Jackie Reem Salloum is an Arab American filmmaker and artist whose documentary film about Palestinian hip-hop musicians expresses the artists' anger and frustration against the situation in the Middle East.
“Hip-hop in Palestine?” the director of the 2008 film “Slingshots Hip Hop” recalls saying to herself when she first learned from a U.S. radio program in 2001 that there was a Palestinian hip-hop group called DAM.
"I was excited that the (Palestinian) youth were expressing themselves by using a form of music that came from the streets of New York," the New York-based Salloum said during a recent interview in Tokyo.