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Does Palestine Need a Tarab Icon? A Short History of Mohammad ‘Assaf

By N.A. Mansour  //  August 22, 2019August 22, 2019

Does Palestine Need a Tarab Icon? A Short History of Mohammad ‘Assaf If the Palestinian people were to sit down to pick an anthem, a contender would certainly be Fairuz’s 1967 song Zahrat al-Mada’in, translated…

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