Democracy Café

Hadi Alshaikhnasser is the founder and coordinator of a thriving Socrates Cafe in a place you might like least expect it to take hold -- Saihat, Saudi Arabia. He first became smitten with Socrates Cafe when, as a medical school student, he attended regularly the gathering in Montclair, New Jersey -- the very first one I ever established, way back in 1996, and meets weekly to this day. After then founding a group of his own in Omaha, Nebraska while on fellowship there, when Hadi returned to Saudi Arabia, he decided that Socrates Cafe should be a community staple there -- and that's precisely what has happened. Listen in as Hadi stirringly describes the wondrous kinds of transformations that happen as a result of inquiring regularly (and philosophically) the Socrates Cafe way. Hadi, for one, has come to be much more accepting of others, thanks to Socrates Cafe, because of the unparalleled opportunity it gives one to understand why others are coming from where they're coming from. 'We all probably want the same