Touma, Nadine & Mahmoud, Areej + Haber, Charbel
Children's Book | Lebanon
Nadine R.L. Touma: "When I was five years old I wrote" The sun is a bowl of milk!" Since then, haunting images, words have inhabited walls, papers, photos, diaries, and now books. My love of life unravels in words becoming stories, stories becoming artworks, artworks becoming books for everyone to relish in their worlds."
Nadine Touma
Nadine Touma is an artist, writer, and filmmaker who lives and works in Beirut. She has created numerous installations, literary works, and artworks. Touma has participated in exhibitions in Lebanon, Egypt, and throughout Europe. She is currently working on a series of books, animations, films, and music for babies, young readers, and young adults in Arabic.
Areej Mahmoud: Areej currently wanders the realm of advertising and seldom does he engage in his apparent passions, be it illustration or the moving image. He is younger than he appears, but considers this a situation of time and place and denounces the numerical maturity system altogether. It is just like him to give himself a hefty significance.
Charbel Haber: Lebanese-born Charbel Haber is a self-taught guitar player and composer. He is one of the most active and iconic figures in today’s Lebanese alternative music scene, and feels perfectly at ease operating in a wide range of musical settings. In 1998, he co-founded Lebanese post-punk group Scrambled Eggs, with whom he has recorded three full-length albums of scorching noise-rock, to great critical acclaim. Haber is also a full-fledged member of Beirut’s growing Improv community, and joined the MILL (the association for Free Improvised Music in Lebanon) in 2002. His involvement with MILL has seen him performing with the likes of the Moukhtabar big ensemble, the Grendizer Trio free improv collective, as well as free improv trio BAO. Haber launched his own experimental label, Those Kids Must Choke, in 2004. He has collaborated with musicians as diverse as Michael Zerang, Gene Coleman, Jean Pallandre, Mats Gustafsson, Annette Krebs, Mazen Kerbaj, Stephane Rives and David Stackenas…
