The scene of music for the Palestinian cause is not as huge as it should be, but it is vibrant and alive with an energy that surpasses the scope of its relatively limited audience. This undoubtedly heralds a growing adherence and increased exposure among supporters of Palestine, and a bigger role for music in the Palestinian narrative. Shadia Mansour has...
I don’t have a dream. It would perhaps be great if I did, but I don’t. Dreams, to me, are a distortion of reality, a way for your emotions to deal with realities that your conscious mind finds too hard to digest. They are, by default, irrational responses that serve to maintain an emotional balance, but have no problem-solving capabilities....
In this article published in the November edition of Middle East magazine, Randa Safieh talks to some of the artists from the Lyrical Alliance collective, inspired by the legendary ‘Mu’Allaqat‘ poems, which performed in Camden last month. Last month Dash Arts and the Camden Roundhouse presented a collaboration of some of the most prominent Arab hip-hop heavyweights. It was a...
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