The Palestinian tapes, part 1

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Mo’min Swaitat unearthed a vast trove of forgotten Palestinian music. Not only did it hold long-lost recordings of his own Bedouin family, but also a mysterious yellow cassette of protest songs set to an electro-disco beat. Mo’min became captivated by the yellow tape. It would open up a world of underground music from one of the most turbulent times in Palestinian history, the first intifada. But could he track down who’d made it? Emma Stibbon is an English artist who makes art in extreme environments. She’s braved sub-zero temperatures in the Arctic and Antarctica, and for a while, she was in Hawaii living on the edge of Kīlauea, one of the world’s most active volcanos. (This interview was first broadcast in 2017) Presenter: Mobeen Azhar Get in touch: [email protected] (Photo: Mo’min Swaitat and the Palestinian tape archive including the intifada cassette. Credit: Picture of Mo’min Swaitat by Alice Austin; the Palestinian tapes by Mo’min Swaitat)