Faraj Suleiman (Arabic: فرج سليمان) is a Palestinian pianist, composer and singer, born in 1984 in Rameh, a village in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel, where he grew up. His father ran a toy shop, which later gave him the idea for the title of his live album Toy Box. He started piano at three and was taught for three years by his uncle, the artist Youssef Basila. As he has told it, he resented the Bach and Beethoven of those lessons and turned away from the instrument for about fifteen years, coming back to it as a student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and deciding that he wanted to be a professional composer and stage musician.

In 2013 he moved to Haifa and began his professional career there. His first record, Login (2014), is a solo-piano album of ten pieces, among them "Dawn," a "Tango" and "Beneath the Walnut Tree," and it leaves out the oud, a choice he has linked to a search for a new tone for Palestinian music. Once Upon a City (2017), a quartet recording, and the live album Toy Box (2018), which includes his reading of Astor Piazzolla's "Libertango," followed. He has said that rock, classical music and jazz all shaped him, and that the Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan is the closest thing he has to a role model at the keyboard.

Montreux made his name in Europe. He played a solo set at the Montreux Jazz Festival on June 30, 2018, which he later described to Swiss newspaper Le Temps as the event that launched his career on the continent, and the recording was released in October 2021 as Solo at Montreux Jazz Festival 2018 on the Swiss label Two Gentlemen. In November 2018 he played a sold-out quartet show at Kings Place for the EFG London Jazz Festival, and returned on November 21, 2019 with a quintet of Paris-based players: Côme Aguiar on electric bass, Baptiste de Chabaneix on drums, Habib Hanna on oud and Julien Alour on trumpet and flugelhorn. The Jazz Mann's Ian Mann reviewed that concert and compared one of the trio grooves to the Swedish piano trio e.s.t.; a live album from the festival was released in early 2020.

By then he was living in Paris as an artist in residence at the Cité internationale des arts. There he made Second Verse (released June 8, 2019), the first album on which he sings, in his own Palestinian dialect of Arabic rather than the Egyptian or Lebanese Arabic that dominates Arabic pop. It was recorded with Alour, the guitarist Antonin Fresson, Aguiar, de Chabaneix and Hanna, with lyrics by Majd Kayyal, Amer Hlehel, Bashar Murkus, Hanna and Adnan Al Aodeh, and it was paid for partly through crowdfunding and partly through a grant from the A. M. Qattan Foundation and support from Bank of Palestine. In the same years he worked with Murkus on The Cabaret, a show at Haifa's Khashabi Theatre, made the children's album My Heart Is a Forest with Raneen Hanna, and worked on an album of Rim Banna songs rearranged by Palestinian musicians. He is also reported to have worked with Banksy at the Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem.

Back in Haifa after the pandemic, he released Better Than Berlin (December 2020), a songs album written with his old Hebrew University friend Majd Kayyal about Palestinian life in Haifa, then the children's songs album Faheem (2021) and the score for Ameen Nayfeh's film 200 Meters (2021). The year 2023 brought two very different records: Upright Biano (March 1), another set of Kayyal songs, and As Much As It Takes (September 29, Two Gentlemen), an instrumental album recorded in Switzerland with the guitarist Louis Matute, the bassist Jules Martinet, the drummer Alberto Malo, two oud players and the trumpeter Erik Truffaz as a guest. Songlines gave it four stars and an Editor's Choice. He returned to the EFG London Jazz Festival on November 17, 2024, has also played the Memphis stage at Montreux with the Matute, Martinet and Malo trio, and in October 2025 gave a solo recital at the festival's Montreux Jazz Residency. Maryam, a song album written with Hlehel, appeared on January 17, 2025, and in 2025 he took part in the Together for Palestine benefit concert in London. He lives in Haifa; as of an interview published in January 2024 he led bands in Israel, Paris, Switzerland and Berlin.

Suleiman writes from the piano with Arabic modes and rhythms in his hands and a classical technique under them, and he rarely quotes a specific folk tune. His official biography credits jazz traditions and tango alongside his Arabic heritage, and the jazz side is documented rather than assumed: a solo set at Montreux, three London Jazz Festival bookings, an oud-and-trumpet quintet that reviewers heard in terms of e.s.t. grooves and flugelhorn solos, and a 2023 record with the trumpeter Erik Truffaz that Songlines described as math-rock in its time signatures while keeping its jazz credentials. Tigran Hamasyan is his stated model, a fellow pianist who also builds a modern piano language on top of a regional musical identity.

He is plainly more than a jazz pianist. A large share of his recent catalogue is songs in Palestinian Arabic, on records such as Second Verse, Better Than Berlin, Upright Biano and Maryam, which borrow from the Arab chanson, folk and rock opera (Qantara compares the more theatrical numbers to Queen), and he has scored films, theatre and children's records. He has said there is no single Palestinian sound yet and that he wants his music to fit the life and culture around him rather than sound like New York or Europe.