BEATS AND BREATH

April 24, 2020

Voice of the Streets: the Birth of a Hip Hop Movement

Arab Hip-Hop, Art/Street Art, Commentary, Culture, hip-hop, Local Scenes
May 20, 2015

Revisiting the Third Rail: Arab rappers negotiate revolution

Arab Hip-Hop, Commentary, Community Action, Culture, Film, hip-hop, Interviews, Local Scenes, Video

Ahmed Khouja, Arab Hip-Hop, Arab Rap, Arab Rap Diaspora, boikutt, Dub Snakkr, egypt, El Rass, Iqaa, Iraq, Jordan, Khat Thaleth, lebanon, Mazen el Sayed, middle-east, Palestine, Sayyed Darwish, Shar, Shiiq, syria, Touffar, tunisia
May 18, 2015

Kuwaiti music artist Zahed Sultan: Searching for the Blueprint

Commentary, Culture, Film, Independent Rock, Interviews, Local Scenes, Magazine Articles, Video

Audio Kultur, Democrazy, EyeAmSound, Kuwait, Kuwait city, Red Bull, Zahed Sultan
February 12, 2015

Red Bull Music Academy Session Kuwait w/Bei Ru, Omar Offendum, Hasan Hujairi +

Community Action, Culture, Film, Interviews, Local Scenes, Magazine Articles, Video

beats and breath, Bei Ru, El Jihaz, Hasan Hujairi, Jackson Allers, Kuwait Rising, Mai Waleed, Music Academy, omar offendum, Red Bull, Red Bull Kuwait, Red Bull Music Academy, Z the People, Zahed Sultan, Zeid Hamdan
April 15, 2014

Back with a Vengeance: Lazzy Lung!

Culture, Independent Rock, Interviews, Local Scenes, Magazine Articles

Allan Chaaraoui, Beirut, Black Lips, Capitol Records, Charlie Paakari, Emily Lazar, Esquire ME ‘Musician of the Year’, Homegrown to Hollywood, Imad Jawad, Jackson Allers, Lazzy Lung, lebanon, Rolling Stone ME Battle of the Band Winner, Sailor’s Delight, Strange Places, Studio A, The Lodge Studio NYC, UMen
February 13, 2014

Debut Solo Album: Palestinian MC – Muqata’a aka Boikutt – comes of age

Arab Hip-Hop, Commentary, Community Action, Culture, hip-hop, Interviews, Local Scenes, Magazine Articles

Arab Rap, Aswat, beats and breath, Beirut, boikutt, Hayawan Nateq, Jackson Allers, Muqata’a, Palestine, Palestinian Rap, Ramallah, Ramallah Underground, Stormtrapp, Tashweesh, West Bank
November 15, 2013

Chico and the Man: reviving the vinyl tradition in Beirut!

Community Action, Culture, Interviews, Local Scenes, Magazine Articles, Photo Ops

beats and breath, Beirut, Diran Mardirian, DVD store, Hamra, jazz, lebanon, Nickodemus, rare-grooves, Record Collecting, Record Store, Turntables on the Hudson, UMen, Video/DVD Chico, Vinyl
November 10, 2013

The PERCs’ perks – Production Equipment Rental Companies in Lebanon

Commentary, Culture, Film, Interviews, Local Scenes, Magazine Articles, Technology

Advertising Age, Association of Lebanese Commercial Producers ALCP, Beirut, Black Rhino, Communicate Levant, Dubai, Final Cut, Gamma Engineering sarl, Independent Productions, Joseph Al Kadamani, Laser Films, lebanon, PERCs, Platform Studios, Qatar, Samer Dadanian, Samir Traboulsi, Shant Etyemezian, Tarek Sikias, Television Commercial Industry
October 6, 2013

Launch of Red Bull Music Academy Radio show: Quarter Tone Frequency Vol. 01

Culture, Local Scenes, Radio

alternative music, egypt, Independent Arab Music, James Locksmith, Jordan, lebanon, Mohammed Safi, Mostyn Rischmueller, QTF, Quarter Tone Frequency, RBMA, RBMA Radio, Red Bull Music Academy, Red Bull Music Academy Radio, Tamer Garghour, UAE
September 16, 2013

One Board at a Time: Mohammad Zakaria – Jordan’s skateboarding pioneer

Community Action, Culture, Interviews, Local Scenes, Magazine Articles

Amman, Culture Street, Derk Streemers, Evan Collisson, Hadi Alaeddin, Jordan, Local Hero, Lufti Zayed, Middle East Skateboard scene, Mohammad Zakaria, Mothanna Hussein, Nidal Khairy, ollies, Philadelphia Skateboards, Rami Afifi, Shmeisani, Skateboarding, Tamer Al-Masri, UAE, Z-boys
April 4, 2013

Video: “History has found me” – Oak featuring Julia from Postcards (Lebanon)

Commentary, Culture, Independent Rock, Local Scenes, Video

Allen Seif, Bekaa Valley, Independent Arab Music, Julia Sabra, Karim Koleilat, Lebanese Independent Music, lebanon, Oak, Postcards, Tony H. Khoury
February 16, 2013

Beirut’s own: The Wanton Bishops Unchained, Part 1

Culture, Independent Rock, Interviews, Local Scenes, Radio

beats and breath, Beirut, Beirut Indie Music, Blues Rock Revival, Eddy Ghossein, Fadi Tabal, lebanon, Nader Mansour, The Wanton Bishops, Torino Express, Tunefork Studios
February 10, 2013

Is Qatar’s “Cultural Village” an artistic battleground?

Art/Street Art, Commentary, Community Action, Culture, Local Scenes, Magazine Articles

Daniel Barenboim, Doha, Education City, Edward Said, Franz Schubert, I.M Pei, Katara, Katara Cultural Village, Michael Frahm, Museum of Islamic Art, The Pearl, Wagner, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
January 12, 2013

Beirut’s blues-rock revival – The Wanton Bishops

Community Action, Culture, Independent Rock, Interviews, Local Scenes, Magazine Articles

Beirut, Blues Rock Revival, Eddy Ghossein, Keeward, lebanon, Nader Mansour, Radio Beirut, SXSW, Wanton Bishops
November 2, 2012

Interview with SHARE Foundation’s Vladan Joler and Filip Milošević

Community Action, Culture, Interviews, Local Scenes, Magazine Articles, Technology

Beirut, Creative Commons, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Elizabeth Stark, Facebook, Filip Milošević, internet, Ji Lee, lebanon, Michelle Thorne, middle-east, Mozilla, Nasri Atallah, Peter Sunde, politics, Radio Beirut, Rebecca Bowe, Sami Ben Gharbia, Sarrah Abdelrahman, SHARE BEIRUT Conference, SHARE Foundation, Thom Cummings, Vladan Joler, Wael Abbas, Wafa Ben Hassine
October 20, 2012

Interview with Lebanese filmmaker Wissam Charaf

Culture, Film, Interviews, Magazine Articles

Beirut, Director, Haifa Wehbe, Independent Film, It’s all in Lebanon, Lebanese Civil War, Lebanese Independent Film, lebanon, New Arab Cinema, Rafiq Hariri, Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, Wissam Charaf
October 3, 2012

Lebanese rapper El Rass ‘Unveils the Hidden’

Arab Hip-Hop, Culture, hip-hop, Interviews, Local Scenes, Magazine Articles

Arab Hip-Hop, Beirut, El Rass, Lebanese hip-hop, Mazen el Sayed, Munma, Ruptured, Unveiling the Hidden, World Hip-Hop Market
July 26, 2012

The Perfect Storm: Beirut’s Alt Music Scene

Arab Hip-Hop, Culture, Independent Rock, Local Scenes, Magazine Articles

Arab Hip-Hop, Beirut, Charbel Haber, Dabke, DJ Lethal Skillz, Dub Snakkr, Edd, El Rass, entertainment, Fadi Tabbal, Ghazi Abdel Baki, Irtijal, Johnny Damascus, Lazzy Lung, lebanon, Lumi, Mashrou Leila, media, middle-east, Munma, Osloob, politics, Ramcess L’Hamorabi, Red Bull Music Academy, Ruptured, Scrambled Eggs, Sharif Sehnaoui, Slutterhouse, Tarab, The New Government, Touffar, Zeid and the Wings, Zeid Hamdan, Ziad Nawfal
June 17, 2012

Ziad Nawfal: Lebanon’s Indie Music Facilitator

Culture, Interviews, Local Scenes, Magazine Articles

beats and breath, Jackson Allers, Jawad Nawfal, Munma, Nidaa Abou Mrad, Ruptured, Ruptures, Scrambled Eggs, Soap Kills, Ziad Nawfal
May 16, 2012

Profile on Zeid Hamdan: “A musician without vision is no use!”

Community Action, Culture, Independent Rock, Interviews, Local Scenes

Independent Arab Music, Lebanese Alt Rock, Lebanese Independent Music, Zeid and the Wings, Zeid Hamdan
December 10, 2011

Rolling Stone Magazine ME article for ‘Voice of the Streets’ event

Arab Hip-Hop, Commentary, Community Action, Culture, hip-hop, Local Scenes, Magazine Articles

abu kwaik, Arab Hip-Hop, arab uprisings, Arabian Knightz, boikutt, cairo, Deeb, Edd, Immortal Entertainment, khotta ba, Malikah, martin jakobsen, mc amin, rolling stone magazine, turntables in the camps, voice of the streets
October 21, 2011

Another Arab Revolution Arabic Graffiti Reclamation of a Canvas

Art/Street Art, Culture, Interviews, Magazine Articles

Ahmad Sabbagh, Arabic Graffiti, Archewallogy/Les Murs Murs de Ville, Askar, Banksy, Blouzaat collective, Blu, Don Karl, El Seed, Hanzala, Hassan Massoudy, Houda Kassatly, Keta3 Beirut, Marko 93, Naji Al Ali, Pascal Zoghbi, Pixacao, Prime, REK, Stone, Swoon, Tarek Chemaly, TG
September 28, 2011

Live from Beirut….Lazzy Lung the Arab alt-rock Olympians!

Commentary, Community Action, Culture, Independent Rock, Local Scenes, Magazine Articles, Photo Ops

Allan Chaaraoui, Lazzy Lung, On Standby, Rolling Stone Magazine ME Battle of the Bands, s, Strange Places
August 24, 2011

Soul II Soul’s Jazzie B: These are the breaks – Jazzie B’s sermon in Beirut

Arab Hip-Hop, Commentary, Community Action, Culture, hip-hop, Local Scenes, Magazine Articles

Destiny’s Child, Dr. Peter Zinovieff, Isaac Hayes, James Brown, jazzie b, Maxi Priest, Nas, Neneh Cherry, Public Enemy, red bull music academy in beirut, Sinead O’Connor, soul II soul, Suzanne Vega, the beirut groove collective, The Fine Young Cannibals, Zeid Hamdan, Ziggy Marley
August 21, 2011

‘Life from the BBC’ – has its NYC premiere

Culture, Film

Beirut, Burj al Barajneh, Documentary Film, HBO New York International Latino Film Festival, I-Voice, Jackson Allers, lebanon, Life from the BBC, palestinian refugee camps, Short Documentary, TNT, Wissam Charaf, Yaseen
August 11, 2011

Middle East’s Lyrical Bomber: Author, Actor, Husband, MC – The Narcicyst

Arab Hip-Hop, Culture, hip-hop, Magazine Articles

#jan25, Arab Rap, Arab Rap Diaspora, Arabic hip hop, Basra, Diatribes of a Dying Tribe, Iraq, Montreal, omar offendum, P.H.A.T.W.A., The Arab Summit, The Last Arabs, the narcicyst
August 1, 2011

Arab Raps Theoretical Unification

Arab Hip-Hop, Commentary, Culture, hip-hop, Local Scenes, Photo Ops

Arab Hip-Hop, beats and breath, Chyno, DAM, Deeb, Edd, El General, Jackson Allers, Jordan, lebanon, MC Zoog, Narcicyst, omar offendum, Palestine, Ramallah Underground, Siska
July 31, 2011

Independent Lebanese musician Zeid Hamdan arrested over song – “General Suleiman”

Commentary, Community Action, Culture, Local Scenes, Magazine Articles

AltCity, Alternative Music in Lebanese Culture, AltMedia Experience, Angie Nassar, arab awakenings, arab spring, Censorship, Feel Notes, General Suleiman, Gigi Roccati, Hamra, Independent Arabic Music, Jad Baaklini, lebanon, NOWLebanon, Omar el Fil, Revolution, Self-Censorship, Soap Kills, Walad, Zeid and the Wings, Zeid Hamdan
July 20, 2011

TIME MAGAZINE: Syrian Rappers Urge … Restraint? Protesters Find Little Support in Popular Music

Arab Hip-Hop, Commentary, Community Action, Culture, hip-hop, Local Scenes, Magazine Articles

Bashar Al Assad, Dudd Al-Nizam, Elam Jawaad, Hezbollah, Rania Abouzeid, syria, Tamer Hosny, Time Magazine, World Hip-Hop Market
July 16, 2011

Movements.org – Hip Hop’s Responses to the Arab Awakening

Arab Hip-Hop, Commentary, Community Action, Culture, hip-hop, Magazine Articles

#jan25, Arab Hip-Hop, Arab revolutions, arab spring, Arabian Knightz, Deeb, El General, Free Speech Radio News, google, Hoiday Dmitri, Movements.org, omar offendum, Radio Documentary, repost, Rhymes and Revolution, Tahrir Square, the narcicyst