Breath of Revolutions – Music, Poetry and Protest

Palestine 3 - Track List2 Tracks - Sabreen2 Tracks - Kamilya Joubran1 Track – Abdallah HaddadFeatured Album – Sprinting Gazelle, by Reem KelaniTrack – Yalalan فرقة يلالان and Iskandrila فرقة اسكندريلا (Egypt)2 Tracks – George Cormuz - جورج قرمزFeatured Album - Music of the Palestinian Intifada, 1989IMAGE BY MOHAMMAD SABAANEH

Palestine 2 - Track List1 Track ناي البرغوثي – Nai el Barghouti1 Track تريز سليمان – Terez Sliman3 Tracks فرقة العاشقين – El AshiqeenFeatured Album – Mirrors of My Soul by Rim Banna7 Tracks – Katibe Khamse كتيبة خمسة – Featuring Naissam Jalal, Ishtiya7, Maqdessi, and Mehdi AmelFeatured Album – In the Shade of the Words, by Le Trio Joubran and Mahmoud DarwishIMAGE BY MOHAMMAD SABAANEH

Lebanon 1 - Track List3 Tracks by May Nasr مي نصر – revolutionary covers from Oum Kalthoum and Ahmad Kabbour4 Tracks by Firqet El-Ard فرقة الأرض5 Tracks by Rima Khcheich ريما خشيش – Track 5 with Al Bustan, Philadelphia7 Tracks by Jaafar el Touffar جعفر الطفار‎ – featuring Maqdissi, Naissam Jalal, Osloub, Amer Taher, Amin Gharbie. Track 1 for George Abdallah, Lebanese political prisoner illegally imprisoned in a French prison. Track 3 for the Palestinian revolutionary Bassil Aarraj. Jaafar sings Ataaba عتاب, a local Bedouin form of music/poetry5 Tracks by Sandy Chamoun and The Great Departed Band الراحل الكبير2 Tracks by Walid Gholmieh – Mizmar مزمار and Mijwiz مجويز4 Tracks by Shireen Abu Saad – Track 1, for the communists and anti-capitalists of the Lebanese uprising. Track 2, an early post colonial popular song written by a falafel seller. Track 3, a song from the Egyptian Simsimiya musical genre. Track 4, an Andalusian Muwa7asha, موشح أندلسي5 Tracks by Marcel Khalifeh, with the El-Mayadine Ensemble and Al Bustan. Poetry by Mohamad El Faitouri محمد الفيتوري (Sudan) and Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine)IMAGE BY MOHAMMAD SABAANEHMissing in this compilation is music from the local Domari Gypsy communities. Many of the tracks you hear in these compilations use or sample instruments that Domari musicians are expert in, like particular flutes and drums. In mainstream culture, Gypsy music has been exploited and commercialised by the dominant culture, a process which is part of the general racism and discrimination against gypsy communities.

Lebanon 2 - Track List4 Tracks – Youmna Saba – Musician and Sound Artist1 Track – Ghorba2 غرباء – Hip Hop group from Akkar - song for the Lebanese uprising3 Tracks – Nahawand (نهاوند (مغنية – Track 1 with the Garcia Lorca Band, Spain3 Tracks – Khaled el Haber خالد الهبر3 Tracks by Ghada Shbeir – Track 1 and 3 by Sayed Darwish, Track 2 – song for the Nai4 Tracks by Ziad Rahbani, with Joseph Sakr2 Tracks by Nidaa Abou Mrad and Mohamad Said el Shami محمد سعيد الشامي Sufi Maqams, from Invocation of Layla album5 Tracks by Mashrou3 Leila مشروع ليلى2 Tracks by Omeima Khalil4 Tracks by Rayess Bek – Track 2 with Nassereddine el Toufar بو ناصر الطفّار and Munma مونما

Egypt Episode 1 - Track List4 Tracks by Dina Al Wedidi دينا الوديدي – Track 1 with Ghalia Bin Ali (Tunisia) & Track 3 with Maryam Saleh2 Poems by Amal Dunqul أمل دنقل – The Last Words of Spartacus كلمات سبارتكوس الأخيرة: Movement 1 and 2 (Translation: www.jadaliyya.com/Details/26934) & Who Can Stop the Mills in my Head آه من يوقف في رأسي الطواحين5 Tracks by Dina Al Wedidi دينا الوديدي5 Tracks by Mohammad Hammam محمد حمام3 Tracks by Salwa Abu Ghreishسلوى أبو جريشة – Track 3 is an Oum Kalthoum song written by El Hadi Adam El Hadi الهادي آدم الهادي (Sudan)1 Track by Momen Rihan مؤمن ريحان2 Tracks by MC Hook1 Track by Shorbet Rassas شوربة رصاص2 Tracks by Mohamad Farag محمد فرج - 2 Simsimyeh سمسمية songs for the Suez victory of 19565 Tracks by Azza Balbaa عزه بلبع, El Sheikh Imam الشيخ امام, and Ahmad Fouad Najm أحمد فؤاد نجم‎IMAGE BY MOHAMMAD SABAANEH

Egypt 2 – Track List3 Tracks by Fathy Salama فتحي سلامة – Track 2 with Gamalat Shiha جمالات شيحة, Track 3 with Ahmed Abdul Wahhab on kamanja, أحمد عبدالوهاب, Track 4 with Karima Nayt كريمة نايت (Algeria)4 Tracks by Aragid Ensemble for Nubian Heritage فرقة أراجيد للتراث النوبى2 Tracks by Gamalat Shiha جمالات شيحة9 Tracks by Ramy Essam – Track 2 (ya Bal7a) is a critique of Sisi’s governance for which the composer and video makers were imprisoned inside an American backed prison, one of whom, Shadi Habash lost his life. Track 5 is for the Syrian Revolution. Track 7 is for the martyrs of Port Said. Track 8 (Age of the Pimp) became famous in the Arab world because most of our leaders are capitalist, imperialists who sell their people for the fattest pocket they can fill, while true revolutionaries get subjugated... long live revolution (Track 6 )5 Tracks by Donia Massoud دنيا مسعود2 Tracks by Children of the Land فرقة اولاد الارض1 Track – Poem entitled The Complete Letters of Usta Hiragi the Cat جوابات الاسطى حراجى القط كاملة by Abdul Rahman Al Abanoudie عبد الرحمن الأبنودى3 Tracks from Revolution Records – Temraz, Shehab Edean, C-Zar, Ahmed Rock, Rooney Hood Star4 Tracks by Sheikh Imam الشيخ امام with Ahamd Fouad Najm أحمد فؤاد نجمIMAGE BY MOHAMMAD SABAANEH