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Aug 21
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Dom Tak: Music Beyond Barriers 🥁

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About this episode

Introducing a new season of Dom Tak! This time, we bring you stories from artists across the region, musicians with diverse backgrounds who also happen to live with disabilities. Through their journeys, we explore what it means to be a musician navigating accessibility, infrastructure, and inclusion in the region.


This season was originally produced in Arabic for the Dom Tak podcast:

https://lnk.to/g1MQym


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This season was produced in collaboration with Komet Kashakeel, and made possible with support from the British Council’s International Collaboration Grant.


Dom Tak and Loosely Adapted are original productions of Sowt.


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