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Shadia Mansour
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Shadia Mansour, also known as "the
first lady of Arabic hip hop" is a Palestinian singer and MC who sings
and raps in Arabic and English. Much of her music focuses on Middle East
politics.
Mansour's parents are Christian
Palestinians originally from Haifa and Nazareth. Mansour was born in London
in 1985. She grew up in the UK and spent summers visiting relatives in Haifa
and Nazareth, including the Israeli/Palestinian actor, writer, director and
activist Juliano Mer-Khamis, who is her cousin. Influenced by Arabic
performers such as Fairouz, Umm Kulthum and Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Mansour
began singing at Palestinian protest rallies as a child and she became known
in London’s Palestinian community for performing classical Arab songs of
protest at an early age. She went on to study performing arts before
beginning her career as an MC.
Mansour began rapping in 2003 and has
gained recognition in the Middle East, Europe and the United States for her
own songs and collaborations with other artists. She performs wearing a
traditional Palestinian thawb and has said that she considers herself to be
part of a "musical intifada" against the occupation of Palestine,
conservatism and oppression of women. Mansour's first single, "Al
Kufiya Arabiya (The Kufiya is Arab)," featured rapper M-1 of dead prez
and lyrics emphasizing the kufiya's role as a symbol of Arab nationalism.
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