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Unholyland : the trilogy : a love story
\"Through the story of two lovers, Mosh and Jalilah, this verse novel encapsulates the personal tragedy of the Palestine-Israel conflict. Set in the popular music culture of modern Palestine, using rap rhythms and the sonnet form, Aidan Andrew Dun s new book is verbally accomplished and rhythmically creative, and yet gripping to read as the story unfolds in a fast-moving narrative of twists and turns. From a first meeting in an underground dive in the Galilee, through Jalilah s home life in Sabra and Shatila camp, and Mosh s capture and interrogation by Israeli security, the story builds to a climax in an improvised music gathering in the Sinai desert. This is a unique and original piece of writing. It will also appeal to younger readers through the use of rap rhythms and the inclusion of leading rap and reggae musicians in the narrative\"--Back cover.
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Playing across a divide : Israeli-Palestinian musical encounters
In the last decade of the twentieth century and on into the twenty-first, Israelis and Palestinians saw the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords, the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the escalation of suicide bombings and retaliations in the region. During this tumultuous time, numerous collaborations between Israeli and Palestinian musicians coalesced into a significant musical scene. Following the bands Bustan Abraham and Alei Hazayit from their creation and throughout their careers, as well as the collaborative projects of Israeli artist Yair Dalal, this book demonstrates the possibility of musical alternatives to violent conflict and hatred in an intensely contested, multicultural environment. These artists' music drew from Western, Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and Afro-diasporic musical practices, bridging differences and finding innovative solutions to the problems inherent in combining disparate musical styles and sources. Creating this new music brought to the forefront the musicians' contrasting assumptions about sound production, melody, rhythm, hybridity, ensemble interaction, and improvisation. The author traces the tightly interconnected field of musicians and the people and institutions that supported them as they and their music circulated within the region and along international circuits. The book argues that the linking of Jewish and Arab musicians' networks, the creation of new musical means of expression, and the repeated enactment of culturally productive musical alliances provides a unique model for mutually respectful and beneficial coexistence in a chronically disputed land.
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Composing freedom
Music is more than just a sequence of sounds reaching our being. It can bring back memories, call up fantasies, dreams, feelings, and emotions. Music can destroy borders and connect us. Palestine has been under occupation since 1948, which impacts lives every day. Freedom is limited, because of restrictions within society and imposed identities by Israel. Inspired by her own experiences as a musician in the Netherlands, Sarah Vasen explores the meaning of music for young Palestinians.
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Displaced at home : ethnicity and gender among Palestinians in Israel
Most media coverage and research on the experience of Palestinians focuses on those living in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip, while the sizable minority of Palestinians living within Israel rarely garners significant academic or media attention. Offering a rich and multidimensional portrait of the lived realities of Palestinians within the state of Israel, Palestinians in Israel Revisited gathers a group of Palestinian women scholars who present unflinching critiques of the complexities and challenges inherent in the lives of this understudied but important minority within Israel. The essays here engage topics ranging from internal refugees and historical memory to women's sexuality and the resistant possibilities of hip hop culture among young Palestinians. Unique in the collection is sustained attention to gender concerns, which have tended to be subordinated to questions of nationalism, statehood, and citizenship. The first collection of its kind in English, Palestinians in Israel Revisited presents on-the-ground examples of the changing political, social and economic conditions of Palestinians in Israel, and examines how global, national, and local concerns intersect and shape their daily lives.
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Firas Zreik: The Paco de Lucia of the Qanun
In March, 27-year-old Firas Zreik released his first full-length album, \"Salute,\" which is also the name of the album's first song, described by Zreik as the most \"bombastic,\" with a \"very intense solo.\" The album combines classical Arabic music with jazz. Its musical ideas, its energy and its clarity are reminiscent of saxophonist Kenny Garrett. The record features eight original compositions written before and during COVID-19, in the United States and in Palestine. Producing an album during COVID-19 was challenging, but Zreik is thrilled with the journey. He finished the album during what he describes as \"one of the most horrible times for both humanity and live music.\" Zreik's creative process involves synesthesia.
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Telling Stories Through Palestinian Eyes: Band Pushes Back Against Mainstream Narratives
Bodnaruk focuses on Op-ed, a Canadian rock band that pushes back against mainstream narratives. Dubbed Winnipeg's own Palestinian protest band, the group played its first show in May 2024 to a sold-out crowd in the prairie city. OP-ED was formed back in November and December 2023 when musician Tarek Abdel Aziz started writing a few raw demos about the war on Gaza--real-time reactions to the terrible things from news and social media. For Abdel Aziz, music is a universal language that hits people on a deeper emotional level than most other art forms and has a reach and continuity that extend beyond a two-hour rally on a Saturday afternoon.
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Museum Opens Gaza Exhibit and Commemorates the Nakba
The Museum of the Palestinian People's latest exhibition, \"Dreams Rising: Palestinian Children in Gaza Imagine a Future Beyond Trauma,\" opened on May 14. Curator Ahmed Mansour said the children's original images reimagine a liberated Gaza and challenge adults everywhere to act now for a just future. With rain forecast, the museum erected tents on the sidewalk to protect food, guests and musical equipment. Composer and oud artist Fuad Foty, aka \"DC's Voice of Palestine,\" and his 14-year-old daughter Yasmine, played Palestinian music.
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Arab Labor, Jewish Humor: Memory, Identity, and Creative Resistance on Israeli Prime-Time Television
The prime-time television comedy Arab Labor, created by Israeli-Palestinian writer Sayed Kashua, allows viewers to reconceptualize Israeli collective memory, rendering it more inclusive for non-Jewish citizens of the state. A close visual and textual analysis of one particularly bold episode, titled “Memorial Day” (Zikaron), reveals that the episode aims to bridge an existing gap between two formative narratives: the celebratory Jewish War of Independence and the Nakba, the Palestinian disaster of 1948. This daring cultural suggestion, indeed an antidiscourse, identifies productive intersections between these competing narratives. Moreover, by employing humor, irony, and the genre of the sitcom, the creators of the series mask a volatile criticism of prevailing social conventions and norms in contemporary Israeli society. The creative resolutions to the various crises the storyline raises—resolutions that on many occasions transgress social boundaries—create a meaningful space for identity negotiation and cultural intervention in the Israeli sociopolitical arena.
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UNRWA USA Raises Funds, Spirits With 5Ks and Concerts
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) provides assistance to 5 million Palestinian refugees. A small but effective organization based in Washington DC, UNRWA USA, raises funds for UNRWA's vital work and also shows refugees that despite Washington's unhelpful congressional resolutions and UN vetoes, everyday Americans care about Palestinians. The NYC 5K at Brooklyn's Prospect Park on March 25 raised $298,955. The Chicago Gaza 5K at Diversity Harbor on Apr 29, 2017 raised $68,652. The Washington DC Gaza 5K, held on a warm sunny morning along the scenic Anacostia Riverwalk Trail on September 16, raised $123,209.
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Playing across a divide: musical border crossings in Israel and the West Bank
Playing Across A Divide considers the circumstances and networks that nourished Israeli-Palestinian musical collaborations from 1991 to 2003, analyzing innovative musical syntheses. It proposes that linking networks of Jewish and Arab musicians, creating new musical expression, and enacting culturally productive musical alliances offer models for mutually beneficial coexistence.
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