From Kurdish music to flamenco, the nice melodies of Fairuz Kokall, a lady with a guitar – Interview

Fairuz AbdelKareem known as Fairuz Kokall, a guitar aficionado talked to our Art and Culture contributor, Christiane Waked about the journey that led her to become a flamenco musician in Lebanon. C.W: Your real name is Payruza but chose to be called Fairuz

The Lebanese composer, Serge Helou helps immigrants in the US to fight their PTSD

The New Eastern politics Art and Culture Contributor, Christiane Waked spoke to Serge Helou, a brilliant Lebanese composer who lives in Pennsylvania and uses his music as a therapeutic tool to communicate with immigrants with post-traumatic stress disorder confirming what Friedrich Nietzsche said: 

Kurdish Refugees Fighting Their Way Out With Music- Interview

As Kurds are celebrating Newroz, the Kurdish New Year, which coincides with the arrival of Spring, a message of hope and joy, “ The New Eastern Politics Network” conducted through Christiane Waked an interview with  Kurdish musician refugees in Lebanon to talk about