Dalia is a medical doctor by training, a content creator and strategist in the development sector by profession, but by passion she’s an independent artist and activist.
In 2019, she received a grant from the Culture Resource Organization to study A Cappella choir leadership at Lebanon’s National Choir Fayha. In 2021, she graduated the school of music at Gusour Cultural Center in Cairo. In 2022, Dalia successfully complete an online course certified by the University Of Edinburgh on the Fundamentals of Music Theory.
Since 2017, she started many community-based singing initiatives, performed live, wrote her own lyrics, music and arrangements for A Cappella, joined and led choirs and facilitated A Cappella and song writing workshops. She successfully crafted several artistic innovations and awareness content that appealed to hundreds of thousands if not millions.
Dalia was featured in national and international media for her different one-of-a-kind projects and ideas.
Core values of all her projects include voicing the voiceless and creating an enabling and supportive setting that cherishes self-expression, respect and diversity.
Key achievements per year
2023
- Presented her first workshop in Alexandria at the Jesuit Cultural Center
- Revived her children songs project and released a song that exceeded 100K views in one week
- Performed at El-Sawy Cultural Wheel for the first time with Klaxics
- Performed her arrangements in front of the legendary artist Handy Shenouda and got his praise and feedback.
- Created 4 songs for Palestine amidst the genocide in Gaza. Videos got more than 1,230,000 views in a month.
- Second performance at the historic “Our Lady of Carmel” church in Cairo
2022
- Invited as a speaker at the Creative Leadership Conference 2022
- Got featured on the Initiatives of Change website and BBC
- Collaborated with UNHCR for a song on International Women’s Day
2021
- First international performance where Arabic Christmas carols were presented for the first time in New York’s Saint Patrick’s Cathedral’s history
- Klaxics won the first prize at “Naghama Horra” competition at the summer festival of Bibliotheca Alexandrina and Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafi‘s Wijhat porgram grant
- Guest performer with Om El-Nour orchestra at Cairo Opera House
- Live performance at the historic “Our Lady of Carmel” church in Cairo
- Online performances in collaboration with Majalla and MADEV
- Hymn of Isis cover achieved over half a million views
- Facilitated Klaxics’ second and third workshops
- FUSIC song release
2020
- Guest performer at the interfaith Thanksgiving service at John the Baptist church, Cairo
- Facilitated a song writing workshop at Gusour Cultural Center
- Launched the #ساعة_الحظر_ ماتتعوضش initiative for remote music collaboration during the lockdown
- Created an A Cappella score for “El-soora” short movie
- Graduated from the Music School at Gusour Cultural Center with an A Capella rendition of “Once Upon A December” as a graduation project
2019
- Christmas in Arabic live performance at All Saints Cathedral, Cairo
- Started Fundamentals of Music Theory online course, University of Edinburgh
- Wrote the lyrics and music for “Our planet is fed up”; the first-of-a-kind Egyptian song about climate change
- Guest performer at “Together for Egypt” interfaith dialogue program closing ceremony at Gusour Cultural Center, Cairo
- Live performances with Klaxics at MASQ – Maq‘ad of Sultan Qaitbey and ROOM Art Space
- Guest performer at Med-up and TEDxYouth TahaHussein Street, Minia
- Guest performer and facilitator during movie screening in celebration of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence at Gusour Cultural Center
2018
- Created Klaxics project; first release made 4 million views
- Created the first video for Christian hymn in a church in Egypt (as featured on DW News) as part of the Sacred Music initiative
- Sufi night as part of “Les Nuits De Ramadan” at the French Institute of Egypt
- Joined Fayha choir as a Mezzo-soprano singer
- Wrote “Inaudible Words”; the first-of-a-kind Egyptian song about the social inclusion of the deaf and hearing-impaired based on “Ode To Joy” melody from the 9th symphony for Beethoven (which he composed after being almost deaf)
- Created a positive-parenting-friendly version of the lyrics of a popular Egyptian lullaby as part of The Egyptian Lullabies project
- “Singles’ night on Valentine’s Day” live performance at ROOM Art Space, Cairo
- Guest performer at TEDx Youth 6October STEM, Cairo
2017
- “Singles’ night on Valentine’s Day” live performance at Dawar Arts,Cairo
- Created The Singing Circle initiative
- Created FUSIC project
- Joined GUC Music Ensemble as a Mezzo-soprano singer
- “Burdah recital at Dawar Arts
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