Джерело:
The Guardian newspaper: International | guardian.co.uk
Дата публікації:
09/05/2021 12:35
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http://www.vsinovyny.com/7833457
No shame: the podcast taking on the Arab world’s sex and gender taboos
09/05/2021 12:35 // The Guardian newspaper: International | guardian.co.uk
Eib is now in its seventh season, fearlessly tackling subjects from Beirut’s drag queen scene to Jordanian widows’ rights
Rude, fault or blemish; flaw, disgrace or shame. The word has many shades, but nearly every woman who grows up in Arabic-speaking households knows its singular weight. “Anything related to women is eib,” says Tala El-Issa, from her home in Cairo. “If they want to talk about their bodies, it’s eib, their problems – eib. Just being a woman is almost eib.”
When the team at Sowt, an Arabic podcasting network based across the Middle East, wanted to create a show that charged fearlessly into the region’s taboos around sex and gender, the title was obvious. “Eib” is now in its seventh season, the company’s longest-lasting podcast and its most popular.
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