Riad Awwad, Hanan Awwad, and Mahmoud Darwish - I'm from Jerusalem
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🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Riad Awwad, Hanan Awwad, and Mahmoud Darwish - "I'm From Jerusalem" from the 2023 album The Intifada 1987 on Majazz Project
In December 1987, the First Intifada of protests and violent riots broke out, carried out by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and Israel. Palestinian Riad Awwad was an electrical engineer with a passion for music, and within a week, he began recording this album in the family living room, using instruments he built himself. Today's Song of the Day features Riad's sister Hanan, as well as lyrics by Riad's friend, Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish.
He titled the 11-track album The Intifada 1987, pressing 3,000 cassette tapes and circulating them around the Old City of Jerusalem and across the West Bank until the Israeli military intervened. Riad was arrested and detained for several months. To this day, copies of the album remain in the military archives, but in 2020, one copy managed to find its way to artist and music collector Mo’min Swaitat, who established the Majazz Project to release musical treasures like this.
Unfortunately, Awwad never lived to see his album pressed and released worldwide like this. He was killed in a car accident in 2005. His legacy lives on, not only in his music, but in the children of the West Bank who he inspired. Before his passing, he founded a school there, teaching children how to create their own electronic musical equipment.
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| 0:00.0 | The And the child's of the city will beld al-Qadi, |
| 0:15.0 | bahd al-qadie, |
| 0:19.0 | and the chorai, |
| 0:21.0 | the saini of habeibana, |
| 0:23.0 | nah but she will be al-Dal-Dibana. |
| 0:26.0 | And your right, |
| 0:27.0 | the same in the haibana, |
| 0:30.0 | an al-Nah, nah nah tah tah tah tah tah tah tah tah tah tah tah tah tah tah tah tah tah tah tahmahhibnah nah nah nah nah nah nahhah nahhahhah nah nah No, no, no, but see. An a no, but see. |
| 0:35.0 | An a no, |
| 0:37.0 | no put see. |
| 0:39.0 | An a no, |
| 0:37.0 | no pussy. Anah nal putxi will bel del kadimana with your right |
| 0:48.7 | the state of habana |
| 0:50.9 | n al kutxi will b al-kadimana Habibana, Nal Kutsi, M' |
| 1:03.0 | al-Qadibana, |
| 0:55.0 | Unshawai. |
| 0:56.0 | N'L Khabh'an, |
| 0:58.0 | Anam, al-Quzi, |
| 1:00.0 | Anam-Al-Nal-Qusi. And I'm not put see. |
| 1:03.0 | An I'm not put see. |
| 1:07.0 | And I'm not put see. |
| 1:08.0 | An a lot put see. My name is Kishara, |
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