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grad school = no free time!

NEW WEBSITE / WORK COMING SOON
until then some quick updates:

LOCUSTS Docu-Music Video selected for this year's Media That Matters Festival
premiering June 3, more info here.

An excerpt from PEOPLE NOT PLACES (New video I directed for Invincible) is premiering on Al Jazeera English's program Playlist
Mon. May 18, view online here (its 20min in).

LOCUSTS and PEOPLE NOT PLACES (new music vid)
screening at Patois: New Orleans Human Rights Film Fest
Sat. April 4

Sound Collaging and DJing:
Thurs. April 2 @ the Foundry
Sun. April 5 Beirut Live @ the Vibe Live

A Panel Disc. (presenting Strange Fruit) at DIWAN: a Forum for the Arts
Fri. March 27 at 3:30 pm.

LOCUSTS screening at SXSW :)
Mar 14 - Hideout Theatre
Mar 19 - Paramount Theatre

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"locusts" docu-music video
directed by olivetones

Detroit-based Hip-Hop artists, Invincible and Finale, rhyme about the impacts of gentrification on the Motor City. This piece includes interviews with community activists discussing displacement and predatory planning versus sustainable development in The D.

The video's also included on Invincible's debut album, Shapeshifters, available now on www.EMERGENCEmusic.net

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harms elementary mural

Designed this mini-mural for Harms Elementary in Southwest Detroit, unfortunately I wasn't able to facilitate the actual painting of the peice but the kids did an amazing job painting. Click here for some pics of the process.

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MY BOOK COVER GIRL

I'm soooooo honored to have have my art cover Randa "the Rockslinga" Jarrar's new novel A Map of Home!!! Its gonna be F R E S H cause Randa is one of the most amazing writers I know, so definately go head and pre-order the novel now!

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OLIVETONES ON THE RADIO!

Electric Kahraba: Arabs on the Radio - WNYU.org

Listen LIVE Fridays from 12-2pm
Or download episodes, listen online, or subscribe to podcast,

Archived programs (in chronological order):

-Classical Accoustical Contemporary Digital
-Araby Pop 08-09 hits.
-Interviews w Annemarie Jacir / Narcy
-Meditative Decompressions
-May Nasr Interview / Cont. Women Singer Songwriters
-Beirut I Love You / Mix
-Araby Vinyl
-Rhythms, Traditions, Synths and Verb
-The Music of and Interview with Halim El Dabh
-Enta Omri / Arab Jazz / bit o' Rai
-Hip Hop and Sequenced Collages: Interviews with Omar Offendum and Zena El Khalil
-Araby Suber Poppy Mix
-Songs for Gaza
-Iraqi shoes tribute/Arabs with FX/Rai classics
-The Oud / an interview with Dr. Jack Shaheen
-Hip Hop in the Middle East
-Sabah Fakhri Tribute
-Ziad Rahbani Tribute / Soap Kills
-Arabs on the Radio Electric Mega Mix

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