Fundraiser Guide: How to Help Lebanon & Its Music Scene
2020 hasn’t been the best for everyone living in Lebanon, to say the least, but it did bring...
Middle East
Between Hunger and Famine: From the Scene with El Rass & Ziad Nawfal
The interviews, research, and development of this piece were done in the week of Monday, July 27, 2020—almost...
“A Comic’s Last Stand”: Interview with Munir Khauli
Lina·
If you’ve ever had the pleasure of coming across one of Munir Khauli’s works, then you’ve found a...
Into the Music Cave with Firas Abou Fakher
You may know Firas Abou Fakher as the keyboardist with indie rock band Mashrou’ Leila, but there’s (a...
The Egyptian Poet: Interview with Felukah
Lina·
The Cairo-born, New York-based artist would be best introduced as Ms. Smooth. Felukah has an impressively natural slur...
The Story of Dounia Younes and the Lost Recording
Just a few years before a 15-year civil war plunged Beirut into absolute chaos, Lebanon’s capital was a...
Out Of The Glasshouse: The Waynick Interview
Waynick is the Indie-Pop musical project of Sara Abdo and Joe Kazan, two old friends from Beirut, Lebanon...
Lebanon’s Triple Smackdown: Economic Collapse, Revolution, and COVID-19
Lebanon has witnessed its fair share of crises throughout the last decades, and the current events are only...
Yamakan: Reimagining Spaces on a Pirate Radio (Part III: Beirut)
Before the government really picked it up a notch and started separating cars by plate numbers, but around...
Jumping Fences with Juliana Yazbeck: An Interview
Juliana Yazbeck is an artist from Batroun, Lebanon who was born in New Jersey, USA, to asylum-seeking parents...
Yamakan: Reimagining Spaces on a Pirate Radio (Part I: Berlin)
At some vague part of my quarantine journey, I stumbled upon a pirate radio in my daily spiral...
From Baalbek to the World: Interview with Bu Nasser
Marwan Bu Nasser, or Bu Nasser Touffar, is the rising star of the Arab Rap scene. The Baalbaki-born...