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Ziad Nawfal’s radio programs for Radio Lebanon 96.2FM in Beirut, Radio Alhara in Bethlehem, Ma3azef Radio in Tunis, and Movement Radio in Athens.

Ziad Nawfal Mix for Stegi Radio with guest FATEN KANAAN // 02 December 2025

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A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal – this broadcast features a guest mix by musician and composer FATEN KANAAN. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.

Faten Kanaan is a composer whose work uses counterpoint as a narrative tool to craft music that is mysterious, smudgy, and deeply melodic. Of Syrian, Palestinian, Jordanian, and Lebanese heritage, Kanaan was born in Germany, grew up between Europe and the Middle East, and is now based in Amman, Jordan. Recent concerts have included appearances supporting Alessandro Cortini, Colin Stetson, Blonde Redhead, and William Basinski.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Broadcast – Monica (Berberian Sound Studio)*
2. Zbigniew Preisner – Alexandre (La double vie de Véronique)*
3. Farah Kaddour & Marwan Tohme – Ghazel
4. Kitka – D-oi rgăoa (Romanian)
5. Ellie Wilson – Sanctuary
6. Carter Burwell – Theme from Blood Simple*
7. Os Mutantes – Le premier bonheur du jour
8. Wadi el Safi – Daq bab el beit (excerpt)
9. Hikaru Hayashi – Theme de l’eau (L’ile nue)*
10. Marcel Khalife – My Song (excerpt)
11. Martien Keesmaat – Erik Satie – Danses de travers
12. Faten Kanaan – Book of Changes
13. Park Hye Ri – Strange Sun (Boys Over Flowers – excerpt)*
14. Fadi Tabbal – And Then…
15. Basiani Ensemble – Shen Khar Venakhi (Svetitskhoveli Tradition)
16. Michel Polnareff – Sous quelle étoile suis-je né? (excerpt)
17. Ahmad Malek – Omar Gatlato*
18. Snakeskin – Olive groves
19. Nishimura Naoaki – Nocturne #1
20. In-Resonance Collective – Fayha Choir//Zahrat al Madain (excerpt)
21. Pascal Danel – Kilimandjaro (excerpt)
22. Księżyc – Klepana
23. SANAM – Goblin
24. Imed Alibi & Khalil EPI – Hattaya

* = film or tv soundtrack/score

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Worldwide FM // 22 July 2025

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ZIAD NAWFAL for WORLDWIDE FM, UK – 22 JULY 2025

This mix is a personal offering, curated for Worldwide FM as a guest selection and composed entirely of music released on Ruptured Records, a label I co-founded in Beirut in 2008 with Fadi Tabbal of Tunefork Studios, and have been nurturing ever since through radio, live performance, and a growing catalogue of experimental sound.

For over fifteen years, Ruptured has worked at the margins of genre and geography, sustaining a space for independent music-making in a country repeatedly brought to the edge. It has become a platform for artists whose practices emerge from a landscape of political violence, cultural erasure, and infrastructural collapse; yet whose works resist despair, insisting instead on complexity, collaboration, and sonic care.

https://worldwidefm.net/episode/ruptured-records-ziad-nawfal

  1. Yara Asmar – to live by a body of water is to forget it exists
  2. Nour Sokhon & Stefan Christoff – Another time is now
  3. Kinematik – Muhibbi Al-Kanari
  4. The Bunny Tylers – Mothers Make Murderers (Summer 91)
  5. Mayssa Jallad & Fadi Tabbal – Ad-Douar
  6. Fadi Tabbal – Absence or death
  7. Julia Sabra – Minor Detail
  8. Munma – Midday shoulder surfing
  9. Elyse Tabet – Bright Bells (Bana Haffar Remix)
  10. Shatr Collective – Kafas
  11. Joy Moughanni – Interlude
  12. Sandy Chamoun / Anthony Sahyoun / Jad Atoui – Bihali
  13. Farah Kaddour & Marwan Tohme – Nawal
  14. Two or the Dragon – Dance Grooves for the Weary Part 1
  15. Charbel Haber / Nicolas Jaar / Sary Moussa – Crashing waves Part 4

Ziad Nawfal Mix for Stegi Radio with guest SHIRINE SAAD // 04 November 2025

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A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal – this broadcast features a guest mix by Lebanese journalist, programmer and DJ SHIRINE SAAD. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.

Shirine Saad is a Beirut-born journalist, programmer and DJ focusing on culture and social change. They were Assistant Professor of the Practice in Arts Journalism and Criticism at Brown University, where they were the Founding Editor of a new multimedia arts journal, MOVEMENTS. They are a PhD candidate in Philosophy, Art and Social Thought at the European Graduate School.

“How do we listen together after genocide? Can sound carry the weight of memory, dissent, and survival? This mix threads guerrilla feminist and queer expressions through layers of noise, static, and fracture, remixing the sonic remnants of techno-dystopian destruction into resonant acts of defiance and care.”

TRACK LISTING:

1. Yara Asmar – all that has been seen will have been seen for nothing
2. Faten Kanaan – Three Arches
3. Mayssa Jallad – Kharita
4. Fatima Al Qadiri – Gumar (Moon)
5. Floy Krouchi – COUVRE FEU (feat. Kamilya Jubran)
6. Sandy Chamoun / Anthony Sahyoun / Jad Atoui – Hayawanon Ghader
7. Pollution Opera (Elvin Brandhi & Nadah El Shazly – Cairo???
8. Asma Ghanem – We’ve Got a Life in Illusion
9. Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme – After everything is extracted
10. Sabine Salamé – A City Without People
11. Makimakkuk – Bidaeyat
12. Maurice Louca – Rupture (El Kontessa Remix)
13. Deena Abdelwahed – Pre Island (33EMYBW)
14. dj haram – Handplay

Ziad Nawfal Mix for Stegi Radio with guests SNAKESKIN // 07 October 2025

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A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal – this broadcast features a guest mix by Lebanese dreampop duo SNAKESKIN (Julia Sabra & Fadi Tabbal). Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.

Snakeskin is a Beirut-based duo making electronic dreampop that incorporates ambient, industrial, and experimental elements. The project brings together producer and musician Fadi Tabbal and singer songwriter Julia Sabra, also a member of indie trio Postcards.
The duo’s third album We live in sand will be released on October 10, 2025 as a co-release between Ruptured and Beacon Sound. Written as the war in Gaza spread to Lebanon, it is their starkest and most immediate work to date, combining industrial beats, ambient dirges, and Julia’s distinctive vocals.

TRACK LISTING:

1- Snakeskin: Ready
2- Nadah El Shazly: Kaabi Ali
3- Lucrecia Dalt: Caes (feat. Camille Mandoki)
4- SANAM: Goblin
5- Snakeskin: October sun
6- Kelly Moran: Don’t Trust Mirrors
7- Sary Moussa: Everywhere at Once
8- Jerusalem In My Heart: Ana Lisan Wahad (feat. Farida Amadou & Pierre-Guy Blanchard)
9- Dina El Wedidi: The Moon
10- Gizzmo: A Change in the Seasons
11- Snakeskin: Blindsided
12- Mabe Fratti: Kravitz
13- Postcards: Poison
14- Blood Orange: Look at You
15- Snakeskin: Black water

Video still by Mohamad Abdouni

Ziad Nawfal Mix for Stegi Radio with guest SARY MOUSSA // 02 September 2025

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A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal – this broadcast features a guest mix by Lebanese musician SARY MOUSSA. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.

Sary Moussa is a Lebanese electronic musician, sound designer, producer, and engineer, deeply rooted in Beirut’s experimental and underground music scenes. Emerging in the late 2000s under the moniker radiokvm, he released his debut full-length album, Issrar, in 2014 on the Ruptured label. Performing under his own name, Moussa followed up with Imbalance in 2020 on Nicolas Jaar’s Other People imprint: an album shaped by childhood memories and regional soundscapes, blending Greek-Catholic chants, ambient noise, and the sonic imprint of southern Lebanon.

Moussa’s work is characterized by a fusion of drone-driven compositions and dance floor-ready electronica, emphasizing generative sound design and intricate sonic textures. His latest album Wind, Again was released by Other People in summer 2025. Beyond his solo projects, Moussa is an active collaborator across various artistic disciplines. He has composed music for theater, dance, film, and art installations.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Sary Moussa – Everywhere at once
  2. Two or the Dragon – Dance Grooves for the Weary pt. 1
  3. Cinna Peyghami – Sympathetic Fillings
  4. Jerusalem in my heart – Wa Ta’atalat Loughat Al Kalam pt.1
  5. Aho Ssan and Nicolas Jaar – Le Tremblement
  6. Amina Hocine – Ātamōn I
  7. Maurice Louca – Yara’ (Fire Flies)
  8. Biliana Voutchkova and Phill Niblock – Biliana
  9. Mana – Archipelaghi pt.2
  10. Hania Rani – Dreamy
  11. Charbel Haber, Nicolas Jaar and Sary Moussa – Crashing waves dance to the rhythm set by the broadcast journalist revealing the tragedies of the day pt.4
  12. Asil Ensemble – Free group improvisation
  13. Sary Moussa – White Dust
  14. Fadi Tabbal – (Keep Beating)
  15. Charbel Haber and Sary Moussa – Pity City (unreleased)

Ziad Nawfal Mix for Stegi Radio with guest YOUMNA SABA // 03 June 2025

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A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal – this broadcast features a guest mix by Lebanese musician YOUMNA SABA. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.

Youmna Saba is a Lebanese musician, composer, and musicologist whose work bridges classical Arabic music and electroacoustic experimentation. Her current research explores the resonance of instruments and spaces in relation to the Arabic language in its sung form. She has released five albums, most recently Wishah (2023) on Touch and Ruptured, and has collaborated with artists such as Kamilya Jubran, Mike Cooper, and Neue Vocalsolisten.

Saba has performed at festivals including CTM (Berlin) and Éclat (Stuttgart), and has taken part in international residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts, INA-GRM, Camargo Foundation, and Musée du Quai Branly, where she developed a sound installation on the “breath” of instruments. Her practice reflects a deep engagement with sonic memory, spatiality, and the evolution of Arabic musical forms.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Kamilya Jubran And Sarah Murcia: Baab
  2. Kid Fourteen: (Ninja Scroll)
  3. Dina El Wedidi: Homeland
  4. Fadi Tabbal: (Keep Beating)
  5. Sandy Chamoun / Anthony Sahyoun / Jad Atoui: Al-Moulatham
  6. Youmna Saba: Akaleel
  7. Maya Al Khaldi: Zaghritu
  8. Marie Jubran: Yle Alqamar
  9. Two Or The Dragon: Dance Grooves For The Weary [Live At Sarab Music Festival]
  10. Abdelmoniem Ekhald: Droob A Shoag (Paths To Love)
  11. Elyse Tabet: 4 A.M.
  12. Hassiba Hashem Bdeir: Mawwal Ashshawq Wel Hanin

Ziad Nawfal Mix for Stegi Radio with guest NOUR SOKHON // 06 May 2025

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A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal – this broadcast features a guest mix by Lebanese musician and sound artist Nour Sokhon. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.

Nour Sokhon is a Lebanese artist based in Berlin, Germany, whose work explores diverse methods of artistic research, including interviews, field recordings, and site-specific interventions. Her findings are translated into sound/music compositions, performances, interactive installations, and moving image work.

“This mix, “Qulubuna”, is named after a track I composed for the Zilzal: Sonic Ceremony compilation. Qulubuna means “our hearts” in Arabic, and it reflects the whirlwind of emotions I’ve been experiencing over the past year and a half, watching the violence escalate—and continue to escalate—from afar. Through sound, I try to process the grief, helplessness, and longing that come with bearing witness from a distance.”

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Q: Scattered Memory of Syria
  2. Nour Sokhon: Your Silence is Loud
  3. Flugen: Piramatozo
  4. Nour Sokhon & Ensemble Modern (Jaan Bossier, Rumi Ogawa, Jagdish Mistry, Megumi Kasakawa, Nathan Watts and Alexander Kolb): Voyaging Through Silent Rumbles (live performance excerpt)
  5. Asifeh: Asafeer /عصافير
  6. Sara Persico: Voices Organ
  7. Viki Steiri: I Want You Too In My Private Dream
  8. Makoto Sakamoto: Trust
  9. Beirut drone (Field recording)
  10. Underwater hydrophone (Field recording)
  11. Sara Persico: Domescape
  12. Saba Alizadeh: Temple Of Hope
  13. Elyse Tabet: 4 A.M.
  14. Nour Sokhon & Stefan Christoff: Cascading effects
  15. Flugen: Twenty Nine
  16. Nour Sokhon: Qulubuna
  17. Saba Alizadeh: Plain Of The Free

Photo by Jerzy Goliszewski

Ziad Nawfal Mix for Stegi Radio with guest CAMILLE CABBABE // 01 April 2025

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A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal – this broadcast features a guest mix by Lebanese musician and filmmaker Camille Cabbabe. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.

Camille Cabbabe is a Lebanese filmmaker, screenwriter, and musician whose work spans film, music, and literature. She earned her BA in Filmmaking from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts in 2017, and her senior film, Down is the New Up, won two awards and was screened at festivals across Lebanon, Europe, and the United States.

Beyond filmmaking, Camille is also a musician, having played with several bands over the past decade. In 2024, she recorded her first solo album titled K2 set to be released in 2025. The album is accompanied by a film featuring a blend of home videos and mixed media visuals.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Aphex Twin: Alberto Balsalm
2. Brian Eno: This
3. Interbellum: For Air
4. KŌZŌ 構造: Capsule Tower
5. Camille Cabbabe: The Last Time
6. Massive Attack: Protection
7. SANAM: Ayouha Al-Taiin Fi Al-Mawt
8. Faten Kanaan: Fin août, début septembre
9. Angelo Badalamenti: Twin Peaks Theme
10. Cosmic Analog Ensemble: Ohms and Watts
11. Alko B: Whenever It Gets Dark
12. The Bunny Tylers: I’ll Make It Up To You
13. Kinematik: Muhibbi Al-Kanari
14. Snakeskin: Bodies
15. Vegyn: Big Fun Never Ending Nightmare [75bpm]
16. Camille Cabbabe: Visitors
17. The Incompetents: Grey Midas

Ziad Nawfal Mix for Stegi Radio with guest STEFAN CHRISTOFF // 04 March 2025

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A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal – this broadcast features a mix by Canadian musician, writer and community activist STEFAN CHRISTOFF. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.

Stefan Christoff is a media maker, community activist, and artist based in Montréal. He hosts Free City Radio, a weekly program airing on seven community stations across Canada and available globally as a podcast. As a musician, he collaborates with artists worldwide, including Anarchist Mountains, Aidan Baker, Adriana Camacho, Aidan Girt, Lori Goldston, Nicolás Jaar, and Sessa. Stefan serves on the board of the Immigrant Workers Centre in Côte-des-Neiges, organizes with Cinema Politica Network, and contributes regularly to Radio AlHara in Palestine. He is also involved with the Social Justice Centre and is pursuing graduate studies in history at Concordia University.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Ana Quiroga – Atalaya
  2. William Ryan Fritch – An Abnormal Union
  3. Hazy Montagne Mystique – Luang Namtha (Ville des larmes)
  4. Stefan Christoff – In All The Noise We Can Still See
  5. David August – VĪS (Aho Ssan Reinterpretation)
  6. Agate Flow – Night
  7. Laura Agnusdei – P.P.R.N (Physarum Polycephalum Rail Network)
  8. Stefan Christoff – Stretching Light
  9. Adrián de Alfonso – La tromba exacta
  10. xodkaar x No Cosmos – گردن (Gardan)
  11. Anarchist Mountains – Passage (excerpt)

Palestine solidarity protest in Sofia by Maxim Mokdad

Ziad Nawfal Mix for Stegi Radio // 04 February 2025

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A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.

1. Muslimgauze – Khan Younis [Shekel of Israeli Occupation]
2. NÂR – MIMOUNE II [What We Talk About]
3. Sandy Chamoun / Anthony Sahyoun / Jad Atoui – Bihali [Ghadr]
4. Postcards – Nine [In Parenthesis Vol. 1]
5. Sandy Chamoun – Soukoun Mouwhesh سكون موحش [Fata17 فتى١٧ ]
6. Liliane Chlela – 2024 [Malign/Benign]
7. Liliane Chlela – Bison [Anatomy of A Jerk]
8. Use Knife – Freedom, Asshole [État Coupable]
9. Nour Sokhon – The destruction and the rebuilding [Beirut Birds]
10. Elyse Tabet – Or other cars in sight [Seaside]
11. Xlmxkhfi – Black Beach [afterthought]
12. Jawad Nawfal – STO On A VHS [Various Artists VV-VA-00]