On Sunday, 25th May, The Left Berlin is holding a Küfa to raise money to finance our activities.
Join us for food at Bilgisaray, Oranienstraße 45.
After we eat, Asha Vare will be talking about Jihadi Music? Towards a Framework of Understanding Music Associated with Palestinian Armed Resistance. The talk is based on Asha’s research at Cambridge University and was first given at the British Forum of Ethnomusicology's annual conference.
In the talk, Asha will be exploring the meaning of songs associated with armed resistance for Palestinians living in the West Bank, looking at genre-labels as discourse - examining the motivations and implications of terminology to describe music, and challenging North Atlantic research conventions and characterisations of Palestinian music and resistance.
Food will be available from 5pm and Asha will be speaking at 7pm. If you’d like to help with the cooking, please come a little early. The money raised at the Küfa will be used to finance The Left Berlin activities. We work on 100% voluntary labour and are not funded by any political organisations of NGO. Simply running our website and Newsletter cost money which we must find somewhere. It is events like this which enable us to carry on doing what we do.