Tamer Nafar will close Dublin’s Palestinian Cultural Days with a headline set at The Sugar Club, joined by Róisin El Cherif. The booking gives the event a defined centre of gravity: Nafar has spent years working in hip-hop that treats occupation and displacement as immediate political material, not distant subject matter.

Placing him on the final night reads as a deliberate choice. Palestinian Cultural Days is not a neutral frame, and Nafar’