Ramzi Salti's Arabology

  Listen to this podcast at  https://soundcloud.com/arabology/s14e2 The second episode of the 14th season of Arabology  aired on March 10, 2023 and featured new indie music by groundbreaking Arab artists, including an ode to reigning female singers, heartfelt song tributes to fathers, and the radio premiere of fresh releases by Tootard, Hawa Dafi and many others.  Listen here and see Playlist below. Listen to this podcast below or at https://soundcloud.com/arabology/s14e2 arabology · Arabology 14.2 [Women in Indie Arabic Music, Ode to Fathers and More] This episode featured songs by Tootard, Ghazall, Hawa Dafi, Kazdoura, BiGSaM & Siilawy, El Far3i, Autostrad, Emsallam, Borhan, Reina Khoury, Hana Malhas, Noel Kharman, Fawz Shocair, Abo El Anwar, Shi'rap, The Synaptik, Hosam Omran & Nada Abo Treka, Tamer Nafar and Omar Offendum. Podcast also spotlighted instrumentals and mixes by Maxi 45 Records, Timothy Maloof, Suad Bushnaq, DJ Laith, Dina Madi and Fady D.

After all these years, the eBook version of Ramzi Salti's collection of short stories, The Native Informant and Other Stories  is finally available on Google Play and on Kindle . Google Play:  https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=XLJrVyxz5ZQC Kindle:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4T6TY6L About the Book The Native Informant & Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World is a collection of six short stories dealing with "unmentionable" aspects of Arab life in parts of the Arab world and in the West. Inspired by such modern writers as Alifa Rifaat, Nawal al-Sadawi, and Youssef Idris--authors who have, despite immeasurable odds, managed to emphasize subjects ranging from feminism to postcolonialism in their works--these short stories attempt to further engage various social and political issues that remain, for the most part, largely ignored or silenced in modern Arabic literature. Most of the stories in The Native Informant & Other Stories op