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Palestinian Sound Archive: My beautiful side of the archive
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Palestinian Sound Archive: My beautiful side of the archive

Talk, short film and archive DJ set

Based in London, UK

Field recording

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This is a presentation format built around archive material, not a club set. Expect a documentary, spoken context and a DJ sequence of Palestinian recordings, with emphasis on how the sounds were made, circulated and preserved.

More about Palestinian Sound Archive: My beautiful side of the archive

Mo’min Swaitat uses Palestinian Sound Archive as a decolonial archive and reissue project focused on Palestinian audio history. This program frames the archive as an act of preservation, with the story of displacement, censorship, exile and the people behind the recordings kept in view.

A story

The project describes uncovering hundreds of stories of Palestinian artists through the archive work.

Playing

For fans of

Majazz Project, NTS mixes

Official links

Plan Le Guess Who? 2026 with Songpot · Ask about Palestinian Sound Archive: My beautiful side of the archive in ChatGPT or Claude