The artists were both Palestinian and Israeli, and it was so amazing that regardless of nationality, everyone spoke and performed in Arabic and Hebrew and sometimes even English.
I finally got to meet Saz!
He's as wonderful in person as I imagined.DAM
also performed as well in addition to Israeli rappers like Sagol 59.After the concert, we went out with a few of the performers including Saz and talked about the hip hop scene in Jerusalem. Mostly I talked with an Israeli rapper, and it was interesting because he mentioned that almost all the inter-cultural musical events were set up by Israelis, but he had never been invited to perform at a Palestinian concert though he's performed several times with Arab and Palestinian rappers, and he's a good friend of Saz.
It almost made up for the fact that I missed the European-Palestinian Hip Hop tour in Ramallah and Bethlehem.
Also, check out Shadia Mansour!
I must say, this internship is not so shabby.
