Rim Banna - A Time To Cry video

A time to cry - A lament over Jerusalem Itunes: itunes.apple.com Under this headline the Norwegian record label in collaboration with Yabous release a CD, recorded in April this year in a home in East Jerusalem, threatened by expelling. The record is being released at the same time as Israeli authorities in Jerusalem is deciding a big plan of changing the neighbourhood of Silwan, east of the Old City, making many Palestinian families homeless. This is a sad backdrop to the release, but at the same time it shows the actuality of the album. On the CD four Palestinian voices, Rim Banna, Nai Barghouti, Wissam Murad and Jawaher Shofani give a live concert together with an international band to a packed audience. They all strive to find enough space in the small rooms in the house where 90 years old Rafiq Al-Kurd and her family still live in Sheikh Jarrah. Israeli settlers have supported by Israeli police done some nocturnal raids in the neighbourhood and thrown out several families, some of whom temporarily live in Al-Kurd's house. Some of the songs on the CD are written especially for the occasion, some are traditional songs from Palestine, mostly about Jesrusalem. Under the headline "A time to cry" they add to a 3000 years old tradition in Jerusalem: To cry and lament the city whose children so often have suffered. There are two targets for the CD. The first is the pure artistic need of expressing the deep sadness about the situation through songs and poetry. The second is ...