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Stuck In The Middle Ep 14: Mohammed Magdi, Big Trouble in Little Cairo

Mohammed Magdi’s an Egyptian stand-up comic living in Shanghai.

In 2012 he was living in Cairo and things started to get messy. A chain of events forced him to leave and he wound up teaching English to Chinese students in the city of Changchun, Jilin province. This is a story about an old city and arguably the most significant event in the last few hundred years.

Today’s track is Over and Over by Hot Chip.

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DATE: June 15, 2015

Featuring: Andy Curtain and Mohammed Magdi

Subscribe: Get the latest episode as soon as it comes out: on iTunes, or copy this link to use in your favorite podcatcher app. Every week, Andy Curtain pins down the most interesting person he can find and asks them what they're doing in China. Sometimes you're hanging out in a bar in Shanghai, and someone starts telling you their amazing backstory. But you only get the 10min cocktail version and you can't remember it the next day. This is a chance to grab that person and rattle the whole tale out of them.