Afeef Nessouli is a producer at The Slow Factory and currently hosts “With Afeef Nessouli”, a social media space that curates the day’s most important news about war, revolutions and characters changing the world. He also teaches Individual Research and Social Media at Parsons., Afeef produced The Journal, the Wall Street Journal’s flagship daily news podcast for Spotify for three years with podcasts about Covid-19 to Chinese policy, from American inflation to global tech innovation. Before this, Afeef won the Google Podcasts creator program’s global competition in 2018. He produced an Arabic language podcast that focused on the feminine undercurrent during the Lebanese uprising. It covered sisters working with imprisoned men in Muslim militia groups and resistance armies and the LGBTQ+ community. Afeef was also a segment producer for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and CNN. Before producing news, Afeef was a legal advisor to Jimmy Carter’s Syrian conflict resolution team in Oslo and the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur for the Committee Against Torture in Geneva.