Lowkey

Why is the BBC so afraid of the word "Palestine"?

Amena Saleem
2 February 2012

This week, the BBC issued its final ruling on a controversy which has been raging for nearly a year after the words “Free Palestine” were censored from a freestyle rap played on Radio 1Xtra.

Eclectic new album highlights Israel's jailing of Palestinian children

James Edwards
Dublin
20 December 2011

Lost Youth - Songs of Solidarity, a new benefit album for a young Palestinian theater performer arrested and imprisoned by Israel on his way to tour Ireland, Scotland and England in 2005, has been released.

New Lowkey album a soundtrack to the human struggle

Alexander Billet
16 November 2011

Iraqi-British rapper Lowkey’s new album Soundtrack to the Struggle is not only a listening experience, but a call for a fundamentally different world.

Film review: Can hip hop be "bigger than the occupation"?

Alexander Billet
29 September 2011

How can one expect any art to take root under Israeli occupation, let alone for a small delegation of artists, DJs and rappers to make any impact?

World premiere of film "Hip Hop is Bigger than the Occupation" May 30 in NYC

Hip Hop is Bigger than the Occupation documents a crew of artists who traveled throughout the occupied West Bank for ten days. The group stayed at Balata refugee camp near Nablus, getting a taste of life under Israeli occupation:

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