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It was early morning in Mexico City as I rushed to catch Diala–one of three MC’s from Ettijah, Palestine’s first female hip-hop group–before the only place in the West Bank where she had access to reliable internet closed.

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She’d traveled there to make this interview possible, and as we struggled to stay connected on Skype, all the while grappling with cutoffs, video freezes, and noise, she answered my questions with grace regardless of the connection difficulties.

I conducted this interview right before the coronavirus outbreak in Palestine, and while my mind was somewhat scattered from a month or so of quarantine here in Mexico, the weight of the circumstances faced by Ettijah and their community seemed much greater than any of the troubles I was facing here.

The following is drawn from that interview with Diala, as well as subsequent conversations with Ettijah in its entirety along with the group’s project co