When the filmmaker Shirin Neshat heard the singer-songwriter Emel Mathlouthi, she knew she’d found a fellow artist whose work was “truly international.” From left: Emel Mathlouthi, 41, ...
Emel Mathlouthi (or simply Emel), the storied Tunisian-born art pop artist who’s now based in New York, is releasing The Tunis Diaries on October 23 via Partisan. It’s a double album split into two ...
Her successive album “Everywhere We Looked Was Burning” found the vocalist implementing more English language in her increasingly experimental, cinematic compositions. EMEL’s current record, “MRA,” ...
Tunisian/American, New York City-based artist, producer, and activist EMEL (Emel Mathlouthi) has shared her new single + video, “Fall In Light” featuring Savages’ Jehnny Beth. Written together while ...
Tunisian-born, New York-based Emel Mathlouthi recently released the stunning single “Footsteps,” her first song sung entirely in English, and it blew us away so much that we named her upcoming album ...
Tunisian-born, New York-based experimental artist Emel Mathlouthi has announced a new double album, The Tunis Diaries. The 18-track LP arrives October 23 via Partisan. Ahead of the record, Mathlouthi ...
With all that's going on in the Middle East right now, it's easy to forget that the Arab Spring began just two years ago in Tunisia. Singer Emel Mathlouthi has been called "The Voice of the Tunisian ...