Slovenia Inshallah by Masa Nazzal & Ilyas Titaou

Slovenia Inshallah is an abolitionist sonic ethnography that uses field recordings from the borders of Bosnia and Croatia to explore the contemporary violence of the EU border regime. This mixtape is an account of these border spaces where borderless solidarities and border resistance merge and collide with realities of state-sanctioned violence. The tape distorts and creates soundscapes of the community, chaos, and uncertainties of these border realities. In these liminal and moving spaces, the tape invites an imagination of political futures, offering a listening from afar—both in time and space—to possibilities hidden in the cracks of the present, where new, borderless futures emerge.


Masa Nazzal is an organiser living in London whose work concerns border violence along the EU’s Balkan borders against people on the move with the grassroots collective, No Name Kitchen.


Ilyas Titaou is an Amazigh-Moroccon musician currently living in Bilbao, Spain. He uses music to express the emotions and challenges of everyday life in southeastern Morocco, capturing love, struggles, and dreams. He is now working on his first solo album which combines Basque and Amazigh languages.


Masa and Ilyas first met when Ilyas was staying at the transit camp, and Masa was doing aid distribution work. When Ilyas spotted a guitar in Masa's hand, he pointed at it, grabbed it, and started playing. This is where their friendship and sonic journeys began.

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