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Zhongdong Wave

Zhongdong Wave is a show on culture and history of Middle-East in Mandarin Chinese and English.

This episode brings you to look at Middle-East culture from a slightly different and interesting perspective - the food. In Europe, especially the UK, lebanese cuisine has become a well-known representative of the Arabic food culture, reflecting a particular history of migration and cultural diversification in this country.

Zhongdong Wave is a show on culture and history of Middle-East in Mandarin Chinese and English.

Bedouins are a wide-spread normadic group among Arabic socities. In this fifth episode, we take Jordan as an example, exploring the geographic condition and historical tradition which help shaping Bedouin culture as a whole.

Zhongdong Wave is a show on culture and history of Middle-East in Mandarin Chinese and English.

This episode we invite Jiaoyi, a Chinese student at SOAS doing BA Arabic and Economics in her fourth year.
She will give an insight on how life really is like in Syria, where she went as an exchange student. And there was also an issue to leave at the time because of Jasmine Revolution.

Hope you will enjoy with our New Year Special Ep!

Zhongdong Wave is a show on culture and history of Middle-East in Mandarin Chinese and English. This episode we introduce the omani boat, from its history, manufactory to its relation to Chinese boat and the legend of Sinbad. Dr.Geoffrey King from SOAS who specialises in Islamic culture and Middle-East archaeology will give an inner view of boat making in Oman.

Zhongdong Wave is a show on culture and history of Middle-East in Mandarin Chinese and English. In this episode, we focus on the frankincense trade in Oman. On the first half the two hosts will introduce the historical and social background of frankincense trade in Oman. On the second half we invited Dr. Geoffrey King from SOAS who specialises in Islamic culture and Middle-East archaeology to give a further insight on its importance in ancient Middle-East.

Zhongdong Wave is a show talking about Middle-East culture, and presented in Mandarin Chinese and English.

The first episode introduces Yemen, a mysterious Arabic country. In this episode we cover from Yemeni traditional food, coffee, qat, architecture,to religion and tales.