'Voices Together' with Bint Mbareh

'Voices Together' with Bint Mbareh

From Palestine Deep Dive by Palestine Deep Dive

May 31, 2026 · 17 min

About this episode

This episode features a performance and conversation with musician Bint Mbareh, exploring the intersection of sound, art, and resistance in Palestine.

In this special performance-interview episode of Soundtrack of Resistance, we enter the sonic world of musician and sound researcher Bint Mbareh. Recorded live at the Palestine Deep Dive Studio, her exclusive performance flows directly into a conversation with composer Sami El-Enany. Together, their exploratory conversation touches on what shapes their art, the power of the voice, and an interrogation of what it means to resist as an artist. BINT Mbareh is a sound researcher with a focus on water in Palestine. Her interest in the physical parallel between the water wave and the sound wave leads her into questions of border dissolutions (between bodies, between states, between tenses), and into the possibility of being enveloped by the voice, by sounding communally similarly to being enveloped by a water body. She challenges Settler colonial epistemology by taking seriously Palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage as an instigator to political revolution. Sami El-Enany is an artist who works with sound, fraying the edges of modern classical, electronica and found sound. His work spans multichannel installation, composition, sound design, record…

People in this episode

Guest: Bint Mbareh

Topics covered

  • music
  • sound research
  • artistic resistance
  • Palestinian culture
  • sonic exploration

Keywords

  • Bint Mbareh
  • Sami El-Enany
  • sound research
  • Palestine
  • artistic resistance
  • sonic world
  • water waves
  • settler colonialism

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