DAM

“New melodies and rhythms that in our minds go beyond what is expected of traditional hip-hop.”

On our podcast: Tamer Nafar of the ground-breaking Palestinian hip-hop group DAM speaks with EI about their new album; plus clips from two songs.

DAM’s Tamer Nafar talks to EI about their new album, Dabke on the Moon.

“If I could go back in time” DAM raps the story “backwards” from death to birth of a young woman murdered by members of her family for refusing to marry against her will.

Peddling CDs on the streets of the West Bank, Aseel uses her imagination to magically remake the world around her.

A year after the unsolved murder of actor, director and theater maker Juliano Mer-Khamis near the Freedom Theatre he helped nurture in Jenin, Palestinian hip hop group DAM have released a new single and video celebrating his life and calling for his killers to be found.

The trailer for Sleeping on Stones, the feature film that is the current project of Palestinian-American director Nicole Ballivian, made my heart leap.

Hip Hop group DAM released a new track in support of the Palestinian prisoners actions for justice. Three foreign nationals participate in hunger strike in Gaza and activists in Greece told the Israeli ambassador to stop torture in Israeli jails.

“Tree of Life” (Shajaret Al Hayah) is a new hip-hop track from Rami GB, Mahmoud Jrere (of DAM), Ahmad Srour, Suleiman al-Zawahira. It’s an ode to the olive tree – a symbol of continuity, steadfastness and resistance in Palestine – and frequent target for destruction by Israel from 1948 to the present day.