Art is a weapon: Wael Zuaiter, the man who involved italians in Palestinian Cause (episode 37)

amisnet | 20/03/2009 |

In this episode we are going to remember Wael Zuaiter, the well-known Palestinian intellectual and translator who lived in Italy in the early 70’s. He was assassinated in Rome in 1972, thus sadly becoming the first intellectual to be killed in Europe during the Mossad Operation Wrath of God, the violent yet unpunished reaction of the slaughter of Israeli athletes during the Munich Olimpyc Games.

During his permanence in Rome Wael became friend of the left wing “intellectual elite” and led many Italians into a deeper consciousness of the Palestine cause.

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Art as a weapon: from Naples to Palestine (Episode 36)

amisnet | 12/03/2009 |

A conversation with Zulu lead singer and founder of italian hip-hop band “99 Posse”. Concerned about the arab world and the Palestinian cause since his early years,  in 2003 he starts the
Almukawama music project, just before the starting of Us invasion on Iraq. “Almukawama,-claims Zulu, “is a music band aiming to communicate to the Italian
audience that Palestine is not as far as one  might think”. Through vivid lyrics in Italian, English and Arabic his music touches the heart of those who are sensitive to the Palestinian cause and the link between worlds not so far from each other a s we are.

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Art as a weapon: the experience of Radiodervish (episode 35)

amisnet | 12/03/2009 |

Radiodervish is a music band born in 1997 at Bari, in southern Italy, from the artistic partnership between Michele Lobaccaro and Nabil Salameh who was part of the older group  called “Al Darawish”. The band now is very wellknown in Italy and is considered as a peace ambassador between european and arabic sides of mediterranean sea.

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