Ziv Yehezkel is a man full of contradictions. He is at once a deeply religious Jewish man, but also a zealous lover of Arabic music.
The soloist of Arab Orchestra of Nazareth, the 31 year-old was born in Kiryat Ono, a town in central of Israel, in an area called “Little Baghdad.”
But Yehezkel did not grow up speaking Arabic. “Part of Israeli culture is leaving your former identity behind,” he tells Channel 10 News, for his parents, that meant not teaching their children their mother tongue. They spoke Iraqi at home when they didn’t want the children to understand, he says.
Continue reading.
Follow us on
No comments:
Post a Comment