3-31-2017 Rapping amid Palestine’s ruins Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada


https://electronicintifada.net/content/rapping-amid-palestines-ruins/20031


Kareem, the protagonist of a new [Israeli] feature film about a Palestinian hip-hop artist, embodies "the sequel to what happened in the Nakba," said Tamer Nafar, who co-wrote and stars in Junction 48.  The character Kareem, Nafar told The Electronic Intifada, was inspired by his own life…Like Nafar, Kareem is a rising [rap] star living in Lydd, a city near Tel Aviv in present-day Israel. Lydd was the site of one of the worst episodes in the Nakba, the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine. In July of that year, some 50,000 Palestinians were driven out of the town by Zionist militias and expelled to the West Bank. Nearly 70 years later, residents continue to resist discriminatory Israeli policies targeting Palestinians and their homes in Lydd.  The ongoing oppression and displacement of Palestinians inside Israel – what Palestinians call '48 – inspires the storyline of Junction 48… The film was recently featured as "critics' pick" by the The New York Times.  To hear the full interviews with Tamer Nafar and Udi Aloni, listen to the podcast via the media player above.

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