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Category: Music

29 September, 2023 • TMR

World Picks From the Editors, Sept 29—Oct 15, 2023

A Markaz Review bi-weekly roundup of our editors' favorite selections from within the global arts and culture scene.

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4 September, 2023 • TMR

World Picks: Festival Arabesques in Montpellier

The largest festival of Arab and North African music takes place each year in Montpellier: Arabesques is quite the two-week extravaganza.

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4 September, 2023 • TMR

World Picks: Exist Festival + the Mosaic Room, London

Sept. 8-10, Exist Festival in London features film, talks, music, performance & dance; Sept. 6-14, also in London at the Mosaic Rooms, check out "In the Shade of the Sun."

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17 July, 2023 • Sarah Naili

Musical Artists at Work: Naïssam Jalal, Fazil Say & Azu Tiwaline

Sarah Naili interviews musical artists who meld eastern and western instruments, and forms, to create their unique sounds of beauty.

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10 July, 2023 • Reem Halasa

Reviving the Nay Tradition in Jordan

Jordanian Rabee’ Zureikat is on a mission to restore severed links to the Arab past by reviving a musical heritage, one nay at a time.

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26 June, 2023 • David Rife

Freedom and Dislocation in Jamal Mahjoub’s Novel, The Fugitives

David Rife reviews the latest fiction from the Sudanese British author of more than a dozen literary and noir novels.

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4 June, 2023 • Hassan Abdulrazzak

Arab Theatre Grapples With Climate Change, Borders, War & Love

London-based Iraqi playwright Hassan Abdulrazak enthuses on the 2023 Shubbak theatre arts extravaganza, June 23-July 9.

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22 May, 2023 • Rana Asfour

Artist At Work: Maya Youssef Finds Home in the Qanun

Rana Asfour talks to Syrian-born and raised qanunist Maya Youssef, who now lives and teaches in the UK.

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22 May, 2023 • Laëtitia Soula

And Yet Our Brothers: Portraits of France

Laëtitia Soula toured the expansive photo exhibit Portraits of France, which celebrates the lives of 318 immigrants who paid it forward.

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1 May, 2023 • Jordan Elgrably

The Artist at Work—a Conversation with Souad Massi

Jordan Elgrably interviews the Algerian-French iconoclast about her first album after Covid and about why she's devoted her life to freedom.

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20 March, 2023 • Melissa Chemam

Meet Ghoula—Arabic Music Remixed Via Tunisia

In her latest music column for TMR, Melissa Chemam profiles the genre-defying Tunisian electro artist Ghoula.

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20 February, 2023 • Melissa Chemam

A new series in France, Raï Is Not Dead, Celebrates the Genre

Melissa Chemam attends the première of the new French music series on Arte TV at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris.

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