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.

Lebanese Indie Music Label // Promoter & Distributor // Radio Show
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.
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.

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.
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 broody electronic dance mix from distant shores, with emphasis on sound design, by Lebanese electronic musician & producer BANA HAFFAR. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.
Bana Haffar is an electronic music composer exploring the materiality of sound, and the relation of sonic worlds to the vast terrain of natural and artificial systems. Bana is a DJ at Dublab who’s been active in the LA experimental music community (Modular on the Spot, 2014) and worldwide (Beirut Synthesizer Center in Lebanon, 2021). Currently, Bana is pursuing graduate research at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
1. Robert Ashley – She Was a Visitor (1967) (extract) [Automatic Writing, Lovely Music 1979]
2. Demdike Stare – Hashshanshin Chant [Tryptych, Modern Love 2011]
3. Rainer Veil – Elements [Vanity, Modern Love 2019]
4. Zoë Mc Pherson – I Expect Nothing (Straight) [Abyss Elixir, Pendulum Recordings 2022]
5. Lee Gamble – Shards [Exhaust, Hyperdub 2019]
6. Appleblim – Fear [Soundboy Punishments Shackleton, Appleblim, Gatekeeper, Skull Disco 2007]
7. Appleblim – Gold and Silver [Soundboy Punishments Shackleton, Appleblim, Gatekeeper, Skull Disco 2007]
8. Piezo, Unity Vega – Set Em [Imago EP, Anisa 2024]
9. Fracture – Blaze (feat. Bryan Gee) [0860, Astrophonica 2022]
10. Marco Shuttle – Winds of Cydonia [Cobalt Desert Oasis, Incienso 2021]
11. Rrose, Polygonia – Haima [Dermatology, Eaux 2024]
12. Lee Perry – City Too Hot [Upsetter, 1977]
Ziad Nawfal contributed a 60mn mix to Radio Alhara’s takeover for UK online radio WORLDWIDE FM on Thursday 13 June 2024.
Full lineup: https://worldwidefm.net/episode/we-out-here-x-worldwide-fm-a-celebration-of-community-radio
Ziad’s track list:
“I was convinced that an atom of your love could keep me going”
1. Sandy Chamoun – Soukoun Mouwhesh
2. Charbel Haber & Sary Moussa – An Atom of Your Love
3. FRKTL – Háttatal
4. Nadah El Shazly – End Credit
5. Nancy Mounir – Gannentini (feat. Zaki Murad)
6. Farah Kaddour – Mad ou Jazr
7. Natik Awayez – Manbarani
8. Hassan Khan – Tabla Dubb No.15
9. Maurice Louca – Yara’ (Fire Flies)
10. Sanam – Aykathani Malakon (An Angel Woke Me)
11. Tasjiil Moujahed – Blue Mirror
12. Bana Haffar – Elemental
13. NÂR – MIMOUNE II
14. Marc Codsi – The Savior
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 London-based DJ & journalist SHANE WOOLMAN. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.
Shane works at The Wire magazine, hosts a bimonthly radio show, and DJs as part of The Wire Soundsystem.
Rahaf Shamaly “My Dear Sweet Country Gaza”
Michul Kuun ft Isiah Barr “Pay Me”
Lady Moon & The Eclipse “Le Petit Prince (Part 1)”
XTC “Making Plans For Nigel”
Om Unit “Acid Tempo (Tapes Remix)”
Cocteau Twins “From The Flagstones”
Mary Ocher ft Your Government “Sympathize”
Miss Red “Clouds”
Noémi Büchi “What If It Doesn’t Matter?”
Violinbwoy “Dub Of War”
Ana Lua Caiano “Mão Na Mão”
Brodinski & Deft “Delone”
Ghédalia Tazartès “Gospel”
Liliane Chlela “Did I Stutter”
Toya Delazy ft Ahadadream & Tash-LC “QOBA”
Praed “Rocket (Sarookh)”
Wolfram Spyra “60 Beats About Bush”
rouge-ah “Why So Angry? Why Not!?”
Billie Eilish “Oxytocin” (Acappella)
Traynor “Skyscraped (Tool Mix)”
Dasha Rush “100 Hearts”
Anunaku & DJ Plead “Haze”
Bakongo “Best Of Both”
El Kontessa “Bingo بينجو”
The Damned “Love Song”
Football Fan Chant (Dublin, 15 May 2024)
Ziad Nawfal’s monthly broadcast for Radio Alhara in Bethlehem, Palestine — playing Lebanese musician & producer Fadi Tabbal’s latest album in full, along with a selection of some of his recent production work.
Track List:
FADI TABBAL — I RECOGNIZE YOU FROM MY SKETCHES
1. (keep beating)
2. Absence or death
3. Oh Heart!
4. Oh heart, are you burning
5. All those nights
6. You were right
7. (keep pumping)
8. When we swam together
9. (keep thumping)
10. I am all that is left
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11. Snakeskin (Julia Sabra & Fadi Tabbal) – Snakeskin
12. Elyse Tabet – Sequel / live to tell (with Nadine Makarem)
13. Charbel Haber & Fadi Tabbal – La certitude de l’aube
14. Charbel Haber, Joseph Ghosn, Fadi Tabbal – In A Technicolor Dream, You and I Were Floating in The Caspian Sea
15. Mayssa Jallad – Holiday Inn March 21 to 29
16. Postcards – Coins (with Sary Moussa)
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 puppeteer YARA ASMAR. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.
Yara is a musician and puppeteer who lives in Beirut, Lebanon. She incorporates accordion and metallophone in her work.
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, producer and studio owner FADI TABBAL. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.
Lebanese musician, producer and sound engineer Fadi Tabbal’s work consists of guitar pieces ranging from stripped acoustics to ambient and shoegazing-inspired treatments. Aside from his solo output and management of Tunefork Studios in Beirut, he is a full-time member of several Lebanese indie rock bands, including The Incompetents and The Bunny Tylers, as well as electronic duos Stress Distress and Snakeskin.
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 MAYSSA JALLAD. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.
Mayssa Jallad is a Beirut-based bilingual singer-songwriter, architectural researcher and teacher, born in 1990. Her work deals with the highly personal as well as the political, as with her first solo album “Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels”, which explores the histories of urban battles that occurred before she was born, during the Lebanese Civil War, through a collaborative musical and architectural lens.

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 Berlin-based Lebanese DJ, sound artist and photographer RAMI ABI RAFI. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.
In Rami’s own words: “In this broadcast entitled INSIJAM, meaning ‘harmony’ in Arabic, the essence of chances and encounters takes center stage. Combining musique concrète with traditional Arabic sounds, the performance shifts between experimental, avant-garde, spoken word, field recordings, and improvised jazz. INSIJAM represents my perspective on the beauty of diverse musical encounters.”