There is some important news on the front of music for the Palestinian cause: South African artists have banded together to record an album in support of the Palestinian struggle named ‘AMANDLA INTIFADA 2’. The album, in some ways, can be seen as a sequel to the album released in 2009 through the collaboration of four South African bands, called...
‘The Flaneur’, a UK-based art blog, recently contacted me with the following request: “We bring news and reviews of art and culture from around the world and I wondered if you could help us. We do not yet have anyone writing art and culture reviews/interviews/articles from Palestine. Do you know any people who would be interested in writing about...
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...
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