No shame: the podcast taking on the Arab world’s sex and gender taboos
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. “Anything related to women is eib,” says Tala El-Issa, from her home in Cairo. “If they want to talk about their bodies, it’s eib, their problems – eib. Just being a woman is almost eib.”
When the team at Sowt, an Arabic podcasting network based across the Middle East, wanted to create a show that charged fearlessly into the
