Bint Mbareh

Bint Mbareh is a sound researcher who focuses on water in Palestine. Her interest in the physical parallel between the water wave and the sound wave leads her into questions of border dissolutions: between bodies, between states, between tenses. It also compels her to explore the possibility of being enveloped by the voice, by sounding communally similar to being enveloped by a body of water. She challenges settler colonial epistemology by taking Palestinian ways of knowing seriously, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage as an instigator to political revolution.