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Palestinian Music in Exile: A Virtual Book Talk with Louis Brehony
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Palestinian Music in Exile is a historical and contemporary study of Palestinian musicianship in exile in the Middle East, spanning half a century in disparate locations including Gaza, Turkey, Kuwait, and Egypt. Grassroots musicians emerge here as powerful actors, their stories taking center stage, offering critiques of existing conditions, new perspectives on displacement and the transmission of Palestinian narratives, and presenting alternative visions for the future.
Palestinian Music in Exile is released globally on 21 November 2023.
You can purchase a copy of the book from major bookstores and online book retailers worldwide.
EG: tinyurl.com/PalestinianMusicEG
UK: tinyurl.com/PalestinianMusicUK
US: tinyurl.com/PalestinianMusicNA
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Louis Brehony
Activist, musician, researcher and educator, and a preeminent global scholar of Palestinian music
Louis Brehony is an activist, musician, researcher and educator, and a preeminent global scholar of Palestinian music. He is the director of the award-winning documentary film Kofia: A Revolution Through Music (2021) and has published widely on Palestine and political culture in the Palestine Chronicle, Middle East Monitor, Arab Media and Society, and a range of other journals. Louis received his PhD from Kings College London and a master's in composition from the University of Salford, and performs internationally as a multi-instrumentalist. He has family origins in Ireland and lives in Manchester, UK.
Tahrir Hamdi
Professor of Decolonial Studies
Arab Open University, Jordan
Tahrir Hamdi is Professor of Decolonial Studies and Director of Arab Open University, Jordan. She is on the editorial board of several prestigious journals and has published widely on resistance literature.
Tahrir won the prestigious Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation Prize for the best researcher in the humanities in the Arab world in 2020. Her book Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity was shortlisted for the 2022 Palestine Book Awards (PBA).