Public lives, private answers.
#ABtalks treats a guest’s life as something to approach slowly, beginning with simple questions and letting the answer breathe. Recent episodes move between public figures, business figures, friends, couples, and an athlete, always returning to work, family, resilience, and emotional truth.
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#ABtalks is a reflective interview show about the life sitting underneath a name, a title, or a public reputation. Its signature question is simple, but the conversations are rarely small. Guests are given time to answer slowly, contradict themselves, soften, remember, and return to the feeling underneath the first response. That patience gives the show its texture. A conversation with Pınar Deniz moves from gratitude and family into emotional openness, boundaries, weariness, courage, and the wish for a child to face life with delicacy. It feels intimate without becoming theatrical. The After #ABtalks episodes loosen the format further, bringing back people after years have passed and letting friendship, laughter, card games, and private history shape the room. Nour Arida’s return is framed through motherhood, loss, change, and the passage of five years. The Ramadan group episode with Ghaith, Sara, Khalid, and Nora turns a game into a setting for closeness, teasing, crying, and transparency. With Passant and Farrag, marriage becomes the subject, not as an ideal but as an evolving daily practice shaped by kindness, work, exhaustion, and repair. The show can also handle public responsibility. In the business conversations, H.E. Issam Kazim speaks about Dubai, tourism, numbers, strategy, and the personal tradeoffs of duty, while Seif Thabet’s story of Juhayna is rooted in family effort, risk, and the burden of continuing a company’s legacy. Omar Abdulrahman’s return brings sport into the same emotional language, revisiting old opportunities, loyalty, regret, honesty, and the meaning of a promise. The tone is warm, searching, and often sentimental. It is not built for quick takes. It is built for people who want to hear how ambition, family, work, and pain live together in one person’s story.
Made for: For listeners who prefer patient, emotionally direct interviews with public figures, business figures, an athlete, couples, and friends. It suits people drawn to life stories more than headlines.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its refusal to separate achievement from home, memory, responsibility, and vulnerability. Even business and sports conversations are treated as personal histories first.
Welcome to #ABtalks, a YouTube show discovering the human behind the title by shining the spotlight on the 'raw' side of celebrities, achievers and influencers from across the world. Hosted by Anas Bukhash, one of the most successful entrepreneurs and interviewers in the Middle East region, the show is the fastest growing show of its kind and is now also available on Netflix.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
#ABtalks examines the personal judgment, resilience, and relationships that shape public careers and consequential decisions.
Anas Bukhash builds #ABtalks around the decisions, setbacks, and relationships behind a public career. His interviews move between personal history and working life, giving guests room to explain how experience becomes judgment.
Anas asks 'honestly, how are you?' and you get the person before the title.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A four-year reunion turns patience, attentiveness, and artistic stamina into a candid portrait of married life.
Pasant and Farag's reunion turns a four-year gap into a warm, candid check-in on marriage, work, and the quiet habits that keep a relationship alive.
A measured football revisit turns Omar Abdulrahman's missed Nice move into a story about persistence, acceptance, and trust.
Almost eight years after Omar Abdulrahman first appeared on #ABtalks, his return settles into a career-minded conversation about the Nice move that never happened and the host's long push to circulate his YouTube links in Europe.
A hard-won recovery story considers how private suffering can become public help.
Badr Namshan Aldoseri's story of recovery is shaped less as a comeback tale than as a test of endurance. He traces the pressure behind his present calm through job loss, losing his car, losing a case, and sleeping on the street, while the conversation sets that history against…
A revealing AB Talks conversation on how hardship, observation, and persistence shaped Robert's work on power.
Robert's AB Talks conversation is most interesting when it sits between the public authority of his books and the private strain that fed them.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
AB Talks with Robert Greene centers on Greene’s unfinished book about “the sublime,” which he says has taken six years and was sharpened by the stroke he had two blocks from the studio.
Badr al-Namshan says he spent about 10 years trapped in addiction, lost his job, went to the hospital five times, and reached 50 kg before he accepted help.
Seif Thabet discusses his motivation for continuing his family's business, Juhayna, and the values instilled by his parents.
An interview with Bryce Hall discussing his move from California to Las Vegas and his personal life behind the social media persona.
An interview with fashion designer Mike Amiri about his journey from small savings to building a multi-million dollar brand, his mindset, and personal life.
Samih Sawiris discusses the role of divine provision versus personal effort in business success.
An interview with Anna Wintour discussing her role at Condé Nast, her visit to Dubai, and her personal routine.
Pınar Deniz opens gratefully.
An interview with Sir Magdi Yacoub, a renowned heart surgeon, discussing his work and life.
An intimate conversation with Nour Arida reflecting on the past five years, including losing her hand and navigating motherhood.
A group of friends play the ABtalks card game in a Ramadan special episode, featuring laughter, tears, and deep conversations.
An interview with Issam Kazim, executive president of Dubai for tourism and trade, discussing Dubai's tourism strategy, marketing, and resilience.
About four years have passed since the earlier episode.
In a Ramadan 2026 reunion on #ABtalks, host Anas Bukhash welcomes back retired Emirati footballer Omar Abdulrahman ('Amoory'), who was the show's very first guest about eight years ago.