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Writer: Louis Brehony

– Louis Brehony is a musician, activist, researcher and educator. He is author of the book Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance (2023), editor of Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings (2024), and director of the award-winning film Kofia: A Revolution Through Music (2021). He writes regularly on Palestine and political culture and performs internationally as a buzuq player and guitarist. He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.

Voice of the People: When Umm Kulthum Sang for Palestine

February 1, 2025

By Louis Brehony “I believe that the beginning of the real work of liberating Palestine is the appearance of the Palestinian fida’i who carries the rifle, gun and grenade, who crosses the wires and existing […]

‘Cast off Your Sandals, Moses’: Rola Azar Releases New Song of Resistance

May 9, 2024

By Louis Brehony Seven months into the genocide on Gaza, vocalist Rola Milad Azar has recorded and released a stirring new anthem of solidarity. With poetry and music by Lebanese songwriter and leftist Fadi Zaraket, […]

Walid Daqqa: The Killing of a Palestinian Spartacus

April 8, 2024

By Louis Brehony Assassinated through cancer and its deprived treatment, culminating a near four decades in occupation jails, Walid’s martyrdom will be felt within and beyond the prison cells of occupation. The twin tasks of […]

Memories of Kanafani: The ‘Transformative Phase’ of the Palestinian Revolution

February 7, 2024

By Louis Brehony Ghassan’s leadership went “far beyond” his official positions, according to his Syrian friend and comrade Adnan Badr Helou, author of ‘The Airport of Revolution in the Shade of Ghassan Kanafani.’ Witnessing the […]

Leve Palestina: The Rhyme of the Undamned

January 1, 2024

By Louis Brehony Fighting the ban, Leve Palestina is simultaneously a rebellion against proscriptions, right-wing media campaigns, and the constant attack on our right to solidarity with resistance. Cultural effects of the Zionist genocide and […]

Two Palestinian Artists Condemn Israel’s Destruction of Gaza’s Iconic Theater

November 28, 2023

By Louis Brehony On Saturday, November 25, as Palestinians scanned the debris in the wake of the temporary ceasefire agreement, it was revealed that the Zionist bombing campaign had totally destroyed one of Gaza’s most […]

‘Here We Will Stay’: Zionist Genocide and the Battle for Civilization

November 6, 2023

By Louis Brehony Palestinians in Gaza continue to show the world that they will stand firm in the face of Zionism’s bloody dehumanization. The infamous Lord Balfour once wrote that all of the great Egyptian […]

‘Made with Love’: Palestinian Filmmakers Preview New Release of Gaza Bride 17 (PHOTOS)

January 23, 2023

By Louis Brehony “Our conversation began with the question ‘why Gaza?’ and I think many people will have the same question. For me this, is a question of the essential duty of art and cinema.” […]

Haifa-Based Band Darbet Shams Release New Album

November 18, 2022

By Louis Brehony After months of performing and organizing, the Palestinian band Darbet Shams released their debut album on November 11. Entitled Shu Bidur al-Amal (‘Hope doesn’t hurt’), the recording crystallizes the youth energy and […]

Gaza’s Zeinab Shaath: The Urgent Call of Palestine

August 9, 2022

By Louis Brehony She whispers above the roars of the guns Beckoning to all her daughters and sons – “The Urgent Call of Palestine,” Lalita Panjabi Though she was born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, […]

‘There is No Going back on Our Right of Return’: Interview with Palestinian Freedom Fighter Raja Eghbarieh

June 21, 2022

By Louis Brehony The unity of the Palestinian people in resistance since the May 2021 uprising has continued to rattle the crisis-ridden corridors of power in Tel Aviv. Protests in the supposed heartlands of the […]

‘If the Singer is Silenced’: Music of the Unity Intifada

May 6, 2022

By Louis Brehony As the May 2021 rebellion across historic Palestine struck back at colonialist violence and ripped apart the artificial seams of a terrorized, subordinate coexistence, two worlds came into view, colliding in physical […]

Palestine as a Song: Grandmothers’ Journeys into Musical Steadfastness

April 11, 2022

By Louis Brehony Painting land and people in vivid colors, Nazareth-born vocalist and researcher Dalal Abu Amneh embarked in Summer 2021 on a trip around Palestine for the Al Araby 2 series “Mishwar Sitti” (My […]

‘Fire, fire!’: A Guide to the Music of Palestinian-Swedish Band Kofia

March 9, 2020

By Louis Brehony Since the Nakba, Palestinian art and culture have walked a fine line between maintaining tradition and absorbing other modes of expression. After leaving Palestine for Sweden during Israel’s colonizing war of 1967, […]

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