Mike Khoury is a Palestinian-American, Michigan-based violinist, experimental composer, improviser, and curator, who is deeply influenced by the Detroit and Arab diasporic musical traditions and focuses on performance and documentation. Khoury has worked to establish an Arab-American avant-garde and document the movement’s intellectual heritage through presenting his own work, publishing on the topic, and presenting other artists’ work. Khoury has recorded with Sarah Weaver, James Ingelfritz, Blaise Siwula, Phillip Greenlief, and Gino Robair.
For Hind Rajab is Khoury’s solo violin album, dedicated to the Palestinian five-year-old girl who was killed in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army, which also killed six of her family members, all of whom were fleeing their home in
