Who – or what – inspires you creatively?
It could be anything from a bit of graffiti to a sunset... But usually it’s people that inspire me – people’s lives, loves and struggles, including my own. When it comes to music, it could be any genre, as long as it feels raw and honest. I’m listening to a lot of dubstep at the moment, and the new album from Aziz Sahmaoui – former frontman of the Orchestre National de Barbes – who played a brilliant set at WOMAD in July. Politically, I feel inspired by – as well as concerned about – the ‘Arab Spring’ in general and the Egyptian revolution in particular. In my view, the outcome of the ongoing revolutionary process in Egypt is the single most important factor in the struggle for a free Palestine and for justice and real democracy across the region.
