Performances
The ataaba is one of many Palestinian folk music traditions that continues to be performed at weddings and festivals in Arab villages in Palestine, as well as by Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The ataaba and other forms of improvised poetry such as the mawwal and mijana have been used by Palestinians since the 1960s, "to express outrage and grief at the razing and appropriation of Palestinian villages by Israelis." Ataabas are also performed by famous Arab singers, such as the Lebanese singer and composer, Wadi' al-Safi.
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