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Showing posts with label Protecting the Arab Spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Protecting the Arab Spring. Show all posts

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Arab spring rappers blast ‘thieves of the revolution’

As Syrian hip-hop developed alongside the nearly two-year-old revolt against the regime, “people started to listen... and it became more direct,” al Sayyed Darwish, a member of the Syrian trio LaTlateh, said. (AFP)
As Syrian hip-hop developed alongside the nearly two-year-old revolt against the regime, “people started to listen... and it became more direct,” al Sayyed Darwish, a member of the Syrian trio LaTlateh, said. (AFP)


Sitting on the fringes of upheaval in the Middle East, Lebanon’s capital Beirut has become the scene of experimental music-making by Khat Thaleth, a group of rappers out to take the revolts that started during the Arab Spring to the next level. The collective has members from around the region - ranging from Tunisia, birthplace of the Arab uprising, to the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon - and vocalizes the realities of a new generation carrying the baggage of the past...................

Here's one of their videos:

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