creative vision? emel mathlouthi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. now, you have had phenomenal success around the world since the arab spring, which propelled you to global fame. what is it now that still drives you to want to shake people? so many things. i guess, first of all, my passion for people and music and connecting. i feel that nowadays, more than ever, we need to connect with each other, and i feel that if we have this sense of union and empathy towards each other, i feel that the world could be a much better place. well, let s go back to 2010, 2011, and at that time your music was banned in tunisia. you were on avenue habib bourguiba in tunis, you were surrounded by crowds who were all chanting and then this happened. she sings in arabic. we are seeing you there, singing, with a candle lit in front of you, and to the crowds. when you watch it, how do you feel about that moment now? i ve always felt, um, kind of distant because ijust.me, i just remember the tension
thank you. now, you have had phenomenal success around the world since the arab spring, which propelled you to global fame. what is it now that still drives you to want to shake people? so many things. i guess, first of all, my passion for people and music and connecting. i feel that nowadays, more than ever, we need to connect with each other, and i feel that if we have this sense of union and empathy towards each other, i feel that the world could be a much better place. well, let s go back to 2010, 2011, and at that time your music was banned in tunisia. you were on avenue habib bourguiba in tunis, you were surrounded by crowds who were all chanting and then this happened. she sings in arabic. we are seeing you there, singing, with a candle lit in front of you, and to the crowds. when you watch it, how do you feel about that moment now? i ve always felt, um, kind of distant because ijust.me, i just remember the tension, and ijust remember that it wasn t all friendly around
all the invisible and, you know, and go, like, down the ladder. and it was. it became really fun because i m a huge fan of hip hop. and all of a sudden i was like, why don t i collaborate with a malian rapper? and we have this invisible frontier between north africa and the rest of africa, which, you know, is some kind. like, we re a lighter colour but we re all africans. and i don t think i ve really seen collaboration between arab speaking north africans and other african artists. and i really like that. i really like to put myself in challenges like this and to show that, you know, we re not different. connecting through music and building bridges through music. same withjustina, who is an iranian rapper, because i don t think i ve seen collaborations between arab artists and iranian artists, for example. so i started like, you know,
Seventy-five diverse artists from Türkiye and several Arab nations were recently featured in the Turkish-Arab Art Forum in the Culture Hall of the Taksim.
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