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  • 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
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