Originally from Nazareth and currently living in Jerusalem, she uses music as a tool to not only express herself as an individual, but to preserve Palestine as the brutal Israeli occupation ...

Alexander Knapp, a Research Fellow of Ancient Jewish Music at the London University, provided me with examples of early Yemenite, Bedouin, and early Palestinian music. I also developed a library ...

Several Bangladeshi musicians have officially joined forces to produce a new song, “Akashe Urche Mrito Lash” (Where Lifeless Bodies Fly to the Sky). The lyrics, brimming with support for Palestine ...

A mixing desk at her fingertips, the artist known as Sarouna coaxed a haunting refrain from the bass track - music both about the past and the present. Like other popular names on the Palestinian ...

On a cold Sunday evening in January, a motley crowd of music fans, academics and kaffiyeh-wearing activists gathered at the Monarch Tavern in Little Italy for an intimate performance by John ...

Her music isn’t just about telling a story ... she was dropped by her former label for refusing to “cool down” her activism for Palestine. “Stick of Gum” combines moody alt-pop ...

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Yasmine Mohammed Yasmine Mohammed still remembers her grandparents teaching her about Palestinian music and cooking. "They wanted to hold onto the Palestinian heritage," Mohammed tells PEOPLE ...