Hamada Ben Amor

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Hamada Ben Amor ( Arabic حمادة بن عمر, DMG Ḥammāda b. ʿAmr ), better known by his stage name El Général (الجنرال / al-Ǧinirāl ), is a Tunisian rapper who was best known for his political songs, especially Rais Lebled (ريس لبلاد / rayīs li-blād  / 'The chief of my country'; Alienation of:رئيس البلد / raʾīs al-balad  / 'President of the country'), made a significant contribution to the outbreak of the Tunisian revolution in 2011 .

Working as a political artist

Ben Amor is the youngest of four siblings and lives as a pharmacy student in Sfax . He has been doing his political raps since around 2009, because of the state censorship under the then Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali . On November 7, 2010, the then Tunisian national holiday, the anniversary of Ben Ali's presidency, he put his best-known song Rais Lebled online. The song, which outlines the hopeless situation of many young people in Tunisia and directly blamed President Ben Ali for it, was featured both on the Tunisian website of the tabloid magazine Tunivisions and on the Arab news channel Al Jazeera. Soon afterwards, the song was banned, El Général's MySpace and Facebook pages were blocked, his cell phone was tapped and the press article was censored by Tunivisions. However, this did not prevent El Général from releasing another critical song with Tounes Bledna on December 22, 2010, whereupon he was arrested on January 6, 2011, about 3 weeks after the protests broke out. However, nationwide demonstrations resulted in his release three days later.

His song Rais Lebled , along with a few other pieces, is now considered the “soundtrack of the revolution” in Tunisia and has been played on Tunisian radio since the fall of Ben Ali, and it has also made him internationally known. Because of its symbolic significance for the revolution in Tunisia, his upcoming album La Voix Du Peuple is now being sponsored by the Tunisian Ministry of Culture. In addition to his political raps, Ben Amor published the rap Allah hu Akbar together with RTM, who glorifies death as a martyr ( Shaheed ) and dreams of a joint jihad. In the text from RTM, he continues to sing about “wanting to die as a martyr - only death can stop me”, “the banner of Islam always comes first” and “my dream is to see an army of Arabs together with the Muslim army fight until liberation, in jihad, until death ”.

In 2014 El Général released Rayes Lebled 2, a song in which he criticized the fact that even years after the 2010/11 revolution, the situation for many people in Tunisia has not changed.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vivienne Walt: El Général and the Rap Anthem of the Mideast Revolution. February 15, 2011, accessed April 24, 2016 .
  2. ↑ مغني راب تونسي يدعو الرئيس لمعاينة أوضاع الناس ومعالجتها. November 15, 2010, accessed April 24, 2016 (Arabic).
  3. ↑ Neil: Tunivisions réclame justice après censure. November 16, 2010, accessed April 24, 2016 (French).
  4. ↑ Felix Wiedemann: The rapper El Général in the prism of the identity problem . University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt, Halle 2017, p. 116 , urn : nbn: de: gbv: 3: 5-91912 (first edition: bookra, Leipzig 2014).
  5. ↑ Rapper El Général. Generation revolt. Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 22, 2011
  6. ^ El Général, Hip Hop, and the Tunisian Revolution . revolutionaryarabrap.blogspot.de. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
  7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1QhfyKQsj0
personal data
SURNAME Ben Amor, Hamada
ALTERNATIVE NAMES El Général (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tunisian rapper
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century