"In our staff meeting once a week, we prepare the list of what we want to do, what we want to cover, and who is covering what," Maguelone la Francaise, a French volunteer at the radio, told Al-Monitor in an interview at the Babilon Media Center in Ainkawa, a town in Erbil that Radio Salam broadcasts from. La Francaise added, “We speak five languages: Syriac, Arabic, Kurdish, English and French. But the radio programs are 80% in Arabic and 20% in Kurdish."
Ronza conducts four weekly programs: one on women-related topics called "Layly Sayydaty" ("My Ladies Nights"), one on health-related issues "Sahha" ("Health"), one on political news and one titled "Hal tareef?" ("Do you know?"), which covers various subjects. Samir hosts "A Story for History," telling stories that coincide with historical events each day. He also has a show about art and sports called "Art and Hope," usually interviewing artists and people who practice sports who are refugees or displaced people from Syria and Iraq.
"All the world has discussed the refugees and the displaced here in Iraq, but few have listened to them. Radio Salam broadcasts their testimonies," Samir told Al-Monitor. He added, "Christians say that [IS] terror was against Christians; Yazidis say that they were targeting Yazidis; Muslims say that they have killed mostly Muslims. But [IS] was against all of us and against humanity: the only solution against, it is to live all together, leaving behind conflict," he concluded.
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