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The ataaba is one of many Palestinian folk music traditions that continues to be performed at weddings and festivals in Palestine, as well as by Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. [ 1 ] [ 8 ] The ataaba and other forms of improvised poetry such as the mawwal and mijana have been used by Palestinians since the 1960s, "to express ...
From 1992 to 1999 El Funoun dance troupe performed at the Palestine International Festival. [2] In 1997, the dance troupe received the Palestine Award for Popular Folklore. [2] In 1997, the group staged Zaghareed, which followed a modern Palestinian wedding. [8] In 2004, the group collaborated with the Belgian group les Ballets C de la B. [10]
Over three decades, the Palestinian National Music and Dance Troupe (El Funoun) and Mohsen Subhi have reinterpreted and rearranged traditional wedding songs such as Mish'al (1986), Marj Ibn 'Amer (1989) and Zaghareed (1997). [25]
From pathos to praise of Hamas, songs written by musicians across the Middle East in response to Israel's offensive in Gaza are putting the Palestinian issue back at the forefront of Arab popular ...
In the areas now controlled by both Israel and Palestine, multiple ethnic groups and religions have long held on to a diversity of cultures. Mandatory Palestine population with Arabs (including urban and rural Muslim classes, Arab Christians, Druze and Muslim Bedouin) constituted the largest group, followed by Jews (including Sephardim, Mizrahim and Ashkenazim), Samaritans, Circassians ...
In 1987, Sabreen was registered as a community-based NGO with the goal of developing music in Palestine. Sabreen plays the role of a music resource organization organizing summer camps, workshops, festivals, and training many Palestinian musicians. The Sabreen offices and recording studio are based in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem. It has ...
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The Rahbani brothers were known for their early commitment to the Palestinian cause, [2] and Fairuz is celebrated throughout the Arab world for her songs about Palestine, the first of which was the 1957 semi-dramatic "Raji'un" ("We Are Returning"), written and composed for Cairo Radio. [9]