{"id":1405,"date":"2021-05-09T09:45:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T07:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/09\/no-shame-the-podcast-taking-on-the-arab-worlds-sex-and-gender-taboos\/"},"modified":"2021-05-09T09:45:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T07:45:05","slug":"no-shame-the-podcast-taking-on-the-arab-worlds-sex-and-gender-taboos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/09\/no-shame-the-podcast-taking-on-the-arab-worlds-sex-and-gender-taboos\/","title":{"rendered":"No shame: the podcast taking on the Arab world\u2019s sex and gender taboos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eib is now in its seventh season, fearlessly tackling subjects from Beirut\u2019s drag queen scene to Jordanian widows\u2019 rights<\/p>\n<p>Rude, fault or blemish; flaw, disgrace or shame. The word has many shades, but nearly every woman who grows up in Arabic-speaking households knows its singular weight. \u201cAnything related to women is <em>eib<\/em>,\u201d says Tala El-Issa, from her home in Cairo. \u201cIf they want to talk about their bodies, it\u2019s eib, their problems \u2013 eib. Just being a woman is almost eib.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the team at Sowt, an Arabic podcasting network based across the Middle East, wanted to create a show that charged fearlessly into the region\u2019s taboos around sex and gender, the title was obvious. \u201cEib\u201d is now in its seventh season, the company\u2019s longest-lasting podcast and its most popular.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/may\/09\/eib-podcast-arab-world-sex-and-gender-taboos\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bb52153076210ff60c91dbedfa783b6eb62d26bd\/0_789_3024_1814\/master\/3024.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6c7251c24808c77c6ed3544acea161e7\" title=\"No shame: the podcast taking on the Arab world\u2019s sex and gender taboos\" \/>Eib is now in its seventh season, fearlessly tackling subjects from Beirut\u2019s drag queen scene to Jordanian widows\u2019 rights<br \/>\nRude, fault or blemish; flaw, disgrace or shame. The word has many shades, but nearly every woman who grows up in Arabic-speaking households knows its singular weight. \u201cAnything related to women is eib,\u201d says Tala El-Issa, from her home in Cairo. \u201cIf they want to talk about their bodies, it\u2019s eib, their problems \u2013 eib. Just being a woman is almost eib.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen the team at Sowt, an Arabic podcasting network based across the Middle East, wanted to create a show that charged fearlessly into the region\u2019s taboos around sex and gender, the title was obvious. \u201cEib\u201d is now in its seventh season, the company\u2019s longest-lasting podcast and its most popular. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eib is now in its seventh season, fearlessly tackling subjects from Beirut\u2019s drag queen scene to Jordanian widows\u2019 rights Rude, fault or blemish; flaw, disgrace or shame. The word has many shades, but nearly every woman who grows up in Arabic-speaking households knows its singular weight. \u201cAnything related to women is eib,\u201d says Tala El-Issa, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/09\/no-shame-the-podcast-taking-on-the-arab-worlds-sex-and-gender-taboos\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No shame: the podcast taking on the Arab world\u2019s sex and gender taboos<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}