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Thank you for streaming my new single Astro Lab prod. by @thanksjoey. 🙏🏼 Thank you for attending my two beautiful shows at @emoryuniversity + @uncchapelhill last week. 💫 Thank you for being you ya 7abayeb. 🤍 I will now retreat back into the enchanted forest of fatherhood until the next event on March 17th at @georgetownuniversity … More new music + show announcements coming up soon — including the “Little Syria” show in Chicago + NYC + LA later this year! 🎙️ I love you all. 🪬 #Sinsyrianly — عمر // PS — Check out this wonderful article in @gqmiddleeast by @ibrahiim.sara about Arab music in diaspora featuring yours truly! 👉🏼 https://www.gqmiddleeast.com/features/arab-diaspora-pioneers-new-wave-music https://www.instagram.com/p/CpXzl0mOZVB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The #LittleSyria gang went out with a bang. 🎆 1000 thanks to @qatarfoundation + @educationcity.qa for including us in the #DreeshaFestival2022 performance series during our final night in #Doha — it was an absolute honor. 🤲🏼 As @ronniemalley, @thanksjoey & I fly back to our respective home cities across the US today we will be obsessively checking our 📲 in anticipation of what will hopefully be positive news for Morocco insha’Allah 🪬 I know I speak for all 3 of us when I say we truly can’t wait to kiss & hug our wives & babies without whose #love & support we couldn’t have accomplished anything during these last 3 weeks away in #Qatar. 🇶🇦 I will be riding (& likely posting about) this unforgettable @fifaworldcup energy for a long time & am excited to turn more dreams into a beautiful, tangible reality with my brothers. 🙏🏼 If anybody is asking, we are #TheFenLeague. 🖊️ #Sinsyrianly — #OmarOffendum. // 📸 @qatarfoundation + @educationcity.qa https://www.instagram.com/p/CmJKzS5OLud/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Dear #Doha 🇶🇦 I am beyond excited + honored to announce that we’ve officially been slated to perform our #LittleSyria show at the #DreeshaFestival2022 in @educationcity.qa’s Oxygen Park on Tuesday, December 13th! 🙏🏼 Couldn’t think of a more perfect way to round out these last few magical weeks in #Qatar than to perform on such an incredible outdoor stage alongside my brothers @ronniemalley & @thanksjoey — see last couple slides for more info! 🎙️ You can even stick around & watch the Argentina vs Croatia match on some of the largest screens in the city when we are done! ⚽️ Other festival performers include the incomparable @dalal.abuamneh & @mca.rap representing our beloved #Palestine later this week. 🇵🇸 1000 thanks to @qatarfoundation for the gracious invitation & much love to the #Moroccan football team for making this such a memorable #WorldCup experience for #Africa & the #Arabic-speaking world as a whole. 🪬 #Sinsyrianly — #OmarOffendum. https://www.instagram.com/p/CmCZiH5s_B7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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We had the honor of filming a very special performance inside this 200+ year old living room from #Damascus yesterday. 🙏🏼 Being in these spaces is always so emotional for me — flooding my heart with memories of family, friends, ancestors, poetry, music, and the sights & sounds of a #Shami life I miss beyond words. 🕊️ 1000 thanks to my friends at the @qatarfoundation & @miaqatar for making it possible. 🙏🏼 We are currently gearing up for our final show at @educationcity.qa tomorrow before / after the @fifaworldcup Quarter Finals match between Brazil & Croatia. 🏆 It’s been such a blessing to share these unforgettable moments w/ two brilliant musicians / brothers like @ronniemalley & @thanksjoey — making #SyriasBusiness feels like an absolute pleasure. 🪬 #Sinsyrianly — #OmarOffendum. // #Doha. 🇶🇦 #Qatar. 🎙️ #OffendumTour. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl6g8ulO7p-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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When the #ice formations look like a model of the @guggenheim. 🧊 Today marks our little prince #JibranAbdullatif’s 7th revolution around the sun — that’s 2555 days of love, kindness, compassion, joy, wonderment, humor, brilliance, optimism & shine that he’s brought to our little family. 🤲🏼 Couldn’t be more proud to be your Baba & so excited to see what awesomeness the future has in store for you insha’Allah. 🪬 #Sinsyrianly — #OmarOffendum aka #AbuJibran. // 1.20.2023 https://www.instagram.com/p/CnpSz97uWta/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I had the privilege of spending the 40th year of my life with this #angel by my side. ✨ None of the successes of 2022 — the sold-out shows at @bam_brooklyn, the self-produced & sold-out #LittleSyria run at @herearts, the touring concerts from @thefordla to the @fifaworldcup — would have been possible without #MrsOffendum. 🤍 Everyone who knows her can attest to how lucky I am, والحمدلله 🤲🏼 I #love you forever ever & ever ever. 🪬 #Sinsyrianly — #OmarOffendum. // PS — She ages backwards I know, it’s incredible … 😍 https://www.instagram.com/p/CmrikL7JPxi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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“I do this for my #culture, to let ‘em know” what a #Damascene room feels like when it’s not just treated as a sculpture. 🪬 Breathing #love into it & honoring the #ancestors … not just the ones who lived in it — but those who harvested the wood & carved / painted it for us to forever remember the #beauty we’ve inherited as #Shami people & the responsibility that it assigns unto us. 🥀 This is #Damascus (in #Doha). ✍🏼 #Sinsyrianly — #OmarOffendum. https://www.instagram.com/p/CmelCWyOPu4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#Syrian people have been migrating to #Argentina for well over 150 years 🇦🇷 long enough in fact to have made #yerbamate our own, sipping it as frequently & judiciously from traditional gourds (though ours are usually smaller) as one would back “home” in the Southern Hemisphere. 🧉 We even have our own #bombilla brands (we call them “massassat” & they’re also smaller) with unofficial #Messi sponsorships in typical Syrian bootleg fashion. 😘 Ours are usually served with a little lemon slice on the side to sanitize them between drinkers as hygiene tends to reach OCD levels in #Shami homes — though in the era of pandemics this surely isn’t something to scoff about anymore mi gente. 🍋 It’s believed that at the height of the civil war in #Syria we still managed to import over 20,000 tons of yerba mate into the country. 🌿 Ayo @thanksjoey we might just have to hit them with #TheStoryOfYerbaMate on the next album mi hermano. 🪬 #Sinsyrianly — #OmarOffendum. https://www.instagram.com/p/CmWqBN6uRMw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Who else gets to celebrate their birthday while watching one of the greatest @fifaworldcup finals of all time, held in an #Arab country they just spent 3 weeks performing in for audiences from all over the globe, while wearing the timely National Day hoodie of said country, on #InternationalArabicLanguage day?!? 🤲🏼 Offendum does 7abibi. 😎 1000 Mabrook to #Argentina, to #Qatar, to the next 🐐 #Mbappé, to #Morocco, to #Palestine, & to all the beautiful #Arab families around the world keeping their linguistic traditions alive. 🏆 Now sip some Yerba Mate in me & #Messi’s honor ya 7abayeb. 🧉 #Sinsyrianly — #OmarOffendum. // PS - #HappyBirthday @billieeilish + @dmx (RIP) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmUjBNJuNA7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I recall running into an old high school acquaintance a few years ago & having a rather condescending conversation with him about work / life … He just couldn’t believe that I was making a living as a musician & wondered when I was gonna get a “real job” again. 😏 The conversation ultimately ended with him saying something like “keep chasing your dreams bro.” 💭 Only then did I realize how narrow his understanding of what I was doing with my life actually was. There is a big difference between dreamers who act on their dreams, and those who just keep dreaming … It is a struggle, but it is a beautiful one & Im incredibly proud + grateful for every win + loss / lesson I’ve earned & learned along the way. 🪜 1000 thanks to all the family members, friends, fans & followers who’ve made it possible for me to actualize what I’ve envisioned year after year. 🤲🏼 I’m currently “dreaming” of how exciting the next 3 weeks in #Doha will be as me & the #LittleSyria gang gear up for a very special #WorldCup concert series in #Qatar — performing at the Last Mile activations outside of #EducationCity stadium on November 22nd, 24th, 26th, 28th, 30th & December 2nd, 6th , 9th, thanks to the good people of the @qatarfoundation & @educationcity.qa ⚽️🇶🇦🏆 #Sinsyrianly — #OmarOffendum. https://www.instagram.com/p/ClMIiuEuIDl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Took #MrsOffendum & the #BlackTarboush to watch the @blackpanther premiere in #NYC earlier this week, thanks to a gracious invitation from our dear friend @lupitanyongo. 🐾 Top-tier performances, breathtaking visuals & a heartfelt tribute to the late King T’Challa made for such a beautiful & rich cinematic experience … Afterwards we walked over to @edgenyc where my knees literally felt like jelly at 100 stories up. 😵‍💫 Swipe to see what is quite possibly the silliest & most vulnerable clip I’ve ever posted on this platform. 🪬 #Sinsyrianly — #OmarOffendum. // #WakandaForever. #WhatAreYouDoing. #What. https://www.instagram.com/p/CkijwOIuHOM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#Syriandipity: (noun) the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way for a #Shami. 🧿 "Ya Allah what a fortunate stroke of Syriandipity it was to see the #KhalilGibran Academy on my way to the @bam_brooklyn show each day.” // I’ve had multiple ppl DM me over the years to “remind” me that Gibran was Lebanese … Habibi I know (that #LittleSyria was #GreaterSyria) & I respect the man enough to honor the way he described himself, in his own words, not mine. 🪬 #Sinsyrianly — #OmarOffendum. https://www.instagram.com/p/CecMpP1uAFT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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It’s been a decade since this album dropped & changed the course of my life. 💿 Thank you to everyone who’s been supporting me over the years & much love to all the new followers / fans / fam still just learning about me. 🤲🏼 Yes I’m #Syrian & I’m #American & yet on most days neither of those identifiers feel accurate / enough / necessary. 🗺 This album was my first solo attempt at creating a soundscape that represented many of the things I hold dear: #family, #faith, #history, #poetry, #storytelling, #rap, #boombap, #love #songs, #translations, & soulful soft-spoken #Shami diaspora lamentations … What was your favorite track? 🧿 #Sinsyrianly — #OmarOffendum. // PS — 📸 front cover photo shot by @lmajali at my sister’s house in #Damascus & back cover photo also shot by #LaithMajali on the #DC subway. 🚇 #SyrianamericanA. https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ58VQ-MM4f/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Much love to @big_hass for taking this 1.5 hr deep dive into the intentions / meanings behind the new album “Lost In Translation” for his @buckleupwithbighass show. 📺 He’s gonna be releasing it very soon so after you soak in the record give this interview a watch — it’s like the 2020 version of liner notes that you’d find in a physical album back when that was still a thing. 💽 Can’t thank @thanksjoey enough for getting lost & found with me on this project — when the intentions are pure the #love guides for sure ... and if you are still reading this know that I truly appreciate your support & pray that you are able to find your sense of purpose + peace amidst the pandemic pandemonium that is effecting us all in profound ways. 🧿 #Sinsyrianly — #OmarOffendum. // #OffendumLIT. #BigHassIsARealOne. #بالترجمة_ضاع_المعنى. https://www.instagram.com/p/CFF09TLhnAw/?igshid=1low8q9bq2kir

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#TrueLove is ... #Sinsyrianly 🤍 #OmarOffendum. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_GMScRhp_y/?igshid=15bro3gd84qr5

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My #sister always got my back ... Also mama was killin it with the curtain + bedsheet combo, and of course the shirt + shorts + socks on yours #sinsyrianly. 🔥 https://www.instagram.com/p/B-sZKKvB1fM/?igshid=1naw5f15bxjkf