Tamer Nafar

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Tamer Nafar (born June 6, 1979) is a Palestinian rapper, actor, screenwriter, and social activist.

He is the founder and a founding member of DAM, the first Palestinian hip hop group.

Early life

Fawzi Nafar and Nadia Awadi were born in Nafar. In Lod, a mixed Arab-Israeli city in Israel, which was a major hub for drug smuggling and crime, he grew up in poverty.

Tamer discovered hip-hop at the age of 17, when he began learning English by listening to Tupac and translating his lyrics to Arabic using an English-Arabic dictionary.

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Career

Tamer performed his first single "Untouchable," a play on The Untouchables movie.

Tamer's first EP Stop Selling Drugs, starring his younger brother Suhell, was released in 1998.

Mahmood Jreri, their friend, joined the Nafar brothers in establishing DAM, the first Palestinian hip-hop group.

The three Da Arab MCs invented the acronym DAM, a term that means living or persisting in Hebrew or Arabic (). Tamer said in an interview with Democracy Now (2008) that the company's name implied "eternal blood, so we can live here forever" evoking a politics of resilience and surviving (or a sumood, in Arabic).

The grandchildren of those who lived in Israel in the 1970s and 1980s are among the group members. This generation is protesting the insults against Palestinian identity and favors Palestinian self-determination, while rejecting bigotry and injustice.

DAM is best known for its ability to rap in English, Arabic, and Hebrew. As the words flowed better this way, the group first rapped in English and then in Hebrew.

DAM believed that their potential for meaningful social impact lay in Arabic, Hebrew, and English, drawing on vernacular words, slang, profanities, and indigenous references to each cultural group. DAM is able to reach a variety of audiences in this way.

During a drive-by shooting on September 3, 2000, Tamer's buddy Booba (Hussam Abu Gazazae) was killed, triggering Tamer's first protest song with a political reference, despite the fact that his friend had been killed by an Arab. Abd al Majeed Abdalla's song "Ya Tayeb al Galb" was featured on the album "Booba" and featured Ibrahim Sakallah on the front page.

Tamer and Mahmood began writing their first direct political song "Posheem Hapim me Peshaa" (Innocent Criminals) during the Second Intifada outbreak in October 2000. It was recorded by Tupac over a "before Jews riot, the cops use clubs / when Arabs riot, the cops take their lives" and "before you judge me, walk in my shoes, innocent criminals."

The album caused controversy in Israeli media, throwing DAM into disarray with some of their Israeli rappers, including Subliminal. In the documentary Channels of Rage, a large portion of the subsequent fallout was caught. Despite the uproar, Israeli rock musician Aviv Geffen and American-Israeli director Udi Aloni made a music video for the song in 2003.

Anat Halachmi, an Israeli film producer, produced Channels of Rage, which received the Wolgin Award for best documentary at the 2003 Jerusalem Film Festival. On one side, Tamer Nafar and DAM appear, and on the other, right-wing Zionist rapper Kobi Shimoni (Subliminal and the Shadow) follows the film. The groups nearly broke out after being in a dark alley in Tel Aviv for Tamer and Shimoni's remarks. The relationship, which had been both collaborative and cherishing, broke as each began to embodie a national ideology after the 2000 Camp David Summit and the start of the Second Intifada. Both musicians retreated from their once-closed friendship, based on a mutual love of hip-hop, to nationalism, after coming to terms with the brutality on Tel Aviv and Jenin.

Tamer uses music and art as a tool for protesting. The Shateel group had been invited by DAM in 2004 to perform songs addressing discrimination and poverty in mixed Arab-Israeli cities, focusing on Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes and the difficult entrance to Lod, which required residents to cross eight train tracks to reach the city. DAM collaborated with a local R&B musician and produced "Born Here" as a dommage to a popular Israeli song by the pair, "I was born here, my children were born here, and here is where I built my house with my two hands." "I was born here, my grandparents were born here, and here is where you destroy our houses with your hands," DAM said. Due to the campaign's success, the Israeli government built a bridge above the train tracks for safer crossing and encouraged the DAM to tour Israel in support of Israel's cause.

DAM became the first Palestinian hip hop group to debut an album on Arab charts after touring the world and releasing number one singles. In 2006, Ihda's album Ihda' was released. DAM has also contracted with 3D Family, a French film festival, that includes Womad, Doha DIFF, Talib Kweli, Dead Prez, Pheoh Beer Festival Palestine, and others, where they shared the stage with internationally known artists such as GZA of the Wutang Clan, Mos Def, Pharaoh Monch, Rachid Taha, Immortal Technique, and others. The album contained 15 songs, with some of them being number one hits. Despite being mainly focused on the Israeli-Palestinian war, the album was also known for being the first Arab rap album to address women's rights. Safa' Hathoot, the first female Palestinian rapper on the album, criticizes women's oppression as well as the Palestinian oppression.

Jackie Salloum's film Slingshot Hip Hop was released in 2008, a film about Palestinian Hip Hop. Slingshot Hip-Hop is a performative form of documentary that emphasizes subjective knowledge and emotional response to the world. It discusses personal experiences that might be considered unusual, although perhaps poetic and experimental. Slingshot Hip Hop weaves together the lives of young Palestinians on Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel as they discover hip hop and use it as a means to banish poverty and unemployment as a result of occupation and hunger. Following its debut in the Sundance film festival, the film attracted a lot of attention and gained many awards, as well as featured guest appearances by international artists such as Chuck D from Public Enemy and Afrika Bambaataa.

Dabke on the Moon, DAM's second official album, was released in 2012.

Tamer and Suhell's cousin, Nabil Nafar, a Danish-Palestinian producer who arrived in Lod and worked with them on six tracks, was the main product.

DAM collaborated with classical oud musicians Trio Joubran and Lebanese percussionist Bachar Khalife (the son of legendary composer and ousted player Marcel Khalife) in the track "A letter from the cell." The result is a melancholic, non-traditional hip-hop song heavily influenced by classical Arabic composition and instruments.

Tamer Nafar, the photography director, curated Room No. 13 in 2013. The children's experiences were depicted and detained, as shown in the study, and it is based on the children's testimonies. No. 1 in the room No. There is an interrogation room in the Russian Compound, Jerusalem's main Israeli police office, where Palestinian civilians, including children, are interrogated. In East Jerusalem, a protester has called for the release of children.

The campaign

Tamer Nafar and DAM released "#Who_U_R" on music in 2014. Scandar Copti, a Palestinian filmmaker who was nominated for an Academy Award, directed the film. In reaction to the rape of a 16-year-old Texan teenager Jada, whose assault was documented, broadcast, and mocked on social media in 2014, "#Who_U_R" was written.

"The real fight for women is elsewhere than in the Middle East," Tamer said on the video. It's an international battle," he explains how the idea was to "take the social aspect of my personal growth and bring my socioeconomic issues to the international stage."

The song sparked a Twitter campaign in the Middle East. Men were encouraged to post pictures of themselves doing housework as a way to defy gender norms and help women.

Tamer appeared in the feature film Junction 48, directed by Udi Aloni and written by Nafar and Oren Moverman. The film was based on Nafar's youth and early years as a rapper. Best International Film at the Berlin International Film Festival, Best International Film at the Tribeca Film Festival, and two awards at the Slovakia Art Film Festival for Best Film and Best Male Actor (Tamer).

Tamer's work has appeared in several stage plays in Israel/Palestine and Europe as an actor and a writer. In Anton Chekhov's performances, he has appeared alongside veteran Palestinian directors Norman Issa and Nizar Zoabi.

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