Untitled, from the series 'Islam Played the Blues' by Toufic Beyhum.
“For Kareem Samara, a British-Palestinian multi-instrumentalist, composer, and sound artist, it was naseeb — meant to be. One day in 2020, American-Palestinian filmmaker and music producer Sama’an Ashrawi messaged asking him to play ‘Baby, Please Don’t Go,’ an American blues standard, on the oud. Ashrawi was curious what the blues would sound like in the quarter tones of the Middle Eastern instrument. Minutes later, Samara sent him a recording of the tune. ...”
A painting by Nour Bazzari, a teenage Palestinian abstract artist, inspired by Azraq’s rendition of ‘Baby, Please Don’t Go.’
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