By Elias Jabbe, a communications consultant and founder of CaliCreativityCourse.co
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On October 4, 2019 at the Middle East Podcast Forum at Art Jameel’s Jameel Arts Centre alongside Dubai’s Al Jaddaf Waterfront, I witnessed podcasting’s growing importance in MENA as I sat surrounded by nearly 150 audio enthusiasts, including many of my fellow podcast producers.
As I walked through the 10,000-square-metre centre, I kept hearing podcasters speak an Arabic dialect I was familiar with: the Hijazi dialect spoken in the major Western Saudi Arabian cities of Jeddah, Mecca and Medina.
I noted to myself, after enjoying listening to podcasts for over a decade and helping my clients
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