Dany Shukri, right, Tarek Khuluki and Khaled Omran as they looked in their most recent photo session, March 2023. (Credit: Moussa Shabandar)
“Dany put it well last time we spoke. Living in Beirut as a Syrian, it’s like building sand castles.” Guitarist Tarek Khuluki slaps his palms together as if to brush off the sand. “Everything can just fall over, anytime.”“So you start another one,” adds bassist Khaled Omran, laughing quietly. “Then another.”Omran and Khuluki are two-thirds of Tanjaret Daghet (Arabic for ‘pressure cooker’), a progressive metal band from Damascus that migrated to Beirut in 2011. As the insurrection against the Syrian regime descended into civil war, Tanjara became part of Beirut’s then-frenetic music scene and has since recorded two albums and started its own label, Triple Pie Records.The band was fractured this past spring when drummer Dany Shukri was detained at a security forces checkpoint in Beirut and deported. A Syrian-Armenian dual national, Shukri...
“Dany put it well last time we spoke. Living in Beirut as a Syrian, it’s like building sand castles.” Guitarist Tarek Khuluki slaps his palms together as if to brush off the sand. “Everything can just fall over, anytime.”“So you start another one,” adds bassist Khaled Omran, laughing quietly. “Then another.”Omran and Khuluki are two-thirds of Tanjaret Daghet (Arabic for ‘pressure cooker’), a progressive metal band from Damascus that migrated to Beirut in 2011. As the insurrection against the Syrian regime descended into civil war, Tanjara became part of Beirut’s then-frenetic music scene and has since recorded two albums and started its own label, Triple Pie Records.The band was fractured this past spring when drummer Dany Shukri was detained at a security forces checkpoint in Beirut and deported. A...
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