وطن/ watan (Homeland) 

In this episode of Writing Home, Madhvi and Belal share their reflections on resistance and revolution, revisiting poems and music of resistance. 

Mahmoud Darwish writes “Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.” 

Poets-Mahmoud Darwish, Maya Angelou, Rafeef Ziadah, Noor Hindi, Naomi Shihab Nye, Hanan Ashrawi, Samih al-Qasim

Music-

Free Free Palestine by SunTruth

Long Live Palestine by Lowkey

Australia Does Not Exist by Drmingnow, Culture Evolves, Philly, Pataphysics, Adrian Eagle 

Where’s the love by Black Eyed Peas 

Inn Anne by Damoor

Jerusalem Freestyle by Saint Levant 

Speech-Nasser Mashni at the Free Palestine Rally @bibble.biddle and @apan4palestine Instagram

Naomi Shihab Nye interview on What Inspires Her Poetry by poets.org Youtube 

No one is free until everyone is free. 

From the river to the sea Palestine will be free. 

From Palestine to Kashmir occupation is a crime. 

Join us Monday night celebrating poems and music from Palestine, resisting occupation, colonialism, racism, Islamophobia and a genocide.