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lyrics. Though the style differs from previous recordings, the subject matter has basically remained constant. The album includes "songs of despair and hope" about the lives of "a struggling people, and even a song about late
Palestinian leader and PA president Arafat in a way that is both thoughtful
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children's songs that were on the verge of being forgotten. Many such songs and rhymes sung by
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Kulturverksted), was recorded in one of Sheikh Jarrah's houses which is under a constant threat to be evicted from the part of their house (with 3 Palestinian singers)
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