music

To the right is an SJP Loyola YouTube playlist of Palestinian and Palestine-related music. A point to note about a lot of older Palestinian music is how the Nakba and subsequent events changed the way music operates or is remembered in Palestinian communities. You can read a brief overview of this here. In addition to the historical significance of Palestinian music, this playlist offers a diverse range of contemporary Palestinian artists who continue to use their music as a form of resistance and cultural expression what is mentioned a lot in essays https://essaystore.net/

One of our members created a playlist for an article in Sixteen Minutes to Palestine of 10+ must-hear Palestinian songs. While this is not a comprehensive or even survey sample of Palestinian music, it will give you a good taste of contemporary music trends. To read more about each song, go to the article here.

To learn more about Palestinian music--ranging from its rich historical past to its resistance-rooted present--read Palestinian Music and Song: Expression and Resistance since 1900.

dance

Whether you're Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, or anything else, debke, a traditional line dance, is a central part of celebratory culture. Each region, of course, has its own style of debke.

As there are dance troupes for every type of dance, the same holds true for debke. In the Midwest, Sanabel El-Quds (video to the left) and Firqit Al-Azdeekah are popular debke troupes.

palestinian embroidery

For a basic history and guide to the tatreez (or Palestinian embroidery) styles of the different regions of Palestine, check out this online pamphlet from Asalah.

For more information on the history and practice of tatreez, refer to Widad Kawar, author of Threads of Identity: Preserving Palestinian Costume and Heritage.

food

To the left, Laila El-Haddad--co-author of The Gaza Kitchen--explains the idea behind her book and the diversity of dishes across Palestine (while connecting said diversity to issues on the ground).