Mustafa has shared a brand new tune, “Gaza Is Calling,” with internet proceeds benefitting the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. Watch the video, directed by the filmmaker and Succession actor Hiam Abbas, under.
Mustafa, who’s Sudanese Canadian, wrote “Gaza Is Calling” in 2020 however selected to launch it as a profit single in gentle of Israel’s newest assaults on Palestine. Palestinian American mannequin Bella Hadid and Gazan rapper MC Abdul characteristic within the video, which incorporates footage shot in Jenin final month.
Mustafa stated in a press launch:
Gaza is Calling is about my first expertise with heartbreak in friendship. I used to be 11 after I met
this boy from Gaza. We had been inseparable. With him I shared one of many deepest loves I’ve ever
recognized, he grew up alongside me in a housing mission in Toronto. And never even this love was a
match for the violence we had been up in opposition to; the one in our new residence, the one which adopted him
from Gaza like a chilly wind. In the long run it was all of the bloodshed between us that didn’t permit us to
see one another with out tears showing, and one of many final notes he despatched to me was about how
we’d proceed on in one other life.The string pattern is the Arabian nostalgia that we share, the autotuned Arabic I sing is the steadiness we tried to achieve being boys of cultural empires in a small hood, and the Oud is the instrument of our homelands, Sudan and Palestine.
Talking concerning the video, Mustafa added:
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