https://echoingyafa.alllies.org/

Echoing Yafa tells the stories of some of the former Palestinian residents of Manshiyyah and thereby re-enacts what has been destroyed and irreversibly changed throughout the events leading to, and during the war of 1947/1948, and by current processes of displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian community in today's Jaffa.

Based on interviews we conducted with Palestinian refugees from Manshiyyah, who today live scattered across Gaza, Jordan, the West Bank, Israel and beyond, we built a fictive narrative, which we enacted with the help of a number of local actresses and actors. Inspired by their interpretation of the narrative, selected local musicians and sound artists provided the soundtrack to Echoing Yafa.

Echoing Yafa - Teaser

https://echoingyafa.alllies.org/

بحسب غوغليلمو ماركوني، مخترع الراديو، الأصوات لا تفنى، بل تخفت تدريجيا. تبعاً لذلك، نود ان نحي بمخيلتنا كل تلك الأصوات التي وجدت يوما في هذه المنطقة وما زال صداها يتردد في مكان ما، بصوت خافت.  الجولة المسجلة "صدى يافا" تسترجع بعض من هذه الأصوات وتقوم بجمعها في مكان صدورها الأصلي، المنشية، التي كانت في يوم ما حارة مليئة بالحياة والحركة ومكان الذي في يومنا هذا، باستثناء بقايا دمار بنايتان، لا يمكن تصور وجوده وعادة ما يعتبر جزء من تل ابيب.  يحكي "صدى يافا" قصة بعض من مقيمي المنشية الفلسطينيين وهكذا يصور من جديد كل ما كان قد دمر وضاع للابد خلال حرب 1947\1948 والأحداث السابقة لها، كذلك من خلال استمرار انتزاع أملاك المجتمع الفلسطيني الموجود اليوم في يافا واقتلاعهم من بيوتهم.  بناءا على مقابلات أجريناها مع لاجئين فلسطينين من المنشية، الذين يعيشون اليوم مهجرين كباقي الشتات الفلسطيني ، بنينا نصا قصصيا خياليا، قام بتمثيله عدد من الممثلين والممثلات المحليين. بإيحاء من تفسيرهم للنص، قام موسيقيون وعمال صوت محليون بتأليف الموسيقى التصويرية ل "صدى يافا".  According to Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of the radio, sounds never die, they just grow progressively fainter. Following this thought, we would like to imagine that all the sounds that have ever resonated in this region still reverberate somewhere, however faintly.  The audiowalk Echoing Yafa recovers some of those sounds and relocates them to the place that they originated from, Manshiyyah, once a busy neighbourhood of Jaffa and a place that, except for the remnants of two buildings, today is visually no longer conceivable and is usually considered to be a part of Tel Aviv.  Echoing Yafa tells the stories of some of the former Palestinian residents of Manshiyyah and thereby re-enacts what has been destroyed and irreversibly changed throughout the events leading to, and during the war of 1947/1948, and by current processes of displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian community in today's Jaffa.  Based on interviews we conducted with Palestinian refugees from Manshiyyah, who today live scattered across Gaza, Jordan, the West Bank, Israel and beyond, we built a fictive narrative, which we enacted with the help of a number of local actresses and actors. Inspired by their interpretation of the narrative, selected local musicians and sound artists provided the soundtrack to Echoing Yafa.

II صدى يافا

https://echoingyafa.alllies.org/

  بحسب غوغليلمو ماركوني، مخترع الراديو، الأصوات لا تفنى، بل تخفت تدريجيا. تبعاً لذلك، نود ان نحي بمخيلتنا كل تلك الأصوات التي وجدت يوما في هذه المنطقة وما زال صداها يتردد في مكان ما، بصوت خافت.  الجولة المسجلة "صدى يافا" تسترجع بعض من هذه الأصوات وتقوم بجمعها في مكان صدورها الأصلي، المنشية، التي كانت في يوم ما حارة مليئة بالحياة والحركة ومكان الذي في يومنا هذا، باستثناء بقايا دمار بنايتان، لا يمكن تصور وجوده وعادة ما يعتبر جزء من تل ابيب.  يحكي "صدى يافا" قصة بعض من مقيمي المنشية الفلسطينيين وهكذا يصور من جديد كل ما كان قد دمر وضاع للابد خلال حرب 1947\1948 والأحداث السابقة لها، كذلك من خلال استمرار انتزاع أملاك المجتمع الفلسطيني الموجود اليوم في يافا واقتلاعهم من بيوتهم.  بناءا على مقابلات أجريناها مع لاجئين فلسطينين من المنشية، الذين يعيشون اليوم مهجرين كباقي الشتات الفلسطيني ، بنينا نصا قصصيا خياليا، قام بتمثيله عدد من الممثلين والممثلات المحليين. بإيحاء من تفسيرهم للنص، قام موسيقيون وعمال صوت محليون بتأليف الموسيقى التصويرية ل "صدى يافا".  According to Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of the radio, sounds never die, they just grow progressively fainter. Following this thought, we would like to imagine that all the sounds that have ever resonated in this region still reverberate somewhere, however faintly.  The audiowalk Echoing Yafa recovers some of those sounds and relocates them to the place that they originated from, Manshiyyah, once a busy neighbourhood of Jaffa and a place that, except for the remnants of two buildings, today is visually no longer conceivable and is usually considered to be a part of Tel Aviv.  Echoing Yafa tells the stories of some of the former Palestinian residents of Manshiyyah and thereby re-enacts what has been destroyed and irreversibly changed throughout the events leading to, and during the war of 1947/1948, and by current processes of displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian community in today's Jaffa.  Based on interviews we conducted with Palestinian refugees from Manshiyyah, who today live scattered across Gaza, Jordan, the West Bank, Israel and beyond, we built a fictive narrative, which we enacted with the help of a number of local actresses and actors. Inspired by their interpretation of the narrative, selected local musicians and sound artists provided the soundtrack to Echoing Yafa.

III صدى يافا

https://echoingyafa.alllies.org/

 بحسب غوغليلمو ماركوني، مخترع الراديو، الأصوات لا تفنى، بل تخفت تدريجيا. تبعاً لذلك، نود ان نحي بمخيلتنا كل تلك الأصوات التي وجدت يوما في هذه المنطقة وما زال صداها يتردد في مكان ما، بصوت خافت.  الجولة المسجلة "صدى يافا" تسترجع بعض من هذه الأصوات وتقوم بجمعها في مكان صدورها الأصلي، المنشية، التي كانت في يوم ما حارة مليئة بالحياة والحركة ومكان الذي في يومنا هذا، باستثناء بقايا دمار بنايتان، لا يمكن تصور وجوده وعادة ما يعتبر جزء من تل ابيب.  يحكي "صدى يافا" قصة بعض من مقيمي المنشية الفلسطينيين وهكذا يصور من جديد كل ما كان قد دمر وضاع للابد خلال حرب 1947\1948 والأحداث السابقة لها، كذلك من خلال استمرار انتزاع أملاك المجتمع الفلسطيني الموجود اليوم في يافا واقتلاعهم من بيوتهم.  بناءا على مقابلات أجريناها مع لاجئين فلسطينين من المنشية، الذين يعيشون اليوم مهجرين كباقي الشتات الفلسطيني ، بنينا نصا قصصيا خياليا، قام بتمثيله عدد من الممثلين والممثلات المحليين. بإيحاء من تفسيرهم للنص، قام موسيقيون وعمال صوت محليون بتأليف الموسيقى التصويرية ل "صدى يافا".  According to Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of the radio, sounds never die, they just grow progressively fainter. Following this thought, we would like to imagine that all the sounds that have ever resonated in this region still reverberate somewhere, however faintly.  The audiowalk Echoing Yafa recovers some of those sounds and relocates them to the place that they originated from, Manshiyyah, once a busy neighbourhood of Jaffa and a place that, except for the remnants of two buildings, today is visually no longer conceivable and is usually considered to be a part of Tel Aviv.  Echoing Yafa tells the stories of some of the former Palestinian residents of Manshiyyah and thereby re-enacts what has been destroyed and irreversibly changed throughout the events leading to, and during the war of 1947/1948, and by current processes of displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian community in today's Jaffa.  Based on interviews we conducted with Palestinian refugees from Manshiyyah, who today live scattered across Gaza, Jordan, the West Bank, Israel and beyond, we built a fictive narrative, which we enacted with the help of a number of local actresses and actors. Inspired by their interpretation of the narrative, selected local musicians and sound artists provided the soundtrack to Echoing Yafa.

I صدى يافا

Live recordings from Gaza during Operation Pillar of Cloud aka Pillar of Defense in November 2012, recorded by audioboo.fm/RanaGaza and complemented by soundbytes from AlJazeera

"Suddenly the ground begins to tremble. Slowly, the shaking escalates until you are thrown off balance, clinging desperately to any fixture to stay standing. The vibration moves up through your body, constricting your internal organs until it hits your chest and throat, making it impossible to breathe. At exactly the point of suffocation, the floor rips open beneath you, yawning into a gaping dark abyss. Screaming silently, you stumble and fall, skydiving into what looks like a bottomless pit. Then, without warning, your descent is curtailed by a hard surface. At the painful moment of impact, as if in anticipation, you awaken. But there is no relief, because at that precise split second, you experience an intense sound that shocks you to your very core. You look around but see no damage. Jumping out of bed, you run outside. Again you see no damage. What happened? The only thing that is clear is that you won’t be able to get back to sleep because you are still resonating with the encounter."

Steve Goodman - Sonic Warfare


Resounding Pillar of Cloud - Re-Edit

Viyan Peyman was a musician, a poet, an activist, and a fighter for the YPG/YPJ. Viyan was killed on April 6th 2015 near Serekaniye, a town also known as Ras al-Ayn in northern Syria while fighting against Daesh (ISIS).
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/viyan-peyman-female-kurdish-fighter-killed-battling-isis-n339566

For an English translation of the song see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAlIsAqh2S8


Dilar Dirik is an activist, writer and academic. Find more information on her blog http://dilar91.blogspot.de/

Samples taken from:
https://soundcloud.com/this-is-hell/837dilardirik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEXzLHeDcK8

Dear Viyan (feat. Viyan Peyman & Dilar Dirik)

http://standwithstandingrock.net/

Karl May is one of the most read German authors of all time and his writings have contributed to the popular colonialist image of Native Americans in German-speaking countries like no other.

Translation of the German parts taken from Karl May's Winnetou III

Old Shatterhand: 
The belief of the white man says Manitou is the father of all his children in heaven and on earth, the belief of the Red man claims that Manitou is only the father of the Reds. He demands to kill all whites and promises the happy hunting ground where the war and murder will start anew.

But why does Great Manitou give only such a small piece of the earth to his Red sons and to his white children he gives everything? Does Manitou love the whites more than the Reds?

Winnetou: 
The belief of the Red men teaches hatred and death. 
The belief of the white men teaches love and life.
The belief of the Red men teaches hatred and death. 
The belief of the white men teaches love and life. 
Winnetou has been pondering over that for many long years. Now he has reached a conclusion. How!
Love and life.
Hatred and death.
Winnetou has been pondering over that for many long years. Now he has reached a conclusion. 
The belief of the Red men teaches love and life. 
The belief of the white men teaches hatred and death.

Karl May vs Standing Rock

Interview extracts from the 1982 documentary “All by Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story”

Conceived by rape, born on a cotton plantation, never certain who her father was, abandoned by her mother, abused as a child because she was "yaller" and was forced to live in the crawl space under the house with the cats.

She rose to become an internationally beloved singer, dancer, actor, and comedienne. She was an anti-war activist and member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, who gained the wrath of President Johnson and was harassed for years by the FBI. A vocal advocate of LGBT rights.

Asked about her following from and affinity for the gay community, she said, "We're all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is more painful than rejection."

Eartha Kitt. SHE PERSISTED.

by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

What Eartha Said

a sonic narration consisting of original field recordings from the city of Jaffa (2010-2012) listen with headphones only! 

The piece tries to provide you with a sonic glimpse into the ethno-gentrification processes happening in Yafa, Palestine/Israel. While formerly the cultural and economic capital of Palestine, the city is gradually being turned into an Oriental Disney Land for tourists and wealthy Jewish residents; the steady resistance of the local Palestinian population is largely ignored or silenced. 

Yafa Amplified (for headphones only)

Live recordings from Gaza during the last week, recorded by http://audioboo.fm/RanaGaza and complemented by soundbytes from AlJazeera 

"Suddenly the ground begins to tremble. Slowly, the shaking escalates until you are thrown off balance, clinging desperately to any fixture to stay standing. The vibration moves up through your body, constricting your internal organs until it hits your chest and throat, making it impossible to breathe. At exactly the point of suffocation, the floor rips open beneath you, yawning into a gaping dark abyss. Screaming silently, you stumble and fall, skydiving into what looks like a bottomless pit. Then, without warning, your descent is curtailed by a hard surface. At the painful moment of impact, as if in anticipation, you awaken. But there is no relief, because at that precise split second, you experience an intense sound that shocks you to your very core. You look around but see no damage. Jumping out of bed, you run outside. Again you see no damage. What happened? The only thing that is clear is that you won’t be able to get back to sleep because you are still resonating with the encounter."

Steve Goodman - Sonic Warfare


Miranda De La Frontera

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