Livestation arabic11/21/2023 Read more: Live from Lockdown: The New Online Radio Station in Palestine Playing Music from the Margins RecordAt Radio Al Hara - Leila Moon - #002.Radio Al Hara has become one of the most followed radio stations to emerge since its launch on March 20th-something attributed to a relentless daily schedule of groundbreaking Arab artists, a striking visual identity, and a founding team embedded in various sub-cultural scenes across the region Bethlehem-based designers and siblings, Elias and Youssef Anastas, Ramallah-based visual artist, Yazan Khalil, Amman-based graphic designer and DJ, Saeed Abu-Jaber, and designer, Mothanna Hussein.īetween them, they have created a border-blending, multifaceted cultural space emerging out of “isolation and boredom, a time when the future of the world as we know it remains unknown.” Aside from hosting artists with selections as varied as post-shaabi from Egypt, to Brazilian bossa jazz, Radio Al Hara includes programming outside the scope of music too, including “ramblings” of chefs, folklore readings, oral history storytelling by Palestinian audiovisual artist, Jumana Abboud, and the musings of senior economist, Raja Khalidi, on the economies of the Arab world post-pandemic. With our feeds saturated and visual quotas exasperated, a group of Middle Eastern online broadcasts have been quietly gaining traction and building passionate communities over the past few months, giving listeners across the globe an opportunity to wind down, tune in, and discover a whole breadth of alternative music and mixes from Arab artists - without the sort of distraction and commitment of a live video on social media or, worse yet, the decision fatigue of music streaming platforms. But not much has been said about the resurgence of radio. Much of the online music industry fanfare of the past few months has been about the rise of the livestream.
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