If you have a passion for music, you’ve probably spent a fair amount of late nights on your bedroom floor, earphones in, phone balanced against a pile of books, trying to record take 15 of a Sherine cover that sounds or looks even half as good as it does in your head. The gap between […]
Every year, it seems that a new art festival or creative initiative emerges in the region. More remarkable, however, is the growing number of programs conceived, developed, and sustained locally rather than imported from elsewhere. This shift is especially apparent in the music sector, where underground regional talent is gaining structured support and new visibility […]
Raï drifted in slowly, like heat rising off the deserts of western Algeria. Long before it became a global dance language, it lived in the dust and intimacy of Bedouin gatherings around Oran, carrying stories across generations. Rooted in Oran’s 1920s port-city culture, raï, meaning “opinion”, gave working-class people, especially women, a platform to speak […]
