Delia Sessions & Radio Atheer present Zaid Hilal

Live at The Barrel, Bethlehem - Palestine

Delia Sessions and Radio Atheer present Haya Zaatry
Live at Al Yakhour, Haifa - Palestine

The first episode: Dongull with Saket

In the first episode, the music producer and presenter of the program “Dongull” hosts the artist and performer “Saket”. Saket comes from the village of Al-Rama, Haifa district, and has been working in the artistic field since 2016. His musical journey included hosting other musical artists and organizing concerts in his surroundings rich in artists and music producers. Saket self-produced his first song and presented a new musical style with his singing style that relied on releasing feelings. He worked with a group of distinguished musical artists such as Synaptik, and other artists in Egypt and the Arab region. Saket continued with his distinctive pattern and color production until he became a major part of the Palestinian underground scene. Saket held many concerts in Palestine, the Arab world and Europe and worked to establish his own record company and crew until all his artistic productions became under the name of his record company, Lean4record, which produced and organized many concerts that included prominent Palestinian artists in the underground scene such as Jalmud, Abu Al-Eis, Gold Panda and others. In this episode, you will listen, in open recording, to a dialogue between Dongull and Saket about his artistic journey, the reason for choosing his artistic name, and some of his productions that he is working on and have not yet been published, exclusively on Atheer.

A podcast series produced by Radio Atheer that includes informal interviews with Palestinian women working in various sectors, including the agricultural sector, food production, women's, heritage and agricultural associations and cooperatives, and local activists and leaders in various fields of feminist work. Women talk about professional working conditions, community support and their surroundings, their leadership role in their communities, economic independence and societal influence.

In this episode, Mona Matar, the director of the Al Aseel for Women in Beit Jala, talks about working in the association and its importance to her as a woman, and the support of those around her and the role of that in supporting her in her private and public life.

On the Road: A podcast of short stories from the Palestinian street in the colloquial dialect, narrated from the heart of the means of transportation (taxi, Jerusalem buses) while moving between the different governorates in Palestine, and the dialogue is about the conversations, stories and situations that happen during the road until reaching the last stop.

The first episode of On the Road with Ritta Kamel:

Between the morning rush and transportation, there are many stories that we hear every day on our way, and in today's episode, we will hear many stories about the abnormal increase in the number of passengers on the Jerusalem bus, and we will hear the story of a young girl who is forced to marry while she is still a minor, and many stories that you will hear in the first episode entitled Passenger Plus Ten of the podcast p the way.

Julmud – is a producer, percussionist, keyboardist, vocalist and a music researcher based in Ramallah- Palestine that creates, composes, samples and combines sounds from across the globe to create his own non-generic form of music. He has produces work for different artists such as Haykal, Al Nather, Muqata’a, Maki Makkuk and Walaa Sbait among others who are also part of his crew (Saleb Wahad/ -1). He is currently in the process of producing a variety of solo and collaborative works. His debut album ’’Tuqoos’’ is forthcoming on Bilna’es.

His mix description: Julmud music research revolves around listening to music from all around the world and he almost showcases that in every mix he does and that’s exactly what you will hear, picks of good music and modes from the Ramallah scene and around the world.

Dirar Kalash presents "Ether Ground": a series of four episodes of soundscape compositions commissioned by Radio Atheer, the soundscape compositions were done using around 28 hours of field recordings from different places and times across Palestine, and through utilizing different soundscape techniques like sound processing, transformation, over layering and other editing techniques, the original sounds are put in a new context that emphasizes the complexity of the sonic environment in Palestine, in all of its forms: the natural, urban, rural, political, and beyond.

Ether ground IV: Beyond the Ether

The focus of this episode is the cultural and social history of radio in Palestine, extending the notion of oral history as narrative into an aural history that includes awareness to both artificial and environmental landscapes, focusing on the role of radio culture in Palestinian society from a historical perspective, the soundscape composition will include interviews and oral history segments.