The Kandari Chronicles
Committed to sharing knowledge, stories and commentary about the Middle East through audio essays about topics such as history, folklore, society and politics. The sharing is not strictly about relaying knowledge, but also about documenting and preserving elements of culture that in today’s educational system might be challenged by oversight or struggling with potential gradual irrelevance. The commentary revolves around looking at simple realities or concepts, but with a slight change of perspective; hoping that this minute change of view
Episodes

Wednesday Apr 02, 2025
Wednesday Apr 02, 2025
Arab unity over the last century has been in the words, minds and lore of all Arabs. This idea that all Arabs have a collective consciousness that makes them a powerful group of connected people rose to glory over a half century, only to come quickly crashing down thereafter.
So, what make the Arabs think this way of themselves? What are the unifying factors, and what are the opposing realities that combat this dream of a union?

Friday Mar 07, 2025
Friday Mar 07, 2025
Nothing can justify a superiority complex by one group of people over another. Superiority is one thing when discussing the Zionist attitudes towards the greater population of the world, but when it comes to Palestinians, superiority doesn’t even come close to the dehumanising strategies and actions that have taken place over the course of the last century.

Wednesday Mar 05, 2025
Wednesday Mar 05, 2025
Once Arabs began the shift in their way of life, of their nomadism and slowly became urbanised, the internal conflict between their tribal belief and behavioural systems continued for many centuries. Not enough time elapsed to gradually migrate the mindset from one shaped in the desert versus the a mentality requiring new sets of rules, civility and behaviour. Even those that had been modernised for many decades or centuries, retain certain fundamental traditions of the tribal consciousness.

Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Arabs suffer from a long and systematic stereotyping from the West. From the Orientalist movement of the 18th century till today, Western perceptions of Arabs and by extension Muslims, are based on what they have been conditioned to believe through the media be it in the form of literature, art, and more recently, movies and television, the tribal sheikh, the belly dancing concubine, the filthy rich oil billionaire and the token terrorist.

Wednesday Jan 29, 2025
Wednesday Jan 29, 2025
Zionism over the last century has had the upper hand in spinning its web of narratives concerning the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Such a well-coordinated task was left to the Hasbara, Israel's propaganda machine, which decade after next, was able to brainwash most of the Western world, the global powers at the time, in dehumanising the Palestinian people and justifying all the inhumane actions committed by Zionists.

Wednesday Dec 25, 2024
Wednesday Dec 25, 2024
The beginning of a nation for Palestinians won’t come with a peace. No Zionist has shown any will for a peaceful resolution to the crisis. The opportunity for a Palestinian state will only come with the likeliest of fates, and that is the end of the Zionist state as we know. Not due to any war or forced global pressure, but only through the increasing moral decay of the nation, through its own fragmentation and ultimately through the renunciation and total end to Zionism.

Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
We delve into the disturbing history of racist and extremist rhetoric used by Zionist leaders. From the early days to the present, we uncover the shocking statements that have fuelled tensions in the Middle East and beyond. We bring together the chain of various statements made over the last 150 years that shed light and provide proof that what has and is happening to this today is not an exception, but part of a larger and consistent plan to overrun, displace and dehumanise the Palestinian people.

Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
In the later part of the 19th century, the major selling point for Zionists to convince Western nations to grant them the lands of Canaan revolved around the ancient promise that God had made. Zionism insisted that the victors of both World Wars had to acknowledge and believe that Palestine were rightfully theirs as it was written in the holy book. God had spoken. No one argue with that!

Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 was a pivotal moment, shaping the modern Middle East. We meticulously examine the factors contributing to the Arab military's underwhelming performance during the war, going beyond the surface-level narratives. Through extensive research and unbiased analysis, we aim to uncover the complex reasons behind this outcome.

Sunday Nov 24, 2024
Sunday Nov 24, 2024
Zionism has masterminded a narrative that includes all types of history’s retelling. Part of this myth is the story of how the Jewish people throughout their long past have been one people with one history, culture & identity. Nonetheless Zionists attempt to convince the world that the Jews were one, even to the extent by making statements that Hebrew, the religious language of the Jews rarely used over the 2000 years was alive and kicking, evolved into modern Hebrew.