General Information

• Length: ±5 minutes
• Instrumentation: Soprano, piano

qifā nabki, transliterated from Arabic قفا نبك, is a song written for the For Gaza: A Concert for War Children Unicef event where it was premiered by Charlotte and Aäron Wajnberg. It is dedicated to Michael Barenboim, Sindy Mohammed, Sary Khalife, Charlotte Wajnberg, Hisham Khoury, Sara Aqel, Bakr Khleifi and Aäron Wajnberg. It describes the mourning of a poet when he finds the ravaged ruins of what once used to be his home.

Special thanks go out to Shehab Omran for the language coaching and Yanis El-Masri for proofreading the musical setting of the poem.

Audio Recordings

Sheet Music

Sheet music is available by request.