With his technique of spontaneous painting, where he shares the stage with musicians—a collaboration in which art and music develop in counterpoint to each other—he has worked with many world class musicians. He is a member, as a visual artist, of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble. He has performed at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Chelsea Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Chess Festival of Mexico City, The Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art in Yerevan, Le Festival du Monde Arabe in Montreal, the Stillwater Festival, the Nara Museum in Japan, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rubin Museum of Art, Harvard University, Lincoln Center Atrium, the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Central Park’s Summerstage with the Silk Road Ensemble and Bobby McFerrin.
In 2010 and 2011, with actress/singer Anaïs Tekerian of Zulal, he co-produced and directed two multi-media plays, Tangled Yarn and Waterlogged, which premiered at the New York International Fringe Festival. Their latest play, Lost Spring, premiered at MuCEM in Marseille, France, in April 2015 and at the Morgenland Festival in Germany, in July 2015. Mourad’s most recent performance with Kinan Azmeh, Home Within, has been touring Europe and North America for the past two years. He created the animation for an opera by Lembit Beecher, I Have No Stories to Tell You, commissioned by Opera Philadelphia. He also created a stop-motion animation piece for Manuel De Falla’s Master Peter’s Puppet Show, which he performed with the Knights at Tanglewood in July 2015 to great acclaim.