2016 saw the release of my second album Reem Kelani: Live at the Tabernacle, almost exactly ten years after the issue of my first Sprinting Gazelle: Palestinian Songs from the Motherland and the Diaspora. Both albums represented the fruit of much hard work over many years, and I am proud of them, as statements of cultural identity …
Reem contributed these opening remarks to a panel discussion My parents fled from Palestine in the early 1950s, soon after the establishment of the state of Israel. I was born in Manchester, where my father studied to become a doctor, and I grew up in Kuwait. It was in Kuwait that I learned to be …
WOW BRADFORD, SAT 5TH NOV 2016: HOW TO TURN LOCAL ACTIVISM INTO GLOBAL SOLIDARITY Read More »
68 years ago today, many from the generation of my parents and grandparents were ethnically cleansed from their ancestral homeland. We refer to this date as the Nakba, the Catastrophe, of our expulsion from our roots and our collective memory. Years later, this classic “The Flower of all Cities” [Jerusalem] was released by Lebanese legend …