Touma, Nadine & Khayyat, Lana + Homsi, Iman

Children's Book | Lebanon

Nadine R.L. Touma (text): "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.

Lana Khayyat (illustrations): With a major in Graphic Design, Lana has always loved the mix of refined designs, handmade influences, texture, pattern, and color. Lana is currently pursuing her MFA in School of Visual Arts in New York.

Imane Homsy (music): Imane Homsy is considered to be one of the most important qanun players in Lebanon. She has developed her own technique for playing the instrument, using 8 fingers, instead of the classical 2 fingers method.

She has participated in many International festivals in Europe, Asia and Africa both as a soloist as well as a member of the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory Orchestra. She has also performed in many recordings. Imane Homsy has been part of the orchestra of Fairuz since 1999 with which she has appeared in concerts in Tunisia, Kuwait, Jordan, USA, France etc. She has also performed with the Greek music ensemble ΕΝ CHORDAIS, participated in the International Qanun Meeting (2002) and visited Amman, Jordan and Thessaloniki as a Visiting Lecturer on the qanun instrument.