This is a great video.
Jaffa was an Arab enclave inside what became Israel. The city was emptied of much of its Arabs in 1948, but the architecture, and some of the Arabs, still persist.
The group is the Spanish Group La Oreja de Van Gogh (Van Gogh’s Ear)
The song is Geografia (Geography)
Off topic, but I love this video.
This was posted on YouTube on Dec 24, 2013
Tierra Santa (Holy Land) is a theme park outside of Buenos Aires. (Click Here)
From Oct 24, 2013 (5 days ago)
Cantante palestino que ganó programa Arab Idol visita Chile
by MM and M. P – 24/10/2013 – 8:53Mohammed Assaf, quien se presentó anoche en la cena anual de la Fundación Belén, está invitado a cantar en el Mundial.
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Palestinian Singer who won (in the) Arab Idol program visits Chile
Mohammed Assaf who (sang) last night at the annual dinner of the Bethlehem Foundation, is invited to sing at the World Cup.
The Bethlehem Foundation has a controversial history. (Click Here) for a history
This is one of their commericals.
That Palestinians of Chile are very powerful, and very anti-Israel.
Shakira is a Columbian Singer of mixed heritage, part of which is Arab. This is a video of Shakira in Dubai singing in Arabic. Her father is of Lebaneses extraction. Her mother is Spanish and Italian. Her names means full of grace in Arabic.
Shakira was born on February 2, 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia. She is the only child of Nidia Ripoll and William Mebarak Chadid. Her paternal grandparents emigrated from Lebanon to New York City, where her father was born. From her mother, Nidia Ripoll, she has Spanish (Catalan and Castilian) and Italian descent
What is interesting is that it was ethnic Arab music which started her career.
When Shakira was four, her father took her to a local Middle Eastern restaurant, where Shakira first heard the doumbek, a traditional drum used in Arabic music and which typically accompanied belly dancing. She started dancing on the table, and the experience made her realize that she wanted to be a performer. She enjoyed singing for schoolmates and teachers (and even the nuns) at her Catholic school, but in the second grade was rejected for the school choir because her vibrato was too strong. The music teacher told her that she sounded “like a goat”. At school, she says she had been known as “the belly dancer girl”, as she would demonstrate every Friday at school a number she had learned.
