice. Samer Beyhum hosts it.
Guests so far have talked about strength and sport, faith and the question of sacrifice, animal rights and justice, and the community that plant-based food can build. A second season is being filmed now.
Most of our guests are vegan, though not all. We ask each of them what they have seen, and what they think it means.
Alternative Kitchen co-founder Yal Solan on becoming vegan, answering the questions vegans always hear, and why she sees dairy as a feminist issue.
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Photographer and Muslim vegan Fawziya Jaffan on animal rights in Islam, halal slaughter today, and why she argues Eid's sacrifice can be charity.
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Huaida Rajab of Orenda on running a plant-based restaurant in Lebanon, and why nine in ten of its customers are not vegan.
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Activist George Achkar Salame on street activism, a push for animal rights in Lebanese law, and why animal and human rights are one fight.
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Kickboxer Maya Kawas on training and recovering on plants, and why the idea that meat equals strength does not hold up.
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Short videos hosted by Yal Solan, teaching Samer Beyhum's vegan recipes from scratch, from tahini and labneh to lentil kibbeh and stuffed peppers.
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A feature documentary in development about bird hunting, masculinity and a former hunter who now protects the birds he once shot.
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