The viral track, “Sawt Safiri El Bolboli (Qissa)“, is actually a poem by Abdul-Malik Al-Asma’i, performed as a song by Ahmed El Qatane in 2012. And guess what? It’s about the whistling ...

Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal and two others were released by Israeli authorities after being detained in the West Bank. Their arrest followed an assault by Jewish settlers during Ramadan.