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Spinning discs in Sheikh Jarrah
Led by Nour Palestina, a DJ workshop offers Palestinian women a window into the electronic music world despite the occupation.
By
Alice Austin
August 8, 2023
Yusor Hamed is redrawing the boundaries of Palestinian sound
The musician's unashamedly individual style has brought some of Palestine's most renowned artists knocking. Now, she's taking her sound global.
By
Alice Austin
April 13, 2023
‘What is this place I long for?’ A Palestinian musician’s healing journey
Rasha Nahas speaks to +972 about opening emotional wounds on her new Arabic album, the 'disarming' power of music, and navigating her identity between Haifa and Berlin.
By
Vera Sajrawi
February 2, 2023
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‘Borders don’t make sense’: A musician’s tribute to a Levantine memory
Haya Zaatry speaks with +972 about how her great-grandmother inspired her new album, the challenges of promoting diversity in an oppressed society, and the importance of Palestinian women creating their own art.
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Vera Sajrawi
November 24, 2022
The Palestinian artist reviving the forgotten sounds of the intifada
After discovering a treasure trove of Bedouin music in a shuttered Jenin cassette store, Mo’min Swaitat is re-releasing the lost songs of his youth.
By
Alice Austin
September 21, 2022
A case of the Palestinian blues
Recording under quarantine, a musical trio gives a classic blues song an Arabic twist, exploring new depths for Black-Palestinian solidarity.
By
Henriette Chacar
September 3, 2021
PODCAST: The Palestinian musician shattering taboos
Maysa Daw talks about straddling the personal and the political as a Palestinian musician living in Israel.
By
Henriette Chacar
December 30, 2019
Bidding farewell to the voice of Palestine
Rim Banna, one of Palestine’s most recognizable and important singers, died on Saturday after a lengthy battle with cancer. She leaves behind a dream of freedom from the occupation, patriarchy, and oppression. Rim Banna, the singer from Nazareth who enraptured millions died on Sunday after a battle with cancer. She was 51 years old. Arabic social…
By
Samah Salaime
March 26, 2018
In new film, underground Palestinian musicians compose their own identity
He was denied entry to the U.S. for the premiere of his debut film, a short documentary about Palestine’s underground music scene. But director Sami Alalul seems unfazed. Sami Alalul sounds out every syllable of his Queen’s English, ending most sentences with an almost timid lilt. It’s a manner of speaking that can seem deferential,…
By
Samer Badawi
October 10, 2017
The Palestinian-Israeli singer challenging everyone’s misconceptions
Call her a traitor, call her a normalizer — Palestinian-Israeli singer Amal Murkus has heard it all. Now as she gets ready to release her brilliant new album, the avowed Marxist and feminist is speaking out against the racism of the Israeli mainstream as well as Palestinian attempts to silence her. When I came home…
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Orly Noy
December 25, 2015
LISTEN: The rarest records, from India to Palestine
The members of Tel Aviv’s Fortuna Records have spent the last several years collecting some of the rarest records from the Middle East. The music runs the gamut from classical Egyptian to Palestinian folk to Greek-Israeli music. Check out a mixtape of their favorite rarities, accompanied by their stunning (and often strange) album covers. By…
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Cafe Gibraltar
November 23, 2014
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