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Arts, Music & Culture
Music
On this page you will find EI's music reviews, music news, and links to musicians and musical organizations based in Palestine and in the Palestinian diaspora, or whose music deals with Palestine-related themes. From hip-hop to classical to traditional Arabic music, contemporary Palestinian musicians are producing work in many genres.
EI's music reviews and features
Reem Kelani: Telling the Palestinian narrative through song, Susannah Tarbush (11 July 2006)
FREE THE P! Palestine Takes NYC's East Village by Storm, Remi Kanazi (17 October 2005)
Freedom for Palestine: Ticket-holders only?, Maureen Clare Murphy (31 August 2005)
Where There's the Ghetto, There's Hip Hop", Evert-Jan Grit (5 July 2005)
DJ K-Salaam, reviewed by Ismail Khalidi (27 January 2003)
Music news
Open Letter to Pink Floyd's Roger Wateres, various undersigned (18 March 2006)
NYC: Free the P Hip-Hop & Slam Party, Free the P (2 March 2006)
Arab music tour to benefit music education in Palestine, ANERA (6 February 2006)
Here's hoping: Primal Scream for Palestine, The Guardian (15 October 2004)
Rap group DAM to hold first US show October 5!, DAM (3 October 2005)
Sheffield calling: Palestine activists take a page from concert against apartheid, Concert 4 Palestine (7 October 2004)
UNRWA opens Nimreen children's music centre in Yarmouk, UNRWA (16 September 2004)
Open letter to Madonna, Angela Godfrey-Goldstein (15 September 2004)
Reality Check for "Palestinian Idol, Palestine Report (26 August 2004)
The intellectual, the maestro, and the "piece process", Ismail Khalidi (17 August 2004)
Al-Fawanees: The first musical in Palestine, National Conservatory of Music (5 August 2004)
Scottish parliament asked to support global Concert for Palestine, Gazzella (15 June 2004)
Madonna pushes her fears over the borderline, cancels Israeli concerts, Victor Kattan (26 May 2004)
Daniel Barenboim's statement at the Knesset upon receiving the Wolf Prize, May 9, 2004), speech (16 May 2004)
Edward Said's work towards artistic cooperation celebrated in music performance memorial, by Maureen Clare Murphy (16 October 2003)
Edward Said's Breadth of Interest, by Daniel Barenboim, (26 September 2003)
Doctor Earle's diagnosis, "American singer Steve Earle, no stranger to rehab himself, has a few prescriptions for an ailing America," Robert Everett-Green writes in the Toronto Globe and Mail (4 June 2003)
It's up to us not to heed the call-up, EI's Laurie King-Irani pays homage to the late Joe Strummer of "The Clash" (24 December 2002)
Just Call Him the 'Oud' Man of Music, Newsday's Ayaz Nanji profiles oud player Najeeb Shaheen (16 October 2002)
Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said awarded the annual Prince of Asturias Concord Prize in Spain, by Arjan El-Fassed (4 September 2002)
Musicians
Arab Rap- a web resource for Palestinian rap, requires Arabic browser
Musical Intifadah- the website of Doc Jazz, amateur musician in Netherlands of Palestinian descent
Issa Boulos- 'Ud player's website
John Kameel Farah- website of the Palestinian-Canadian musician
Ruba Hatem - Palestinian-Jordanian Arabic pop singer's website
Iron Sheik- Palestinian-American hip hop artist
Reem Kilani - The contemporary diaspora singer inspired by traditional Arab music
MWR- Israeli Palestinian rap group's website
Juha- A review on the Maui-based queer hip-hop group's website reads: "Juha braids together the causes and music and dreams of Hawai'i and Palestine and gay youth" — from Out in Mauii
The Philistines- the website of the U.S. based rap group
This Side of Paradise- 2001 debut album of EI founder Nigel Parry includes several songs about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Music organizations
The National Conservatory of Music- an affilliate of Birzeit University
Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre
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