posts on the norient space by Maha ElNabawi

The #MeToo movement also reveals other discriminations. In music, sexism often works in tandem with exotism. To resist both, the Egyptian musicians Dina El Wedidi and Youssra El Hawary resurrect an old claim: the personal is political.

For musicians living and performing abroad, it can be a challenge to avoid being exoticised and framed in an aesthetic prison. The Egyptian musician Mohamed Abozekry has reconciled the traditional and the avant-garde in his music.

The music of Ben Frost tells stories without words. In his album «The Centre Cannot Hold», he is held captive aboard an aircraft carrier on which the only escape is music. Read a sonic fiction essay.