Tania Saleh on language, silence and packing her bags

You can only take so much in a suitcase. When Tania Saleh left Beirut in 2022, she packed lightly and started over. Now living in Paris, the Lebanese singer and visual artist has translated that rupture into a new album called Fragile.

It is sparse, introspective and stripped of the social critique for which she's long been known. Instead of grand statements, the songs chart quieter emotional terrain: loneliness, resilience, the small rituals that help her keep going.

On this episode of Tarab, host Saeed Saeed hears from Saleh on exile, silence and what it means to live and create from a suitcase.