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Palestinian folk songs are fundamental components of Palestinian culture as a whole. It infuses social and political gatherings and even serves to explain the struggles and social traditions.
During the Great Palestinian Revolt in 1936, the British Mandate deliberately cut off communication between the revolutionaries and their villages.
Consequently, women devised a method of communicating with the revolutionaries, known as coded singing, which entails either reversing all of the phrases and discarding the phonetic pronunciation or just reversing or changing the last letter.
Although the songs seem arbitrary and unstructured, they were created by mothers and prisoners who yearned for one another as a means for communication. The intention was to render interactions difficult for occupying forces to track and understand.
Traditionally: https://youtu.be/XBNzLA_30mI
A more modern version: https://youtu.be/cmHm8zju41E?si=kVcMTaW3iQwM1Zq4 (Dana Salah) and https://youtu.be/Mtw7u_wcrNY?si=_u3mGlBJi8lwU65e (Amel Sdiri)
Israel’s national anthem based on a Palestinian lullaby
A Palestinian lullaby with lyrics whose melody has traveled through the Czech Republic, Romania and Italy is used in Israel’s national anthem, Hatikvah.
My mother taught me many songs
I will sing them to you with all the little ones
My little doll, sleep in bed
May the bird come and wake you up early
I am mama near you, sleep safely
All the children who are your age have been asleep for a long time
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Explore various traditional Palestinian songs
Mum, sing to the wind with Nai Barghouti: https://youtu.be/U7PErhd6zEM?si=exx8MpNxrp_bsaX8
The sun of love with Rim Banna:
https://youtu.be/7HxJ-0qgXpQ?si=H5ItrEVOY2k8otfO
Dammi Falastini with Mohammed Assaf: