Soukaina Habiballah, Hend Jouda, Rasha Omran, Carol Sansour, Neda Joukar I Chambre d'échos

The Chambres d’échos project transforms Villa Bernasconi into a poetic labyrinth.
First premiered at the 2022 Festival d’Avignon, this international collective platform — which produces performances staged by the very poets who wrote them — has since continued to make contemporary Arabic poetry resonate in every space it inhabits around the world.
Each room of the “pink house” will echo with the voices of four performers from Morocco, Palestine, Syria, and Gaza.
Soukaina Habiballah, Carol Sansour, Hend Jouda, and Rasha Omran give voice to the world through a female lens, facing off with their grandmothers (Dodo ya Momo do), their mothers (In the Season of Apricots), war (Gaza, O My Joy), or solitude (She Who Lived in the House Before Me).
Complementing these poetic readings, the audience is invited to a musical interlude by Neda Joukar, a gifted performer of the târ, a traditional Persian string instrument. Already an accomplished musician, Neda Joukar studied with renowned Iranian masters such as Houshang Zarif and Dariush Pirniakan. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Iranian music from the University of the Arts in Tehran and is currently pursuing a master’s in ethnomusicology at the University of Geneva.
She has performed widely in Iran and Switzerland and has been a member of Geneva’s HEM Oriental Ensemble since October 2021.