"Fadi Murad's performance-based practice melds several mediums: text, video, sound works, reenactment, and use of archival material. Humor is as present as mourning and death… Searching for loopholes in everyday life under occupation, Fadi Murad lays bare, through poetry, the hypocrisy of authoritarian systems."
— Les Urbaines Festival
His work draws on autobiographical material, family archives, and the politics of place to explore memory, belonging, and the absurdities of everyday life under pressure.
Theater performances & audiovisual
A Call from Afar
Shifting realities, voices, and a call from afar—between staying and leaving, memory and acceptance. Movement, sound, and text.
Come Back Home
Autobiographical solo on the politics of being an Arab in Jerusalem. Sound and original text; lyrical and comedic.
Holding Water
Solo piece on the moment of understanding a mother's death. Abstract movement and lyrical repetition.
Also: audiovisual works Conditional Growth and Clueless for gallery spaces.
"In continuity with his last two performances, Holding Water and Come Back Home, Fadi Murad illuminates the force of words in a life marked by dreams, absence, and death. Stories of innocence. Stories of loss. Stories of past, present, and future."
— Les Urbaines Festival, Switzerland
Work has been presented at festivals and venues in Europe and the region.
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Fadi Murad's musical dreams — from Jerusalem
Al-Araby Al-Jadeed
An article on musical dreams and practice starting from Jerusalem.
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For performance bookings, collaborations, and press inquiries. Based between Jerusalem and Europe.
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