Awaited Release of Samemen tomorrow!

Etiopian langugaes, arabic, moroccan , algerian arabic, hebrew, english and different african languages mixed together by israeli artist Idan Raichel. I just love his new TRIPPEL album. available to pre-order already today in Itunes across the world. This is the best song I believe: "Samemen" performed excellently by female singer Cabra Casay.

Samemen"performed excellent by Cabra Casay

Tags: musik kultur språk

Tel Aviv Pride:Sarai Givaty - Paris

one of the many performing acts was Sarai Givaty...performing this ibizaesque song

Paris

Tel Aviv Pride : Dana Lapidot (live)

How to describe this? 80ties music updated to today! Dana Lapidot Amazing!

Sheghel Arab 2 - new provoking season

The Arab-Palestinian Israeli version of Cosby has returned with season 2 of this world famous series.This show marked a milestone on Israeli television as the first program to present Arab-Palestinian characters speaking Arabic on primetime, and it generated great controversy between Arab and Israeli media.

Created by Sayed Kashua, an Israeli-born Palestinian journalist, Arab Labor(translated from the Hebrew “Avoda Aravit”, which colloquially implies “shoddy or second-rate work”) focuses on Amjad Alian, a Palestinian journalist and Israeli citizen in search of his identity. Poking fun at the cultural divide, Kashua and his characters play on religious, cultural and political differences to daringly depict the mixed society that is Israel.

When father Amjad moves into a Jewish neighborhood, he is mistaken for a terrorist and an IDF soldier.

What I really enjoy about theses series is that it is making fun of the stereotypes of both Israeli jews and arabs. No side is depicted better than the other. And it is damn fun to watch and deliberating. As propalestinian groups keep watching depressing propaganda movies that is deeply biased like "Tears of Gaza" and "the ground speaks arabic" this is really what they should watch! Because here the ground speaks both arabic and hebrew and it works very well together!

Thank you Sayed for yet a wonderful season to look forward to!

Perspektiv på MENA:

10/1 21:11

låt en arab tala, låt en "fiende" till Israel tala, låt en Muslim tala:

författaren Ahed Elhendi skrev nyligen om Israel och Syrien.

En aktuell händelse anknyter han till:
Det fanns två systrar. Den ena höll på att dö och kvinnan i Golan, i Israel bad om tillstånd att få åka till Syrien för att kunna ta ett sista farväl innan den arabiska kvinnan i Syrien skulle dö. Hon beviljades tillstånd att åka till Syrien av Netanyahu. och de båda arabiska systrarna kunde ta farväl av varandra.

I Syrien dog igår en arabisk kvinna, hennes sista önskan var att få träffa sin make och sina söner som satt fängslade i Damaskus. Hennes sista önskan avslogs.

Är verkligen bilden av Israel rättvis? Är bilden av fredsprocessen och situationen rättvis? Nej Israel blir orättvist behandlad...detta kan även araber i exil från sina arabiska hemländer uttrycka.

Här finns hela texten på arabiska skriven av Ahed Elhendi, en arab från Syrien.

هل سمعتم بتركية احمد زيدان وبهالة احمد زيدان؟؟

تركية تعيش في قرية مسعدة المحتلة وهالة في قرية حضر من الجانب "الغير محتل" من سوريا لأن تركية كانت على فراش الموت سمحت حكومة نتنياهو لهالة بالعبور إلى الجزء المحتل وزيارة اختها في الجانب المحتل.

اما بالنسبة للجانب الغير محتل في وطننا، السيد امية ام محمد، زوجة الكاتب علي العبدالله،، توفيت وكانت قبلها تصارع الموت وعاشت فترة في غيبوبة وخضعت لعمليات عدة وحكومة الممانعة والمقاومة والصمود والتصدي لم تسمح لأبنها عمر السجين بالخروج لرؤيتها والمحكوم منذ خمس سنوات لتعبيره عن رايه، ولم تسمح لعلي العبدالله حتى بالخروج في تاريخ اطلاق سراحه المحدد بل حاكمته بتهم جديدة وابقته في المعتقل لكتابته مقال في السجن، ولن تسمح بالتأكيد لابنها محمد المنفي في امريكا من رؤية امه قبل وفاتها. توفيت ام محمد دون ان ترى ابناءها و زوجها ودون ان يرف جفن لسيادة الرئيس "الإنساني" الذي لاتفتئ الصحف الغربية مؤخراً في في النشر عن انسانيته وزوجته المصون. لا اعرف ان توفيت تركية احمد زيدان، بعد ان رأت اختها و. لكن متأكد أن في سرها شكرت حكومة الإحتلال على رؤية اختها. اما ام محمد فلا اعرف اي صورة كانت ترسمها في مخيلتها قبل وفاتها لهذا الوحش البشري الذي حرمها من رؤية اولادها وزوجها ولم يرأف بوضعها الصحي كما فعل نتنياهو مع تركية احمد زيدان

Israel is "stealing" arab music

Is the statement above a sign of israelophobia? Yes clearly it is I argue.

On the internet arab bloggers and composers are mad of Israel because of Israeli artists are "stealing" their music. Instead of thinking of it as a an israeli tribute to arab music and an act of antiracism the Egyptian composer and artist Amr Mustafa chose to view it as stealing. In Youtube there are several israeli tributes to arab music labelled as "zionists stealing" arab music. However Amr Mustafa only mention Israeli artists buying copyright from Egyptian music companies but not the turkish and lebanese and greeks aswell copy egyptian music and Egyptian copying Turkish music.

This approach to israeli cultures use of the middle eastern herritage is something I faced myself when I once played an israeli mizrahi song with a traditional oriental style. An arab then commented and asked what language it was sung in. I told him that it is in Hebrew and Arabic and it was Israeli artists performing the song. His instant reaction was that it was stealing arab music,however that song was purely original israeli (Ishtar - Yahad).

Why this sentiment that a love for the culture is stealing and why this only is

referred to when it comes to Israel?

A little bit more of Arab composers "stealing" israeli compositions maybe would

contribute to peace.

Below Eti Bitton's interpretation of one of Amr Mustafas hit songs:

A chinese proverb - Eti Biton

Amr Mustafa about copyright (in Arabic):

We didn't start the fire

A fire has hit the Carmel forest in nearby Haifa area in Northern Israel. This is How Israeli comedians give their view on this topic. A cover of We didn't start the fire but with new hebrew lyrics. Meanwhile it is interesting that Iraqi Christians are spreading a rumour that Israel was behind the recent killing of Christians in Bagdad Church. And another ridiculous accusation was made by South Sinai Governor Mohamed Abdel Fadil Shousha claiming that Israel was behind the new shark attacks in Egypt. It is sad and hilarious to see how Jews and Israel always are blamed for everything they haven't done and how little self- criticism there is in the Middle East.

Egypt Governor: 'Mossad may be behind Red Sea shark attacks':

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3995302,00.html