Category: Blog

Why 2020 is such a bad year, and what to do about it

Believe it or not, there have been worse years than this one for some people on the globe. It has a lot to do with where you live, after all. Imagine having lived through the Gaza bombardment of 2014, for instance. I’m pretty sure you would rank that year as worse! Still, the general mood is created by consensus. Based...

Download ‘Love in the Time of Corona’ for free!

‘Love in the Time of Corona’, my new album, was launched yesterday on CDBaby. When you open the page, you can stream the whole album. This can also be done at Hearnow. However, if you want the album for yourself, you would normally have to pay $9.99 to download it. As more and more countries slide into a lockdown situation...

Rami Yacoub: Swedish-Palestinian Music Giant

Have you heard of Rami Yacoub before? Maybe you haven’t, but one thing that’s for sure, is that you have heard songs he produced or co-produced. Does  Britney’s “Hit Me Baby One More Time” ring any bells? Or Ariana Grande’s “One Last Time”? What about Backstreet Boys’ “Shape of Your Heart”? Rami Yacoub is among the true giants of the...

Children of Gaza

Don’t forget the children of Gaza

The Gaza strip is a narrow area of Palestine, that only measures 11 by 51 kilometres, and nevertheless is home to 1.6 million Palestinians. Most inhabitants of the Gaza strip, about 75% percent of them, are refugees from the ethnic cleansing of Palestine that was perpetrated by zionist terror organizations in 1948 (the Nakba). Since 2007, ‘Israel’ has kept Gaza...