Love & Its Discontents is a podcast on the topic of LOVE and LOVE STORIES.

Host: Adnan Mahmutović is Bosnian-Swedish writer and lecturer in English literature and creative writing at Stockholm University.

The podcast is based on his university module in which students travel through literature from the Bible and the ancient Greeks to contemporary stories, wrestling with notions such as romantic love and altruism, deep diving into ecstatic love and solidarity, asking, Can love be examined like an object? What on earth is love? Where in the world is love?

This podcast will ask if we are born to love, born with a natural sense of certain things like goodness, beauty, which the prophet of Islam called fitra, which is then distorted by our environments. Is it, like Rumi said, perfect thirst? But most importantly it will follow th ...