Tawfiq Al-Ghussein
The first long conversation in the No Safe Ground series.
A PÓG Productions podcast
No Safe
Ground.
Long-form conversations between Ireland and the Middle East — with the people who are making the record while the world looks away.
DERRY • CAIRO • BEIRUT • TEHRAN • PALESTINE
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Episode 01
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EP. 01 / 2026
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In conversation with Tawfiq Al-Ghussein
One uninterrupted conversation. No punditry, no manufactured balance — just a witness speaking to history, memory and the work of staying human.
Watch with intent. The full conversation is the episode. Take your time with it.
The show
A conversation, not a spectacle.
A record, not a performance.
No Safe Ground brings Ireland into conversation with the Middle East: places shaped by occupation, partition and resistance; peoples who protected their dignity through it all.
Each episode makes room for journalists, scholars, artists and witnesses to speak at length — beyond the narrow terms of the daily news cycle.
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Your host
Pól Ó Geibheannaigh
Journalist, film producer and artist. Born in Derry; reporting from Cairo, Beirut and Tehran. His work has appeared with Al Jazeera, BBC Radio Ulster, France 24 and Press TV.
MA Near & Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS. Based in London.
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ogeibheannaigh@me.com