Le Trio Joubran
الثلاثي جبران
Oud trio
Three brothers from Nazareth, sons of an oud maker, who built an ensemble out of three ouds alone — and who accompanied Mahmoud Darwish on stage until his death.
Samir, Wissam, and Adnan Joubran grew up in Nazareth in a house where instruments were made. Their father, Hatem Joubran, is among the best-known makers of stringed instruments in Palestine and the Arab world; their mother, Ibtisam Hanna Joubran, sang muwashshahat. Samir began a solo career in 1996 and recorded Tamaas with Wissam in 2003 before proposing that the three of them play together. The trio came into being in August 2004 in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris.
The instrument is the constraint and the point. The oud is traditionally a solo or accompanying instrument; three of them together have no standard repertoire, no established division of roles, and no ready-made way of avoiding muddiness in the same register. The Joubrans divided the parts — melody, counter-line, rhythmic ground — and built a body of composed instrumental work for the combination, with the percussionist Youssef Hbeisch. Their albums include Randana (2005), Majâz (2007), AsFâr (2011), and The Long March (2018).
Samir’s first professional engagement, in 1996, was to accompany a live reading by Mahmoud Darwish. That collaboration continued until the poet’s death in 2008 and grew into some thirty-four evenings of poetry and music performed together around the world, under titles including In the Shadow of Words. Since Darwish died the trio has not accompanied another poet.
Selected works
- Randana (2005)
- Majâz (2007)
- AsFâr (2011)
- The Long March (2018)
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- Mahmoud Darwishمحمود درويش
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Samir's first professional engagement, in 1996, was to accompany a live reading by Mahmoud Darwish.
- Nazarethالناصرة
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Samir, Wissam, and Adnan Joubran grew up in Nazareth in a house where instruments were made.
on a related subject — 9 records
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- Rim Bannaريم بنّا
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Shared tags: "music", "Nazareth".
- Dammi Falastini
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "music".
- El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "music".
- Elia Suleimanإيليا سليمان
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "Nazareth".
- Karimeh Abbudكريمة عبود
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "Nazareth".
- Palestinian Hip-Hop
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“Le Trio Joubran.” Figures, FALASTEEN.AI. Accessed 22 August 2026. https://falasteen.ai/figures/le-trio-joubran.- MLA
“Le Trio Joubran.” Figures, FALASTEEN.AI, 2026, https://falasteen.ai/figures/le-trio-joubran. Accessed 22 August 2026.- BibTeX
@misc{falasteen-le-trio-joubran, title = {Le Trio Joubran}, howpublished = {\url{https://falasteen.ai/figures/le-trio-joubran}}, organization = {FALASTEEN.AI — A Living Archive for Palestine}, year = {2026}, note = {Accessed 2026-08-22} }