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Mohammed Elsusi   known artistically as El Susi  is a rapper, videographer, and producer from Gaza, Palestine, currently based in Stavanger, Norway.
He began exploring audio engineering and music production at the age of 16, eventually co-founding the group Revolution Makers with his brother Osama. Growing up under siege in Gaza, El Susi developed his voice in resistance creating music that dared to confront injustice, poverty, and the realities of life under occupation.
Limited by political and economic restrictions, he built his craft independently, using makeshift studios and collaborating with a tight-knit network of Gazan creatives. His sound blends rap with Arabic melodies, traditional instrumentation, and electronic elements drawing influence from both his cultural roots and icons like Tupac, Dr. Dre, and Ice Cube.
For over 14 years, El Susi has remained committed to building an authentic narrative through music writing, composing, and directing not only his own work, but also producing songs and videos for other Palestinian artists.
After facing displacement and surviving six months under the genocide in Gaza, he fled to Egypt, and later found refuge in Norway through the ICORN City of Refuge program in May 2024.

Now based in Stavanger, El Susi continues to create raw, unfiltered music grounded in lived experience. His upcoming projects aim to connect local and international artists in resistance, while amplifying the stories of those silenced by war, racism, and exile.

MEDIA:

- Winner of the Sky News/ IRN student journalism award. I went back to studying to get a Broadcast Journalism Diploma where my radio documentary on the changing face of Brixton and another on forgiveness in the criminal justice system have been received very well.

- I present on the Islam Channel for a lifestyle programme called 'Living The Life.' I also report from interesting events around the UK for 'Your Event'

- I regularly blog ( Rukiyah Scribbles) about issues and events that effect me. ( I throw in the odd poem, meandering thought or scribble too)

CHARITY:

- I have just returned from the Greek Island of Lesbos where refugees are flooding in by the day. I spent the day shift distributing food, clothes and working in the camps and the night shift pulling in refugee boats. I will be returning soon!

- Co-Founder of loveLife Generation a youth-led organisation creating social change in innovative ways. (Future 100 and Future 50 award winner.) The current project is a mentoring programme.

- The Desmond Tutu Foundation UK: Previously the Head of Youth and Inclusion for the peace building charity and now I work with them on a consultancy basis)

SPORT:

- Wheelchair basketball coach at Brixton Ballers

- Love playing basketball whenever I get the chance

- Have completed 3 full marathons and hoping to complete my 4th (and final?) marathon in London in 2016 and raise funds for refugees.

- Have completed 2 triathlons and will be doing the 100k bike ride in the the summer of 2016.

Fitra. 

It is an ancient Arabic word that has no direct English equivalent. Original nature, natural form, our inherent human-ness. It is what newly born babies and young children radiate, and what native peoples still cling to where they can.

We have all but lost it in our techno-cities and our abstract lives. We must recover our Fitra. It is survival necessity.

I am looking for Fitra. 
Music is a key. 
This is my search, my offering.

More thoughts on this topic are at lookingforfitra.com

Yeah, that guy. Cockney rhyming slang for the good stuff; Proof that one song is all you need.

Since first breaking onto the alt-pop scene in 2007, Owl City has built a global following on the strength of his heart-on-sleeve songwriting and endlessly inventive sound. Along with earning a monumental hit with the diamond-certified “Fireflies”—a 2009 release that reached No. 1 in 26 countries—the Minnesota-bred artist otherwise known as Adam Young has made waves with smash singles like the double-platinum “Good Time” feat. Carly Rae Jepsen and brought his exuberant live set to sold-out shows around the world. With total album sales of over three million and single sales surpassing 20 million globally, Owl City has now delivered the highly anticipated new album Coco Moon: a wildly imaginative body of work revealing his deepened devotion to the strange magic of creativity.

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