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MENA music business, daily — reporting on labels, publishing, live, rights and the deals behind the region's music economy.

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The Wire — Live

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Foundational coverage, not breaking news

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How a story reaches Maqam Wire

The Wire runs with minimal human oversight by design — but every path into it is disclosed, and nothing from outside our own reporting goes live without either a trusted citation or a human sign-off.

Path 1

The Wire — Automated

01

Scan

Agents monitor licensed press feeds, CMO filings, gazettes and label statements in Arabic, English and French, around the clock.

02

Filter

An industry classifier keeps deals, rights, label/publishing, live-business, CMO and policy stories — and drops tabloid pieces, celebrity interviews and fan-facing content before anything moves further.

03

Verify

Each item is checked against a second independent source. Single-source items are held and marked developing, not published.

04

Publish, linked out

Cleared items post as a short, original headline and one-line summary — never a rewrite of the source article — under a Wire Desk byline, linking straight through to the original publisher.

Path 2

Contributor Submissions

Writers, labels, PR teams and industry contributors can submit pieces directly. A submission that cites a recognized trade publication or rights body fast-tracks and auto-publishes the same day. Anything else — an outside blog, a press release, an unaffiliated pitch — enters human review, with an approve-or-decline decision within 48 hours.

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