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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Throughline host Rund Abdelfatah brings us the story of the origins of chocolate.
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Sudan has been at the center of a deadly and brutal war since April of 2023. Over 4 million people...
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The hosts of the Throughline podcast bring us the story of how a presidential assassination gave rise to the modern...
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Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei from NPR's Throughline talk with Daniel Tichenor, a professor of political science at the University...
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NPR's history show Throughline has the story of the first modern president to really expand executive power.
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For years, RFK Jr. has been an ardent vaccine skeptic who has also repeatedly claimed that vaccines cause autism. But...
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When Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, he was thinking about the Civil War. And so was...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.