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
making all these bridges and trying to delete. so, i mean, we ve talked about protest, we ve talked about identity, the different genres of music, what next, then? after this album? yeah. ah, there s so much more. i mean, i want to dig even more into, erm, film scoring, for example, which is also pretty much male driven. but always something new? there s. . .there s. .. that s what s exciting about music. you re so ambitious and you say you re optimistic, but i want to go back to sort of in a way where it started, which was with the arab spring. do you have any hope that there will be any change? well, i guess, you know, it wasn t supposed to be easy. it wasn t supposed to come right away. we ve won a lot of things, we have accomplished a lot of things, but we ve gone backwards somehow. and i think there s a lot of powers that are driving against us, against the people.
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