Status Audio Journal is Live! Listen Away and Contribute

We are very excited to share the launching of Status Audio Journal, with regional and national partners.* 

Status، الوضع,  is an evolving critical, collaborative, and independent monthly Audio Journal combining analysis, reporting, and satire, comprised mainly of hard-hitting interviews/conversations, on-the-scene reports, reviews, informed commentary, and readings. Interviews from the region and beyond will feature activists, journalists, scholars, artists, unusual conduits, and ordinary people. We will highlight movers and shakers in “civil society” and beyond, who animate the new spaces, places, and modes of action that the uprisings engendered. 

Status will address salient matters in the political, economic, and social spheres, academia and the media, and in the hitherto underworld within the relevant countries. Beyond addressing events and developments, a distinct flavor of this Journal will be its attention to cultural production and the various processes of knowledge production and information dissemination for public consumption, via social or traditional media. 

*Our partners, a growing category, include Mada Masr, As-Safir, KPFA-VOMENA, George Mason’s Middle East Studies Program, and AUB’s Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship. This is an evolving category based on common trajectories. Jadaliyya and other partners will host Status content, but the producer Quilting Point, Jadaliyya`s Audio-Visual sister organization, operating under the umbrella institution Arab Studies Institute (ASI).

You--listners with an interest in contributing incisive interviews or commentary with decent sound quality--can upload your contributions to our UPLOAD page here. Uploading does not guarantee publishing, but equal treatment of audio submissions is guaranteed.

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Lots more coming your way. shhhhhhhh

We will not say much here, except that we are exhausted trying to launch this thing. The website, www.StatusHour.com has all the information you might need. We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed producing. More, actually, much more, coming soon.

Please find the table of contents below.

Status, الوضع, Audio Journal Team
 

PRODUCTION TEAM

Concept: Bassam Haddad & Sinan Antoon
Hosts: Bassam Haddad & Sinan Antoon 
Social Media Hosts: Samia Errazzouki, Adel Iskandar, Mona Kareem
Guest Host: Noura Erakat
Regional Hosts: Lina Atallah, Sahar Mandour, Rania Masri
VOMENA/KPFA Partner: Malihe Razazan
Special Projects Host: Tarek Radi

Producer: Quilting Point / Arab Studies Institute
Partners: As-Safir, Mada Masr, KPFA-VOMENA, George Mason’s Middle East Studies Program, AUB’s Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship. 
Sponsors: Arab Studies Institute & George Mason University’s Middle East Studies Program
Principal Recording/Production Location: ASI Headquarters in Washington DC
 

POST-PRODUCTION TEAM

Executive Producer: Bassam Haddad
Sound Editing: Malihe Razazan & Bassam Haddad
Associate Producer: Nour Joudah
Audio Mixing and Mastering: Bassam Haddad
Technical Consultant: Khalid Namez
Arabic Editor: Sinan Antoon

Soundcloud Editor: Nour Joudah
Database Editor: Nadine Tadros
Website Editors: Bassam Haddad & Nour Joudah
Arabic Translator/Transcriber/Editor: Osama Esber
Copy Editing: Ziad Abu-Rish
Resident English Transcriber: Samantha Brotman
Researcher: Aisha Jama
Contributing Transcribers: Nour Joudah, Zack Cuyler, Lizette Baghdadi, Michael Ernst, Samantha Brotman