Join us for a special Palestine 101 event featuring Mo’min Swaitat, founder of the Majazz Project, a Palestinian-led record label and research platform. This session will introduce the Palestinian Sound Archive, a project dedicated to preserving and celebrating Palestinian and Arab musical heritage from the 1960s to the 1990s. Swaitat has amassed a rare collection of cassettes and vinyl records, spanning field recordings of Bedouin weddings, revolutionary albums from the First and Second Intifadas, instrumental tracks, poetry, soul, folk, and jazz.
The archive breathes new life into historic sounds through sampling, remixing, and reissuing, offering insight into how music serves as a tool of cultural preservation and resistance.
Hosted by Farrah Koutteineh, founder of KEY48 – a voluntary collective calling for the immediate right of return of over 7.4 million Palestinian refugees, this event will explore archival practice as a decolonial methodology, examining how sound and imagery document Palestinian heritage and resistance. The discussion will be accompanied by a live DJ set from the Palestinian Sound Archive with Mo’min Swaitat and DJ Snuff, a London-based cultural organiser and long-time advocate of Palestinian music and activism.
DATE & TIME: Wednesday 26th March at 7pm
LOCATION: You can join for Free Online or come to The Black Box, Belfast for a small fee!
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This event is organised by Comhlámh & Artists Against Genocide and is part of a larger effort to educate, amplify, and stand in solidarity. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with the power of archival music and learn about Palestine’s rich cultural history!