Palestinian Rapper Tamer Nafar on His Solo Album and Using Hip-Hop to Tell Stories of Identity and Survival

Tamer Nafar is in Amsterdam, having already performed in seven European cities — Birkenhead, London, Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Brussels — by the time we speak.

Touring his first solo album, In the Name of the Father, the Imam and John Lennon, the rapper and founding member of influential Palestinian collective DAM is adamant on discovering, or rather, refining his set-list to find the best sequence to convey his message.

Language and the arts that engage it are a dominant and recurring theme in Nafar's life.