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Palfolklore is an independent publication launched in 2025 by Serena Rasoul, PhD Student in Ethnomusicology at Columbia University. This is project preserves Palestinian folk (fala7i) music, chants, stories sung by our grandmothers before and after dispossession. Over the years, Serena and other community members, have interviewed, documented, and recorded hundreds of songs and chants from the Palestinian communities both in and outside of Palestine.

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