Originally published in Dazed MENA Issue 06 | Order Here It’s going to be impossible to write this without geeking out, I think to myself, digging out my old laptop in my childhood home in Alexandria. By some small miracle, I get it to start and boot iTunes, only to be confronted by a Hed Kandi Ibiza compilation. […]
For Abdelkader, electronic music seemed a natural extension of the era in which he grew up. Born in 1989, he was a teenager when cybercafés mushroomed across Algiers in the wake of the internet revolution. Gaming consoles and early mobile phones also signalled the advent of the digital age. It was on his PlayStation 1 […]
We’re driving east on the Long Island Expressway toward Roger Waters’ home when my phone begins buzzing with news alerts: Israel is bombing Lebanon. Of course, the headlines are filled with obfuscations and mutilated with passive voice, but what is taking place is unambiguous: the Israeli Occupation Forces are trying to reoccupy and even annex […]
