2025

Article: Meet the musician and artist from Yemen now living 'dream' in Scotland, The National (Scot), August 2025

Article: The Houthis Are No Ally, Scottish Left Review, Issue 144, March 2025

 

2024

Article: Finding home through art, Edinburgh Global, University of Edinburgh, August 2024.

TV: Morning Tale with Saber Bamatraf, pianist and composer (Arabic), Hekayat Asabah, Yemen Today TV, January 2024.

 

2023

TV: “Saber Bamatraf”: an artist who presents Yemeni music in a contemporary way to the world (Arabic), Diwan Belqees, Belqees TV, December 2023

Radio: Saber Bamatraf's Musical Canvas: Echoes of Tranquility and Nature's Beauty (Arabic), Monte Carlo Doualiya, December 2023

Article: Rethinking artist residencies, Arts Professional online magazine, 03 October 2023.

Video Report: Musicians everywhere have a lot in common, InfoMigrants Arabic, 29 June 2023

Article: Saber Bamatraf, a Yemeni artist whose passion led him to the world, Risha Yemen, March 2023

Article: ‘Speaking truth to power’: Blood lessons from the Troubles come to London, Irish Times, February 2023

 

2022

Article: Edinburgh Festival Fringe presents Yemeni play, Arab News, 07 August 2022

Article: Edinburgh Festival Fringe enjoys slice of Yemeni life with 'Saber Came to Tea', The National News, 06 August 2022

TV: Yemen to Edinburgh - Our Journey to Creative Freedom, Loop, BBC Scotland, July 2022

Report: Drawing Connections: Youth Peacebuilding, Scotland, and the World, The Scottish Council on Global Affairs, Spring 2022

Video Report: When the Music Stops: Yemen, Art and War, Declassified UK, March 2022

 

2021

Article: Art as a Tool of Peace Exhibition Launch: “Amazing approaches to conflict resolution flowing through to paper and action”, Political Settlements Research Programme PSRP, 16 December 2021

Radio: Composer Saber & artist Shatha share their story, BBC Radio Scotland, 07 November 2021

Article: Yemeni Heritage on a Scottish Stage (Arabic), Shabab House, 17 October 2021

TV: Short report about ‘Saber Came to Tea’ (Arabic), Social Time, Belqees TV, starts from 08:30, 17 October 2021

Article: ‘Scratched Identities’: Shatha Altowai on Creating Art in Yemen, GenderED, UoE, 07 October 2021

Article: Art27 at Southside, Culture Collective, August 2021 

Radio: Saber's music featured: What’s more painful Hunger or Fear? (Arabic), Monte Carlo Doualiya, 20 July 2021

Dhabi AlYaman cover featured in Yemen Music Day video report, Manasati30, 30 June 2021

Arts for Peacebuilding in Yemen:  Some reflections from the CARPO Report, IASH, March 2021

Broken People Can't Heal a Nation: The Role of Arts in Peacebuilding in Yemen, Full Report by CARPO, March 2021

He for She: The Importance of men's support for women, Heal the World Together. March 2021

Let's get to know the Yemeni Art Ambassadors in Britain, Hatha AlSabah Program, AlJazeera, Online, January 2021

 

2020

At this Place, Safe Space, Peace Builders project in partnership with Manasati 30 and RNW media and executed by Takween Culture Club, Online, December 2020

Yemen has been in quarantine since before COVID-19, the whole world became Yemen, BBC News Arabic, Online, June 2020

Shatha & Saber, between Love, Art & War, Monte Carlo Doualiya, Online, June 2020

Online Art Exhibition & musical piece at the Facebook page of Basement Cultural Foundation, AlRai Press, June 2020

Event 416 - Art Exhibition with Saber playing Quarantine, Basement Cultural Foundation, Online. June 2020

 

2019

Romooz in Focus, Romooz Foundation, Online via Instagram, September 2019

Takween First Forum, Takween Foundation, Interview, Mukalla, Yemen, July 2019

Overcoming the miseries of Yemen war by art & culture, Online, Ultra Sawt, Sana'a, Yemen, February 2019

 

2018

 The Creative Process of Love and Art, Almadaniya Magazine, Online, October 2018

Overcoming War by Art, Love & Music, AlHurra TV, Sana'a, Yemen, July 2018

Music is an anti-war tool, AlArabi Website, Sana'a, Yemen,, June 2018

 Men support their women in a very conservative society, the International Women's Day, Shababeek, AlAraby TV, Sana'a, Yemen, March 2018

Basement Cultural Foundation celebrates, the International Women's Day, The Yemen, Sana'a, Yemen, March 2018

 Healing my soul each Thursday, Featured in parts of the article for Abdulrahman Bagash, AlRai Press, Sana'a, Yemen, March 2018

Artistic experience & community service activities, Yemen FM Radio, Sana'a, Yemen, March 2018

 

2017

Yemen... Art, War & Widows, AlHayat Newspaper, Sana'a, Yemen, April 2017

 

2016

 A group of Yemeni musicians formed a band to overcome the war, Al Mayadeen TV, Sana'a, Yemen, December 2016

TEDxLIUSanaa Speakers, Yemen Today newspaper, Sana'a, Yemen, May 2016

The Knowledge Exchange Forum features a unique artistic synesthesia, Knowledge Exchange Forum, Sana'a, Yemen, March 2016

About Shrapnel Campaign, an anti-war project, Basement Cultural Foundation, Sana'a, Yemen, January 2016

 

2010

Never Stop, Yemen Times newspaper, Sana'a, Yemen, August 2010