Naïssam Jalal Sextet & Osloob "Al Akhareen"

AL AKHAREEN, but who are they? Very real men and women? An ancestral fear? A media construction? A phantasmagorical projection? From neighbor to foreigner, from newcomer to migrant, the other is vast but it is different. And the rest of us, who are we? Osloob was born in a refugee camp in Lebanon, I am the daughter of Syrian immigrants in France. He Palestinian there, me Arab here. What we embody is linked to a violent history, to wars in which we have not participated but whose consequences we suffer. We have had to face the rejection of societies which, in different ways, refuse our presence and our existence within them.