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From Damascus to London: Food, Dignity, and Giving Back with Imad Alarnab
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Imad Alarnab had a restaurant empire in Damascus. In six days, the Syrian war took it all. He fled with nothing, cooked for 400 refugees on church steps in Calais, and watched pregnant women make impossible journeys across borders. He never stopped cooking. This episode is about what it means to witness the vulnerability of mothers in crisis, and how one man’s grief for his homeland became generosity toward the world, raising £450,000 for charity before he’d even opened a restaurant.
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