Listen, Read, Watch: Saudi Arabia

During our much-needed winter break, we published a series of curated #ListenReadWatch over on our Instagram. Every post offered one album to listen to, a book to read, and a film to watch from somewhere in the Arab world. We envisioned this series as a way to celebrate some of the best creative minds from across the region and times.

Listen:
Batn Al Shaer, Moayad Al Nefaie

Moayad is a writer, actor and comedian-turned-rapper, who started his career as a doctor. This is his debut album.

Via ArabLit

Read:
Cities of Salt, Abdulrahman Munif

The first book in a series of five, this is a “petro-fiction” novel which explores how the discovery of oil reverberates with far-reaching consequences on local and wider regional society.

Watch:
Yallah Yallah Beenah, Mohammed Hammad

A short, experimental film that follows a film junkie — whose home is a shrine to cinema — and a group of pre-teens in a parallel universe on a mission to save humanity and escape the spell cast on them by a coven of witches (via cinewaves film).