New Kan Radio Show Explores Culture and Challenges of Israel's Druze Community
Kan's Makan network launches a new weekly radio program titled "Sound of Copper," hosted by Wassim Kayouf, exploring the challenges, successes, and regional ties of Israel's Druze community.
The Druze community in Israel is widely known for its military alliance, IDF service, and local cuisine, but a new radio program aims to broaden that perspective. Produced by Makan, the Arabic-language channel of Israel's public broadcasting corporation Kan, the weekly show "Sada al-Nahhas"—or "Sound of Copper" in Hebrew—is edited and hosted by journalist Wassim Kayouf. It seeks to present the community in all its diversity and give a platform to the challenges and dreams of the younger generation.
The new program will address pressing daily issues within the Druze street, including planning and construction struggles, land shortages, employment dilemmas, and the community's status under the Nation-State Law. Alongside complex challenges, the broadcast will highlight success stories, entrepreneurship, integration into the high-tech sector, and pioneering Druze women in medicine and academia.
The show's title draws inspiration from a historical and cultural idiom symbolizing an echo connecting community members across different locations. Accordingly, the broadcast will not only focus on domestic affairs in Israel but will also cover Druze communities across the Middle East, with a primary emphasis on Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, alongside broader regional concerns.
"Sound of Copper" joins a series of targeted programs produced by the broadcasting corporation for various communities, such as shows dedicated to the Bedouin society in the Negev. To reach wider audiences, the content will extend beyond traditional radio broadcasts onto Kan's digital platforms through podcasts, video reports, and social media adaptations.
