Rent-Free Radio: 005 - Sounds from Palestine w/ Fatena

15.10.23

This month’s show of Rent-Free Radio is a series of poems, songs and interviews dedicated to homeland, dispossession, exile, longing, resistance and liberation by and for Palestinians, curated by Palestinian Cape Town-based DJ and selector Fatena (@__foali)

A moment of reflection and solidarity through the cadence of Palestinian resilience.

Featuring Al Fajer Group, Riad Awwad, Fairuz, Marcel Khalife, Ferkat Ard, Sabreen, Mahmoud Darwish, Ghassan Kanafani

Cover photo by Palestinian photographer Adam Rouhana (@adam.rouhana)

No one is free until we are all free.

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tracklist

Poem / Mahmoud Darwish ‘On this Land’ (feat. Ministry of Dubkey)

Song /  Flower of the Cities (Zahret al Mada’en - ASY, Fairuz

Song / Lover’s Hymn - El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe

Song / A’needun Ana - Al Fajer Group

Song / The Passport - Marcel Khalife (lyrics based on a poem by Mahmoud Darwish)

Song / Homeland - Riad Awwad

Song / Entazerni - Ferkat Ard (lyrics are based on a poem by Samih Al-Qasim)

Song / A Time to Cry - Rim Banna

Interview / Ghassan Kanafani interview with Richard Carleton (1970)

Song / Tha’er - Al Bara’em

Song / I’m from Jerusalem - Riad Awwad

Song / A Letter from an Exiled - Sabreen

Song / Remember Yaffa - Joseph Azar

Song / El Kods Al Atika - Fairuz

Song / Sob Bladi - Ahmad Kaabour

Song / Oh Flying Bird - Jawaher Shofani

Film excerpt / Kwame Ture in Tell Me Lies (1968)