Tunisia Podcasts
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Eleven years has passed since the Arab Spring rocked the Middle East/MENA region. Now food prices is in on the rise and new protests movements starts to emerge in countries such as Lebanon and Tunisia.
What will happen now? In which way has the region developed since the Arab spring started? What does the new young generation think, any why are so many poor people in the region supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine when they themselves are the one suffering the consequences?
Participants:
Bilal Al Jouhari,Communication specialist from Morocco, working on migration and other issues. Chokri Ben Nessir, editor in chief of the newspaper Presse de Tunisie in Tunisia. Rouba El Helou, Lecturer of political communication and gender at Notre Dame University in Lebanon.Moderator: David Isaksson.
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Meet Nuri, a musician who uses field recordings, pygmy songs and tribal drums. Not to forget drum machines and FAT bass, creating electronic dance music that he calls Afro Bass.
His full name is Amine Nouri, and he grew up in Tunisia but has spent more than half of the last decade in Copenhagen.
One of his influences is Stambeli, an ancient Sufi music with ecstatic and healing capacities. Stambeli was once banned in Tunisia, but was nevertheless played and became a symbol of freedom in Nuri’s homeland.
But his career didn't begin in electronic music – Nuri started out as a drummer when he was 14, playing in various bands.
