The Audio program extends Tamer Institute’s cultural production into sound-based formats that widen access to literature, storytelling, and creative expression for children, adolescents, and youth. Through podcasts, songs, and spoken content, the program offers alternative ways to engage with culture and learning beyond the printed page.
The program also creates space for young voices to narrate their experiences and express their social and emotional realities through accessible digital formats. Its productions include musical works for children and youth, as well as youth-led podcasts that foreground lived experience, imagination, and collective memory, contributing to a richer and more inclusive cultural landscape.
Literary Project and Youth Podcast
In the midst of genocide and disrupted education, the initiative Amplifying Palestinian Voices launches to empower Palestinian children and youth to share their stories with the world, using English as a tool for learning, storytelling, and affirming their existence and survival. We talk about the home that changed its shape, the street that became a memory, the smell of food that carries absence, and the friends separated by war and walls. The project involves training 100 youth (ages 15–22) from Gaza and the West Bank on storytelling and podcast production in English. A series of six podcast episodes will be produced, telling personal stories about the meaning of “home” in times of war. The youth team at Tamer Institute for Community Education worked on producing the six episodes, where the youth actively contribute to telling their stories through their own voices and experiences, thus enhancing opportunities for self-expression and turning their voices into a platform for resistance and empowerment.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTsvRt0q8KLYPpEouy_3gdCgGrp849jVB
Here We Stay
"Here We Stay" is a podcast platform where young women and men share their lived experiences of war and forced displacement. Through storytelling, they seek to transform pain into voice, and absence into presence. This podcast opens a window onto youth narratives that have risen from the rubble, carrying stories shaped by resilience and an unyielding will to be heard. Twelve voices from Gaza, young women and men who have lived through war and continue to create life in the face of siege, death, and displacement. Implemented by Tamer Institute for Community Education in partnership with the Danish House in Palestine
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTsvRt0q8KLZucz5Yg_4H5t8y_F5t9kW-
Tamer Institute for Community Education has published the book "Shibra Qamra," inspired by traditional folk games. Through this work, we evoke the world of folk songs and chants that constitute a vital part of Palestinian heritage, aiming to bring this ancestral legacy closer to the new Palestinian generations.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTsvRt0q8KLbkv0q8EiKrGf0SR23jRFM_
Tamer Institute launched the album "Fahim" featuring compositions and performance by Faraj Suleiman, lyrics by writer Majd Kayyal, and vocals by child artists Fahim Abu Helou and Hala Qassis.
"Fahim" is a musical project produced with a lot of love and a touch of mischief. It reflects a child's perspective of their surrounding world through a collection of songs presented for and by children. They express their thoughts and aspirations boldly, sharing their joy, sadness, likes, and dislikes. The production of this album complements Tamer's focus on building a supportive environment for learning culture in Palestine and enhancing self-expression in all its forms for children and youth. It also explores new ways of learning and reading, especially in the current pandemic circumstances.
The album "Fahim" consists of eight songs for children. It was launched on Saturday evening at 9 PM via Facebook Live on the Tamer's social media page simultaneously with the page of the artist, the Ghassan Kanafani Children's page in the Al-Baddawi refugee camp in Lebanon, the Palestinian Ministry of Culture's page, and several Palestinian media channels. This approach was adopted due to the inability to hold live performances in Palestine due to the pandemic. The album will subsequently be available on all online music platforms.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTsvRt0q8KLaQV2d2wt5_aEg-kXZg0vL0
