Stories from Ukraine: Don’t freak out
Nikolai and his friends have a unusual pastime – dunking themselves in water so cold they risk losing consciousness. They do this for up to 20 minutes. A film by Daisy Hayes and Oliver Quie
Rap and the Regime
You stand naked and it’s so cold/ Daily rounds of torturing, hanging, shocking with electricity Abu-Hajar wrote these lyrics on the first few nights of his imprisonment in Tartarus prison, West Syria. Arrested for spreading political pamphlets and singing an anti-regime song on the streets of his
Feeding off Terror
These have been a terrifying couple of weeks to be a Muslim. Passport holders from seven Muslim-majority countries were banned for ninety days from entering the US, the first major act of Trump’s new racial agenda; the ban has since been suspended by the American judiciary, having been brazenly un
Niche Numbers: #5
Jamie Tahsin and Jake Kennedy bring you some more of their favourite songs with < 50,000 views on YouTube. Episode Five.
A conversation with: Cuntry Living Zine
The ISIS Broadcasting meet Cuntry Living, a feminist zine and collective based in Oxford. We chat feminism, idols, girl power, the greatness of social media and what it means to identify as a girl today. Production: Alex Hines, Tobi Thomas and Max Reynolds.
The ISIS Presents: Glue
Isis Presents is a new weekly podcast showcasing Oxford DJs. This week our mix comes from Glue’s Mr Wong, part of the team running their not-for-profit underground electro and techno nights. It isn’t what you might expect: not built with the dance floor in mind at all but rather, for lonely
On This Day: Paul Simon
Anybody who, like me, spent at least one fifth of their childhood dinner-times in the welcome company of Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water cannot have helped forming an opinion on the relative artistic merits of Art Garfunkel. For better or worse, it seems to me that Garfun
A Kiss for Syria: Tammam Azzam
In early 2011, Damascus was witnessing the rise of a revolution. The world was beginning to notice a rebirth occurring in the Syrian capital and from all corners of the globe, it was being watched with a wary eye. Art had seized the city and the force of this renaissance was reverberating far beyond