TARAFA - The project The project started in 2008 amid research about the life of the poet (Tarafah ibn al-‘Abd), who lived in Bahrain. Tarafa went through unique circumstances throughout the period of his short life (543 to 569 AD), during which he faced many of injustice, especially from his uncles who harmed and denied him… Despite all that, he lived free in spite, rebel, and was against the kings until he was confronted by the king of Al-Heera (Amr ibn Hind) that had him killed before he’s thirty... Tarafa’s project addresses the stages and characters in the life of the poet, also known as, (the slain lad)… The music tells the psychological transformations that he went through; his lonely lover, the relatives that turned against him, his faith, and his painful and mysterious death… After he composed the first draft of the music, Mohamed Haddad met with a group of intelligent Bahraini musicians about the idea to tell us the musical interpretation of this story…