a.k.a. Performans Serisi: Batool Mohamad a.k.a. Em-El Beat, 16.11.2016

Batool Mohamad is producing as “Om-El-Beat” mainly on the Internet. This stage performance took place in an experimental space at İstanbul Bomonti Bira Factory.  Batool Mohamad uses analog sounds and digital effects to produce electronic music in dub step style. Artists with a visual art background are  featured in a.k.a. sound series (curated by Asena Hayal) in winter 2016 to demonstrate a sculptural plastic approach to sound and performance.

An information office of The Islamic State, ISIS, in Libya has published photos of its militants burning musical instruments they said were confiscated in line with the radical group’s interpretation of Sharia law.

by Hello Psychaleppo!

Hailing from one of the most mystical and musically rich cities in the Levant Hello Psychaleppo! is deeply rooted in oriental music tradition.

Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians, Turkmens, Armenians, Chechens and Yazidis which lived together in Rojava, North Syria, declared democratic autonomy in January 2014 in Syria. Kobane is one of the three cantons of Rojava.

Influential British band Massive Attack dedicated their only Middle East gig to the children of Gaza, openly condemning Israel’s “massacre” of the Palestinians.

The British writer and journalist Graham Hancock is specialised in unconventional theoriesinvolving ancient civilizations, stone monuments or megaliths, altered states of consciousness, ancient myths and astronomical/astrological data from the past. One of the main themes running through many of his books is a posited global connection with a “mother culture” from which he believes all ancient historical civilizations sprang.