Saint Levant Dedicates His First Australian Concert to Palestine
DUBAI — Rapper Saint Levant delivered an emotional tribute to Palestine during his debut performance in Sydney, using the stage to reflect on identity, displacement, and cultural pride.
The artist, known for blending Arabic, French, and English influences, told the crowd: “Art has played a very important role in portraying Palestine, the Arab world and the Global South as subhuman. Today, I am here as representation of the Global South.” Many in the audience waved Palestinian flags and wore keffiyehs.
Saint Levant, whose real name is Marwan Abdelhamid, was born in Jerusalem to a French‑Algerian mother and a Palestinian‑Serbian father. His stage name honors his paternal grandfather, displaced from Palestine in 1948. “I was eight years old when I left Gaza,” he said. “The stories that you hear, I’ve heard them all my life.”
He also highlighted Arab hospitality: “To anyone who thinks that Arabs are not human, you clearly have not been to an Arab household. We are lovers, we are fathers, we are mothers, we are teachers, and we are caregivers.”
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