DUBAI: Jordan-based independent podcast company Sowt has announced the addition of audiobooks to Safahat Sowt. Launched on Apple Podcasts in 2021, Safahat Sowt offers articles from select publishers across the Middle East and North Africa in audio form. Now, the company is expanding its repertoire of content to include audiobooks. Its first two audiobooks are “Ebra wa
Applications for Doha Film Institute s (DFI) Podcast Lab are now open. The programme will enable participants to increase their knowledge in the podca.
When El-Issa was asked to take over the programme in its second season, she saw a chance to challenge the silence around sexuality, identity and women in the Arab world, and the way those taboos were usually covered in foreign media.
âI was kind of bored with the whole narrative of defending women, though of course Iâm with the cause. But thereâs also a kind of stagnation in the way people talk about these things,â she says. âItâs not just about being politically correct, or just saying Arabs are stupid and donât respect women. I feel like we succeeded in building a new way to talk about these things, other than [with] women as either victims or heroines. Thereâs this grey area where we move between the two, and itâs much more complex than traditional media make it seem.â