Tania Saleh | Tania Saleh "Intersection - " | The Film @taniasalehofficial | Uploaded 6 years ago | Updated 1 day ago
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All song excerpts taken from Tania Salehs album "Intersection"
Winner of the German Records Critics' Award 2018
Creative direction by Tania Saleh
Film directed and edited by Elie Fahed

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Poets :
Mahmoud Darwish -Palestine -
Khalil Gibran - Lebanon - -
Bayram Al Tunsi - Tunisia/Egypt - - \
Younes El Ebn - Lebanon - -
Nizar Kabbani - Syria - -
Abdallah Al Bardawni - Yemen - -
Nazek Al Malaeka - Iraq - -
Joumana Haddad - Lebanon - -
Bader Shaker Al Sayyab - Iraq - -
Salah Jahin - Egypt - -
Ahmad Fouad Najm - Egypt - -

Show Me the Way and Speechless
Lyrics by: Tania Saleh
Music by: Tania Saleh
I, Lilith and Quarrel with Allah
Music by: Khalil Judran
Music Producer: Khalil Judran
Executive producers: Tania Saleh and Erik Hillestad
Produced by: Kirkelig Kulturverksted with the support of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Vocals: Tania Saleh
Programming, electronics and sound design: Khalil Judran
Clarinet, duduk and soprano saxophone: Mohammad Fawzi
Violin: Nancy Mounir
Double bass: Andre Segone
Percussions: Hani Bedair
Super special guest on oud: Hazem Shaheen
Recordings of voice and acoustic instruments by Erik Hillestad Assisted by Martin Abrahamsen. Acoustic instruments recorded at Art Mania Music Center, Cairo, Egypt. Tania's voice recorded at studio Nordraak, Oslo, Norway
Mixed by: Khalil Judran
Mastered by: Bjrn Engelmann, Cutting Room, Stockholm

Murals by: Tania Saleh
With the generous support of street artists:
Basec Ayoub, Amin Brush (Morocco)
Moud Jiba, Ashraf Abdeladhim (Tunisia)
Will Williams (Lebanon)

Walls filmed by: Elie Fahed (Lebanon), Khaled Marzouk and Ahmed Essam (Egypt), Zakaria Rochdi (Morocco), Rami Jaballah (Tunisia), Marianne Lystrup (Norway), Thor Erik Fjellvang (Lebanon/Egypt), Kristin Reitan and Berit Hunnestad (Tunisia/Morocco)
Video and audio post production by Elia Monsef
All archive footage used with permission from Al Mayadeen channel
Rise Above Lebanon film all rights reserved to the Lebanese Ministry of Tourism
with special thanks to Mrs. Nada Sardouk
Producer: Two Wheels Across
Director/DOP: Christian Ghammachi
Quarrel with Allah poem recited by the late Younes El Ebn used by permission from an interview conducted by Ghida Younes and directed by Chadi Younes, produced by Future Television, Lebanon 2012
Reciting of the poem I, Lilith used by permission from the poet Joumana Haddad
Dabke Dance in Akka-Iqrit used by permission from Walaa Sbait and Eskandar Hilwi
Photos of "The Bag Series" exhibition by Mohamad Hafez used by permission from the artist
Photos of "The Vulnerability Series" exhibition by Abdalla Al Omari used by permission from the artist
Photos from Youssef Abdelki's exhibition at Galerie Tanit, Beirut
Photos of "The Syrian Museum" series by Tammam Azzam
El Leila El Kibira muppet play, written by Salah Jahin, music by Sayyed Mekkawi, directed by Salah El Saqqa, muppets by Naji Chaker
Ya Wled flash mob dance by Palestinian Feminist Forum, Nazareth, Palestine
Amira Hobbi Ana film story by Nagib Mahfouz, directed by Hasan El Emam, screenplay and songs written by Salah Jahin, music by Kamal El Tawil
Iraqi dance by Inessa Dzhagashvili at Primorye CUP 2011 used with permission from Oldfrinx Youtube channel
Still shots of street art and fine art in the film taken from various streets and publications of the Arab world
Special appearance by Charaf Yehya Ibrahim Mohammad

Special thanks:
To all the poets for their timeless poems and to their families for the interest in this project, Mahmoud Darwish Foundation, Nawara Najm, Amina Jahin, Chadi Younes, Omar, Motaz Kabbani and Joumana Haddad. I am also eternally grateful to the spirits of Salah Jahin, Souad Hosny, Sabah, Wadih El Safi and The Rahbani Brothers for always being there for me, to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for supporting this project.

Super special thanks to Badrawi for believing in my music and my drawings, for giving me this tremendous inspiration and the proper guidance from beginning to end. Whether you like it or not, I love you!

To my precious treasures Tarek and Karim, thank you for accepting me for who I am.

This work is dedicated to the memory of my late father Najib Saleh whose books were my lifetime school of thought.