Nili Belkind is a Research fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University (2014) and is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the Middle East—with a special focus on Palestine/Israel—and the Caribbean. Nili’s award winning book (ICTM 2022) Music in Conflict: Palestine, Israel and the Politics of Aesthetic Production (Routledge 2021) studies the complex relationship of musical culture to political life in the shadow of conflict and occupation in Palestine-Israel. She has published articles or book chapters on topics such as music and: urban regeneration (2019); the construction of diasporic imaginations (2016); cultural intimacy across ethnonational conflict (2021); social movements (2013); cultural diplomacy (2010 and 2021); Orientalism (upcoming 2024). Prior to her academic career Nii has spend many years in the (world) music industry working as an album producer, label manager, product manager, booker and more. Two albums she has co-produced (with...

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