Lina Adnani : Innovative Edutainment for Arabic Children

Season 1 - Episode 2
In this episode, we meet Lina Adnani, Co-Founder and Creative Officer at Adam Wa Mishmish, a company that creates high quality content for Arabic children using music and cartoons. We discuss the origins of the project, the challenges of learning Arabic and the desire to use Adam Wa Mishmish to bring joy to Arab children around the World!

For more information on the show, visit https://www.ajvallee.ca/innovcrea and drop me a line! Thank you for listening 🎧

Links from this episode:

• Adam Wa Mishmish - The Website : https://adamwamishmish.com/
• Adam Wa Mishmish - The Youtube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamWaMishmish
• The article from Ryerson Today on Adam Wa Mishmish joining Ryerson University's DMZ incubator in Toronto : https://www.ryerson.ca/news-events/news/2021/11/startup-helps-children-learn-arabic/

Special Thanks to Millimetrik for my music themes! 
Discover his prolific work here: https://millimetrik.bandcamp.com/music

**Kwe! I want to acknowledging that the land on which I grew up and live is the traditional territory unceded territory of the Huron-Wendat people.*

Chapters

• 0:00 Music Intro
• 0:25 Welcome to Lina Adnani & Adam Wa Mishmish
• 1:37 The Root Question
• 2:57 All in the Family
• 3:35 The Challenges in Learning Arabic
• 4:11 The Why: Promoting re-identification with the Arabic language.
• 9:19 How did Adam Wa Mishmish came to exist?
• 17:01 Envisioning the Future for Adam Wa Mishmish
• 18:35 Nourishing the Inner Child
• 19:26 A Word on Joy
• 20:20 Thank You Lina!
• 21:10 Outro