Live Music

‘Wasl: Kamilya Jubran, Sarah Murcia and Werner Hasler’ at Beirut & Beyond International Music Festival 2015

Beirut & Beyond is the first independent annual showcase festival in Lebanon that promotes young music talents from the Arab World and beyond.

Wasl is a collective creation headed by Kamilya Jubran (oud, vocals), with Sarah Murcia (double bass) and Werner Hasler (trumpet and electronics). It is a bold experiment that strikes a chord with the recent upheavals in the Arab world and with the question of the future of Palestine, the land of Kamilya Jubran, which looks a lot like the Andalusia of Mahmoud Darwish’s poem: “Was Andalusia here or there? On the land or in the poem?”. In Wasl, Kamilya Jubran sings the poems of Salman Masalha (Israel, Palestine) and Hassan Najmi (Morocco).