Rund Abdelfatah
Rund Abdelfatah is the co-host and producer of Throughline, a podcast that explores the history of current events. In that role, she's responsible for all aspects of the podcast's production, including development of episode concepts, interviewing guests, and sound design.
Abdelfatah joined NPR in 2014 as an intern and went on to become a producer on a number of NPR's most popular podcasts, including How I Built This, TED Radio Hour, NPR Politics Podcast, Code Switch, and Pop Culture Happy Hour.
The concept for Throughline, launched in February 2019, was developed by Abdelfatah and her co-host, Ramtin Arablouei.
Abdelfatah got her start in journalism covering local and domestic politics at the Washington bureau of the BBC. She previously earned a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology, with a minor in Spanish, from Princeton University.
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For years, RFK Jr. has been an ardent vaccine skeptic who has also repeatedly claimed that vaccines cause autism. But that particular myth didn't start with him.
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When Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, he was thinking about the Civil War. And so was the woman who had lobbied for Thanksgiving for years.
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A scientist tried to stand up for the truth during a pandemic when political rhetoric and conspiracies were clouding everyone’s world.
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The fourteenth amendment was ratified after the Civil War, and it's packed full of lofty phrases like due process, equal protection, and liberty. But what do those words really guarantee us?
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Hezbollah has been exchanging missile fire with Israel. Here's how the most powerful military and political force in Lebanon came to be.
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NPR's history podcast, Throughline, goes back to the late 19th century to meet the people who organized the modern Zionist movement.
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NPR's Throughline hosts Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei speak with professor Siddharth Kara on the fight for Congo's resources.
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Halloween is now a multi-billion dollar industry. The holiday traces its roots back about 2,000 years to the Irish countryside and a spiritual celebration known as Samhain.
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A century after the founding of the Republic of Turkey, NPR's history podcast Throughline examines the legacy of founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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Throughline takes us back 500 years to understand the rise, fall and resilience of the great Aztec city Tenochititlán. The story of European dominance has been largely accepted as historical truth.