Mersal Media: workshops, series and a working archive

Workshop programs for young people

For two Umm al-Fahm Municipality tenders, one on media and communication and one on community podcasting, I wrote the session plans and coordinated between Mersal Media and the municipality. When the programs ran, I was one of the lead facilitators.

Series and campaigns

I produced, directed and edited educational and cultural series in Arabic and English. They include the 165-episode Educational Reflections, 38 episodes of Money and Business, and Stop the Bleeding, a campaign against violence in the Arab community made for the municipality, where I was production manager.

Fixing the archive

The studio had already digitized thousands of items, but the way they were logged made material hard to find. I studied archiving practice, redesigned how new items are taken in, built a registry in Google Sheets and set up a process to repair records created under the old method. The team still uses it, and finding material is now much easier.

What carries over

Turning a client’s requirements into a program that runs on the ground. Noticing when a process is broken, and redesigning it so others can keep using it.