During the first intifada, Palestinian musician Riad Awwad released a tape with protest songs calling for resistance to the occupation. The Israeli army confiscated all copies of the album and arrested him. Now, after his death, a new project is bringing his music to light

It was the early days of the first intifada. Hundreds of masked Palestinian youths in East Jerusalem and throughout the West Bank were hurling rocks at Israeli army forces. But at the same time, there was nonviolent resistance happening in the form of cultural protest – musical activism that called for young people to guard Jerusalem and Palestinian lands. Most of this protest music was silenced and made to disappear. To this day some is still hidden in the army’s secret archives.