Arab Idol

Mohammed Assaf: champion of the people or the powerful?

by Reem Kelani     The Electronic Intifada

Unattainable peace…
US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman, Jordan, on Friday, June 28, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
By JAMAL KANJ
 
BUT for the chap from Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza who emerged earlier this week as the winner of the “Arab Idol,” the news from Palestine is grim.