Hadas Hamoutal Bram is an aspiring scholar, artist, and musician born in Jerusalem. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Arabic Language and Literature and Musicology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her work bridges ethnomusicology, sociolinguistics, philology, critical theory, and comparative religion.
Hadas’s research explores intersections of sound, language, and transcendence in Jewish and Muslim contexts. She is especially interested in Jewish-Muslim interfaith encounters in twentieth-century Iran, examining how liturgy and sacred sound shape shared and divergent devotional worlds. She also investigates how contemporary digital practices of sacred sound resonate with, reinterpret, or challenge scriptural and classical religious texts.
From 2023 to 2025, Hadas has served as a research affiliate at the Jewish Music Research Center at the Hebrew University. Under the supervision of Prof. Edwin Seroussi and Dr. Nili Belkind, she participated in the interdisciplinary project Music, Muslims, and Jews. As part of this work, she contributed to a monograph on the Iraqi-Jewish musician ‘Azūrī Effendi (Ezra Aharon), and continues to contribute to an upcoming database tracing Jewish–Muslim relations through music and sound.
Beyond academia, Hadas is a Persian santur player and vocalist. Her practical musical studies serve as a primary research tool for learning diverse traditions and exploring sacred sound. As an independent music producer, she brings Jewish and Muslim musical traditions from the Middle East and Central Asia into dialogue with hip-hop and experimental electronics.