"Here Is Not Yemen": A-WA Shares Their Great-Grandmother's Refugee Story
Publisher |
NPR
WXPN
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
Interview
Live Music
Music
Categories Via RSS |
Music
Publication Date |
Jul 31, 2019
Episode Duration |
00:26:42
Tair, Liron, and Tagel Haim are three sisters who record as A-WA. They are Arab Jews who live in Israel and spread the Yemeni folk traditions of their heritage around the world through electronic music. On the group's latest album, 'Bayti Fi Rasi', the sisters tell the story of their great-grandmother, Rachel, who fled Yemen and arrived in Israel as a refugee as part of Operation Magic Carpet in 1949. Many of the songs, like "Hana Mash Hu Al Yaman" (meaning "Here Is Not Yemen") address the difficulties Rachel faced on both sides of her journey as a refugee. The sisters dropped by World Cafe to perform inviting and unique songs from 'Batyi Fi Rasi', and to talk about their own journey as musicians from a small desert village in Israel to the international stage.

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