Mayssa Jallad (Arabic: ميساء جلاد; born 1990) is a Lebanese singer, songwriter, and urban researcher based in Beirut.
In 2018, Jallad returned to her hometown, Beirut, to pursue her first solo album[4] “Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels”.
[5][6] The album narrates the history of the Battle of the Hotels during the Lebanese Civil War.
[7] Marjaa was based on Jallad's research at GSAPP where she wrote her thesis entitled Beirut’s Civil War Hotel District: Preserving the World’s First High-Rise Urban Battlefield.
[10] Jallad's musical debut was in 2013 when she founded indie-pop band Safar with guitarist Elie Abdelnour.