Haute Fréquence Festival | Emel + Hajar Benhsaïn

70 Rue des Sarrazins, 59000 Lille

Haute Fréquence Festival | Attacafa Emel Some know Emel Mathlouthi since her 2011 debut with Kelmti Horra ("My Word Is Free"), which became the anthem of the Arab Spring. MRA, her fourth album, is a pop-world-electro manifesto for feminist emancipation. Initially discovered as the Arab Spring icon, Emel Mathlouthi has since undertaken genuine musical explorations, singing with artists as varied as Valgeir Sigurðsson, Tricky, Barbara Pravi, Bachar Mar-Khalifé, and Vitalic, and more recently Acid Arab. Her writing fuses contemporary…