Free Ahmed. Journalism is not a Crime. We call on Kuwaiti authorities to free our guy!!! Enough with the narrative control!
#freeahmed #journalismisnotacrime
“We call on Kuwait to release Ahmed Shihab-Eldin and drop all charges against him,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “Journalism is not a crime, and Shihab-Eldin’s case reflects a broader pattern of using national security laws to stifle scrutiny and control the narrative.”
Prior to his detention, Shihab-Eldin – who has contributed to The New York Times, PBS, and Al Jazeera English, among others – commented on publicly available videos and images related to the Iran war. His recent posts included a geolocated video, verified by CNN, showing a U.S. fighter jet crash near a U.S. air base in Kuwait.
New Song and video #IRAQFOREVER out now! Link in bio #louisvuitton #gqmiddleeast #narcy #iraqafella #iraq #baghdad #babylon #بغداد #عراق ##عراقافلا 🇮🇶♾️🇮🇶♾️🇮🇶♾️ via @empire.wana 🛸
⚔️ ⛓️ NARCY | UZU أوزو | DEAR EVANGELINE | DESPERTÁ ⛓️ ⚔️
Host: Whoreville Pecs
Friday, June 5th
Doors 9pm / Show 10pm / The Rockhouse / 19+ / $25
NARCY (QC) A pioneer of the Montreal and International Hip-Hop scene. Holding the throne as the first Iraqi voice in Hip-Hop culture, NARCY’s works have spanned two decades and boasted collabs with musical greats like Yo-Yo Ma, Todd Rundgren, yasiin bey and more. UZU أوزو (QC) Montreal-based band with members from Algeria, Colombia and Quebec. The four-piece band mixes elements of 80’s post-punk with death rock and dark, mid-tempo punk. DEAR EVANGELINE (ON) Hardcore (or whatever you want it to be) from Brampton, Ontario. DESPERTÁ (NL) Hardcore punk band with a slight post punk influence, some parts that are fast and intense, and other parts that are heavy and bruising.
Get your tickets through the #linkinbio!
#LawnyaVawnya #LV16 #Festival #YYT
Canada then then there’s Kanata Now / Cold Summer went from Canada Goose to Kanata Owl / Sitting still but standing Proud / acknowledge your brothers for what the land endowed / believe in yourself / believe in your sound / the whole wide world we been around / tan lines on the ring finger / 20 years greater / I miss the old world but I’ll shed the tears later.
SUPPORT LOCAL / THE SOUND GLOBAL.
April was filled with full circles
11 months since I pulled purples
First class Raps, class was a wrap
I made a decision last night I won’t die for it
Just to show the city you don’t have to lie for it
Family and friends and books to read
Between the lines you shook indeed
My enemies no friend to me no end to peace or pretend to be a kin to me you’ll sin and see
I am who you wish you finna be
Too realistic to be the fakest
Birthday season to where the cake is
I wanna take it as far as I can take it.
TBA(A) TBA(A) OUT NOW IN THE MATRIX
وقال نارسي لفريدوم ميوزك: "اشتغلت على هالمشروع ثلاث سنين إنتاج، وسنتين كنت عايشه كتجربة. ما كنت أريد أنزّله أونلاين قبل ما تكتمل هالتجربة. لفّيت بيه، سمعته ويه العالم، أخذت منهم فيدباك، سويتله آرت شو، رجعت للعراق وداويت شوية جروح عائلية قديمة، وفتحت مساحة ثقافية ويه شريكتي سندس… وأخذت راحتي بالوقت.هالألبوم هو رجعة للأساس، لليش بديت أسوي موسيقى من
الأساس… واللي الجاي؟ راح يكون بُوكس بالوجه🤣"
#فريدوم_ميوزك_العراق
Two of the main tenets of the artistic process of TBA(A) was undoing and resetting value alignment. In an increasingly unveiled world, how does an artist really value themselves when the systemic forms of distribution and consumption are driven by attention and algorithmic training? If I feed into the systems to grow my so-called brand, am I functioning as a tool to or for the system? These are questions I wrote down while mixing the album.
As part of the challenge, I went out to seek out a deal. I focused mostly through my contacts, trying to place the album at a label that would both value the art and the message. Nobody cared about either.
Most of the conversations rallied around control. A&Rs at major and upcoming labels in the MENA region offered me peanuts. European men in positions of power that, honestly, Arab WOMEN should be in, relegated me to insane offers. Imagine spending 20 years pioneering a subcultural expression to be offered 10K for a double album for a 25 year term? I refused. This further isolated me in the region.
So I followed my instinct and went for an American subsidiary that was growing in the region. They were looking for young talent with no buzz so they could build them up and take what? Credit. They were not willing to partner with someone who knew their own value. In fact, it confused them. They ghosted me. I wrote all this stuff down.
Meanwhile, my collaborative friends and I navigated the musical space in our region with great affinity for collaboration. We call it the great unescapable psy-op. Your forward facing industry favorites being paraded at fashion weeks don’t value community like you think they do. I started seeing the younger generation take on the same extractive behaviour I warned them about. I was in rooms advising them against being eaten up by money and the corporate chase of cultural erasure. Of course, the ones that chose public consumption blew up, the ones that chose cultural retention, struggled, the ones they chose independence were painted as difficult and the ones they knew who they were, were “crazy”.
TBA(A) is that. It’s not beef. It’s not mental breakdowns. It’s clarity. It’s freedom.
TO BE AN (ARAB) - A DOUBLE ALBUM BY NARCY
OUT EVERYWHERE NOW
A NEW VISION.
3 YEARS IN THE MAKING
6 SHORT FILMS
15 VISUAL ARTISTS
37 MUSICAL COLLABORATORS
28 SONGS.
🦅🐐🕊️❤️🇮🇶🤬
