Nemat Battah

Nemat Battah is a Palestinian-Jordanian singer, oud player, composer, and educator based in Helsinki, Finland, where she is a lecturer and Vice Head of the Global Music Department at the Sibelius Academy. Trained in traditional Arabic music, her artistic work explores experiences of transgenerational war trauma as a person of Palestinian heritage whose family was forced into exile from Palestine to Jordan in 1948. Through her compositions and performances, she navigates questions of memory, displacement, and belonging, while also collaborating with internationally renowned artists in Finland and abroad. Her upcoming musical projects further explore her identity as an Arab migrant and reflect on her personal relationship to complex trauma (C-PTSD) and processes of healing, using music as a space for reflection, resilience, and transformation.