Bint Mbareh is a sound researcher with a focus on water in Palestine. Her interest in the physical parallel between the water wave and the sound wave leads her into questions of border dissolutions (between bodies, between states, between tenses), and into the possibility of being enveloped by the voice, by sounding communally similarly to being enveloped by a water body. She challenges settler colonial epistemology by taking seriously Palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage as an instigator to political revolution. 

Sonia Levy and Bint Mbareh have created an audioscape which will be exhibited in the group show ‘River is/as’ curated by 16 Collective in collaboration with FieldARTS, as part of Glasgow International Festival 2026.

Produced collaboratively, the artists explore military infrastructures on the Clyde and interconnected hydro-colonial geographies with Palestinian shorelines and sounding other ways of knowing.