Firas Abou Fakher's guest appearances

Firas Abou Fakher

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Firas performed three songs, spoke about starting Last Floor Productions, and his work in movie/TV composition.Firas Abou Fakher is a Lebanese composer, producer, and writer. While attending the American University of Beirut (AUB), he co-founded Mashrou' Leila with Hamed Sinno, Haig Papazian and Carl Gerges and is the band's composer, guitarist, and keyboardist. He also co-founded Last Floor Productions with two longtime friends, writer and Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts screenwriting professor Daniel Habib and writer Nasri Atallah, and it focuses on genre film and television. The company's first production, Al Shak (Doubt), was written, shot and released during the early phase of the COVID lockdown of 2020.  It was produced as a Shahid Original for the leading streaming service launched by MBC Group. Last Floor Productions second series, Fixer, was released later the same year. Both series were co-created, co-executive produced and scored by Abou Fakher.Created &amp; Hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikra Edited by: Ramzi RammanTheme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/About Quartertones:QuarterTones is a music show. It is an opportunity to listen to music, across genres, from musicians of and from the Arab world. This series is similar to NPR’s All Songs Considered that is focused on the Arab world. afikra will be inviting musicians of all genres, as well as music historians, to help better understand the music that they perform or study. In this series, the guests will be invited to talk about their work and play their music, whether live or recorded, in three segments. The series will host current musicians who play contemporary and modern, including alternative scene or hip-hop, electronic, classical music, among other genres. The musicians will also be from different geographies.Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvpFollowYoutube - Instagram (@afikra_) - Facebook - Twitter Support www.afikra.com/supportAbout afikra:‎afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity. Read more about us on  afikra.com

Firas performed three songs, spoke about starting Last Floor Productions, and his work in movie/TV composition.Firas Abou Fakher is a Lebanese composer, producer, and writer. While attending the American University of Beirut (AUB), he co-founded Mashrou' Leila with Hamed Sinno, Haig Papazian and Carl Gerges and is the band's composer, guitarist, and keyboardist. He also co-founded Last Floor Productions with two longtime friends, writer and Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts screenwriting professor Daniel Habib and writer Nasri Atallah, and it focuses on genre film and television. The company's first production, Al Shak (Doubt), was written, shot and released during the early phase of the COVID lockdown of 2020.  It was produced as a Shahid Original for the leading streaming service launched by MBC Group. Last Floor Productions second series, Fixer, was released later the same year. Both series were co-created, co-executive produced and scored by Abou Fakher.Created &amp; Hosted by<a href="https://www.instagram.com/mikey_mu/%E2%80%8E" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Mikey Muhanna</a>, afikra Edited by: Ramzi RammanTheme music by: Tarek Yamani <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/</a>About Quartertones:QuarterTones is a music show. It is an opportunity to listen to music, across genres, from musicians of and from the Arab world. This series is similar to NPR’s All Songs Considered that is focused on the Arab world. afikra will be inviting musicians of all genres, as well as music historians, to help better understand the music that they perform or study. In this series, the guests will be invited to talk about their work and play their music, whether live or recorded, in three segments. The series will host current musicians who play contemporary and modern, including alternative scene or hip-hop, electronic, classical music, among other genres. The musicians will also be from different geographies.Join the live audience: <a href="https://www.afikra.com/rsvp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.afikra.com/rsvp</a>Follow<a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/afikra/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youtube</a> -<a href="https://www.instagram.com/afikra_/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Instagram</a> (@afikra_) -<a href="https://www.facebook.com/afikra.official/%E2%80%8E" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Facebook</a> -<a href="https://twitter.com/afikra" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Twitter </a>Support <a href="https://www.afikra.com/support" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.afikra.com/support</a>About afikra:‎afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity.  Read more about us on <a href="https://dashboard.simplecast.com/accounts/6ed0c818-6cf3-428a-b99a-2bfa8685e409/shows/17b75121-ba58-4c0e-9bcf-b984f85d664d/episodes/cd408748-e90a-499b-a32b-9e61651fb790/afikra.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> afikra.com</a>

FIRAS ABOU FAKHER | Last Floor Productions | Quartertones

The Arab nations have rarely been viewed as important markets by the global music industry. And artists from the region have only ever achieved modest international success. Until 20 years ago, exactly the same could be said of countless other countries. Today, markets like Latin America and South Korea produce global superstars with astonishing regularity.If you want more free insights, follow our podcast, our blog, and our socials.If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here.

The Arab nations have rarely been viewed as important markets by the global music industry. And artists from the region have only ever achieved modest international success. Until 20 years ago, exactly the same could be said of countless other countries. Today, markets like Latin America and South Korea produce global superstars with astonishing regularity.If you want more free insights, follow our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/how-music-charts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast</a>, our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog</a>, and our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/social" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">socials</a>.<a href="http://app.chartmetric.com/plan/artist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.</a><a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here.</a>