During Ramadan last year, the four rappers from the Syrian group Refugees of Rap were sitting with their families in Yarmouk camp in Damascus, listening to the bombs fall, watching the news and writing lyrics. Yaser Jamous and his younger brother Mohammad, Ahmed Zarouk and Mohammad Jawad grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp and started making music together in 2005, spending most Ramadans together.
This year, the brothers are in Europe, Zarouk is in Iraq with his wife and Jawad is still in the camp trying to arrange for his family’s safety and hoping to rejoin the group. Although Yaser and his brother are now safe and can finally perform again, Yaser said they would prefer to spend Ramadan in Syria.
