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Julia Bacha’s eloquent and powerful documentary “My Neighbourhood” will premiere at Tribeca this April. . My score for the doc can be heard here

“Nearer to East: Contemporary Music from the Arab World and Beyond” Featuring the NY city based Ensemble Lunatics At Large. Please join me for this very cool line up of composers in Boston on February 11th.  Works by Mohammed Fairouz, … Continue reading →

Please join me on Saturday February 25th  for the USA premiere of my new work “Abu Jameel’s Daughter.”  Co-commissioned by Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture and the France based Alba Ensemble,  “Abu Jameel’s Daughter” is work for narrator and chamber group … Continue reading →

The past few months saw the completion of music for two documentary films and incidental music. You can excerpts from my score to Julia Bacha’s film “My Neighborhood”, incidental music to “Arabian Nights”, and “The Iran Job.”

The Boston Globe reviewed the May 15th performance of my oratorio “The Son of Man.”  “The music… is pitched toward the impassioned, adapting Arabic-derived scales into a rich, heavily perfumed chromaticism, affording both eerie atmosphere and high-impact drama. Moment to … Continue reading →

“Roustom’s six settings of poems by Kahlil Gibran from his collection of poetry, Jesus, the Son of Man, are supremely dramatic” Boston Music Intelligencer The Boston Music Intelligencer reviews the premiere of “The Son of Man.” The next performance will take … Continue reading →

My score for Julia Bacha’s excellent and award-winning documentary Budrus is now available online.