This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. In 2011, Emel Mathlouthi stood among the crowd of protesters in Tunis and began singing her song “Kelmti Horra,” which means “My Word Is Free.

A powerful Tunisian singer, now based in New York, gives new voice to our turbulent times. She frames her sweet sound with dark, moody electronics... Singer-songwriter Emel Mathlouthi is the voice of ...

It is the pure voice from outside the Qasr Al-Nil Cinema Theatre in downtown Cairo that captures passers-by. Although it is still a few hours prior to the concert and technicians still work on ...

Emel Mathlouthi’s vision of protest music is searingly contemporary. This much was clear at a private French high school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side earlier this year, where an auditorium full of ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. A strident songstress whose intensity is cloaked in mellifluous vocals, Emel ...