Raising their voice: Ettijah

2022

“If I sing about it, maybe we can get this message across.”. Ettijah, an all-girl Palestinian hip-hop collective in the West Bank, uses music to talk about politics, social issues, women’s rights and what it’s like to live as refugee in occupied Palestine. Formed in 2013, Ettijah members Dalya Ramadan, Nadin Odeh and Diala Shaheen rap as a form of resistance and resilience—and now they hope their music will help empower the next generation of young girls to find their voice. <br /> <br /> This short documentary is part of the series "Music for good". A project in collaboration with Doha Debates that aims to promote the work of young local filmmakers around the world. These documentaries are directed by these filmmakers with the technical and creative support of Zungu Coop, a co-production that aims to reverse the traditional way of working in this field, where we are the foreign journalists who tell the stories, instead of helping local journalists to access international platforms to tell their own stories. Music for good shows how different artists use their music to improve democracy in their countries, and does so under the direction of local filmmakers and producers in each country.