Pharrell’s ‘Happy’ — Gaza Style
All we in the West ever hear about Gaza concerns the Hamas Party or the conflict between its Palestinians and the Israeli army.This post originally ran on Juan Cole’s Web page.
All we in the West ever hear about Gaza concerns the Hamas Party or the conflict between its Palestinians and the Israeli army.
Some Gaza youth did a cover of Pharrell Williams’s “Happy” to show a different side of the 1.7 million people in the Gaza Strip:
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