Visa Run and Brunch

Expat life in Dubai, lovingly roasted every week

Rania Haddad2 episodes2 min of audio39 playsEpisodic

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S1 · E2Jul 22, 20260:4923 plays Preview

The Villa Group Chat Has a Bin Policy

A compound WhatsApp group with 19 rules about bins, a brunch that ended at a chocolate fountain, and guest comedian Amira Saleh on the taxi driver who knows your building better than you.

S1 · E1Jul 1, 20260:4416 plays Members

Leaving in Three Months, Since 2016

Rania and guest comedian Dev Menon examine the friend who is always leaving Dubai in three months, the farewell dinners that keep happening, and a listener who had four leaving parties.

About the show

Visa Run and Brunch is a weekly comedy show about living in Dubai as an expat, hosted by Lebanese comedian Rania Haddad, who has been in the city for eleven years and still gets lost in a car park. Every episode takes one piece of Dubai life everyone pretends is normal: the friend who leaves in three months and has said so every year since 2016, the villa WhatsApp group that has rules about bins, the brunch that starts at noon and ends with someone crying near a chocolate fountain, the taxi driver who knows your building better than you do. Rania is joined by a different Dubai comedian each week and the two of them read listener stories submitted from every nationality in the city. Episodes are about 40 minutes and come out every Thursday, in time for the weekend. It is for anyone who has lived here, left here, or is currently telling their mother that they are definitely coming home next year.

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