Education
2001 - 2004 engineering school, Damascus
2004 - 2009 bachelor student: Oud, with the Azerbaijani Prof. Askar Ali
Akbar, higher institute of music Damascus, graduation with distinction
2012 - 2014 master student at the university of Music Franz Liszt Weimar, Musicology with the Profile „Transcultural music Studies“, master thesis: The Kurdish Tone. A study of Kurdish scales in the light of the Turkish tonal system
2017 - 2022 PhD Student at the university of Music Franz Liszt Weimar,
Musicology with the Profile „Transcultural Music Studies“, PhD thesis: The role of Syrian music traditions in the cultural reconstruction of Syria
Concerts
2016 with the Berlin-based band orphé at Fusion Festival Brandenburg/Germany, at Lange Nacht der Museen in German Historical museum Berlin & in Radialsystem Berlin; with the band Berlin-Baghdad Bahn in Werkstatt der Kulturen
2017 with orphé at Feté de la musique in Cammerspiele Leipzig/Germany & at Poesiefestival Berlin; with several Syrian musicians at Still Alive: Syrian Diasporic Sounds in Kampnagel Hamburg/Germany
2018 with orphé at Eastern Tunes Festival Mikulášovice/Czech Republic & at Moritzbastei Leipzig/Germany
Projects
2010 - 2012 Cultural Education in Damascene schools
2015 - 2018 with the Berlin-based band orphé
2016 with the band Berlin-Baghdad Bahn
2016 - 2017 guide in the Pergamon museum with Multaka - Treffpunkt Museum
2017 - 2022 with Ulrike Düregger and band
2018 with Musikrundgang-project in the Museum of Islamic Art Berlin
2018 - 2021 searching Syrian recordings collection at the Ethnological museum in Berlin as part of the project can heritage objects represent a home?
Scholarships
2012 - 2014 research fellowship (DAAD)
2017 - 2021 research fellowship (DAAD)
2023 music production grant (Initiative Musik)
Artist Residencies
04-06/2024 Musikerwohnhaus in Basel, Switzerland (Pro Helvetia)