#14 In the Netherlands with Samya Hafsaoui: Disrupting the Entertainment Industry

For the #14 episode of We Belong, we traveled to the Netherlands to meet Samya Hafsaoui, a journalist, presenter and writer. As a journalist, she writes for Vogue and Glamor, among others, and she presented ‘De Taxi Terug‘, a web column in which she accompanied a table guest to their next destination and interviewed them. She also made the series Female Virals on YouTube. She is also the author of “36 questions (and lots of coffee)”, a book with which she hopes to break the taboos surrounding falling in love and relationships among Muslim women. She is currently writing the film readaptation of this romance. In conversation with Samya, we discussed the cultural biases existing in the entertainment industry and how she is disrupting them. Born from a Moroccan father and a Dutch mother, Samya reflects on what shaped her and deconstructs stereotypes around Dutch people and immigrant descents. Key: Tia Taylor Youtube Channel on Finance Literacy: https://www.youtube.com/user/tiataylormakeup

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