The Palestinian tapes, part 1

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Mo’min Swaitat unearthed a vast trove of forgotten Palestinian music. Not only did it hold long-lost recordings of his own Bedouin family, but also a mysterious yellow cassette of protest songs set to an electro-disco beat. Mo’min became captivated by the yellow tape. It would open up a world of underground music from one of the most turbulent times in Palestinian history, the first Intifada. But could he track down who’d made it?

Presenter: Mobeen Azhar Producer: Maryam Maruf Editor: Munazza Khan Sound design: Joel Cox Mix: Giles Aspen With thanks to Diana Alghoul for translation support

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0:00.0	You are about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about what goes into making one.
0:06.5	I'm Sadata Sese, an assistant commissioner of podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:11.1	I pull a lot of levers to support a diverse range of podcasts on all sorts of subjects,
0:16.0	relationships, identity, comedy, even one that mixes poetry, music and inner city life.
0:22.4	So one day I'll be helping host develop their ideas, the next fact-checking, a feature,
0:28.3	and the next looking at how a podcast connects with its audience, and maybe that's you.
0:33.6	So if you like this podcast, check out some others on BBC Sounds.
0:39.7	Lovely to meet you, Momen.
0:41.6	How are you doing?
0:43.2	I'm good, I'm good. How are you doing?
0:45.3	Mubin.
0:45.9	Mubin, yeah.
0:46.4	Come in, come in, come in.
0:47.6	Yeah.
0:48.8	I've come to meet Momen Swayat.
0:51.7	You can call Moumen a polymath, or you can say he has fingers in a lot of pies.
0:57.0	A DJ with a background in theatre who also makes documentaries. He lives in the UK now, but he's
1:04.8	originally from Janine, a Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank. You're from a Bedouin background, aren't you?
1:13.3	Yeah, the Palestinian Bedouin is like a minority in the Palestinian culture.
1:19.7	And it's have its own life, its own way of living.
1:24.5	And like most of my family income are either from being a bedwin and walking the sheep
1:30.5	and having a sheep in the house or cows or animals or being a musician.
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