Rund Abdelfatah
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.
- Dig in to the complex and fascinating history of chocolate
- NPR's history podcast Throughline examines the roots of Sudan's civil war
- Throughline: The birth of the modern federal civil service
- The origins of the Alien Enemies Act
- How FDR expanded executive power and shaped the modern presidency
- The history behind an enduring public health falsehood — that vaccines cause autism
- The woman who pushed to make Thanksgiving a national holiday
- The story of a scientist who tried to stand for the truth and avoid Covid politics