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The 3 Habibis dive into everything from flying planes and wild airport stories to movies, gaming and life lessons from aviation. It's a rollercoaster of laughs, deep thoughts, and unexpected twists.

Fawzi, Osama, and Rami try to beat Fawzi's AirBnB checkout time as they discuss their favorite games from an incredibly tough year for the games industry.

Note that there are spoilers for the original Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth between 42:23 and 45:00.

The Habibis reunite to share laughs, stories, favorite games and what’s been keeping them hooked. Stick around for an exciting surprise reveal! 

Osama and Rami celebrate Fawzi's GDC Ambassador Award, and the Habibis catch up on what they've been up to, and what they've been playing and watching.

How many Habibis does it take to make a Top 10 games of 2023 list? Three Habibis, it turns out: one to make the spreadsheets Fawzi can copy-paste into, one to correct Fawzi's copy-pasting skills, and one Fawzi.

Happy New Year, everyone <3

The Habibis start on the impossible task of creating a Habibis Top 10.

Fawzi, Rami, and Osama try to figure out what they would sound like as Pokémon.

Rami recounts the story of how Fawzi turned the entire country of Portugal against Egyptian kebab (this may be an exaggeration).

Fawzi & Rami visited devcom at the end of August, and caught up with Ahmed Salama to talk about devcom, gamescom, and games industry.

Rami, Osama, and Fawzi talk abo-salaam!

Creators & Guests

• Rami Ismail / رامي - Host
• Osama Dorias - Host
• Fawzi Mesmar (فوزي) - Host

The Habibis look back at 100 episodes of doilies, agent Smith, segues, and inshallahs.

Note: as this is an episode featuring Anisa, there is cursing as the edit-time to remove the cursing would exceed the full lifespan of the universe.

Fawzi & Rami are joined by Osama Dorias-representative Anisa Sanusi. We talk about the BAFTAs, Ramadan, and wearing suits in a Starbucks.

The three Habibis talk about a topic that cannot be avoided, the eternal truth of Arab culture: Amr Diab.

Osama and Fawzi spend almost an hour talking about time, Tunic, Pinnochio, and board games - all in anticipation of the big question of the week: if Osama messes up the intro, will that free him from the outro curse?

This title will make sense, inshallah.

Rami & Osama cry-laugh about settings inspired by Agrabah.

Rami faces a dilemma: who *is* the second guest on the Habibi's this week? It's impossible to tell, and he has to come up with a devious plan to figure out whether it is Osama or Fawzi who has joined him for this episode.

The Habibis kick off 2023 with what we would like to point out is a remarkably smooth episode that somehow goes all over the place anyway.

The Habibis discuss their favorite games of 2022, and discover that there were so many good games that it's hard to make a list of just 10 games.

Games mentioned (in alphabetical order):

• Atari 50 The anniversary Celebration
• Cult of the Lamb
• Destiny 2: The Witch Queen
• Dome Keeper
• Dwarf Fortress
• Elden Ring
• God of War Ragnarok
• Gotham Knights
• High on Life
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Hyper Demon
• King of Fighters 15
• Kirby & the Forgotten Land
• Marvel Snap
• Marvel: Midnight Suns
• Metal Hellsinger
• Neon White
• NFS Unbound
• Norco
• Overwatch 2
• Pokemon Legends Arceus
• Return to Monkey Island
• Rogue Legacy 2
• Rogue Tower
• Stacklands
• Stray
• The Case of the Golden Idol
• TNMT Shredder's Revenge
• Trombone Champ
• Tunic
• Vampire Survivors
• Wordle
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Apologies for this excessively delayed episode - we were switching backends and it turned out to be a disaster! We've got everything back to work now: so enjoy this belated episode in which we talk about Marvel Snap.

Fawzi & Osama talk about games, and all the other stuff that went down this last week. Also, Osama agrees to an absolutely formally binding royalty share with Fawzi.

Fawzi & Rami talk about why Osama couldn't make it to this episode.

After a few weeks of hiatus, Rami, Fawzi, and Osama get back together to catch up on games, TV series, and... karaoke?

Note: as this is an episode featuring Anisa, there is cursing as the edit-time to remove the cursing would exceed the full lifespan of the universe. 

Fawzi & Rami are joined by Osama Dorias-representative Anisa Sanusi. Things go off the rails pretty much instantly, and never quite recover, although we do manage to talk about games and movies and stuff for like 5 minutes.

Arab Rami, Arab Fawzi, and Arab Osama are three Arab Game Developers Arab-drinking Good Arab Tea.

Osama & Rami congratulate Fawzi on the announcement of Assassins' Creed Mirage.

Rami, Osama, and also Fawzi catch up on the events of the week.

This time with proper microphones, Osama, Fawzi, and Rami run out of time to discuss all the things they want to talk about this episode.

So, disclaimer: we messed up the recording. We're posting it anyway because the talk is good, but we fully understand if you can't stomach the super-echo.

Fawzi, Rami, and Osama talk about AI? Is that right? Yeah, actually - AI.

The three Habibis get back together for a lot of catching up, and everything descends into beautiful  chaos.

It's been a while! Osama and Fawzi finally find a gap in their schedules to record a new episode, and it starts off well!

Fawzi, Osama, and Rami are joined by Brosephene in a special episode for Draw4Charity, a livestream marathon for charity happening the weekend of this episode, July 15-17th of 2022! For more information, or to donate, check out https://draw4charity.org/

It's hard to make Rami stop talking, but Osama finds a way.

Osama & Fawzi talk about absolutely-not-copyrighted-things.

Osama and Fawzi talk about their week.

Rami posted this for the wrong date so it's a few days late. Fawzi & Rami talk about being old and having gadgets!

Gadgets mentioned:
- Switch Dock Dongle
- Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard
- Mango Wireless router
- SONY MP-CD1 (No Longer In Production)

Rami talks about too many gadgets, and Osama ponders what the difference between Dubai & Abu Dhabi is.

Fawzi and Rami talk about aviation, live performances, and Fawzi's love for The Wire's writers' new series, We Own This City.

Show Notes:
00:00:00 - Intros and catch-ups.
00:11:30 - This War of Mine
00:16:10 - Papers Please
00:20:00 - Rami's Flights!
00:35:20 - We Own This City
00:45:10 - Jurassic World Evolution 2
00:55:35 - Steam Deck
00:56:00 - Destiny 2

That's it for this episode. Follow us on Twitter at @the_habibis, e-mail us your stories, feedback, or suggestions at info@thehabibis.com, or join our Discord server at https://discord.thehabibis.com/. Shokran, and salaam!

The Habibis and guest Nazih Fares consider what Sprite, the most magical medicine, won't fix.

Show Notes:
00:00:00 - Intros and catch-ups.
00:20:00 - Moon Knight
00:36:20 - Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
00:39:40 - Elden Ring New Game +
00:42:10 - NBA2K22
00:55:15 - Nintendo Switch Sports
00:56:40 - Destiny 2

Guest Link:
Nazih Faris - https://twitter.com/nazihfares
The 4 Winds Entertainment - https://the4winds.com/

That's it for this episode. Follow us on Twitter at @the_habibis, e-mail us your stories, feedback, or suggestions at info@thehabibis.com, or join our Discord server at https://discord.thehabibis.com/. Shokran, and salaam!

The Habibis try to tackle 12 different subjects in one hour.

It was the summer of '62. Eid Mubarak!

Osama & Fawzi wonder where Rami is.

Osama talks to Najim Filali Saksak.

Fawzi counts down his top 10 favorite TV drama shows.

Rami interviews Mayar Hamdan, multidisciplinary storyteller. Mayar wins this round 1 - 0.

Guest links:
https://twitter.com/mayarhamdan
https://linktr.ee/mayarhamdan

Osama talks to Atiya.

Fawzi counts down his top 10 favorite TV drama shows.