WILT_2024-12

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 17 Mar 2024 to 23 Mar 2024.

1. Oundikom – Ahmad Kaabour
2. A Prayer – Rim Banna
3. That Moment When – Adnan Joubran
4. Al Bint El Chalabeya – Dorsaf Hamdani
5. Yalah Yalah Ramallah – Fermin Muguruza
6. Don’t Leave! – El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe
7. Fuqaati (My Bubble) – Ruba Shamshoum
8. Hana – Ruba Shamshoum
9. Niyalak – Sanaa Moussa
10. Nijmet El-subeh – Sanna Moussa
11. Memories Of A Palestinian Wound – Amal Murkus

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2024-12

Notes

I came across a few techno mixes by Sama Abdulhadi and that piqued my interest into what contemporary Palestinian culture was like. It’s no lie that Palestinian society is undergoing immense hardship at this moment, and it is also uncertain whether both their people, society and culture will survive the constant bombardment, destruction, internment and loss of life that the IDF is subjecting the civilian populace to.

I started exploring traditional and folk music by Palestinian artists and musicians because this was their expression of humanity, their breaths of life, that we are seeing being taken away and extinguished by powers and wills beyond us and not our own. Yet what can we do to peacefully resist these wills that have chosen war, destruction, and inflicting pain and suffering to fellow human beings? I don’t know what peaceful resistance is because this struggle has demonstrated that if wills beyond your own aim to see your demise, your resistance ends in your erasure. But perhaps others will remember, and today I would like to choose to remember, that these songs are real, that these people are real, and that a will beyond our own is choosing to erase them, their culture, and their history.