Sandy Tolan, TomDispatch regular and author of The Lemon Tree, is an associate professor at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. His new book is Children of the Stone: The Power of Music In a Hard Land (Bloomsbury), about one Palestinian’s dream to build a music school in the midst of Israel’s military occupation. He blogs at Ramallahcafe.com. Follow him on Twitter @sandy_tolan.
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Published in: TransformationThe flute at the checkpoint: music and confinement in Palestine
Ramzi Aburedwan fulfilled his dream of opening children's music schools up across Palestine - but he still doesn't...