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Music & Song
Dabke, zajal, Fairuz, DAM, Reem Kelani — the sound of the archive.
24 entries across 8 collections
Atta al-Zir
Rebel of the Buraq uprising, hanged at Acre · 1895–1930
The eldest of the three men hanged at Acre on 17 June 1930. A labourer and farmer from Hebron, he dictated his last letter to his mother in peasant dialect: dance, mother, do not grieve — and plant olives over the grave.
Fuad Hijazi
Rebel of the Buraq uprising, hanged at Acre · 1904–1930
The youngest of the three men hanged by the British at Acre prison on 17 June 1930. A day before he died he wrote home asking that the date of his hanging be kept every year as a day of songs and speeches — and it has been.
Le Trio Joubran
Oud trio · 2004–
Three brothers from Nazareth, sons of an oud maker, who built an ensemble out of three ouds alone — and who accompanied Mahmoud Darwish on stage until his death.
Nuh Ibrahim
Zajal poet of the 1936 revolt · 1913–1938
The printing-press worker from Haifa who wrote in the language people actually spoke, and whose lament for the three men hanged at Acre in 1930 became the most-sung Palestinian song of the century. The British censor banned his collected work by name.
Reem Kelani
Singer, music researcher, and broadcaster · 1963–
Palestinian-British singer and researcher who has spent three decades collecting, reviving, and performing traditional Palestinian song, blending it with jazz.
Rim Banna
Singer and composer · 1966–2018
The Nazareth singer who went looking for the Palestinian children's songs that were being forgotten, recorded them, and set modern Palestinian poetry to her own melodies.
From Acre Prison
Traditional — sung by Firqat al-ʿAshiqin · 1930
The funeral song for Fuad Hijazi, Muhammad Jamjoum and Atta al-Zir, hanged by the British at Acre prison on 17 June 1930. It went out with their funerals and never stopped being sung — in the camps, at commemorations, and inside the prisons.
Morning Song
Naomi Shihab Nye · 2019
Written for Janna Jihad, the child who began documenting occupation with her mother's phone at age seven: the 'tiny journalist' sees everything — and 'she's bigger than you are.'
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear
Mosab Abu Toha · 2022
Addressing the surgeon who opens his ear, Abu Toha catalogs what is stored inside — his mother's voice, songs, and the sounds of drones and bombs — memory as an archive that must be put back in order.
Dabke
dance
The communal line dance of Palestine and the Levant, performed at weddings and celebrations, with stamping steps that shake the earth.
Dammi Falastini
music
Mohammed Assaf's modern Palestinian identity song — catalogued as a 2014 single, carried by a title that says it without euphemism: My Blood Is Palestinian.
El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe
dance
A volunteer troupe founded in 1979 that carries Palestinian folk dance and song into staged work, schools, community centers, and new generations of performers.
Laylat al-Henna
tradition
The women's night before a Palestinian wedding — henna ground and mixed, patterns worked onto the bride's hands, and the songs that go with it.
Mawsim al-Nabi Musa
tradition
The week-long season of pilgrimage from Jerusalem to the shrine near Jericho — prayers, drums, banners and dancing — that became, under the Mandate, a Palestinian political gathering.
Palestinian Hip-Hop
music
Rap in Arabic, from Lydda to London — a generation that took the newest available form and used it to keep the oldest available thing, the language.
Palestinian Music
music
From the improvised verse of zajal and the laments of the mawwal to the hip-hop of DAM — a music that carries memory, celebration, and defiance.
Songs of the 1936 Revolt
music
During the Great Palestinian Rebellion the fighters' communication system ran partly on singing. Women passed British troop movements along in chants that sounded like children's rhymes, and a printer's apprentice from Haifa turned the whole revolt into colloquial verse.
The Prison Songs
music
Palestinians have been singing about the inside of prisons since the British hanged three men at Acre in 1930. The songs name names, travel by memory rather than print, and are still sung at vigils held for people currently in cells.
El-Funoun
The troupe that kept dabke alive · Al-Bireh, West Bank
Palestine's pioneering popular dance troupe since 1979 — preserving and performing dabke and folklore, founder of the Popular Art Centre.
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Lajee Center
Culture from Aida Camp · Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem
A community cultural center in Aida Refugee Camp running a music institute, library, kindergarten, and arts programmes for a new generation.
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