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ABOUT
                                                    
Artist and researcher
working at the intersection
of performance, visual arts
and critical theory. 


SELECTED WORKS
 

2015-2023
Just Songs  

Arabic Letter Seen س
Arabic Letter Wow و


Of Quiet Whispers and Loud Speakers 

A Loud Voice Never Dies

Lovesong Revolution
The Post National Anthems
Empty Orchestra
Xenophones
Watani Al Akbar  

OLD NEWS

Theater of Operations, Exhibition
MoMA PS1, New York
 
Research Fellow 2019/2020      
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst
Post Opera, Exhibition

Delfina Foundation, Residency

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Watani Al Akbar





Watani Al Akbar (My Greater Homeland)
Single-channel video
11 mins 49 secs
2015


This is a ventriloquist intervention in the 1960 operetta ‘Al Watan Al Akbar’ (‘The Greater Homeland’). Originally composed by Mohammad Abdel Wahab and sung by leading Arab singers of the time, Abdel Halim Hafez, Sabah, Fayza Kamel, Shadia, Warda and Nagat. It is considered to be the anthem of Pan Arabism as advocated by Gamal Abdel Nasser, then president of Egypt.

In this video, I take on the voices of the operetta’s protagonists.