The Ethics of Hospitality: Between Generosity and Vulnerability
Hospitality is a gift, but it also asks a difficult question. How do we open ourselves to a guest without losing our own safety, agency or identity?
Read the essay →A cultural platform for the practice of welcome
How do we welcome the guest?
Essays, stories, ideas and design exploring hospitality, belonging and the spaces that shape our encounters.
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Tea with a Traveller in Isfahan
A brief conversation in a teahouse that became a lifelong connection.
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Architecture of Welcome
How thresholds, waiting spaces, courtyards and public buildings shape arrival, inclusion and belonging.
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Experience Design
Designing services and environments that reduce uncertainty and treat every guest with dignity.
Explore experience →Mehmandoost Aid
Practical help for guests in distress, because hospitality is not only an idea.
Emergency support
Temporary accommodation
Translation and guidance
Referrals and partners
The Mehmandoost Name
Our family name literally means “hospitable.” This platform explores the cultural, ethical and practical responsibilities carried by that name.
More about the name →From Our Origins
Abdul-rasool Mehmandoost
Ebrahim Mehmandoost
(1949–2026)
A family history shaped by travel, displacement, service, return and cultural memory.
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