WTFC: Over the Mountain Tops, Sinai | Aalia

This episode begins somewhere above the Sinai Mountains, on a journey away from the peninsula and towards Aalia’s hometown of Cairo.

From the sky, the mountains unfold beneath her — vast, ancient, and deeply loved. The sounds move through a space between wonder and melancholy, tracing the feeling of leaving a landscape that has become part of you, and carrying its presence long after you have gone.

Rather than recreating a specific journey, this mix explores the emotional landscape of departure: the immense love we can feel for a place, the tenderness of seeing it from above, and the quiet ache of separation. It is also a reflection on those whose relationship to their own land has been interrupted, and the longing for places they can no longer freely return to.

For Refuge Worldwide listeners, this episode is a sonic journey over the Sinai Mountains — a moment suspended between leaving and arriving, holding onto the feeling of a land that continues to live somewhere inside us.