Nabil Canaan

Nabil Canaan (LE/CH)

Director, Station Beirut / Director, Shuruq Music

Thirty years experience at the intersection of art, music, media and development. Nabil’s career spans international marketing in Fortune 500 companies, multimedia journalism for The New York Times, running a film studio in Geneva and consulting for UN development agencies in West Africa and the Levant. In 2013, he co-founded Station Beirut, one of the leading venues in Lebanon presenting the next generation of live and visual artists from the Swana* region. In 2022, Nabil launched Shuruq Music agency to promote emerging talent from Swana and its diasporas. Shuruq offers marketing, production, events and booking services, and its YouTube channel serves as a discovery platform for new music productions from Swana to the world.

Nabil is today program lead on Masar Music, a multiyear initiative supported by the French Institute to promote emerging talent, strengthen the local music ecosystem and develop music markets from Lebanon to the world.

Links: https://www.instagram.com/station_beirut/

https://www.youtube.com/@shuruqmusic