The Movement Exists in Voice and Sound: Political reverberations between Damascus and Athens
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- 15 March 2021
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“The Movement Exists in Voice and Sound” is an audio piece produced by Kareem Al Kabbani and Tom Western, co-founders of the Active Citizens Sound Archive in Athens, Greece. In the piece they explore the sonic qualities of active citizenship through public protest and song, from Al Kabbani’s birth city, Damascus, Syria, to the pair’s adopted home city of Athens.
The Movement Exists in Voice and Sound: Political reverberations between Damascus and Athens [full audio]
- See, for example, the demonstrations in the streets of Hama in 2011, led by Ibrahim Qashoush. Available online: youtu.be/xCS8SsFOBAI
(Last accessed 14.07.20). - Al Sayyed Darwish, “The Lure of the Street”. In Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline, ed. Malu Halasa, Zaher Omareen and Nawara Mahfoud (Saqi Books, 2014), p.211.
- For related ideas, see Sara Salem, Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020), and Asef Bayat, Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2010).
- These themes resonate with the work of Shannon Mattern in Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2017).