New at the Musical Intifada: Song Spotlight! Periodically, one of my songs will be highlighted in this category, providing a little more background information about lyrics, style or the ideas that gave rise to recording the song. I welcome your suggestions for which songs you would like to see featured in ‘Song Spotlight’; just send me a message through the...
by Tariq Shadid – September 23, 2011 was a memorable day. On that day, we watched the President of the Palestinian Authority unleash a barrage of strong words against the Zionist colonialist state of Israel, using language and meanings that we had rarely heard him use before on the international diplomatic stage. He mentioned the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing, the racist annexation wall,...
Even if you are of Palestinian origin yourself, or perhaps even a Palestinian living in Palestine – if you are of a somewhat younger age you may not even have heard of this instrument that is commonly known in Palestine as the ‘shibbabeh’. I am not an expert on Palestinian culture and traditions, nor do I pretend to be. All...
Nabil Mansour, the brilliant Palestinian musician from Barcelona, has released a new song – his first song in the Catalan language – called ‘Yasmin’. Doc Jazz interviewed Nabil about this new production, which was released with an animated music video made by Palestinian graphical artist Maysun Cheikh Ali. Nabil gives us the deeper backgrounds of this very special song, and...
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