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The Palestinian tapes, part 1

Mo鈥檓in Swaitat unearthed a vast trove of forgotten Palestinian music, with long-lost recordings of his own Bedouin family and a mysterious yellow cassette of disco protest songs.

Mo鈥檓in Swaitat unearthed a vast trove of forgotten Palestinian music. Not only did it hold long-lost recordings of his own Bedouin family, but also a mysterious yellow cassette of protest songs set to an electro-disco beat. Mo鈥檓in became captivated by the yellow tape. It would open up a world of underground music from one of the most turbulent times in Palestinian history, the first intifada. But could he track down who鈥檇 made it?

Emma Stibbon is an English artist who makes art in extreme environments. She鈥檚 braved sub-zero temperatures in the Arctic and Antarctica, and for a while, she was in Hawaii living on the edge of K墨lauea, one of the world鈥檚 most active volcanos. (This interview was first broadcast in 2017)

Presenter: Mobeen Azhar

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(Photo: Mo鈥檓in Swaitat and the Palestinian tape archive including the intifada cassette. Credit: Picture of Mo鈥檓in Swaitat by Alice Austin; the Palestinian tapes by Mo鈥檓in Swaitat)

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