Bint Mbareh
Bint Mbareh is a sound researcher with a curiosity about the superpowers of communal singing. Her initiation into music came through her research on rain-summoning in Palestine. She conducted research initially to combat the myth of water scarcity pushed by Israeli settler colonialism. She learned that the songs that helped communities summon and harness rain, at their core helped people build a relationship with their environment, decide what time of year it is, communally determine how to share resources fairly, and that when used in current life, these uses could still be evoked, rather than remembered. She now studies death and rebirth as analogies for necessary upheavals, still looking for these significations in Palestinian landscape, especially the shrine of Nabi-Musa (AS), the prophet Moses.
She has performed at Mophradat’s Read the Room festival (March 2022), Hoda Siahtiri’s symposium on Loss and Resilience (No Body’s Body) (April, 2022), at the Hiya Live Sessions in Dalston’s Jago (May 2022) London EFG Jazz Festival and AWAN, Ramallah’s Exist Festival, has been resident with BUDA Kunstcentrum and performed at Next Festival, twice in the same year at Shubbak festival, proudly at Stonewall to Palestine, Brave Poets, as well as being Cafe Oto’s Youth Music Resident for 2021 – bintmbareh.net