“There is no location of Palestinian exile that has not produced its own musicians or musical experiences.” Louis Brehony’s book Palestinian Music In Exile: Voices of Resistance vividly portrays the Palestinian anti-colonial resistance through music by bringing forth Palestinian voices mainly through the refugee experience, which is also a collective experience, given the centrality of the 1948 Nakba and the various forms of displacement Palestinians have faced. As Brehony writes in the introduction: “Palestine is itself a site of exile.” Exile and movement cannot be separated from one another. Brehony notes recent instances of Palestinian resistance where music became one of the central forms of sumud, notably Israel’s efforts at forcibly displacing the residents of Sheikh Jarrah in 2021. As … Continue reading Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance