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Moneim Adwan, composer, oud player, singer, and Palestinian musicologist, was born in Rafah in the Gaza Strip in 1970. He started to sing since he was a child, the popular and the classical Arabic repertoire, and was taught the Koranic cantillation by his father. When he was 17 years old, he started to play oud and went a few years later to the University of Tripoli (Libya), where he obtained a master's degree in musicology with the professors Fateh el-Ramiz (vocal) and Abdallah Sebaï (oud). After a tour in Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, and Iraq, he began to work in 1994 for various events organized by the new Palestinian government, the Ministry of Culture, the theater, and the cinema until January 2000, when he created an opening music in Bethlehem.
He settled in France a few months ago. Since 1999, he recorded 3 discs in France: Chicha (meeting with the musician Michel Montanaro and the Provencal music), Nawah (meeting with the singer Françoise Atlan and the Sephardic songs), Motayem (meeting with Pêcheurs de Perles and the Iraqi music). In 2004, he sang in the Festival of Sacred Music in Morocco. In the same year, he recorded Once Upon a Time in Palestine.
Moneim’s songs are creations inspired by the traditional Palestinian musical heritage and the classical Arabic repertoire. His lyrics are about his homeland, the everyday life of the Palestinian people, and love. His compositions place him in a very ancient tradition that he reinvests and renews in a country where oppression and fear made reconstruction and hope disappear. His warm voice, sometimes strong and sometimes tender, is the most beautiful instrument to deliver a message of love and humanity among war and chaos.
Moneim would like to show the soul and the Palestinian philosophy through the classical Arabic repertoire Taha and through his own compositions on texts by Darwish, Ibn Arabi, Rûmi… His last meetings with the Sephardic singer Françoise Atlan (Nawah) and the band Pêcheurs de Perles (Motayem) have resulted in great exchanges rich in sonorities and meaning. He worked too with Bernard Foccroulle, Maria Cristina Kiehr (Concerto Soave), Hala Omram (Rithmus) in the Arab Spring (tour in Jordan, Bahrain, Lebanon, Qatar...), Sofie Vanden Eynde and Clare Wilkinson (Divine Madness, souls in exile) and opened for Erik Truffaz Quartet at l'Olympia in Paris.
In 2013, he recorded his new CD Jasmin and Divine Madness, souls in exile with Sofie Vanden Eynde and Clare Wilkinson. He recorded in the same year a CD with his choir Le Choeur Multiculturel Ibn Zaydoun.
In 2014, in collaboration with the Festival d'Art Lyrique of Aix-en-Provence, he composed the music of the opera "The Dove, the Fox and the Heron," a fable from the collection "Kalila w Dimna." This opera was directed by Olivier Le Tellier.
In 2018, he composed the music of the opera Orfeo and Al Majnun with the Festival of La Monnaie de Munt in Brussels.
In 2018, he composed the music of the opera The Conference of the Birds in collaboration with the Festival d’Art Lyrique of Aix-en-Provence.
In 2021, he composed the music of the film Habiba.
He settled in France a few months ago. Since 1999, he recorded 3 discs in France: Chicha (meeting with the musician Michel Montanaro and the Provencal music), Nawah (meeting with the singer Françoise Atlan and the Sephardic songs), Motayem (meeting with Pêcheurs de Perles and the Iraqi music). In 2004, he sang in the Festival of Sacred Music in Morocco. In the same year, he recorded Once Upon a Time in Palestine.
Moneim’s songs are creations inspired by the traditional Palestinian musical heritage and the classical Arabic repertoire. His lyrics are about his homeland, the everyday life of the Palestinian people, and love. His compositions place him in a very ancient tradition that he reinvests and renews in a country where oppression and fear made reconstruction and hope disappear. His warm voice, sometimes strong and sometimes tender, is the most beautiful instrument to deliver a message of love and humanity among war and chaos.
Moneim would like to show the soul and the Palestinian philosophy through the classical Arabic repertoire Taha and through his own compositions on texts by Darwish, Ibn Arabi, Rûmi… His last meetings with the Sephardic singer Françoise Atlan (Nawah) and the band Pêcheurs de Perles (Motayem) have resulted in great exchanges rich in sonorities and meaning. He worked too with Bernard Foccroulle, Maria Cristina Kiehr (Concerto Soave), Hala Omram (Rithmus) in the Arab Spring (tour in Jordan, Bahrain, Lebanon, Qatar...), Sofie Vanden Eynde and Clare Wilkinson (Divine Madness, souls in exile) and opened for Erik Truffaz Quartet at l'Olympia in Paris.
In 2013, he recorded his new CD Jasmin and Divine Madness, souls in exile with Sofie Vanden Eynde and Clare Wilkinson. He recorded in the same year a CD with his choir Le Choeur Multiculturel Ibn Zaydoun.
In 2014, in collaboration with the Festival d'Art Lyrique of Aix-en-Provence, he composed the music of the opera "The Dove, the Fox and the Heron," a fable from the collection "Kalila w Dimna." This opera was directed by Olivier Le Tellier.
In 2018, he composed the music of the opera Orfeo and Al Majnun with the Festival of La Monnaie de Munt in Brussels.
In 2018, he composed the music of the opera The Conference of the Birds in collaboration with the Festival d’Art Lyrique of Aix-en-Provence.
In 2021, he composed the music of the film Habiba.
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