Rizan Said – Ma Waraa Al-Shaabi (ما وراء الشعبي) / Beyond Shaabi | The Quietus
Despite the fact that I have only been to two weddings in my entire life, I have actually been to a Syrian one. Meridian Water, 2024, sometime in the Spring. The food was to die for. Mountains of tabouleh and vats of houmous (“I never eat anything without houmous,” said a panic-stricken man while they changed the vats). But it was the sounds of the evening, the music that sticks in my mind the most. My dear friend, the groom, arrived with noisy fanfare – the thump of a dozen drums, and the high-...
