Unholyland
£3.00
Slingshot hiphop is sweeping the Middle East, saying ‘putting down the gun and pickin up the mic’.
Jalilah Zahlan, sweet sixteen-and-a-half, is stuck in a refugee camp in Beirut dreaming of expressing the agony of Palestinian exile through rap. Simultanously, on the shores of Lake Galilee a young Jewish MC/DJ, Moshe Rambam, is preparing a Slingshot hiphop playlist to surprise guests at his 18th birthday party, half-suspecting some of his friends won’t appreciate the music – and the message – he loves.
The real Arab revolution is happening in an explosion of politico-spiritual rap from subculture.
And somewhere in the wings a love story is unfolding.
This is Unholyland.
‘I was deeply moved by Unholyland – it has extraordinary energy, wit, knowledge, and beautifully marries the vernacular with rhyme. It reads beautifully and is like nothing else I’ve read.’ - Tom Paulin
'The Holy of Unholies' - Philip Wells
'A pyrotechnic, apocalyptic dance…. a powerful meditation on the place where civilization began and where it could end.’ - Heathcote Williams
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