When I first entered Facebook, I was a little skeptical about the whole thing. I was never too impressed with Myspace, where my friends list was growing rapidly but I felt there was little interaction on my Doc Jazz page there – so I expected Facebook to simply be more of the same. How wrong I turned out to be!...
In 1980, a song I wrote, “Another Brick in the Wall Part 2,” was banned by the governmen t o f South Africa because it was being used by Black South African children to advocate their right to equal education. That apartheid government imposed a cultural blockade, so-to-speak, on certain songs, including mine. Twenty-five years later, in 2005, Palestinian children...
Roger Waters, frontman and bassist of the iconic rock band Pink Floyd, has become one of the most prominent and active supporters of the Palestinian cause among the celebrities of the world. While some of the world’s iconic figures have been brave enough to cancel their concerts in Tel Aviv, and some have dared to be critical of the brutal...
Reproduced from Ikhras.com. Although the Musical Intifada mainly presents original articles, it occasionally posts articles from other websites. Mona Eltahawy who takes pride in being “the first Egyptian journalist to live and to work for a western news agency in Israel” was a big hit at this year’s J-Street gathering. This is a video of her opening remarks at the...
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