Singer · Songwriter · Whirling Dancer · Sound Practitioner · Transformational Facilitator · Artivist
Revolutionary Feminine Voice.
Waging Love. World citizen. Shameless being. Truth seeker — and speaker.
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.
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Singing since childhood. On the stages of Amman since 2012. Covers across genres, then her own bilingual originals, and now a solo show of live-looping, music and poetry that has carried her across nine countries.
The current show · since November 2022
الطيور
Rawan takes on the character of the great bird, traversing the skies and landing to deliver messages to humanity — in a trilingual fusion of English, Arabic and Animal. A solo original music and poetry performance, built live from loops of her own voice.
Six originals and covers, and an album with SemaZen. Tap one to watch.
Listen on Spotify SoundCloud YouTube
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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.
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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
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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.
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.
Group sound-healing journeys, often alongside other sound healers and musicians, where every voice in the room becomes part of the instrument.
Private sessions where Rawan uses her own voice together with yours to spread healing vibrations.
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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.
Circles she has held
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Where the bird has landed — concerts, workshops, circles and rituals, 2022 to 2024
Next landings
Where the bird flies next.
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Born to Palestinian diaspora parents.
At three, her family took refuge in Jordan during the Gulf War. Nine years of childhood here.
At twelve, to Canada — middle school and high school.
A BA at the University of Toronto, double major in Political Science and Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations.
The first journey out into the world — and the bubble bursts.
Her ancestral homeland, visited for the first time.
A year as Communications Coordinator with Madrasati — and the knowledge that she could not be kept behind a desk.
Facilitation training with the Institute of Cultural Affairs.
Exploring the outer and inner realms in parallel.
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.
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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.
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Calendar التقويم
Concerts, circles, workshops and retreats — and a page for each, to reserve your place.
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Voice Liberation تحرير الصوت
The one-on-one program: a consultation first, then the seven-session journey.
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Action & Zakat للفلسطينيّين
For Palestinians on the ground: organisations to give to, volunteer with, and share.
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Store المتجر
Music, recorded sound journeys, gifts, and objects made for the turn.
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.
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.
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.
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Three ways in. Choose the one that fits — the rest takes a minute.
Concerts, Al-Tuyoor, festival stages and performance art — booked through Aswatna, her booking agency.
For festivals, retreats, organisations and communities — Rawan designs the programme, holds it, or both.
The one-on-one program: begin with a consultation, then continue into the seven-session journey.
Book a consultationOr send word with a bird