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One Song in 140+ Languages for Palestine (and Counting)

May 9, 2025 Ryo Ishii

This song comes from Palestine, but its heart beats for all of us.

It speaks to something universal—love, resilience, and our shared longing to belong. We’ve carried it now into more than 50 languages. Not to change it, but to carry its light farther. Across oceans, across heartbreak. Because music remembers what we forget: that the distance between us was never real.

Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now. If it's a handful, throw it. If it's a fingernail full, scrape it out and throw. Get in the way however you can.

- Rasha Abdulhadi

This video is one small handful of sand—born from a love for the people of Palestine, thrown into the gears of silence and forgetting. If this song moves you, please share it. If it speaks your language, add your voice. And if it doesn’t yet, please help us bring it there.

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Tags Palestine, FreePalestine, PalestinianCulture, PalestinianMusic, ArabicMusic, WorldMusic, MusicAcrossBorders, VoicesOfPalestine, FolkMusic, TraditionalMusic, GlobalVoices, Multilingual, TranslationMatters, OliveHarvest, CulturalPreservation, YaSitti, Dalouna, DalalAbuAmneh
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For Palestinian Children—Our Children Everywhere: A Reflection in Solidarity on Earth Day

April 22, 2025 Ryo Ishii

Ghazal, a 14-year-old from Khuza’a village near Khan Younis City, says “I have no childhood, I only live in terror.” On the very first day of hostilities, her cherished home was reduced to ruins by a bombardment. She and her family sought refuge in a UNRWA school in Khan Younis where hundreds of displaced families were sheltering. November 23, 2023. UNICEF/UNI463111, El Baba

Happy Earth Day 🌎🕊️

Hello to all my friends—each of you carrying a story, a spirit, and a way of being that matters 🩶
Today, as one human on our shared planet, I'm reflecting on how sustainability is a form of harmony. And to reach that harmony, peace on Earth is essential, and to achieve peace, we must cultivate the instruments of culture—one that is inclusive in language and perspective, offering an alternative to all forms of supremacy: saying no to repression, and yes to a shared humanity.

And on this Earth Day, I can't turn away from the realities in Palestine (esp. of the children), and the intensifying policies of exclusion and conflict accelerated by the US administration.

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In World Cultures, Politics, Life and Perspective Tags Earth Day, Palestine, Palestinian Children, Gaza, West Bank
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One Song in 140+ Languages for Palestine (and Counting)
about 2 months ago
View fullsize The sun set — but the people kept glowing.

Nothing Separate — Entry 015

2023.03.11
Moalboal, Cebu, Philippines
🙏🏾 Chii, Angela, Alexandra, Pearl Niña.

‘Nothing Separate’ is a quiet series on connection, place, and
View fullsize The exhaling sea.
Don’t hold onto what needs to rise.

Nothing Separate — Entry 014

2023.03.11
Moalboal, Cebu, Philippines
🙏🏾 Chii.

‘Nothing Separate’ is a quiet series on connection, place, and belonging—not somethi
View fullsize Not all connection is closeness. 

Between headlight and shadow, some stay just far enough to keep their magic.

Nothing Separate — Entry 013

2024.06.10
Tsushima, Nagasaki, Japan
🙏🏾 Benny.

‘Nothing Separate’ is a quiet series on
View fullsize We were never falling — we just needed a different view.

Nothing Separate — Entry 012

2023.03.11
Moalboal, Cebu, Philippines
🙏🏾 Chii.

‘Nothing Separate’ is a quiet series on connection, place, and belonging—not some
View fullsize On the road. Mates — a bit of home in every sunset.

Nothing Separate — Entry 011

2025.05.04
Amakusa, Kumamoto, Japan
🙏🏾 Shun, Benny.

‘Nothing Separate’ is a quiet series on connection, place, and belonging—not somet
View fullsize Fill your lungs — the sea waits.

Nothing Separate — Entry 010

2023.03.12
Moalboal, Cebu, Philippines
🙏🏾 Chii @lubi.co

‘Nothing Separate’ is a quiet series on connection, place, and belonging—not something to seek, b
View fullsize In a world of dark — someone, somewhere, carries the light. 

Nothing Separate — Entry 009

2025.05.03
Amakusa, Kumamoto, Japan
🙏🏾 Benny, Shun.

‘Nothing Separate’ is a quiet series on connection, place, and belonging—
View fullsize Nothing Separate — Entry 008

Between two worlds — a visitor at home.

2024.06.10
Tshushima, Nagasaki, Japan
🙏🏾 Benny.

‘Nothing Separate’ is a quiet series on connection, place, and belonging—not something to seek, bu
View fullsize Nothing Separate — Entry 007

A moon above. The sky cradling a memory.

2024.06.10
Tshushima, Nagasaki, Japan
🙏🏾 Benny.

‘Nothing Separate’ is a quiet series on connection, place, and belonging—not something to seek, but som
View fullsize Nothing Separate — Entry 006

Living today, carrying tomorrow. 

2024.08.24
Itoshima, Fukuoka, Japan
🙏🏾 Suzu, Rento, Ramu, Hinari, Miho, Shun, Yoshi, Mason, Jaye, Maiah, Ray, Erina, Polina, Kenya.

‘Nothing Separate’ is a quiet se

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