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Singer turns her modest act into a stirring breakthrough
Published Mon, Mar 14, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Gaza City, Gaza Strip
RAWAN Okasha pushed aside the black curtains, her large kohl-lined eyes scanning the two-storey theatre packed with people. Then she did something that no other woman has done in public in Gaza for nearly a decade: She began to sing.
"Palestine is for its people," she crooned. "And the houses they destroyed," referring to decades of conflict with Israel, "will be rebuilt by the intifada."
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