Fayrouz Karawya
An Egyptian independent singer, songwriter, writer, and researcher whose multidisciplinary work bridges music, cultural anthropology, and critical studies. Since her artistic debut in 2006, she released six albums and over 120 singles, collaborating across music, theater, and film.
Karawya holds a master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology from the American University in Cairo (2009), where her research examined Egyptian cinema’s socio-political undercurrents. As a cultural researcher, she has led projects on gender, musicology, and Arab popular culture, authoring two books: Constructions of Chaos (2010), and Kol Da Kan Leih (2022)—the latter tracing Egyptian mainstream music’s cultural history from the late 19th century to the present.
In 2024, she earned her PhD in Cultural Studies from Sorbonne University (Paris 4), analyzing the evolution of Egypt’s digital memosphere after 2013 within the country’s post-revolutionary socio-political landscape.
Karawya holds a master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology from the American University in Cairo (2009), where her research examined Egyptian cinema’s socio-political undercurrents. As a cultural researcher, she has led projects on gender, musicology, and Arab popular culture, authoring two books: Constructions of Chaos (2010), and Kol Da Kan Leih (2022)—the latter tracing Egyptian mainstream music’s cultural history from the late 19th century to the present.
In 2024, she earned her PhD in Cultural Studies from Sorbonne University (Paris 4), analyzing the evolution of Egypt’s digital memosphere after 2013 within the country’s post-revolutionary socio-political landscape.
