Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio // 01 November 2022

Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens, featuring music from Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Iran, Morocco, Tunisia and Sweden. This mix was commissioned and produced by Onassis Cultural Center, and presented for the first time in the frame of MOVEMENT RADIO.

1. Jawad Nawfal – Planned Obsolescence [LB]
2. FRKTL – Leviathan Wakes [EG]
3. Azu Tiwaline – Tessiture [TN]
4. Abadir – Pause/Stutter/Uh/Repeat I [EG]
5. Sote – Trans Force [IR]
6. Bergsonist – Poverty [MA]
7. Moon Juice – Hypnotoad Molokheyya [EG/SE]
8. Safa – Bel Abbes [LB]
9. Zuli – Everyday [EG]
10. Asifeh – Mazbalet Arqaam [PS]
11. Thoom – Re-Trace [LB]
12. Nadia Daou & Aya Metwalli – Saturnus [LB/EG]



Photo by Nour Raad

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio // 05 April 2022

Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens, featuring music from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Armenia, Canada and the USA. This mix was commissioned and produced by Onassis Cultural Center, and presented for the first time in the frame of MOVEMENT RADIO.

  1. Zuli – Robotic Handshakes In 4D [EG]
  2. Muqata’a – Hafl Tanakuri (Babok Remix) [PS]
  3. El Rass – Bous el wa7ch [LB]
  4. Kid Fourteen – Whirlwind Blues [LB]
  5. Lumi – Talk to You [LB]
  6. Wake Island – Milad Majik [LB]
  7. Kinematik – Lalochezia [LB]
  8. The Dwarfs of East Agouza – Baka of The Future [US/CA/EG]
  9. Panstarrs – Khally Balak Hatmoot [EG]
  10. Day None – Honey [LB]
  11. Rakans – Red Sulfur [LB]
  12. Khoum – Shountch [AM]
  13. Scrambled Eggs – Building A Nest [LB]


Photo by Nayla Naoufal

(2021 end-of-year lists) – MHAMAD SAFA

It had been a while (five good years actually) since we’d done this, so we went ahead and asked the musicians whom we worked with this year in some respect or other, to tell us about their favorite albums of 2021.

MHAMAD SAFA

– aya: im hole
– Tim Hecker: The North Water (Original Score)
– Rian Treanor: Obstacle Scattering EP
– Anthony Sahyoun: Proof by Infinite Descent
– ZULI: All Caps
– NP: Lattices 
– Jerusalem In My Heart: Qalaq
– Caterina Barbieri: Fantas Variations
– Msylma & Ismael: The Tenets of Forgetting 
– Lorraine James: Reflection


Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Alhara // 21 July 2021

Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Radio Alhara in Bethlehem – Music from Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Iraq and Iran:

  1. Soapkills – Adaram (feat. Siska & MC Joker) [LB]
  2. Alif – Al-Juththa [PS/IQ/EG/LB]
  3. Bergsonist – Amazon Snake Charming [MA]
  4. Faten Kanaan – The Archer [SY/PS/JO/LB]
  5. FRKTL – Andra [EG]
  6. Saint Abdullah – As Gently as The Steps of Death (feat. Moor Mother) [IR/UK]
  7. Liliane Chlela – Charr [LB]
  8. Sepehr – Consortium [IR]
  9. Jad Taleb – Glitch In The Metaverse (Hadi Zeidan Remix) [LB]
  10. ABADIR – II [EG]
  11. Zuli – Ladies & Gents [EG]
  12. Azu Tiwaline – Magnetic Service (feat. Cinna Peyghamy) [TN]
  13. Asifeh – Mazbalet Arqaam [PS]

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Alhara // 16 December 2020

Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Radio Alhara in Bethlehem – featuring music from Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Iran, Tunisia and the UK:

1. Muslimgauze – An End [UK]
2. General Order 1 – Exponential [LB]
3. Etyen – Kayen (Pomme Rouge Remix) [LB]
4. Deena Abdelwahed – Arroubi [TN]
5. Khan El Rouh – Mount Qaf [SY]
6. TEDTEDTED – Oyo [LB]
7. Mohammad Reza Mortazavi – Riding Time [IR]
8. Edd Abbas – Sho hal meshkleh [LB]
9. El Far3i – Tazkara wo Jawazain [JO]
10. El Rass & Munma – Return of the Penguin [LB]
11. Muqata’a – Takhatur [PS]
12. Bakisa – Tempiii [LB]
13. TEDTEDTED – Wwhl [LB]
14. ABADIR – XLR@T [EG]
15. Zuli – Your Tracks Are Too Short [EG]


Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Ma3azef // 09 December 2020

Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Radio Ma3azef in Tunis – featuring music from Lebanon, Iran, Egypt and Tunisia:

1. TEDTEDTED – Cama [LB]
2. Daou – Lust [LB]
3. Bana Haffar – Exo [LB]
4. Anthony Sahyoun & Jawad Nawfal – February 17 [LB]
5. FRKTL – Where All Levels Cross [EG]
6. Sote – Segaah [IR]
7. Shinigami San – FGTN [TN]
8. Rabih Beaini – Ghadab [LB]
9. Bakisa – Notturno [LB]
10. MHz – Saturation in C Ex F [IR]
11. ABADIR – XLR@T [EG]
12. Zuli – Your Tracks Are Too Short [EG]
13. Ismael – I Was So [EG]


Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio Mix 03 // 03 December 2020

Ziad Nawfal’s 3rd monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens – featuring music from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Switzerland and the USA. This mix was commissioned and produced by Onassis Cultural Center, and presented for the first time in the frame of MOVEMENT RADIO.

1. Nadah el Shazly – Afqid adh-dhakira [EG]
2. Muqata’a – Dijla wal fada’ [PS]
3. TEDTEDTED – Cama [LB]
4. Porest – Esau [US]
5. Marc Codsi – A light [LB]
6. The Bunny Tylers – Let there be light [LB]
7. Thoom – Hadiqa [LB]
8. Pouya Ehsaei – Rocrast #53 [IR]
9. Zuli – Trigger finger [EG]
10. Kronos Quartet – Tashweesh (with Ramallah Underground) [US/PS]
11. Kamilya Jubran & Werner Hasler – Wanabni [PS/CH]
12. Asma Ghanem – We’ve got a life in illusion [PS]
13. June As – 003 [LB]



Photo by Nour Raad

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Ballroom Blitz x Radio Alhara // 21 May 2020

90-minute mix recorded for The Ballroom Blitz‘s monthly takeover at Radio Alhara, with artists from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt Tunisia, Palestine and Canada:

  1. Stefan Christoff – Illimitée [2020]
  2. Stress Distress – Liljeholmen [2019]
  3. Jad Atoui & Jawad Nawfal – Six Times Two [2020]
  4. Mme Chandelier – Minimal Potato [2016]
  5. Ziad Moukarzel & Tony Elieh [Tres Millones Dolares] – Jon Black [2018]
  6. Radiokvm – Aristophanes *213 [2013]
  7. Elyse Tabet & Jawad Nawfal – Coast I [2020]
  8. Liliane Chlela – 2022 [2020]
  9. Jad Atoui – Alpha 60 [2020]
  10. Bakisa – Notturno (Edit #6) [2020]
  11. Lumi – To the Shore [2017]
  12. Rise 1969 – 3Jane Tessier-Ashpool [2019]
  13. Deena Abdelwahed – Lila Fi Tounes [2020]
  14. Zuli – Robotic Handshakes in 4D [2016]
  15. Mutamassik – Rhythms Rattle on Death Pawns [2015]
  16. Muqata’a – Al Missfah (Muqata’a Remix) [2016]
  17. DJ Sotusura – Belbalad [2019]
  18. Hadi Zeidan – Mabrouk Mabrouk [2018]
  19. Al Rajul Al Hadidi + Chyno – Zam Zam [2016]
  20. El Far3i & Munma – Shu Beddak [2013]
  21. El Rass [2016] – نفَس

Ziad Nawfal in conversation with Alejandro Cohen on dublab Radio

Ziad Nawfal spoke to Alejandro Cohen at dublab Radio about alternative music in Beirut, and his 15-year experience as promoter, producer and label owner in Lebanon’s alternative music scene.
Click on the image above for the full interview, and make sure to check out the rest here, including writers Maan Abutaleb and Maha ElNabawi, musicians Adham Zidan and Zuli, and a host of others.


Ruptures Radio Show // February 2019

Featuring artists from Lebanon, Armenia and Egypt:

1. Marc Codsi – Invocation I [from “A New World”, March 2019]
2. Jad Atoui & Jawad Nawfal – Discourse [from V/A “Uchronia”, 2018]
3. Maurice Louca – Laika [from “Elephantine”, 2019]
4. Panstarrs – Dor el fo2 [demo, 2017]
5. Two or the Dragon – Addiction To Heartache [from V/A “Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music”, 2018]
6. Kozo – Osaka 70 [forthcoming in 2019]
7. Khoum – Ke [from “Serm”, 2018]
8. Tarkamt – Et Sic In Infinitum [from “Live at the Necropolis”, 2017]
9. Ziad Moukarzel – Questions Of Worry [from V/A “Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music”, 2018]
10. Zuli – Nari (feat. Abyusif, Mado $am, Abanob & R-Rhyme) [from “Terminal”, 2018]
11. Safa – Ward [from “The Subtleties Of Elevated Things”, 2018]
12. Sharif Sehnaoui – Double Standard [from V/A “Uchronia”, 2018]
13. Stress Distress – The Jetty [from “The Quiet Zone”, 2019]
14. Fadi Tabbal – My Doll [from “Music For The Lonely Vol.1”, 2018]