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Black Gaza artists fight racism with music
Black Palestinians in the Gaza Strip still suffer racism, but the artistic community has a musical response.
Taghreed Ali, Al-Monitor, December 20, 2021
Black Palestinian artists in the Gaza Strip still encounter racism and discrimination. They face harsh mockery for the color of their skin and curly hair, and many Palestinians refuse to marry them.
Some Black artists in Gaza have been experiencing racism since their childhood. Even as adults, when they stand on stage to perform the traditional Bedouin songs known as “dahiya,” they receive negative comments and insults in regard to the color of their skin.
Dahiya is originally a Bedouin heritage and Black Palestinians who have Bedouin origins practice it with great skill as a profession
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Black Palestinians face subtle racism in Gaza
Obaid, who believes his ancestors came from Sudan, says he has to work twice as hard to prove himself
Published: May 05, 2017
Ahmed Alnaouq, Special to Gulf News
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Bigotry against black people poisons the Arab world, too
Protests in America have shone a new light on an old problem
Jul 23rd 2020 | BEIRUT
...In a widely shared video a black Palestinian actress, Maryam Abu Khaled, recounted the casual bigotry she encounters, bigotry she encounters, such as a mother telling her daughter to get out of the sun lest she, too, turn black.
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/07/23/bigotry-against-black-people-poisons-the-arab-world-too
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