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My 97th Guest is Suhel Nafar whois currently the Vice President of Strategy & Market Development- WANA at EMPIRE, the leading independent label, distributor, and publisher in the US and the first label to open a division in the US to help grow the local scene in West Asia & North Africa and its diaspora.

Most recently, Nafar worked at Spotify as the Global Lead of Arab Music & Culture helping to build and launch in West Asia and North Africa, including an initiative of international curation for the largest cultures in the world. Nafar also built Spotify's Arab Culture Hub and its international programming strategy, curating more than 120 playlists including flagship playlists such as Yalla Today's Top Hits, Arab X, Shisha Lounge and Global X. Additionally, in 2016 he helped launch Complex Snapchat Discover channel, the fastest growing platform in the history of Complex Networks.

In the 90s Nafar co-founded the Hip Hop crew, DAM, the first Arab Hip-Hop group out of West Asia. He’s also worked in film and in 2016 was an artist-in-residence at New York University.

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