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Rawan

Revolutionary Feminine Voice.

Waging Love. World citizen. Shameless being. Truth seeker — and speaker.

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Rawan

Rawan is a Palestinian/Balkan, Global Citizen, Arab Woman, based in Jordan, Waging Love across the world.

She uses her voice as an Artivist through her singing/songwriting and facilitation of brave spaces focusing her work in the SWANA region. Her group facilitation over the past decade has ranged from issues such as reclamation & remembrance of indigenous knowledge, conflict transformation, collective liberation, consent work, women’s work and more!

She also works with people 1-on-1 in a program she developed entitled Voice Liberation. She fuses Sound, Movement and Intuitive Rituals as tools in her work.

She began her journey with plant teachers in 2019 and is a humble student of the plantcestors, in service with her voice for the healing of our human species as but a part of our larger ecosystem of creation. Rawan has been listening to the lands and is showing up for the reclamation and revival of the ancient sacred feminine frequency, singing her bones back to life.

Rawan in Montenegro, in late golden light, an embroidered shawl over her shoulders
  • 01Singer-songwriter
  • 02Performance artist
  • 03Whirling dance instructor
  • 04Sound practitioner
  • 05Facilitator
  • 06Artivist

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The Voice

Rawan was given the gift of voice and has been singing since childhood.

The musician · on stage since 2012

RawanSinger-songwriter & artivist

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As she dove deeper into doing her inner work, and spread her wings wider to explore the world, so too did she grow into her voice and come to know liberation through it. As an artist, she has experimented across genres and found her voice as a tool of artivism, fostering love, connection, and social change through music, storytelling, facilitation, and public speaking.

A singer-songwriter and the creator of the transformational program Voice Liberation, Rawan has co-founded multiple interfaith and world music projects since the launch of her professional music career in 2012. She currently offers four distinct performance experiences, each designed to inspire connection, reflection, and collective transformation:

She is also a public speaker and is known as with her freedom of expression, transparency, wisdom and knowledge. In addition, she is in two collaborative performances with her sister in soul, Dana Dajani: , and .

See below to learn more about each of these offerings.

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Rawan singing with her eyes closed, a frame drum in her hands

The stage

Performances to book

Solo, with a band, or in collaboration: the shows Rawan brings to stages, festivals and gatherings. Open one to see it in full.

    Releases

    Her songs, a collaboration with Dana Dajani, and an album with SemaZen. Tap one to watch.

    Listen on Spotify SoundCloud YouTube

    II

    The Whirl

    Rawan founded Wonders of Whirling, her own workshop series in contemporary whirling dance — taught in Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Spain, Morocco and more — as well as carrying the sacred spinning onto festival stages as performance art.

    0 turns

    Press and hold, or hold the space bar. The longer you turn, the wider the skirt opens.

    Contemporary whirling · performance

    Wonders of Whirling

    An ancient turn, opened to every body.

    A workshop series she founded and teaches herself — and a performance she has carried onto the stages of events and festivals.

    Book the Wonders of Whirling Workshop

    Whirling on Film

    Rawan whirling in black, alone in the Roman Theatre, Amman Rawan in a teal skirt on a cliff edge above the Wadi Rum desert Rawan whirling by candlelight, arms raised, at Khafaya Al-Quloob, Bait Shocair, Amman Rawan mid-turn, her skirt flying, at the opening of the Freedom Theatre Festival, Amman

    III

    Resonance

    Sound is present in all of Rawan's facilitation. In her SoundWork sessions it becomes the main language — an invitation to engage your own voice, to open blockages, bring balance, transform emotion and discover new parts of yourself inside the collective frequency of harmony.

    — listening for a tone

    Try it · The Cymatics Lab

    Sound has a shape.

    Every tone draws its own figure in the sand. Choose a maqam and play its notes, let it walk up and down by itself, or hum into your microphone — and watch the grains find the still lines.

    Tuned to A = 432 Hz, like the garden you hear when sound is on. Your voice is analysed on this device only — nothing is recorded or sent anywhere.

    A SoundWork circle in a round wooden hall, participants on mats

    In circle

    Group sound-healing journeys, often alongside other sound healers and musicians, where every voice in the room becomes part of the instrument.

    One-on-one

    Private sessions where Rawan uses her own voice together with yours to spread healing vibrations.

    Ask about a SoundWork session

    IV

    The Circle

    More than a decade of holding space — with groups from teenagers to adults, in refugee camps and corporate offices, and on the teams that pioneered alternative gatherings across the Middle East, among them Manna Gathering and Mystic Earth.

    • Community building
    • Collective healing
    • Conflict transformation
    • Conscious sexuality
    • Compassionate communication
    • Empowered engagement
    • Artivism

    Circles she has held

    • Conscious Sexuality & The Wheel of Consent
    • Women's Circle: Authentic Relating, Desires, Boundaries & Consent
    • Grief Circle & Collective Grief Ritual
    • Conscious Communication: Community Tools
    A circle of people holding hands in the desert
    Desert circle
    A gathering around a fire in a sandstone canyon at night
    Manna Gathering
    A tight group huddle, arms around each other
    The huddle
    Rawan singing with a crowd of children around the microphone
    Singing with children
    A community workshop in a painted classroom
    Community workshop
    A long line of people walking among desert rock formations
    Walking together
    A sound-healing circle in a round hall
    Sound circle
    The audience at Synesthesia Festival before the projected wall
    Synesthesia Festival, Portugal
    A Wonders of Whirling workshop circle seated on a studio floor, the facilitator speaking with open hands
    Wonders of Whirling, Amman
    A Conscious Sexuality workshop circle in a pink-lit tent
    Conscious Sexuality workshop

    Drag to turn the circle

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    The Flight Path

    Where the bird has landed — concerts, workshops, circles and rituals. 2022 to 2024

    Each light is a place she has landed; the bird flies them in the order she did. Swipe to travel.

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    Her Story

    Rawan beneath a pine tree, in a deep red embroidered robe and an Amazigh necklace
    1. Kuwait

      Born to Palestinian diaspora parents.

    2. Amman

      At three, her family took refuge in Jordan during the Gulf War. Nine years of childhood here.

    3. London, Ontario

      At twelve, to Canada — middle school and high school.

    4. Toronto

      A BA at the University of Toronto, double major in Political Science and Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations.

    5. Indonesia

      The first journey out into the world — and the bubble bursts.

    6. Palestine

      Her ancestral homeland, visited for the first time.

    7. Jordan

      A year as Communications Coordinator with Madrasati — and the knowledge that she could not be kept behind a desk.

    8. Toronto, again

      Facilitation training with the Institute of Cultural Affairs.

    9. India

      Exploring the outer and inner realms in parallel.

    10. Everywhere since

      Based in Jordan, flying to Nepal, Egypt, Spain, Turkey, Morocco, Syria, Lebanon and beyond — photography, music, facilitation, festival organising, community catalysing, movement and sound healing. Co-founder of SemaZen, and most recently of the Qamarjan World Music Project.

    Rawan singing with her frame drum at Casa Palestina, Lisbon Rawan in white, seen through a broken, pitted wall of an abandoned village in the Golan Heights Rawan in an orange dress with teal wings of cloth, in a forest

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    Walk with her

    Four ways in: sit in a circle with her, work with her one-on-one, act for Palestine, or take something of hers back to your own space.

    Rawan is a powerhouse. Deep in her voice and sound, powerful in her impact, and enchanting in the way she brings together the ancient and the new. She is an incredible musician and one of the best space-holders I have met. Whoever gets to receive her medicine is extremely fortunate.

    — Madiha Bee

    I joined the Voice Liberation program expecting it to be just voice training — but what I lived was far deeper than that. … By the end of the program I felt a clear difference in my voice: clearer, stronger, more present.

    — Wajan, Saudi Arabia · translated from Arabic

    Thank you, Rawan, for your lovely company … You opened my mind and inspired me with ideas, and I found the courage to carry out an idea I had put off for years.

    — Rana, Egypt · translated from Arabic

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    Work with Rawan

    Three ways in. Choose the one that fits — the rest takes a minute.

    I

    Concerts & performance

    Concerts, Al-Tuyoor, festival stages and performance art — booked through Aswatna, her booking agency.

    II

    Workshops & programmes

    For festivals, retreats, organisations and communities — Rawan designs the programme, holds it, or both.

    III

    Voice Liberation

    The one-on-one program: begin with a consultation, then continue into the seven-session journey.

    Book a consultation

    Or send word with a bird

    info@rivawan.com