{"id":2855,"date":"2025-11-11T14:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sofiaaziz.com\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:32:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:32:54","slug":"international-lounge-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sofiaaziz.com\/?p=2855","title":{"rendered":"International Lounge Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently had the pleasure of joining International Lounge Podcast as a guest, alongside my friend filmmaker Curtis Ryan Woodside, for a fascinating conversation about one of ancient Egypt&#8217;s most controversial rulers, Pharaoh Akhenaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together we explored not only his revolutionary vision and the glittering city he built at Amarna, but also the darker side of his reign\u2013 the suffering endured by those who laboured to create his utopian vision. Our discussion explores the contrast between Akhenaten&#8217;s radiant art and worship of the Aten, and the human cost behind his grand experiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to the full episode here:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Akhenaten (feat. Curtis Ryan Woodside &amp; Dr. Sofia Aziz) [Culture Crash Course]\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/1AAuOIgVAJ2iKmTWeCqWHc?si=x7eEmyh5QKWGhMYfi-PBmQ&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the pleasure of joining International Lounge Podcast as a guest, alongside my friend filmmaker Curtis Ryan Woodside, for a fascinating conversation about one of ancient Egypt&#8217;s most controversial rulers, Pharaoh Akhenaten. Together we explored not only his revolutionary vision and the glittering city he built at Amarna, but also the darker side &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sofiaaziz.com\/?p=2855\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;International Lounge Podcast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofiaaziz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofiaaziz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofiaaziz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofiaaziz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofiaaziz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofiaaziz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2856,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofiaaziz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions\/2856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofiaaziz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofiaaziz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofiaaziz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}