Reem (DRĖĖĖMY) Abdou is a native Egyptian international interdisciplinary sound artist, embodiment and meditation guide, curator, cultural worker, and community building founder of the inclusive global impact agency for women+ & BIPOC holistic artists: The Collective BAE. As an intentional DJ and spoken word poet, her work harnesses music, movement, and meditation to activate real shifts at the intersection of transformational creativity, social and healing justice, and ecosystem consciousness.
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Beirut, 1988 The question of why me has haunted meYou put a machine gun to my head, you got her on her kneesDecades later, an unanswered question and a traumatized brain This terror is hard to shakeI tried meditation and it has been the sameFor all this
A new track of music featuring Sounds of SAND guest and SAND Conference speaker Federico Faggin. This track features the voice of Federico with Fmusic by Chiara Dubey, Robot Koch, Foam and Sand and released by Livana Music. “By Being at Peace with
This conversation is released with the premiere of the documentary Where Olive Trees Weep, along with 21 days of talks on Palestine with leading historians, spiritual teachers, trauma therapists, poets, artists and more. Watch this full video and all 21
Keep my anger from becoming meanness
The sun rises in merciless contemplation / Silvering a still-sleeping Mediterranean Sea
A new take and translation on the classic poem by Rumi
At first the gods pitied the tortoise, known in Yoruba folklore as ‘Ijapa’, when he rudely declared before their divine council that he could know ‘everything’ there was to know about the world
