We launch and celebrate our very first Jamiyat Ud Al Nad local production, which we send out, singing, from Nazareth, into the farthest corners of the earth.

Palestinian poet’s poem, Marwan Makhoul’s “God of the Revolution”, lays out some liberated attitudes that express our identity and reality of our life, despite all questioning that may ensue. It mirrors our standpoints, fears, neutrality, and illegitimacies, so to speak. There is no one but Him from whom to seek help and assistance. Why all such experimentation? When hungry, the beast devours one beast, not two. Few are the answers, turbulent are the emotions, while anger abounds. Therefore, we must sing.

The Ensemble progressed in its musicality and had the opportunity to work with the musician Bishara Khell from Nazareth who specifically-tailored the composition for the choir, interweaved dissonances and consonances through his choice of instruments and arrangements, visualizing expressions and thoughts to match the choir’s voices. They all create intriguing sounds to absorb and listen to, all the while following new and unique musical methods, eventually shaping the lyrical, God of the Revolution.

With the cooperation of the musician poet and conductor Katy Jarjoura the poem had to be adapted with the intention of the choral singing voices to a lyricism. This lyricism is a piece of art including the passionate layers of emotions and thoughts expressed.