ABSTRACT
The late Roger I. Simon (2008) asked a pertinent question relating to the production of death: "an there be a remembrance of 9/11 that does not institute the production of more death?" Simon argued that the outpouring rituals of remembrance of the event referred to as 9/11 are not over. He explained that, "rather than something past, it is a social experience still in process, very much a present occurrence, something still living through". Finally the author focuses on the ways in which the youth in these imperial peripheries-Tunisia, Egypt, and Israel/Palestine-engage in resistance through hip hop and provide counter-narratives and critiques of their government's policies and practices in the wake of the production of death and destruction. The chapter examines the Arab uprisings and the role that rappers-considered here to be strong poets-and rap music has played in the uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, and Israel-Palestine through an anti-racist, anti-colonial, anti-imperial lens.
