ALBAWABA - A Palestinian record shop repairman wants to reinvigorate traditional Arabic music, focusing on the great classics of Umm Kulthum, Abdul Halim Hafez, Farid Al Atrash and the likes.
From Jamal Hemmou’s ramshackle workshop in Nablus’ Old City in the occupied West Bank, classic Arabic songs blare into the surrounding cobbled streets. | @AFP https://t.co/H7uXyDQlac
— Inquirer (@inquirerdotnet) February 7, 2023
His name is Jamal Hemmou and his workshop in Nablus is one of a kind, repairing old records, now long out of existence due to the prevailing digital music and old record players. His shop is a haberdashery of sorts because of the records and the old gramophones laying around.
يتولى جمال حمو(58 عامًا) في ورشته المتداعية في مدينة #نابلس القديمة شمال الضفة الغربية تصليح وبيع أجهزة اسطوانات قديمة كبيرة من القرن الماضي، وهو اخر التقنيين في هذا المجال في المدينة.https://t.co/seMoG6hnzE #فرانس_برس
— فرانس برس بالعربية (@AFPar) February 8, 2023
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His name today is all over the internet and the social media with a big story to tell about the records he repairs and the old players that are in use which are still listened to by the older generations.
جمال حمو آخر مصلحي أجهزة الفونوغراف في نابلس#فلسطين #الفونوغراف #العرب_اللندنيةhttps://t.co/7gdp8Ud1MH
— العرب (@alarabonline) February 7, 2023
Hemmou began learning how to repair record players when he was 17, listening to the great Arab artists of the time as he worked. "I have more experience than the people with the certificates," he joked, adding that he is entirely self-taught, and acquired his passion for music from his father according to AFP.
#فيديو | جمال حمو يحيي مهنة على وشك الاندثار في #نابلس#صحيفة_الخليج pic.twitter.com/i8G8I2vEJ4
— صحيفة الخليج (@alkhaleej) February 6, 2023
