For Mekawei, sound becomes a material source and a physical embodiment of knowledge(s) that animates most of her works, while exploring how sonorousness is a transducer and point of convergence of time-space relations, as expressed and experienced in African and Arabic philosophies.

In 2018, Mekawei founded Radio Submarine / راديو الغواصة. As a storyteller, she traverses African cities through the dimension of their sonority and music. Water is one of the central connections between the different radio features. It becomes a space of transmission of African sensibility across the continent and beyond, as water travels past the geolocality of Africa as a fixed space, engaging with those who travelled (historically and today) while carrying with them their sounds and music.