Wided Rihana Khadraoui gets together with Khansa to find out how he’s been turning heads in Lebanon and abroad with the promo for his song Khayef
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Playing with Fire
MK Harb digs into Yemeni-German duo Kabreet’s second album, Bidayat, brimming with songs of heartbreak, intoxication, and gender-questioning
Triple Threat
Valeriya Nakshun and Franz Afraim Katzir of Sephardic Heritage in D.C. (SHIN-DC) talk to the Haim sisters about the Yemenite-Jewish musical phenomenon that is A-WA
Gnaoua or Never
Alexander Jusdanis investigates how champions of Morocco’s traditional gnaoua music are adapting their practices to stay fresh and keep up with current trends
Telecasters and Tahdig
REORIENT Editor Joobin Bekhrad opens up to Iranian-American rock and roller Salar Rajabnik about his writing, rock and roll, and his newly released book, Coming Down Again
Blame it on Mehmet
It ain’t easy being Mehmet Erdem. Before a concert in Washington, D.C., Ezgi Üstündağ sat down with the singer to talk about his journey from small-town boy to big-city rocker.
Oh! You Pretty Things
Iain Akerman catches up with wonder woman Yasmine Hamdan before a gig in Dubai to get the skinny on her latest album, Al Jamilat (The Beautiful Ones)
Pirate Modernity
Perwana Nazif talks to Timothy P.A. Cooper and Abeera Arif Bashir of London’s Pirate Modernity radio programme about their search for some of Afghanistan’s funkiest sounds on tape
The Rakı Hologram Picture Show
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Who knows. What we do know for now is that we can’t get enough of Turkey’s Gaye Su Akyol and her latest album, Empire of Holograms.
High Voltage
Nicolas Gilles, a Frenchman living and working in Cairo, looks at the Egyptian musical phenomenon that is ‘electro-chaabi‘ and contrasts its trajectory with that of hip-hop in France