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Palestine: Landscapes of Desire

May 27th, 2009 | Posted in Culture, Palestine

John Halaka show at the Jerusalem Fund, DC.

Photo: John Halaka art work on land and resistance.

John Halaka’s drawings Landscapes of Desire are inspired by the ruins of Palestinian villages and homes that were destroyed by Israel during and after the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

The images compel the viewer to reflect on the unrelenting effort by the Jewish State to annihilate a culture that refuses to disappear and an indigenous people that refuse to go away. The ruins of stone homes from destroyed Palestinian villages such as Kafr Bir’im, Lifta and Al-Bassa, poetically represented in Halaka’s drawings, are a declaration that in the face of looming cultural annihilation, the persistence of memory is a crucial act of resistance.

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Artist captures the many voices of Beirut’s underground folkies

May 16th, 2009 | Posted in Beirut, Culture, Lebanon

Daily Stary, by Matthew Mosley. Thursday, May 14, 2009

Photo: Tanya Traboulsi. Scrambled Eggs perform in Beirut, Lebanon.

BEIRUT: “The choice of artists is very personal,” says Ziad Nawfal of his latest album, “The Ruptured Sessions.” “I really have to like what they do.” It seems that Nawfal isn’t alone in his tastes. A capacity crowd at the album’s April 30 launch party at Hamra’s Walimat Wardeh restaurant craned their necks around bodies and pillars to catch a glimpse of the featured artists at work.

The disk is a compilation of material recorded live on Nawfal’s Monday evening Radio Liban show “Ruptures.” “I started inviting young artists into the studio to talk about themselves and the music they like,” said Nawfal over the phone several days after the album launch. “They’d also play three or four tracks of their own.”

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Artists Against Apartheid VIII

May 14th, 2009 | Posted in Boycott, Canada, Culture, Palestine, Quebec

within the Suoni per il Popolo | photo: Matthew Cassel

SUNDAY JUNE 7

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Photos: Artists Anti Apartheid VII

April 21st, 2009 | Posted in Boycott, Canada, Culture, Palestine, Tadamon!

Photo essay by Ion Etxebarria and Darren Ell.

Photo: Ion Etxebarria. Kaie Kellough, poet and author, performs.

Ground breaking musicians and artists from Montreal took the stage on Sunday, April 12th for the seventh edition of Artists Against Apartheid at La Sala Rossa, occurring within the international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid and in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation.

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Artists Against Apartheid VII

April 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Boycott, Canada, Culture, Palestine, Quebec, Tadamon!

evening featuring celebrated musicians from Montreal united against Israeli apartheid

SUNDAY APRIL 12th

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Beirut: Music is Life

February 21st, 2009 | Posted in Beirut, Culture, Lebanon

A photo essay by Tanya Traboulsi

Photo: Tanya Traboulsi. Scrambled Eggs perform in Beirut, Lebanon.

A striking compilation of photos presented by Tadamon! from photographer Tanya Traboulsi which document the underground music scene in Beirut, Lebanon, a center for groundbreaking culture in the Middle East today and for decades. Admits the political chaos of Lebanon these photographs present a glimpse into the thriving world of alternative musical culture in Beirut which has attracted international attention for it’s mix of Middle Eastern musical traditions and modern musical expression from hip-hop, to free Jazz, to electronic music.

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