The panel brings together musicians, scholars and archivists to reflect on the legacy of the 1932 Cairo Congress from a contemporary MENA perspective. Moderated by Rim Irscheid, panelists Kamilya Jubran, Hazem Jamjoum, Tarik Beshir and Gülcin Özkişi discuss how the Congress continues to shape ideas of authenticity, notation, preservation, and musical modernity today. Drawing on […]
As part of the final Beyond 1932 Residency, Kamilya Jubran and long-time collaborator Werner Hasler will perform their third studio album و WA (Arabic for ‘and’). Hinging on a practice of interrogating their hearing and their expression, their research and their desire, the duo draw a universe where everything seems possible. Sound becomes a unison of […]
Bint Mbareh has spent the past two years, since being invited to participate in the Beyond 1932 Residency, playing the buzuq a little bit almost every day – the results of this mundane practise will be shown during the performance. Rooted in her practice on the buzuq, her performance unfolds in two parts: a solo […]
