Expanding on our first part of Ep. 13 Resistance and Solidarity, we carry on the path to explore intersectional and multifaceted forms of resistance to social injustice, wars, gender inequality and more. In this episode we immerse ourselves in music from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Armenia, Sudan, Tunisia and more. The music we explore is outside the usual media framing and we detangle the circumstances su ...

Yamen Mekdad is a sound enthusiast brought up in Damascus and based in London. His collection spans across folk from around the world to jazz, field recordings, experimental and electronic music. One of the founders of London-based Makkam collective.