Regine Basha
Independent curator, writer and producer
Regine Basha is an independent curator, writer and producer whose work often focuses on issues around diaspora and placed-based story-telling. Her curatorial projects over 20 years can be found on bashaprojects.com. Basha’s digital archive about Iraq’s Jewish musicians and the parties she grew up around, Tuning Baghdad, has been the generator of short films, writing, radio programs, live concerts and dinner /story-telling events in cities such as Dubai, London, Berlin, Fez and Los Angeles. She is currently based in Madrid but can often be found in her former home, New York, and is currently researching the food history of Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews.
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Take a Seat at the Table
Regine Basha (Founder of Tuning Baghdad) and Nathalie Basha (The Travel Muse) with Reboot, launched the Kitchen Radio podcast in April, bringing listeners to the table of communities of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. The podcast delves into intergenerational stories of community life and ritual practices from guests who are part of a rising renaissance of creative food projects exploring their oft-overlooked Jewish history and heritage from this region. Read more about what brought Regine to this project and why it’s so meaningful to her here.
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Podcasts
Kubba Bamia with the Sephardic Spice Girls
In this episode of the Kitchen Radio podcast, the Sephardic Spice Girls (Rachel Emquies Sheff + Sharon Gomperts) of Los Angeles serve up Iraqi-Jewish Kubba Bamia and Sephardic Biscochos with tea and talk about how cooking these dishes and story-telling brings their family and community closer to recent lost history. The Sephardic Spice Girls actively write for the Jewish Journal and conduct cooking workshops at the Sephardic Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Learn more and listen now!
Podcasts
Gondi Kashi with Tannaz Sassooni
In the series premiere of Kitchen Radio, Tannaz Sassooni makes us a meatless Gondi Kashi from her grandmother’s Iran and recounts a lively tradition of Persian Jews during Passover. Born in Tehran to a Jewish family, Tannaz is a Los Angeles-based food writer exploring Los Angeles’ global culinary landscape and interviewing mothers and grandmothers from Iran for a regional Iranian Jewish cookbook. Learn more and listen to all the episodes!
Reboot Studios
Kitchen Radio Podcast Trailer
Now streaming, the Kitchen Radio podcast brings listeners to the table of communities from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia for intergenerational stories of community life and ritual practices from guests who are part of a rising renaissance of creative food projects in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Listen to the audio trailer now here and subscribe to the Reboot Presents podcast channel to get the first episode next month. Learn more here!
Podcasts
Kitchen Radio Trailer
Premiering in April, the Kitchen Radio podcast brings listeners to the table of communities from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia for intergenerational stories of community life and ritual practices from guests who are part of a rising renaissance of creative food projects of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Listen to the trailer here.
Kitchen Radio
The Kitchen Radio podcast brings listeners to the table of communities from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for intergenerational stories of community life and ritual practices from guests who are part of a rising renaissance of creative food projects exploring the oft-overlooked Jewish history and heritage.
In each episode, hosts Regine Basha (Founder of Tuning Baghdad) and Nathalie Basha (The Travel Muse), will feature a specific dish and a conversation to introduce the still little-known Jewish culture of the MENA region and re-seed Jewish life into a cultural space where their contribution was forgotten, rendered invisible or white-washed. Guests include: Tannaz Sassooni, Sephardic Spice Girls, Rafram Chaddad, Claudia Roden.
Subscribe now to listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts, Goodpods or wherever you get your podcasts on the Reboot Presents podcast channel.