Zeinab Shaath was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1954 to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother. Her parents had moved to Egypt in 1947 after her father accepted a job as an educator.
The film was filmed and set in Bradford and the Yorkshire Dales, and involves migrant workers attempting to dispose of a body in the hills of North Yorkshire.
Stuck in his Palestinian hometown of Jenin during lockdown, Mo'minSwaitat walked into an old music shop where thousands of dusty cassettes lined the walls.
Over several years, Mo’minSwaitat has amassed an archive of rare tapes and vinyl from Palestine and beyond, spanning field recordings of weddings to revolutionary tracks and synth-heavy 80s funk.
ON FEB. 24, the Darna Lounge in Arlington, VA, hosted the Palestinian Sound Archive, a project dedicated to recovering and remastering Palestinian records.