Tagged: struggle

Palestine and why music matters

I have been promoting the Palestinian cause through my music since the last of months of the year 2000, with the project that I call the ‘Musical Intifada’. Throughout these years this campaign has seen ups and downs, but overall there has been a steady increase in followers and supporters. There can only be one reason why I have kept...

Shireen Issawi holding Samer's picture

Samer Issawi’s letter in SEVEN languages

The translation of Samer Issawi’s letter by the Musical Intifada was taken up by wonderful activists from other countries, now resulting in translations from Arabic into six languages. Please share this page so that the message of our brave hunger striker can be read and understood in all corners of the world. The text is here below in: English, Arabic,...

South African artists launch collab album ‘AMANDLA INTIFADA 2’

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...

Palestine is Full of Heroes

By Tariq Shadid This article was originally published at the Palestine Think Tank and the Palestine Chronicle. Republished here because basically, nothing has changed. Although people in our modern times have been educated to believe that having the ‘right’ ideas, methods or ideologies is what causes revolutions, history teaches us that drastic changes usually happen when the majority of the...