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Following in the long tradition of rappers as rebel poets, twenty-year-old Syrian rapper Amir ‘Almuarri’ (his pseudonym means ‘exposer of lies’ in Arabic) has more to rebel against than most. Coming straight outta Idlib – epicenter of the brutal Syrian war – Almuarri has lost family, friends and his home to a conflict that has ravaged his homeland since his childhood. Yet he continues fights back with the only weapon at his disposal - his music - dropping beats as others drop bombs, and making his views known with powerful lyrics characterized as much by their political venom as his trademark wordplay.
His latest track, ‘On All Fronts’, turns its fire fearlessly on all belligerents in the Syrian conflict: the local extremist groups; the Iranian-supported Syrian regime; and particularly Vladimir Putin’s Russia, which has been widely criticized for its bombing of civilian targets during the war. The track concludes by describing how the “proud spirits” of the Syrian people are being humiliated by all players in the war - an inversion of the opening line of Syria’s national anthem, that “our proud spirits refuse to be humiliated”. The video for ‘On All Fronts’ - filmed entirely in Almuarri’s native Idlib and featuring over sixty brave locals risking reprisals from local extremist forces - unexpectedly went globally viral at the end of 2019, and saw him interviewed for media from the UK to Australia and beyond.
