The rise of archiving and electronic music production is reshaping cultural and protest movements from the SWANA region as it faces cultural ruptures through political destruction. Music practices serve as powerful interventions for preserving cultural memory, communicating resistance, celebrating heritage, empowering community voices, healing, and reimaging futures.

Sounds of Resistance is an event series curated by Attia Shiraz in which music archivists and DJs take part in communal listening sessions to share cultural memories through sound and visual projections of their chosen music and contexts of music resistance.

Session # 1 The Palestinian Sound Archive
This session will explore archival practice as a decolonial methodology and act of resistance, through sharing archival sounds and images that preserve and document Palestinian heritage, culture, celebration, dance and resistance.