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Sameh Zakout (سامح زقوت), ("SAZ") is a Palestinian rapper from Ramla, Israel. His music features themes of Palestinian and Arab identity and calls for peaceful resolution of Arab–Israeli conflict. He was the subject of the documentary Saz: The Palestinian Rapper for Change.

Zakout gained attention and popularity as a contestant on the Israeli reality singing competition, "Chai be La La Land" in 2012.

Acting work
Zakout's first acting role was as Amir in the 2016 film Junction 48, directed by Udi Aloni. In 2018, Zakout played Hummus Guy #1 in Sameh Zoabi's Tel Aviv on Fire.

DUGRI and "Let's talk straight"
In 2021, Zakout collaborated with Israeli rapper Uriya Rosenman to create the video "Let's talk straight | בוא נדבר דוגרי | تعال نحكي دغري". The video went viral during Israel's 2021 bombardment of Gaza. Zakout and Rosenman now tour as the duo DUGRI. Translated into English, the word DUGRI means 'straight', connoting 'straight-talking'. After their first single went viral, the duo were featured by news outlets including CNN, the BBC and The New York Times. The duo posted a second single, 'Munfas', to YouTube in November 2021.

Rosemary Sayigh (née: Boxer; born 1927) is a British-born anthropologist and scholar of Middle Eastern history. She is known for her works on the Palestinian people, particularly those forcibly displaced to Lebanon as a result of the Nakba.

Personal life
Sayigh was born on 15 March 1927 in the United Kingdom as Rosemary Boxer. She is the elder sister of Mark Boxer, a British journalist.

Sayigh met Yusif Sayigh while she was working as a teacher in Baghdad, Iraq. They married at the National Evangelical Church in Beirut on 7 October 1953. The couple had four children, including scholar Yezid Sayigh.

During the 2006 Lebanon War, Sayigh evacuated from her home in Beirut to stay with her daughter in Cyprus.

Education
Sayigh graduated from the University of Oxford with a BA degree in English Language and Literature in 1948.

She earned her MA in sociology and anthropology from the American University of Beirut in 1970. Sayigh's masters' thesis was about the experience of Palestinians displaced to live in Lebanon, based on research and interviews undertaken at refugee camps in Lebanon, including Dbeyeh and Shatila. The thesis was accepted in 1976 despite resistance from her thesis advisor, thanks to intervention from a Palestinian history professor at the University.

Sayigh gained her PhD from University of Hull in 1994.

Early Career, 1948-1952
After graduating from the University of Oxford in 1948, Sayigh moved to Italy, first working as an au pair and then as an assistant at a British Institute Library. On her return to London a year later, she struggled to find employment, eventually getting a position at the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.

Baghdad, 1952-1953
In 1952, Sayigh's friend Desmond Stewart found her a teaching job at Queen Aliya College in Baghdad, Iraq. Stewart was a classical scholar teaching in Baghdad at the College of Arts and Sciences at the same time. Sayigh taught at Queen Aliya College for two years, overlapping on the faculty with Palestinian novelist and painter Jabra Ibrahim Jabra. It was while teaching in Iraq that Sayigh first learned of the events of the Nakba, from her Iraqi nationalist friends. In her words, this was 'the beginning of her education in Palestinian history'.

Beirut, 1953 - Present
Sayigh moved to Beirut to marry her husband, Yusif. In Beirut, Sayigh began working as a journalist. Through visits with her mother-in-law's cousin, Sayigh began interviewing the residents of Dbeyeh camp and sharing the interviews in articles for Kayhan Weekly, the Journal of Palestine Studies and later The Economist. Sayigh stopped writing for the Economist in 1970, when she left due to disgust with the magazine's 'uncritical, pro-American position on the Vietnam War'.

1967: Fifth of June Society

MA research: expanded research out of Dbeyeh to Shatila and 1973-1975 at Burj al-Barajneh camp

In 1979, her first book Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries; A People’s History was published by Zed Books. The original cover photo was one taken by Don McCullin.

Between 1983 and 1993, Sayigh worked with Palestinian women in camps in Lebanon, including Shatila camp, on an oral history project. In 1993, her second book, Too Many Enemies: The Palestinian Experience in Lebanon was published, also by Zed Books. In 1999, she won an award from the Diana Tamari Sabbagh Foundation to travel through Palestine and record women's accounts of displacement. This work forms the basis of ‘Palestinian Women Narrate Displacement: A Web-based Oral Archive’, recorded in Arabic. Sayigh presented a lecture version of the archive to the 15th International Oral History Association Conference in Prague in July 2010.

She has been an unofficial supervisor to several PhD candidates researching Palestinian social and political history. Her areas of interest include gender and politics; the political responsibility of the researcher; memory and identity and culture and resistance. From 2007, she was a visiting lecturer in oral history and anthropology at the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) at the American University of Beirut.

Recognition
In 2009, The Journal of Palestine Studies published a special issue in honour of Sayigh's work, including an article entitled 'A Tribute Long Overdue'.

https://ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu/journals/jps/v38i4/index.html

In 2017, Sherna Berger-Gluck's introduction to the November issue of the Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies was titled 'Rosemary Sayigh, A Tribute'.

Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries; A People's History (1976)
https://liberatedtexts.com/reviews/a-history-of-the-anonymous-masses-rosemary-sayighs-palestinians-from-peasants-to-revolutionaries/

https://www.proquest.com/openview/c445e4a324de8afb175c42d5a4732792/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1821138

https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/38613

Too Many Enemies: The Palestinian Experience in Lebanon (1993)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/030639689603700313

Yusif Sayigh: Arab Economist and Palestinian Patriot: A Fractured Life Story (2015)
In 1989, Sayigh collected recordings of her husband Yusif Sayigh's accounts of his life and edited them to form a autobiography/biography, published after his death.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/features/book-review-yusif-sayigh-arab-economist-palestinian-patriot

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/607737

Author

 * Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries; A People’s History (Zed Books, 1979)
 * Too Many Enemies: The Palestinian Experience in Lebanon (Zed Books, 1993)
 * Voices: Palestinian Women Narrate Displacement (self-published, 2007)

Editor

 * Yusif Sayigh: Arab Economist and Palestinian Patriot: A Fractured Life Story (The American University in Cairo Press, 2015)
 * Becoming Pro-Palestinian: Testimonies from the Global Solidarity Movement (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024)

Contributor

 * 'Afterword', Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine, ed. Diana Allan (Pluto Books, 2021)