Tagged: palestine

NEWS: Doc Jazz receives a music blog award!

NEWS: Doc Jazz receives a music blog award!

Doc Jazz has some great news to share this time: a music blog award from Clickitticket.com ! Clickitticket is an independent sports, ticket and concert agency.   The Musical Intifada received an email from Clickitticket’s Sandra Conte, saying: “A couple of years back we ran a little feature on our favorite music artists. Our visitors loved it – we included...

Song Spotlight: If We Pretend – Doc Jazz

New at the Musical Intifada: Song Spotlight! Periodically, one of my songs will be highlighted in this category, providing a little more background information about lyrics, style or the ideas that gave rise to recording the song. I welcome your suggestions for which songs you would like to see featured in ‘Song Spotlight’; just send me a message through the...

Did words ever end an occupation? Still, Unity First

Did words ever end an occupation? Still, Unity First

by Tariq Shadid – September 23, 2011 was a memorable day. On that day, we watched the President of the Palestinian Authority unleash a barrage of strong words against the Zionist colonialist state of Israel, using language and meanings that we had rarely heard him use before on the international diplomatic stage.   He mentioned the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing, the racist annexation wall,...

Another milestone: 15,000 Doc Jazz FB page members

On March 11th this year, the Doc Jazz Facebook page hit the 10,000 member count, and I reported on it with gratitude. The time has come again to thank the Palestine-loving people who have graced my page with their presence, now bringing the count up to 15,000 ! I takes quite some effort, time and resources to maintain the website,...