{"product_id":"the-iqrit-files-cd","title":"Checkpoint303 \/\/ The Iqrit Files \/\/ CD","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The Iqrit Files”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Palestinian refugee camp \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYarmouk\u003c\/b\u003e in Syria is a double hell: it is surrounded by Assad's hostile forces, and inside the camp it is terrorised by the forces of IS (the Islamic State). Through the CD project “\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Iqrit Files”\u003c\/b\u003e and the exhibition “\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Faces of Iqrit”,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKKV\u003c\/b\u003e is focusing on the reason why such camps exist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e”The Iqrit Files”\u003c\/b\u003e is a CD featuring the electronica collective \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCheckpoint303\u003c\/b\u003e and singers who grew up in the village of Iqrit in Galilee, but who were forced to flee and abandon their homes. The singers \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJawaher Shofani\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWardeh Sbeit\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJihad Sbeit\u003c\/b\u003e describe what occurred when Israeli soldiers arrived in 1948, making them all homeless and destroying their village. The recordings have been made in these ruins, and the Checkpoint303 collective has framed the voices in a soundscape of electronics, oud, piano and recorded utterances from the political stage.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNakba\u003c\/b\u003e is the Arabic term for the expulsion of the Palestinians when the state of Israel was formed in 1948. A total of 360 Palestinian villages were evacuated by force and taken over or razed to the ground, and 900 000 people were forced to flee to camps in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the West Bank. The Yarmouk camp in Damascus swelled with the concentration of Palestinians who had fled from evacuated villages in 1948.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Israeli narrative has been that this flight was encouraged by Arab leaders while the Israeli leaders urged the Palestinians to stay. But historians have since uncovered evidence that Israeli forces practised ethnic cleansing in Palestinian towns and villages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of these was \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIqrit\u003c\/b\u003e, located close to the Lebanese border. In November 1948 Israeli soldiers informed the 500 inhabitants that they were to be evacuated on a temporary basis and that after two weeks they would be able to move back to their homes. This promise was never kept. The town was sequestered until it was levelled to the ground on Christmas Eve, 1951. The only building left standing was the church. Today, the old roads cleared by the descendants of those who were expelled can be seen, and the church still stands there, as does the burial ground at the base of the mountain where Iqrit was located. Here some of the descendants of the villagers still come to bury their dead. Some young descendants of the Iqrit inhabitants have recently attempted to re-build their village among the ruins, but the Israelis will not allow this. The Iqrit people often say, wryly, “They won't let us live in Iqrit, but we’re still allowed to die there”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTrack list:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. Welcome to Iqrit                                                    1:44\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. In 1948                                                                   5:21\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. My Homeland                                                        4:35\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. Come Back Home, All Refugees                         4:04\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5. Northern Wind                                                      4:32\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6. We Intend to Depart                                             3:29\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7. Morning Star                                                          4:06\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8. A'ataba\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e                                        \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e                           2:40\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9. Road to Jerusalem\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e                                                2:24\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e10. I Climbed the Top of the Mountain                    4:04\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e11. They Rode Their Horses\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e                                     3:55\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e12. Return Back Home\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e                                              1:24\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e13. 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