Translations & Publications :
Peacock Dreams - English & Classical arabic
Nigma Enigma - English & Classical arabic
Le Cri du Caire - English, French & Classical arabic
Abdullah Miniawy is an Egyptian expressionist whose work moves like weather across borders. Voice, word, composition, image and presence fold into one another in a practice that resists boundaries. A writer, singer, composer, actor and 3D generalist, he inhabits the space where language breaks and music begins, where the human voice becomes both witness and instrument.
Over the years, Miniawy has shared the stage with artists who themselves travel at the edges of sound, including Erik Truffaz, Kamilya Jubran, Yom, Médéric Collignon, Aly Talibab, A Filetta, Hvad, Ziur, Zuli, Simo Cell, Maurice Louca and many others. Together they shape performances that feel less like concerts and more like temporary homelands. His voice has been heard in places that carry their own memory, including the Biennale di Venezia Musica 2025, the 72nd Festival d’Avignon, French national theaters, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Haus der Kunst in Munich, MAO Museum in Turin, Philharmonie de Paris and the Louvre in Paris. Each stage becomes a listening chamber for a voice searching for what remains unsaid.
His artistic path moves between disciplines as if they were different dialects of the same necessity. As an actor, he appeared in Ala Eddine Slim’s Tunisian feature film Tlamess, which premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival in 2019. The film received critical acclaim, winning Best Full Length Feature Film at Kino der Kunst 2020 and Best Director at the Marrakech International Film Festival in 2020. Abdullah was shortlisted for Best Actor by the Arab Cinema Center at Cannes. As a filmmaker, he later directed his first short film, Rain Ticket, in 2021, extending his language into moving images.
Miniawy’s compositions inhabit the intersection of ritual and contemporary form. He has composed soundtracks for dance, theater and exhibitions, including Wael Shawki’s Cabaret Crusades III, premiered at MoMA PS1, Kirsten Dehlholm’s AMDUAT, premiered at Hotel Pro Forma, Insurrection by Jilani Saadi and On the Hill by Belhassen Handous. Across these works, sound becomes both narrative and landscape, carrying memory and movement within it.
Since 2015, Abdullah has collaborated with the German trio Carl Gari, blending avant garde electronic textures with his poetic voice. Their debut album Darraje was named one of NPR’s top fifty albums of 2016. Their follow up, The Act of Falling from the 8th Floor, received acclaim from Pitchfork, The Quietus and Wire Magazine, while the track Zawaj topped Resident Advisor’s Deep Listening list in 2019.
In 2023, his album Le Cri du Caire, featuring Erik Truffaz, received the Victoires du Jazz award, bringing his voice to a wider international audience while preserving its raw and searching quality. In March 2026, his release Dying is the Internet, created with French producer Simo Cell, was selected as Album of the Month by The Guardian, further affirming his place within a new generation of boundary crossing artists.
Beyond performance, Miniawy’s words have travelled independently, appearing across the Middle East during the Arab Spring, carried through gatherings, walls and public spaces in Syria’s Yarmouk Camp, Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and beyond. His voice became not only artistic expression but shared language.
In 2022, he released his first collection of stories, Extinguishing The City of Lights, extending his poetic inquiry into prose.
In every form, Abdullah Miniawy works at the threshold between exile and belonging, silence and utterance, the individual voice and the collective breath.
Over the years, Miniawy has shared the stage with artists who themselves travel at the edges of sound, including Erik Truffaz, Kamilya Jubran, Yom, Médéric Collignon, Aly Talibab, A Filetta, Hvad, Ziur, Zuli, Simo Cell, Maurice Louca and many others. Together they shape performances that feel less like concerts and more like temporary homelands. His voice has been heard in places that carry their own memory, including the Biennale di Venezia Musica 2025, the 72nd Festival d’Avignon, French national theaters, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Haus der Kunst in Munich, MAO Museum in Turin, Philharmonie de Paris and the Louvre in Paris. Each stage becomes a listening chamber for a voice searching for what remains unsaid.
His artistic path moves between disciplines as if they were different dialects of the same necessity. As an actor, he appeared in Ala Eddine Slim’s Tunisian feature film Tlamess, which premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival in 2019. The film received critical acclaim, winning Best Full Length Feature Film at Kino der Kunst 2020 and Best Director at the Marrakech International Film Festival in 2020. Abdullah was shortlisted for Best Actor by the Arab Cinema Center at Cannes. As a filmmaker, he later directed his first short film, Rain Ticket, in 2021, extending his language into moving images.
Miniawy’s compositions inhabit the intersection of ritual and contemporary form. He has composed soundtracks for dance, theater and exhibitions, including Wael Shawki’s Cabaret Crusades III, premiered at MoMA PS1, Kirsten Dehlholm’s AMDUAT, premiered at Hotel Pro Forma, Insurrection by Jilani Saadi and On the Hill by Belhassen Handous. Across these works, sound becomes both narrative and landscape, carrying memory and movement within it.
Since 2015, Abdullah has collaborated with the German trio Carl Gari, blending avant garde electronic textures with his poetic voice. Their debut album Darraje was named one of NPR’s top fifty albums of 2016. Their follow up, The Act of Falling from the 8th Floor, received acclaim from Pitchfork, The Quietus and Wire Magazine, while the track Zawaj topped Resident Advisor’s Deep Listening list in 2019.
In 2023, his album Le Cri du Caire, featuring Erik Truffaz, received the Victoires du Jazz award, bringing his voice to a wider international audience while preserving its raw and searching quality. In March 2026, his release Dying is the Internet, created with French producer Simo Cell, was selected as Album of the Month by The Guardian, further affirming his place within a new generation of boundary crossing artists.
Beyond performance, Miniawy’s words have travelled independently, appearing across the Middle East during the Arab Spring, carried through gatherings, walls and public spaces in Syria’s Yarmouk Camp, Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and beyond. His voice became not only artistic expression but shared language.
In 2022, he released his first collection of stories, Extinguishing The City of Lights, extending his poetic inquiry into prose.
In every form, Abdullah Miniawy works at the threshold between exile and belonging, silence and utterance, the individual voice and the collective breath.
Press & Features
Dying is the internet - Album of the month
‘The Guardian’
Libration - “Le Oiuasuo Rare Abdullah Miniawy” by Jaques Denis
Rolling Stone Italia «Il capitalismo è ormai la religione del mondo: non posso accettarlo» by Irene Papa
Télérama “Peacock Dreams”, fait souffler un emballant vent free et baroque by Anne Berthod
Télérama “Le Cri du Caire” : hypnotique voix de l’underground égyptien by Anne Berthod
The Wire - Nigma Enigma
Shilla Stalka On Miniawy’s life and perspective, end of 2024.
Watch the Abdullah Miniawy Trio activate the Musée de Grenoble in a new video work filmed by Henri Nun and co-directed with Miniawy. The trio continues its forward movement, following an independently released album that pushes the intersection of electronic and baroque sound. Their practice builds on years of transforming MIDI fragments, harmonies and digital textures into physical, acoustic performance an ongoing process of experimentation that has brought them to leading 2025 platforms including Unsound, the Venice Biennale, CTM, and more. As they look toward 2026, the trio expands its research into Tunisian sonic heritage while developing new commissions and a multi-continent tour across Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Further details will be shared here. watch <here>
Abdullah Miniawy, driven by an expansive dedication to art-making, moves fluidly across disciplines shifting from early experiments in videogame design to poetry, performance, and hybrid sonic practice. Nigma Enigma marks a new chapter: an immersive walk through his album of the same title, released on Hundibess and entirely programmed, sculpted, and rigged by Miniawy. Over the past five years, he has built a technical vocabulary through C++, Unreal Engine, and iClone, shaping the project’s visual and interactive language. The work was presented at the National Museum of Science in Sweden on 26.09.2025 and on several occasions, where it received a notably strong response from the audience.
Kharatet El Henna is a choir working to revive lost henna harvest songs from Gabès, Tunisia and Fayoum, Egypt. Drawing from existing and archived music and ritual, the project reimagines a fading tradition that has long been shaped by women and the land to stage performances that explore cultural loss, resilience and the power of art to reconnect audiences with forgotten heritage.
Dying Is The Internet, March 12, 2026 on Dekmantel
Peacock Dreams, May 23, 2025 on pplsongs
Childhood Passed in a Blink, October 31 2025 on pplsongs
Nigma Enigma, November 15, 2024 on Hundibess
A Sorcerer or a Madman, June 28, 2024 on Planet Rouge
Shoot the Engine, May 9, 2024
Eyeroll, July 28, 2023 on HAKUNA KULALA
Le Cri du Caire, January 27, 2023 on Les Disques du Festival Permanent
Extinguishing the City of Light, January 17, 2022
Between the Bullet and the Front Sight, Casting Lots, February 25, 2022 on Molten Moods
Notice a Tiny Scratch for the Blue Behind, February 10, 2022 on ULLLU
Kill Me or Negotiate, October 16, 2020 on BFDM
The Act of Falling from the 8th Floor, September 6, 2019 on WHITIES
Shipster, January 19, 2018 on Permanent Vacation
Darraje, January 1, 2016 on The Triology Tapes ‘TTT’
01/01/26–05/01/26 – Tunis, Tunisia | Residency (Tunis Residency 1)
11/01/26 – Théâtre des Abbesses, Paris, France | (Trio)
27/01/26–01/02/26 – Biennale, Saudi Arabia | (Trio)
10/02/26 – Cafe OTO, London, UK | (Trio)
13/02/26 – Sottencoppa, Naples, Italy | (Trio)
18/02/26 – STUK, Leuven, Belgium | (Trio)
19/02/26–01/03/26 – Intonal Residency, Malmö, Sweden | (Solo)
01/03/26–05/03/26 – Tunis, Tunisia | Residency (Tunis Residency 2)
02/03/26 – Sounds Jazz, Brussels, Belgium | (Trio)
03/03/26 – Kiosk Radio, Brussels, Belgium | (DJ Set)
25/03/26 – Lisbon, Portugal | (Trio)
26/03/26 – Tremor Festival, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal | (Trio)
06/04/2026 – Microclima, Isola di Sant’Andrea, Italy | (Solo)
10/04/26 – Rewire Festival, The Hague, Netherlands | (Trio)
11/04/26 – La Corrouie, Avignon, France | (Trio)
22/04/26 – Phono, Aarhus, Denmark | (Solo)
24/04/26 – Intonal Festival, Malmö, Sweden | (Trio)
01/05/26 – Donaufestival, Krems, Austria | (Trio)
05/05/26 – Cartography Exhibition, Venice, Italy | (Solo)
07/05/26 – Supernova, Rimini, Italy | (Solo)
08/05/26 – Flaming Creatures, Chiesa di S. Maria Esquilino, Rome, Italy | (Trio)
09/05/26 – Spazio Complesso Museale di S. Francesco, Montefalco, Italy | (Trio)
10/05/26 – Chiesa S. Nicolò Arena, Catania, Italy | (Trio)
23/05/26 – Nuits des Musées, Metz, France | (Trio)
29/05/26 – Morgenland Festival, Osnabrück, Germany | (Trio)
31/05/26 – Fiber Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands | (Trio)
15/06/26–19/06/26 – Tunis, Tunisia | Residency (Recording – New Creation)
20/06/26 – Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany | (Trio)
23/06/26–25/06/26 – Vienne, France | (Orchestra Project with Erik Truffaz)
11/01/26 – Théâtre des Abbesses, Paris, France | (Trio)
27/01/26–01/02/26 – Biennale, Saudi Arabia | (Trio)
10/02/26 – Cafe OTO, London, UK | (Trio)
13/02/26 – Sottencoppa, Naples, Italy | (Trio)
18/02/26 – STUK, Leuven, Belgium | (Trio)
19/02/26–01/03/26 – Intonal Residency, Malmö, Sweden | (Solo)
01/03/26–05/03/26 – Tunis, Tunisia | Residency (Tunis Residency 2)
02/03/26 – Sounds Jazz, Brussels, Belgium | (Trio)
03/03/26 – Kiosk Radio, Brussels, Belgium | (DJ Set)
25/03/26 – Lisbon, Portugal | (Trio)
26/03/26 – Tremor Festival, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal | (Trio)
06/04/2026 – Microclima, Isola di Sant’Andrea, Italy | (Solo)
10/04/26 – Rewire Festival, The Hague, Netherlands | (Trio)
11/04/26 – La Corrouie, Avignon, France | (Trio)
22/04/26 – Phono, Aarhus, Denmark | (Solo)
24/04/26 – Intonal Festival, Malmö, Sweden | (Trio)
01/05/26 – Donaufestival, Krems, Austria | (Trio)
05/05/26 – Cartography Exhibition, Venice, Italy | (Solo)
07/05/26 – Supernova, Rimini, Italy | (Solo)
08/05/26 – Flaming Creatures, Chiesa di S. Maria Esquilino, Rome, Italy | (Trio)
09/05/26 – Spazio Complesso Museale di S. Francesco, Montefalco, Italy | (Trio)
10/05/26 – Chiesa S. Nicolò Arena, Catania, Italy | (Trio)
23/05/26 – Nuits des Musées, Metz, France | (Trio)
29/05/26 – Morgenland Festival, Osnabrück, Germany | (Trio)
31/05/26 – Fiber Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands | (Trio)
15/06/26–19/06/26 – Tunis, Tunisia | Residency (Recording – New Creation)
20/06/26 – Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany | (Trio)
23/06/26–25/06/26 – Vienne, France | (Orchestra Project with Erik Truffaz)
02/07/26 –
(TBC),
Copenhagen,
Denmark | (Trio)
03/07/26 – Festival Cinq Continents, Marseille, France | (Trio)
08/07/26 – KW Berlin (Biennale Kyiv collaboration), Berlin, Germany | (Evens Rahma)
11/07/26 – (TBC)
16/07/26 – Le Sud, Arles, France | (Trio)
17/07/26 – Nextones Festival, Italy | (Dying is the internet with Simo Cell)
04/09/26 – Vienna, Austria | (TBC)
19/09/26 – Rodez, France | (Trio) (TBC)
20/09/26 – Arabesques Festival, Montpellier, France | (Trio)
27/09/26 – Triennale (Matinées), Milan, Italy | (Solo)
04/10/26 – Theatre de la ville, Paris, France | (Solo)
17/10/26 – Terraforma EXO, Palermo, Italy | (Trio)
18/10/26 – Poesía en Voz Alta Festival, Mexico City, Mexico | (Trio)
22/10/26 – Warsaw, Poland | (Trio)
23/10/26 – Warsaw, Poland | (Trio)
24/10/26 – De Singel, Antwerp, Belgium | (Trio)
08/11/26 – Coutances, France (TBC)
10/11/26 – Festival d’Automne, Paris, France | (Trio)
25/11/26–29/11/26 – Next Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia | (Trio) (TBC)
16/12/26 – Bozar, Brussels, Belgium | (Trio)
03/07/26 – Festival Cinq Continents, Marseille, France | (Trio)
08/07/26 – KW Berlin (Biennale Kyiv collaboration), Berlin, Germany | (Evens Rahma)
11/07/26 – (TBC)
16/07/26 – Le Sud, Arles, France | (Trio)
17/07/26 – Nextones Festival, Italy | (Dying is the internet with Simo Cell)
04/09/26 – Vienna, Austria | (TBC)
19/09/26 – Rodez, France | (Trio) (TBC)
20/09/26 – Arabesques Festival, Montpellier, France | (Trio)
27/09/26 – Triennale (Matinées), Milan, Italy | (Solo)
04/10/26 – Theatre de la ville, Paris, France | (Solo)
17/10/26 – Terraforma EXO, Palermo, Italy | (Trio)
18/10/26 – Poesía en Voz Alta Festival, Mexico City, Mexico | (Trio)
22/10/26 – Warsaw, Poland | (Trio)
23/10/26 – Warsaw, Poland | (Trio)
24/10/26 – De Singel, Antwerp, Belgium | (Trio)
08/11/26 – Coutances, France (TBC)
10/11/26 – Festival d’Automne, Paris, France | (Trio)
25/11/26–29/11/26 – Next Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia | (Trio) (TBC)
16/12/26 – Bozar, Brussels, Belgium | (Trio)