Our latest episode of the Qandid Qatar podcast features Mubarrat Wassey, an international debate champion and coach at Qatar Debate. Mubarrat is a three-time Asian Champion and Best Speaker. He led the only Asian team to win the Australasian Championship in its 43-year history. He was also the first and the only ESL speaker to be crowned the best speaker at the Cambridge Intervarsity championship. As a judge, Mubarrat was the Deputy Chief Adjudicator at the Asians Universities Debating Championship and Asians BP Universities Debating Championship. He was also the Chief Adjudicator at the Australasian Championships 2019 in Bali and will be the Deputy Chief Adjudicator for WUDC 2021 in Korea. In this episode, Mubarrat talks about his story of how he got into debating and its impact on him. He reflects on how debate changes people’s lives for the better by sharing a range of stories of how people have developed through the activity by running for elections in their home country or realizing their biases.

Special Guest: Mubarrat Wassey

Producer: Natasha Das

Host: Natasha Das

Sound Designer & Editor: Juyoung Choi

Project Manager: Arya Mainali

Artwork: Ahmed Jassim and Thani AlThani

Executive Producer: Spencer Striker, PhD

Music and Sound Effects: Courtesy of Epidemic Music

Social Media links for Mubarrat Wassey:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mubarratwassey/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mubarratw
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/mubarrat-wassey-139928136

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