Host Raja Aderdor speaks with Tasneem Hozein from 40MUSTAQEL, in a conversation that explores the emergence of regional publishing platforms and their role within evolving media landscapes.
Together, they reflect on the challenges of distribution, audience-building, and sustainability, considering what it takes to create independent platforms that can grow and endure. The discussion examines how regional initiatives navigate structural limitations while developing new pathways for circulation, visibility, and engagement. It also highlights the importance of centering regional voices, and how these platforms contribute to shaping cultural production from within their own contexts.
The conversation moves across questions of media ecosystems, exploring how publishing platforms operate not only as channels of content, but as spaces of connection, experimentation, and community-building. It considers how ideas are developed and shared across audiences, and how independent initiatives can redefine the relationship between creators, publishers, and readers.
This episode is in collaboration with Tasmeem Doha 2026: Transmit.
Relay, a podcast from Clavis Aurea Podcasts, explores the people and processes behind publishing, art, and cultural production. Through conversations with people working across the cultural sector, the podcast looks at how ideas move from concept to physical form through books, exhibitions, and printed production. At its core, Relay focuses on the creative chain behind cultural work. Writers, editors, designers, photographers, publishers, printers, and institutions each play a role in bringing ideas into the world.
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What is Relay?
Relay, hosted by Raja Aderdor, is a podcast built around conversations with the people who shape publishing, art, and culture. In each episode, publishers, photographers, designers, artists, writers, and curators come together to reflect on their work, their creative processes, and the ideas that eventually take form in books, exhibitions, and printed matter.
We are Clavis Aurea: a dynamic team of publishing professionals working on innovative marketing and communication in the industry. Based in Leiden, we eat, sleep, and breathe publishing.