Desert Swan – Adel Bseiso
Download Song About The Song I was moved and inspired by the support from people worldwide as they took to the streets, shouting, pleading, and singing. FREE, FREE PALESTINE. It's one thing to see it on social media but to experience the movement and support firsthand was nothing less then powerful, heartfelt, and humbling. I saw this with my own eyes as I traveled throughout, America, Europe, Scandinavia, Asia, Africa, and The Middle East. As a Palestinian, this brought me to tears, tears of hope. I was inspired to write and share what I saw, and what I felt, Desert Swan began as a poem of WHAT IF’s and quickly became a melody, a song of hope for
A Cry For God – Adel Bseiso
About The Song I saw a horrific video of a Palestinian man who was on his knees holding his dead child in his arms, holding him or her up to the sky, crying hysterically, with the haunting sound that sounded like his soul was in deep pain. It sent shivers down my spine and tears down my face as he was pleading shouting, and crying, "Where are you God?" This Palestinian man lost his entire family. All 8 members, of which 3 were babies 2-3-5 years old, and his mother, father, sister, brother, sons, and daughters. One of many Palestinians to lose everything including their families, while the world watches this horrific genocide and they do nothing. I
From the Translator
Working on the Bseiso family documents provided us with an exceptional opportunity to access this set of well-preserved archives from an often-overlooked place and time in Mandatory Palestine. The archive is in an excellent state of preservation despite its history and journey. The fact that it is now being presented to the world should be of interest to students of politics, history, sociology, and many more fields. The archive represents a snapshot of the socioeconomics of Beersheba pre-1948 and presents to the reader the changing administrative hands over southern Palestine, from the Ottoman, to the British, and finally to the Israeli. For us, we found great pleasure in working with the legal terminology and conventions used in the contracts
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