Ali Talibab is spoken word artist and rapper, an intense figure who’s collaborative efforts with other experimental musicians aims to create a kind of cognitive dissonance with his audience. Bringing awareness to societal issues affecting Egyptian youth today, he creates a sort of chaos highlighting taboos in a passionately poetic fever on stage as a solo artist or as the frontman of El Manzouma. The frustration and words visibly come right through him, as opposed to from him, his art is an engaging form of revolutionary free expression that hits harder than any hook, and doesn’t only expand the audience’s minds but also the stagnant rap scene here in Egypt. He has performed at D-CAF and the TedxCairo Equilibrium. He is behind the mysterious Talibab Archives