Emel Mathlouthi is a Tunisian singer/songwriter living in New York, where she recently relocated from Paris, where she moved in 2008 after her music was banned in Tunisia during the rule of Ben Ali ...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. In 2011, Emel Mathlouthi stood among the crowd of protesters in Tunis and began singing her song “Kelmti Horra,” which means “My Word Is Free.

It is the pure voice from outside the Qasr Al-Nil Cinema Theatre in downtown Cairo that captures passers-by. Although it is still a few hours prior to the concert and technicians still work on ...

A powerful Tunisian singer, now based in New York, gives new voice to our turbulent times. She frames her sweet sound with dark, moody electronics... Singer-songwriter Emel Mathlouthi is the voice of ...

It is the pure voice from outside the Qasr Al-Nil Cinema Theatre in downtown Cairo that captures passers-by. Although it is still a few hours prior to the concert and technicians still work on ...

Tunisian experimental artist Emel Mathlouthi has announced her forthcoming album Everywhere We Looked Was Burning, which arrives September 27 via Partisan Records. Ahead of the new record, Mathlouthi ...

Tunisian-born, New York-based experimental artist Emel Mathlouthi has announced a new double album, The Tunis Diaries. The 18-track LP arrives October 23 via Partisan. Ahead of the record, Mathlouthi ...

It's not enough to make list after list. The Turning the Tables project seeks to suggest alternatives to the traditional popular music canon, and to do more than that, too: to stimulate conversation ...

When she wrote the music of ‘Kelmti Horra’ in Tunis back in 2007, Emel Mathlouthi visualised a full orchestra performing it and a large choir singing the lyrics, hand in hand, as a unifying protest ...