Concept, Lyrics, Oud: Layle Omer
Rap: Amaani Yahya
Guitar: Salma Taleb
Percussion: Yasmine Nasser Diaz
AANM version recording engineer: Bedrock Studios + Eric Rennaker
Mixing and Mastering: Salar Ansari
Videography: Deja Vu Productions
Video Editing: Jacob Ermete

Almahfadha

Concept, Lyrics, Music: Layle Omer
Rap Lyrics: Amaani Yahya
Bass: Salma Taleb
Percussion: Yasmine Nasser Diaz
AANM version recording engineer: Bedrock Studios + Eric Rennaker
Mixing and Mastering: Salar Ansari
Videography: Deja Vu Productions
Video Editing: Jacob Ermete

Mashakil

Original song by Abubaker Salem 
Concept: Salma Taleb
Oud: Layle Omer
Percussion: Yasmine Nasser Diaz

Thabi Alyemen - acoustic cover

Concept, Lyrics, Oud & Music: Layle Omer
Rap Lyrics: Amaani Yahya
Guitar: Salma Taleb
Percussion: Yasmine Nasser Diaz
AANM version recording engineer: Bedrock Studios + Eric Rennaker
Mixing and Mastering: Salar Ansari
Videography: Deja Vu Productions
Video Editing: Jacob Ermete

Qalooli

Bint El Balad is a celebration of women of South West Asian and North-African descent born in the diaspora. It celebrates women who dance between worlds and are transformed. The song brings together Nadine Altounji, Nadia Bashalani and Dana El Masri, three women whose roots run deep into the rich soil of their parents’ Syria, Lebanon and Egypt homelands.
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For more on Nadine Altounji's upcoming album "The Stories That Tie UsTo Trees" visit: ​www.nadinealtounji.com

Bint el Balad (Daughter of the land)

I am
Child of the palm
Born to the sun and the moon

Daughter of the land
Bint el balad بنت البلد
Bint el Sahr’aa بنت الصحراء

I don’t know where I’m going
But I know I’m going far
Each day I am learning
Life is such a work of art

Bint el balad بنت البلد
Daughter of land
Bint el Sahr’aa بنت الصحراء
I’m the daughter of the desert
I’m the daughter of the land
Of the desert

Caught in the branches of my family tree
Old memories are binding me
Push past the brush
I walk alone
The desert becomes my body’s home

Bint el balad بنت البلد
Bint el Sahr’aa بنت الصحراء

Up ahead
I don’t know
Where to start
Deeply rooted,
Tonight, I leave for the stars

Daughter of the land
Daughter of the desert
Daughter of the land
Daughter of the desert

Bint el balad بنت البلد
Bint el Sahr’aa بنت الصحراء
Bint el balad بنت البلد
Bint el Sahr’aa بنت الصحراء

Don t give up
Keep on moving
Don t give up

المستقبل مش موعود
(the future is not promised)

Bint el balad بنت البلد
Bint el Sahr’aa بنت الصحراء 
credits
released July 9, 2021

Lyrics by Dana El Masri and Nadia Bashalani
Music written & produced by Nadine Altounji & Mark Alan Haynes
Musicians: Nadine Altounji, Nicolas Royer-Artuso, Mark Alan Haynes,
Jean-Michel Frederic.
Mixed by Mark Alan Haynes
Mastered by Brad Yost at Outrage Productions

© 2021 Nadine Altounji

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
license

Bint El Balad Feat. Dana El Masri & Nadia Bashalani

On the latest #MusiciansForPalestine podcast Brian Eno speaks on creativity and the ways that music can create collective spaces within historical moments. 

Brian also speaks about the current realities facing Palestine, expressing support for Palestinian human rights while addressing the systemic colonial violence of the Israeli state and the ways that the current militarized reality is not sustainable for all. 

This interview was facilitated by Frank Barat (@frank-barat) as a collaboration with the Musicians for Palestine project.

Music on this edition is by Brian Eno. 
Audio editing by Stefan @spirodon Christoff.

Please watch the full interview recorded by Frank here: 
https://youtu.be/A-UKaPyMsbE

Information on Musicians For Palestine here:
https://musiciansforpalestine.com

Thank you Brian for participating and Frank for the collaboration. Also thank you to Nicolás Jaar and Tanha Gomes for the support toward finalizing this edition.

#MUSICIANSFORPALESTINE PODCAST 9 - Brian Eno

LOVE FOR PALESTINE
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
2pm-2am, Palestine time
#LoveForPalestine

A broadcast marking Palestinian Independence Day

Live in Bethlehem on :
https://www.radioalhara.net

The accompanying graphic is by Susanna Gonzo.

View the full playlist for this broadcast here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R7jDVEzLWUeexD_2YfNBiMMqfzicH9lp26C9qIp7CmU/edit?usp=sharing

A global radio broadcast to express solidarity and love for the Palestinian people. 

A creative transmission on Radio AlHara and streamed on stations around the world. 

This day-long broadcast will feature sounds from the massive protests around the world, music, poetry and the voices of many globally who are mobilizing with all their hearts and with love for Palestine. 

For this broadcast we encourage people in cities around the world to organize local listenings at cafés, in bookshops, in homes, community centres and beyond. 

FREE PALESTINE, FREE GAZA

LOVE FOR PALESTINE broadcast on Radio AlHara

Voices for Gaza

Thursday, May 9, 2024
2-3pm live on CKUT 90.3 FM
www.ckut.ca

A live community radio broadcast on CKUT 90.3 FM that aims to highlight the ways that the Gaza solidarity encampment at McGill University creates political space in both the media landscape and within the city to lift up Palestinian life.

This broadcast will also underline the ways that media workers in the Gaza context are facing deadly danger at the hands of the Israeli state military machine. At least 92 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza due to Israeli military strikes since October 7th according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Featuring the voices of

Sarah Shamy, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement.

Martin Lukacs, an investigative journalist and the managing editor of The Breach.

A representative from Students in Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights.

Norma Rantisi, Academics for Palestine, Concordia University.

Michelle Hartman, Profs solidaires avec le camp.

Voices for Gaza, Montreal solidarity encampment

Zayt el oud

Zayt el oud (feat. WU-SEN)

Lyrics.
فين ألاقيكي البعد عمره ما كان بإيديا كان بإيديكي
طب فين الاقيكي
نفسي اقولك خليكي جنبي
لكني عارف انه مش بإيديكي تحبيني
والله ولا بإيديا حبي ليكي.. خليكي
طب فين الاقيكي
انا وسط عتمة الليالي مستني سهران
ترجع اللمعة بعينيكي وتشوفيني زي زمان
انا الغريب من غيرك بطوف انا كل البلدان
انا اللي ياما قفلتي قصاده كل البيبان
فيا من تسكني روحي إليكي هذا البيان
انا ماشي ومش سايب ورايا اي عنوان
ساعات كتير ببقي عاوز احكي عنك
لكن مفيش حواليا حد يفهمني
واروح ازورك كل يوم في خيالي
وقلبك حتي في خيالي رافض يسمعني
ومشيتي وفين الاقيكي
انا وسط عتمة الليالي مستني سهران
ترجع اللمعة بعينيكي وتشوفيني زي زمان
انا الغريب من غيرك بطوف انا كل البلدان
انا اللي ياما قفلتي قصاده كل البيبان
فيا من تسكني روحي إليكي هذا البيان
انا ماشي ومش سايب ورايا اي عنوان

Bint El Balad Feat. Dana El Masri & Nadia Bashalani

Nadine Altounji

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