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and the poppies will bloom again, and so too will our dreams

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Music for Mutual Aid for Gaza!

I’ve compiled a list of different donation links ranging from mutual aid micro fundraisers to medical worker and artist support. Please promise me that with this free download you will donate, amplify or share and continue to demand a ceasefire, participate in BDS and amplify Palestinian voices. I hope this brings you some strength after witnessing almost four months (and 76 years) of our genocide. Email me with where you donated for accountability doniajarrar@gmail.com

A healing piano improvisation recorded at home inspired by Palestinian painter Tamam Al-Al Akhal. “Beautiful poppy flowers dominate the Palestinian landscape in the spring. Their vivid color inspires us and gives us hope. The Israeli occupiers systematically destroy our land and our trees in an attempt to uproot our hopes and squelch our dreams. Nevertheless, spring will come, and the poppies will bloom again, and so too will our dreams.” -Tamam Al AlAkhal.


1. Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity-micro fund with a group of other artists from LA. Please Venmo @sashaali with donations and use the tent emoji ⛺️in the comments. GazaMutualAidSolidarity@gmail.com
GOOGLE FORM FOR SIGN UP docs.google.com/document/d/19BVbPh9eNmzfqJGM2qeG2UhNLyPIHtLURZnZSA7vkR0/mobilebasic

2. Urgent support for medical and healthcare professionals in Gaza, who haven’t been paid anything but $200 since November and have been volunteering their time through the nightmares of this genocide:
www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-support-for-medical-workers-in-gaza?

3. Palestinian Feminist Collective Toolkit
bit.my/PFCTToolkit

4. Gaza Poets Society, literary community based in Gaza @gazapoetssociety
www.buymeacoffee.com/gazapoets
PayPal: www.paypal.me/gazaguy440

5. @mosab_abutoha on IG and mosab-abutoha on venmo

We are an ad-hoc group of volunteers who have loved ones in Gaza. Our goal is to give direct mutual aid to help displaced & distressed families meet their basic needs during these catastrophic times. For the last month, our main focus has been supporting multiple teams in cooking for hundreds of displaced families in Rafah, as well as providing clean water delivery. We are so grateful for the generous community support we have that has enabled us to continue to support these projects. We have continued to regularly transfer funds to Gaza, but not without difficulty, as is generally the case for sending any financial support to those living under the blockade in Gaza or occupation in The West Bank. All platforms (Venmo, Western Union, Zelle, etc) have limits on how much funds one can transfer. In order to circumvent this, we are suggesting these methods to donate & support while we continue to coordinate between all participants.
Options for how to get involved:
Create your own micro-fundraiser.
Collect donations with friends, put on an event, raffle some art - be creative and share what you do. Collect anywhere from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand.
Contact us via the FORM and we will provide a name from the list of names we are gathering from people on the ground and instructions on how to transfer the funds.
Once you get notice that the funds have been picked up, please let us know by emailing us back at GazaMutualAidSolidarity@gmail.com
When you put notes on your donations, please do not use words or emojis that signify “palestine” or “gaza”, the flag, or watermelon.
Volunteer to help with transferring funds to Gaza:
Sign up on this INTAKE FORM
Someone will contact you with instructions on how to send the funds we send you directly to a name we will provide you.
Once you transfer the funds, provide us with the final amount transferred and the confirmation number. We will inform the recipient.
Once you get notice that the funds have been picked up, please let us know via email.
Donate directly to us through one of the following methods:
Venmo: @BuppyBillow (last 4 digits: 3560) or @Laziza-Farm (last 4 digits 6301)
Zelle: Hadeel Assali 713-402-8373
Paypal: amannya@gmail.com PLEASE use friends & family NOT Goods & Services, note that this option is easier to find on a desktop browser vs mobile device.
Apple Cash: Amanda Assali 281-435-8779
Western Union: email GazaMutualAidSolidarity@gmail.com to arrange
*A note for all transactions: When adding notes on donations, please do not use words/emojis like: palestine, gaza, the flag, or watermelon. This helps avoid getting flagged or having funds frozen. Instead, consider: soup, water, tents, etc, or the corresponding emojis :)
Examples of how the funds have been used can be seen in this album.
If you can’t donate, please share with friends!
Thank you so much <3

About my music:

The track title is a direct quote from Palestinian artist Tamam Al-Akhal (b. 1935).

Tamam Al-Akhal was one of the first Palestinian women artists to receive formal art training, and she is considered the foremother of modern Palestinian fine arts. Her realist work, expressive and impressionistic, focuses on subjects like the Mediterranean Sea, which reminds her of her hometown Jaffa, the local traditional markets and the architecture of Palestinian buildings. She uses vivid colours, with a sense of longing and nostalgia for the land, the people and the place that she was expelled from during the Israeli occupation, the Nakba of 1948.

T. Al-Akhal was born in Jaffa, a place that deeply influenced her. Her paintings offer a rare testimony on surviving the events and consequences of the Nakba. She has been at the forefront of recounting Palestinian history, and has taken part in building a Palestinian artistic vision and vocabulary. Highlighting Palestinian history with brushstrokes and colours, she captures the struggles of the Palestinian people. Her work illustrates an iconic representation of experiences and sensations based on the tragedy of the Palestinian national narrative. Her early paintings, however, were touched by the daily events prior to the Nakba, that happened during her childhood. As she experienced people’s joy, she used crayons and watercolours to capture those moments.

Educated first in Jaffa, then in Beirut, Lebanon, and finally at the Higher Institute of Arts Fine Art in Cairo, Egypt, T. Al-Akhal graduated in 1957. She then started to teach art in Beirut and in Ramallah. In 1959 she married artist Ismail Shammout (1930-2006) and collaborated with him in establishing and leading the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Arts and National Culture Division. Both were forced to relocate to several countries because of regional wars and the ongoing Palestinian refugee problem.
Together with her husband, T. Al-Akhal established a set of visual symbols that became known for identifying Palestinian art. Such symbols include the purebred Arabian horse and its curvaceous shape and movement, as it resonates with the variety of Palestinian rhythmic music. Another element identified with her work is the presence of white, identified as the Mawal (In Arabic Music, the mawwāl is a traditional genre of vocal music that is usually presented before the actual song begins), as if in a song it repeats without being coloured, causing all the shapes within the painting unite.

The literature points to three artistic periods in her career. The first phase is the realist painting, such as Sabra Market (1972). The second phase is the abstract and cubist painting echoing the fashionable Palestinian traditional embroidery. The third is understood as an attempt to draw inspiration from the pictorial Arab Islamic heritage in dealing with current issues, using on the symbols of the horse, the flower and the city, such as in Horses in Paradise (1990-1999).

T. Al-Akhal is distinguished for her special achievements and adventure in the field of arts, where she dares to incorporate new methods and modern technologies with different materials.

-Rula Khoury

A notice produced as part of the TEAM international academic network: Teaching, E-learning, Agency and Mentoring

© Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, 2022

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released January 30, 2024
Piano Improvisation performed by Donia Jarrar
Recorded at home by Christian A. McLaurin

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PHONODELICA is the experimental sound project from Palestinian-Egyptian-American composer, producer and performer Donia Jarrar.

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