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The Internet Reacts to Saint Levant’s Second Album ‘AFANDI’

BYYassine Hariss

August 24, 2026

Two years after his debut album DEIRA in 2024, Saint Levant is back to the album format with AFANDI, his sophomore record and latest full-length offering, which dropped on Aug. 21.

Arriving after a particularly busy couple of years for the Palestinian-Algerian artist, the project sees the 25-year-old return to the scene with a new chapter of his now-familiar multilingual universe, continuing to pull from all the different places, sounds, and identities that either inspire him or have played a part in shaping the person and musician he is today.

Across 12 new tracks, the Gaza-born singer revisits the format that catapulted him to stardom, relegating both French and English to near absence and filling their spaces up with several different dialects and registers of Arabic language instead. Through lyrics, features, and compositions, Saint Levant here travels the length and breadth of the region, picking up its cadences, references, and musical traditions as he goes while drawing from different corners of the Arab world without losing the thread that ties the whole record together.

SABAH EL WARD — the album’s first teaser single, released just weeks before the project dropped — draws from the arrangements and romanticism of classical Arab music and tarab, with Farid al-Atrash cited as an inspiration. SAHRAN W NASI, meanwhile, takes the record westwards into raï while Palestinian singer Mohammed Assaf and Lebanese pop star Haifa Wehbe bring two distinct strands of Arab pop to MASKARA and MITSUBISHI, respectively. Even behind the boards, that decidedly pan-Arab approach continues, with Tunisian producer Souhail “Ratchopper” Guesmi taking charge of much of the album’s production and adding yet another point to AFANDI’s overflowing map.

The album has only been on streaming platforms for a few days, but the discourse is well underway. Some songs have become instant favorites, certain features are getting more love than others, and lyrics are making the rounds online.

Below, some of the best online reactions to AFANDI.

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Me hopping off the saint levant hate train while vibing to maskara pic.twitter.com/yei296ONea
— amar (@spacetoon97) August 22, 2026

Saint Levant and Mohammed Assaf on the track pic.twitter.com/Ig8mTwT1iw

— Abdelhalim Abdelrahman (@AbdelA1924) August 22, 2026

obrigado saint levant pic.twitter.com/7b1TNYn5Mq
— Geist (@geistsieg) August 21, 2026

محتاجة اعبر واعترف ان album استاذ saint levant ده حلو فعلاً 👵🏻
— Mennah¹³ (@MentosA97) August 23, 2026

Maskara by Saint levant and Mohammad Assaf has gone triple platinum in my car already pic.twitter.com/HbUsXAztbL
— Iman 🇵🇸 𓂆 (@imzpali) August 24, 2026

This new saint Levant album just solidified that I need to go to his concert
— nia🇵🇸 (@palesnia) August 24, 2026

I need someone to speak to me the same way Saint Levant speaks in his songs
— Malak Ahdy khairat (@MalakKhairat) August 24, 2026

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