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Amal Murkus
Music critics claim she has one of the most beautiful voices in the Middle East and she continues to captivate audiences worldwide with her emotional live performances. Yet Amal Murkus’ life is steeped in the tragedy of her Palestinian people’s dispossession and repression. The composer, from Israel’s Galilee region has defied her country’s prejudices to bring together a delicate marriage between Palestinian poetry and Western instrumentation. Her lyrics and music promote an end to the mad cycle of violence between Jews and Muslims in Israel and the territories the Jewish state occupies. Her debut album « Amal » («Hope »), released by Israel’s Hemisphere label, reflects her repertory of original compositions, poems written by leading Palestinian authors and classical Arabic folksongs.

Danemark, 2003

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Introduction on Murkus’ musical resistance and an extract of the opening track of her first album, « Hqai » (« Tell us a story »). The difficulties of being a Palestinian artist in Israel. The link between her album and her personal story as a woman

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The multiple fronts Murkus fights on to end « the crazy, fascist way Sharon leads this country »

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« The Palestinians memory is in a suitcase ». Yet, Murkus has refused to leave her homeland, she has remained steadfastly attached to the village of her birth, Kufur Yasif

Setting : In the course of the 2nd World Conference on Freedom of Musical Expression, in Copenhagen, Amal Murkus agreed to describe the challenges of being a Palestinian artist in Israel. This exchange was first broadcast by World Tracks, a weekly programme on Radio France International.

Interviewed by Daniel Brown

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