Hip Hop Diplomacy x Language Learning: DAM
In a conversation yesterday with my Imagination Age colleagues, Rita J. King and Josh Fouts, the question came up of how to use Hip Hop Diplomacy to promote language learning and I immediately thought...
View ArticleDoc X Narrative: “Ajami”
My first two tweets coming out of seeing “Ajami“, the Oscar-nominated Arab-Israeli film, praised its rare, “portrayal of Arab & Israeli male aggression AND vulnerability” as well as the decentered,...
View ArticleIsrael x Obama: Yes, We Can (co-opt the brand)
Having just returned from a week and a half in Israel, I’m torn over how I want to portray what I observed there. And perhaps that is the only true portrayal that I can give, one of a land torn in at...
View ArticleDAM in Sheikh Jarrah: Protest re-Imagined
For several months now, left-wing Israeli and Palestinian protesters have been holding weekly protests in the town of Sheikh Jarrah, in East Jerusalem, to protest the evictions of Palestinian families...
View ArticleNarcicyst x SXSW: No Party in Apartheid
For those of us (myself included) who missed last week’s South by Southwest festival, there was one notable event that took place outside of the venues and that was a small but heartfelt protest...
View ArticleHamas Hates on Hip Hop
This just in from Haaretz (via Reuters): Hamas police have broken up the Gaza Strip’s first major hip-hop concert. The B Boy Gaza group had just started a lively dance set late on Saturday in a...
View ArticleDAM in Sheikh Jarrah II: The Remix
For those who caught my piece about DAM’s concert in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, the site of weekly protests against the Israeli government’s eviction of Arab Israelis, here’s an...
View ArticleGaza Flotilla Protest X Lowkey (UK)
A photo essay from the May 31 Manchester protest against Israel’s attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, from the BBC building to central Manchester, set to Lowkey’s anthem “Long Live Palestine” (the...
View ArticleLogic x Shadia Mansour: So Serious
Brand new video from South London’s Logic (co-founder with Lowkey of the youth mobilization group, The People’s Army), and the great Shadia Mansour. The song itself, a would-be rally cry for justice,...
View ArticleThe Narcicyst x Shadia Mansour: “Hamdulillah”
After long last, and not a moment too soon or late, the much-anticipated music video for the first collaboration between Iraqi-Canadian MC The Narcicyst and Palestinian-British singer Shadia Mansour,...
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