Omar Souleyman

Omar Souleyman is one of the most thrilling unlikely stories in modern music. A farmer from Ras al-Ayn in Syria's Hasakah region, he started singing at weddings in 1994 and somehow ended up electrifying festival crowds worldwide. His modernized, electronic take on traditional dabke is hypnotic, and what I love is that the soil never left it. There's no polish-for-export here, just folk music dragged into the global spotlight on its own raw terms. The stoic figure in robes and sunglasses, calmly whipping a crowd into frenzy, is exactly the kind of authenticity I find irresistible.

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Name (English)

Omar Souleyman

Name (Japanese)

オマール・スレイマン

Reading

おまーる・すれいまん

Born

1966

Origin

Ras al-Ayn, Hasakah Governorate, Syria

Occupation

singer / farmer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Horse

• Xhttps://x.com/OSouleyman
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar%20Souleyman
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q619303

Tags

• Hasakah Governorate
• singer
• farmer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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