Rana Khoury, An artist and Singer from Haifa city, which her music is inspired from Cities of the Mediterranean Sea combined with western mainstream styles.
Her musical passion is to dig into the treasures of Arabic songs, putting her desire to reform its musical value, whilst presenting it in her own special way.
Cities of the Mediterranean Sea are considered to be an exquisite resource for Rana's musical choices. Together with her life partner; the musician Darwish Darwish, Rana searches for music and lyrics that are inherited by Morocco, Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and other Mediterranean countries . They seek to rediscover the beauty in this music, while Darwish courageously rearranges it, and Rana delivers it with her own interpretation. “I consecrate the original composition. Though I
believe that songs don’t close doors.. They rather open new spaces for our work”.
"We share this geography, wherever we are, we extend towards the gates that are opened to the world; the gates that are the shore cities. The cities in which stories of longing were born, longing for a land or a lover. Stories that are loaded with continuous travel , renewing, and desire to change".
A voice that sails between the Mediterranean cities

Rana Khoury has participated in many musical festivals and projects. She is a Graduate of Musicology in Haifa University. During her studies, she met with her life partner Darwish Darwish; an Oud, Buzuk, and violin player, a composer & a music arranger, winner of the first prize in the international Oud competition in the Egyptian Opera house. Establishing their music band “Junoon” (Craziness in Arabic), they sailed with their first boat towards presenting Arabic songs through a new musical vision, which later on formed their musical identity.
Since then, Rana & Darwish are continuing their search in the seas of the Arab and non- Arab memory, and by the shores of the Mediterranean cities, for special songs that can be differently presented from their shore city, Haifa, to the world.